Wei Zhang

Biography

Wei Zhang is interested in the decision making of firms and farms under government policies, especially environmental policies, and how these policies affect their economic performance. Her recent research is on the economics of environmental regulation of agricultural and food production, with a focus on the dairy industry in California. In addition, she has studied environmental regulations in other contexts, including the responses of financially distressed firms to an incentive-based environmental policy, the implications of an E10 ethanol-blend policy for California, and the impacts on air quality of driving restrictions implemented in cities in Latin America and China. Wei Zhang joined the Connecticut College faculty in 2014 as an Assistant Professor of Economics, having taught previously at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and University of California, Davis. She taught Environmental Economics in Fall 2014, and Econometrics I and Seminar in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics in Spring 2015.

Research Interest

ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY APPLIED ECONOMETRICS