Measurement and Valuation of Natural Capital

Professor Eli Fenichel is seeking a Research Assistant (RA) to support his research on the measurement and valuation of natural capital. The RA will initially help to a collate data on country-level measures of natural capital and comprehensive wealth. The position will involve compiling, cleaning, and harmonizing datasets covering natural resource stocks (e.g., forests, fisheries, minerals), indicators of environmental quality (e.g., air, water, and soil), and non-use values of the environment both across countries and over time. RA tasks specific to this project will include (but may not be limited to) working with Professor Fenichel’s postdoctoral associates in searching for datasets, documenting existing methodology and harmonizing these metrics across datasets. The RA may engage in other collaborations inside the lab of data gathering for this project, including hedonic pricing methods for wildfires and/or the valuation of topsoil resources across U.S. geographies.