Laura Villalobos

Education

University of Gothenburg, PhD, Economics, 2018
Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), MS, Environmental Economics, 2009
University of Costa Rica, BA, Economics, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Environmental Economics

Bio

Laura Villalobos holds a joint position as an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Economics and Finance Department of the Franklin P. Perdue School of Business and in the Environmental Studies Department, Fulton School of Liberal Arts. Before joining Salisbury University, Laura was a postdoctoral researcher at the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) in Washington, D.C. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.

Research Interests

Laura has over ten years of experience as an environmental economist, writing about the effectiveness of forest conservation policies, including protected areas, payments for ecosystem services, forest certification, forest concessions, and watershed management. She also studies how environmental conditions like air quality, temperature, and precipitation affect human capital. Her vision is to provide evidence on what works to prevent and adapt to degraded environmental conditions.
Teaching Philosophy

I empower my students by motivating the relevance of the concepts and theory with concrete examples and applications to real world challenges. My philosophy is that if I can create an appetite for answers, curiosity, and a sense of importance and urgency, students will naturally develop a critical thinking and will demand the tools that enable them to tackle important questions.
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