Ph. D. Program

The components of the program are:

• Coursework
  • Micro and Macro Economic Theory
  • Introduction to the economics of Resources, Environment and Agriculture
  • Quantitative Methods and Mathematics
  • Major Field courses (Agricultural Policy, Development or Resources and Environment)
  • Minor Field courses (chosen in consultation with your advisor)
• The Empirical Project. 
  • An original empirical essay written with considerable faculty guidance
• Departmental Exams
  • Preliminary Exam (examines first year theory)
  • Field Exam (on your major field)
  • Oral Exam. (on your thesis prospectus and readiness to write a dissertation.)
• The Research Essay
  • Your thesis prospectus (a paper outlining what will be in your part of your thesis.)
• The Thesis.

Here is a typical program for the first two years.

Sample program.  Major Field is one of .Agricultural Policy, Resources and Environment or Development;  Minor Field can be a field within the department or elsewhere in the university with advisors consent.

And here is a detailed description

After the second year the student develops a thesis topic in consultation with a small faculty committee. A research essay, which is a short thesis prospectus, serves as a basis for an oral examination taken during the third year. It normally takes about two years to write the dissertation. During this time students may take further course work. Four seminar/workshops are regularly offered for students in their dissertation years: the Department Seminar, the Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, the International Development Workshop, and the Thesis Workshop. Other workshops are organized on an ad-hoc basis, either when visitors offer such an opportunity or when particular needs are felt by a group of students. Students taking workshops for credit are generally beyond the second regular year of their PhD program.