BEVIN ASHENMILLER 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, CA 90041 (323) 259-2905 bevin(at)oxy.edu
EDUCATION:
University of California, Santa Barbara, Ph.D., Economics, 2006 Fields: Resource and Environmental Economics, Econometrics
Princeton University, A.B., Slavic Languages and Literature, 1992
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Occidental College Department of Economics Associate Professor, 2012 – present
Occidental College Title IX Office Deputy Title IX Coordinator Faculty, 2016 - present
American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession (CSWEP) Board Member, 2013 – 2015
White House Council of Economic Advisors Senior Economist for Energy and the Environment, August 2012 – July 2013
Occidental College Department of Economics Assistant Professor, 2005 – 2012
Claremont McKenna College Department of Economics Visiting Assistant Professor, 2003 – 2005
RESEARCH
Work in Progress Using Ecological Schoolyards as Climate Change Adaptation Policy: Costs and Benefits, with Sharon Danks
Published and Forthcoming Papers
Anti-SLAPP legislation and Citizen Enforcement: Measuring the “Chill” of Strategic Lawsuits, with Catherine S. Norman, November 2011, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Topics).
The Effect of Income on Recycling Behavior in the Presence of a Bottle Law: New Empirical Results, May 2011, American Economic Review.
Externalities from Recycling Laws: Evidence from Crime Rates, Spring 2010, American Law and Economics Review.
The Economics of Recycling for Profit: Cash Recycling as an Efficiency Enhancing Anti-Poverty Program, August 2009, Land Economics.
Working Papers A Historical Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Case Study of the Decision to Dam the Hetch Hetchy. Environmental Policy is Messy: Using the California Coastal Act and Carbon Beach as a Classroom. The Role of Research in Upper Division Economics Classes: A Group Research Project (2011 Southern Economic Association Meeting). TEACHING
Courses Taught: Principles of Economics, Principles of Microeconomics, Environmental Economics, California Environment Semester (Freshman Semester with Gretchen North-Biology, and Margaret Rusmore-Geology), It’s hard to be an Environmental Economist (First-Year Writing Seminar), Economic Markets: When They Work and How They fail (First-Year Colloquium with Mary Lopez)
Research Supervised: Elwyn Pratt & Daniel Tobin, (URC), Occidental College, 2014, Olga Ramirez & Alexander LaRose, (URC), Occidental College, 2011, Shelby King, Independent Study, Occidental College, 2011, Jeffrey Ross, Values and Vocations Grant, Office of Spiritual Life, Occidental College, 2011, Christine Jones & Eliza Dornbush (URC), Occidental College, 2010, Nicholas Summers, Department of Economics, Honors Thesis, Occidental College, 2010, Karuna Batcha & Sherlynn Meacham, (URC), Occidental College, 2009, Christopher Norman & Wynne McAuley, Undergraduate Research Summer Fellowship Program (URC), Occidental College, 2008.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND GRANTS
Invited Seminars, Presentations and Workshops 2015: AERE Field Experiments: Design, Methods and Applications Workshop, National Green Schoolyard Summit, Western Economic Association International Conference, 2014: Western Economic Association International Conference. 2013: 14th Occasional Workshop on Environmental and Resource Economics. 2011: American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Western Economic Association International Conference, Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting. 2010: Mellon Digital Scholarship Summer Institute. 2009: Teaching Innovations Program in Economics, American Law and Economics Association Meeting, NBER Summer Environmental and Energy Economics Workshop. 2008: Applied Microeconomics Workshop, Institute for Research on Poverty, AERE Workshop on Health and the Environment, UC Boulder Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop. 2007: NBER Summer Public Policy and the Environment Workshop. 2006: Keck Studio Media Workshop for Collaborative and Interactive Pedagogy , Western Economic Association International Conference, Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, 9th Occasional California Workshops on Environmental and Resource Economics, Washington State University, Department of Economic Sciences. 2005: Mentoring Workshop, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, Claremont McKenna College, Department of Economics, Albion College, Department of Economics, Hood College, Department of Economics, Occidental College, Department of Economics, California State University, Fresno, Department of Economics
Grants Faculty Enrichment Grant, Occidental College, 2009-2011, John and Dora Haynes Foundation, Faculty Research Grant, 2008, Robinson Scholar Grant, Occidental College, 2006-2013.
Reviewer: American Economic Review, American Law and Economics Review, Economic Inquiry, Environment and Development Economics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Land Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, and the MIT Press.
Professional Affiliations: Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, American Economic Association