SOE Professor Kathleen Bell recently shared her research at the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society.  Bell and colleagues Dr. Vanessa Levesque (University of Southern Maine) and Dr. Eileen Johnson (Bowdoin College) presented their work on rural community resilience.  EES/SOE Alumna Dr. Vanessa Levesque presented their paper, Advancing understanding of rural resilience with real-time […]

SOE Assistant Professor Jonathan Malacarne recently shared his research at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA). Dr. Malacarne and colleagues Berber Kramer and Carol Waweru from IFPRI presented two papers: (1) Control Over Future Payouts and Willingness-to-Pay for Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Farmers and (2) Summing the Parts: […]

WMTW News interviewed Dr. Kelsi Hobbs, an Assistant Professor in UMaine’s School of Economics and housing expert, about the Portland rent control rollback referendum on Monday, June 12th. When asked about the impacts of rent control policies, she said “Renters that are living in rent-controlled units, we’ve definitely seen in the literature that they are […]

SOE Associate Professor Caroline Noblet recently presented her research at the 2023 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Summer Conference. Her talk, Information Priming and Willingness to Pay for PFAS Mitigation in Maine, summarized recent findings from research done in collaboration with SOE Graduate Student Charity Zimmerman, Dr. Keith Evans, and SOE Undergraduate Student Molly […]

SOE Associate Professor Caroline Noblet recently led the plenary session at the 2023 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Summer Conference. Building on her recent policy and economics research, Dr. Noblet organized and moderated a panel of experts around the theme of PFAS. The  Forever Chemicals: A Pressing Justice and Policy Issue session drew a […]

SOE Assistant Professor Kelsi Hobbs recently presented her research at the 2023 Maine Economics Conference. Her talk, The Effect of Unemployment Insurance on Residential Stability: Evidence from the Household Pulse Survey, explored the impacts of unemployment insurance on residential stability. The Maine Economics Conference, organized by Bates College, Bowdoin College, Colby College, and University of […]

SOE Assistant Professor Jonathan Malacarne recently presented his research at the 2023 Maine Economics Conference. His talk, Summing the parts: How does bundling affect willingness to pay for seeds and insurance in a sample of Kenyan farmers, explored the potential utility of new insurance tools to support farmers facing changing climatic conditions. The Maine Economics […]