Hi, I'm Edward Whitney and I study the economics of development and natural resource managment.

In my job market paper (under submission) titled "Ancillary Consequences of Targeted Policy Interventions in the Presence of Disease-Based Poverty Traps: Evidence from Uganda", I develop a coupled natural-human system model of a local economy integrated with ecological and disease dynamics, which I use to investigate the direct and ancillary consequences of targeted policy interventions in a rural, developing-country setting where household livelihoods are deeply linked to health and the environment. The results demonstrate how targeted policy interventions can produce both intuitive and counterintuitive consequences. Productivity-enhancing interventions can produce economic, ecological, and public health benefits, while interventions that target ecological objectives may inadvertently prop up conditions that underlie disease-based poverty traps. I'm excited to connect with other researchers on these subjects; if your research overlaps, feel free to contact me.

I am a recent PhD graduate from the Agricultural and Resource Economics program at UC Davis. Before returning to school, I worked for three years at the International Food Policy Research Institute as a research analyst, focusing mostly on poverty analysis in Pakistan. I have a master's degree in International Development from American University and a bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Utah.