Welcome!

I am an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of environmental and resource economics. My current research focuses on climate change, insurance, and the use of markets to manage water resources.

In summer 2024 I will start as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta.

Link to CV

Dissertation Research

“Running from Wildfires: The Role of Risk Preferences in Natural Disaster Sorting”
Winner of 2023 CAES-WAEA Annual Meeting Student Paper Competition
Winner of best short presentation at 2023 CREEA Annual Meeting

“Climate Change and the Regulation of a Crashing Insurance Market,” with R. Taylor and J. Weill
Winner of 2023 CREEA Early Career Researcher Workshop Best Paper and Presentation

“Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change: The Role of Water Storage,” with K. Jessoe, J. Hilscher, B. Gafarov, and C. Carter

Publications

“Farmers’ willingness to participate in a big data platform,” with P. Slade. Agribusiness, 2019. 36(1):20-36.

Other Publications

• “Canadian-U.S. Dairy Trade Dispute: A Tempest in a Teapot,” with C. Carter and R. Barichello. ARE Update, 2023. 26(3):5-8. University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.

• “Canada’s Supply of Agricultural Land,” with A. Weersink, N. Bannon, and J. Riddle. Working Papers 292272, University of Guelph, Institute for the Advanced Study of Food and Agricultural Policy, 2019.

Education

PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics (2024, expected), UC Davis
Committee: Katrina Jessoe, Jens Hilscher, Pierre Mérel, Colin Carter

MSc. in Agricultual and Resource Economics (2018), University of Saskatchewan

BA in Food, Agriculture, and Resource Economics (2016, with distinction), University of Guelph

Teaching

Below is a list of my teaching experience with links to evaluations when available.

University of Saskatchewan, Sessional Lecturer
Introduction to Agricultural Economics, AREC 272 (Winter 2019)

University of California, Davis, Teaching Assistant
Government Regulation of Business, ARE 146 (Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
Natural Resource Economics, ARE 175 (Spring 2022)
PhD level Time Series Econometrics, ARE 240D (Winter 2022)
Intermediate Microeconomics: Theory of Production & Consumption, ARE 100A (Fall 2019)

University of Saskatchewan, Teaching Assistant
Introduction to Agri Food Economics, AREC 113 (Fall 2016, Winter 2018)

University of Guelph, Teaching Assistant
Advanced Microeconomics, ECON 3710 (Winter 2016)

In The News

“Farmers favour sharing data with universities,” Western Producer, 2018

Contact

Madeline Turland
mgturland@ucdavis.edu