Brianna Kay Jowers | Scholars@Duke profile
Research profile and professional activities of Brianna Kay Jowers| Scholars@Duke
Dr. Yu Ma received a B.S. in Economics from University of Washington, and a M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in Environmental Policy (Economics concentration) from Duke University. She specializes in environmental and energy economics with research interests in energy policy, energy efficiency, environmental justice, and climate change.| ORNL
Concentrated animal feeding operations, particularly hog and poultry farms, have expanded rapidly in North Carolina in recent decades. The air pollution and water contamination they generate cause many environmental and health problems for local communities. Using the universe of farm characteristic and housing transaction data in North Carolina, we recover hedonic estimates of property value impacts from exposure to these industrial livestock operations. Our results show large and significan...| Land Economics
Research profile and professional activities of Brianna Kay Jowers| Scholars@Duke
