Professional Information

Amy W Ando

Ph.D., Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
B.A., Economics, Williams College

ACE 210: Environmental Economics
ACE 500: Applied Economic Theory
ACE 562: Applications of Regressions Models I
ACE 564: Applications of Regressions Models II

Professor Ando works primarily on problems of species and land conservation, including the optimal reserve-site selection problem and understanding the relationship between private and public conservation activity. That work has produced publications in outlets such as Science, the Journal of Law and Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Ecological Economics, and Resource and Energy Economics. She has also studied other topics related to environmental policy and political economy such as: enforcement of natural resource damage liability statutes; the determinants of household recycling behavior and rain-barrel adoption; and the welfare effects of ethanol policy.

Ando serves on the editorial boards of two journals (including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics) and has served on several major review panels for multidisciplinary grant competitions at the NSF. In service to the national conservation community, Ando serves on the program committee for the Wildlife Habitat Policy Research Program and sits on the Environment Programs' Habitat Advisory Committee for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. In Illinois, Ando works to help inform stormwater management policies in the City of Chicago, and served on the Sustainability Advisory Commission for the City of Urbana in its inaugural year.

Selected Journal Articles:

Ando, Amy W., and Anne Y. Gosselin. 2005. “Recycling in multi-family dwellings: Does convenience matter?” Economic Inquiry 43(2): 426-438.

Ando, Amy W. and Michael Getzner. 2006. “The Roles of Ownership, Ecology, and Economics in Public Wetland-Conservation Decisions.” Ecological Economics 58(2): 287-303.

Ando, Amy W. and Wallapak Polasub. 2006. “Envelope Backs or the Gold Standard: Choosing Damage-Assessment Accuracy.” Land Economics 82(3): 424-444.

Albers, Heidi J., Amy W. Ando, and Xiaoxuan Chen. 2008. “A Spatial-Econometric Analysis of Attraction and Repulsion of Private Conservation by Public Reserves.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 56: 33-49.

Khanna, Madhu, Amy W. Ando and Farzad Taheripour. 2008. “Welfare Effects and Unintended Consequences of Ethanol Subsidies.” Review of Agricultural Economics 30(3): 411-421.

Albers, Heidi J., Amy W. Ando, and Michael Batz. 2008. “Patterns of Multi-Agent Land Conservation: Crowding In/Out, Agglomeration, and Policy.” Resource and Energy Economics 30(4):.492-508.

Ando, Amy W. and Wallapak Polasub. 2009. “The Political Economy of Policy Adoption: State-Level Natural Resource Damage Programs.” Journal of Regulatory Economics 35(3): 312 – 330.

Ando, Amy W. and Payal Shah. In press. “Demand-Side Factors in Optimal Land Conservation Choice.” Resource and Energy Economics.