Past Placements

Our department has the best placement history of any agricultural and resource economics department in the world. Our graduates work in a number of top departments of agricultural and resource economics, public policy, economics and business. Others of our graduates work in government agencies, nonprofit agencies, and business.

ARE Doctoral Job Placements 2003-Current

Fields listed in abbreviations below are ARP= Agricultural Resource Policy, DEV=Development, BEC= Behavioral Economics, DEM= Demography, ECMT=Econometrics, ERE= Environmental and Resource Economics, EEE= Environment and Energy Economics, FIN= Financial Economics, HE= Health Economics, IO=Industrial Organization, HIS= Economic History, LAB= Labor, POL= Political Economy, PUB= Public Economics, PUF=Public Finance, URB= Urban Economics, TR= Trade.

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Spelling ARE in Portugal, our alumni Koichiro Ito (University of Chicago), Leslie Martin (The University of Melbourne), and Catie Hausman (University of Michigan).

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Spring 2025 graduates at commencement.