Dr. Marin Skidmore, Assistant Professor in the University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, will present “Water Quality and the Conservation Reserve Program: Empirical Evidence from the Mississippi River Basin,” during the Agricultural Economics Seminar Series.

Marin Skidmore is an applied economist studying the interaction between policy, agriculture, and the environment.  She is an assistant professor in the University of Illinois Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics.  Her research focuses on how market-based and public agricultural policy in the United States and the Brazilian Amazon influence farmer behavior.  She uses this lens to study indirect policy effects on the environment, including deforestation, GHG emissions, and water quality.  She approaches these questions by combining econometric methods, “big data,” extensive field work, and collaboration with interdisciplinary partners in the US and Brazil.