As an applied economist, my research interests lie in the field of environmental economics with a concentration on conservation policy, environmental justice, and non-market valuation. I focus on understanding the human-environment nexus using modern econometric methods for causal inference and several tools in the non-market valuation toolbox. In my current research, I study the effects of policies to protect and restore the environment, and I explore sources of heterogeneity in individuals’ preferences for environmental amenities.
PhD in Applied Economics, 2020
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,IL, USA
BA in Economics, 2013
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Brock, M., Doremus, J., & Li, L. ``Birds of a Feather Lockdown Together: Mutual bird-human benefits during a global pandemic.” Accepted at Ecological Economics
Li, L., Long, D., Rouhi Rad, M. & Sloggy, M.``Stay-at-Home Orders and the Willingness to Stay Home During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Stated-Preference Discrete Choice Experiment.” PLOS One (2021)
Li, L. “Environmental Goods Provision and Gentrification: Evidence from MillionTreesNYC” (Under Review)
Li, L., Ando, A. “Early Life Experience and Willingness To Pay for Conservation”
Li, L., A.W. Ando, B. E. Kirwan, “The impact of the Conservation Reserve Program on local employment.”
“The Impact of Bison Reintroduction on Local Economies” with Ando, A.
“Wildfires and Birth outcomes in California” with Singh, P.
“Urban Agriculture: Social Equity and Gentrification”
“The Effect of Urban Tree Planting on Residential Property Values and Gentrification”
. Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. (July 2019)
. Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Annual Summer Meeting, Incline Village, Nevada. (May 2019)
. Applied Economics,Regional and Urban Studies (AERUS) Annual Midwest Graduate Student Summit, Urbana, Illinois.(April 2019) . Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Meeting , Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 2019
“The Impact of Conservation Reserve Program on Local Employment”
. Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Annual Summer Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Jun. 2017)
. Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association (NAREA), Washington, DC (Jun. 2017)
. Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. (Aug. 2017)
“Early Life Experience and Willingness To Pay for Conservation”
. W4133 Annual Meeting: Costs and Benefits of Natural Resources on Public and Private Lands Santa Fe, New Mexico. (Feb.2019)
. Southern Economic Association(SEA) Annual Meeting , Fort Lauderdale, Florida. 2019 . Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, 2020
“The Impact of Bison Reintroduction on Local Economies”
. Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA. (July 2019)
. W4133 Annual Meeting: Costs and Benefits of Natural Resources on Public and Private Lands Santa Fe, New Mexico.(Feb.2019) (Presented by co-author)
Instructor (Full course responsibility):
Intermediate Microeconomics at CSUF. Fall 2020; Spring 2021
Microcomputer Applications at UIUC. Fall 2018; Spring 2019; Fall 2019
Teaching Assistant:
Environmental Economics (undergraduate) at UIUC. Fall 2015; Fall 2016
Agricultural Consumer and Resource Econ (undergraduate) at UIUC. Spring 2016
Retirement & Benefit Planning (undergraduate) at UIUC. Spring 2015
Agricultural Marketing at UIUC. Fall 2014; Spring 2019
I-Promise mentor University of Illinois 2019
Abstract Reviewer Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Summer Meeting (2018)
Secretary of Graduate Student Organization Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, University of Illinois (2017 - 2018)
Organizational Assistant Heartland Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics, UIUC (2016, 2017)
Organizational Assistant program in Environmental and Resource Economics (pERE) Seminar, UIUC (Srping, 2017)
My CV is available in PDF form. (Last updated: July, 2021)