AAEA Fellows Address

Catherine L. Kling
Professor of Economics, Iowa State University

AAEA Fellows Address
Tuesday, July 27, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm

Catherine L. Kling is Professor of Economics at Iowa State University and the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development. She received her PhD from the University of Maryland and began her professional career at the University of California, Davis. Her research interests include non-market valuation methods, especially revealed preference approaches, and interdisciplinary analyses focusing on policy design and incentives for the provision of ecosystem services from agriculture. Her research has been published in the Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Public Economics, Land Economics, and elsewhere.

Kling is a Fellow of the AAEA, a member EPA’s Science Advisory Board, president-elect of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and past board member of the AAEA. She has held editorial positions with the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and Land Economics. She has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on over $7 million of grants from federal agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Department of Agriculture, as well as from a variety of state and non-profit groups.