Jimena Jimena Gonzalez Ramirez

Education

• Ph.D. in Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, 2016
• B.S. in Economics and Mathematics, Loras College, Dubuque, IA, 2009 

Courses Taught

• COOP 404 Assimilating Intn Exp (Eltv)
• ECON 203 Microeconomics
• ECON 332 Abroad:Intro Environ Econ
• ECON 332 Intro Environmental Economics
• ECON 432 Applied Environmental Econ
• ECON 444 Spl Tpc: In Economics
• MBA 601 Internship
• MBA 607 Business Plan Project
• MBA 626 Abroad:Environ Econs & Poli
• MBA 626 Environmental Economics & Poli
• MBA 645 Special Topics In Business

Research & Scholarly Activities

• Environmental and natural resource economics
• Behavioral economics
• Development economics

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications:

• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Systemic Racism (with Amy Ando, Titus Awokuse, Nathan Chan, Sumeet Gulati, Matthew Interis, Sarah Jacobson, Dale Manning, & Samuel Stolper) Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Accepted. [RFF Working Paper] [RFF Blog Post]
• Teaching Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Review of the Economic Education Literature (with Jill Caviglia-Harris and John Whitehead) International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 15(3): 235-369, 2021.
• Design and Implementation of a multi-site evaluation of team-based learning (with Kate Silz-Carson et al.). The Journal of Economic Education, 2021
• Emergency Online Learning: College Students' Perceptions During the COVID-19 Pandemic (with Sara Silverstein et al.) College Student Journal, 55(1): 29-46, 2021
• Funding Campus Sustainability through a Green Fee—Estimating Students’ Willingness to Pay (with Heyi Cheng and Sierra Arral) Sustainability, 13(5): 2528, 2021. [Open Access]
• Trust and the Media: Perceptions of Climate Change News Sources among U.S. College Students (with Heyi Cheng) – Postdigital Science and Education, Online First, 2020.
• Exploring Academic Collaborative Opportunities between Lasallian Colleges and Their Potential Impact (with Shawna BuShell et al.) AXIS: Journal of Lassallian Higher Education, 11(1), 2020. [Open Access]
• What Determines Financial Knowledge among College Students? (with Amira Annabi and Fabian Mueller) Journal of Financial Education, 44(2): 344-366, Winter 2018.
• González Ramírez, J., Arora, P. & Podesta, G. (2018). Using Insights from Prospect Theory to Enhance Sustainable Decision Making by Agribusinesses in Argentina. Sustainability, 10 (8), 2693.
• González Ramírez, J., Kling, C.L. & Valcu, A. (2012). An Overview of Carbon Offsets from Agriculture. Annual Review of Resource Economics, (4) 146–160.

Other Publications

• González Ramírez, J. et al. (2017). Cover Crop Adoption Decisions in Iowa: Insights from an In-Person Survey. Agricultural Policy Review, Spring.
• González Ramírez, J., & Ji, Y. (2015). Agricultural Land Use Change in the Corn Belt. Agricultural Policy Review (2) 1.

Conference/Seminar Presentations:

• 2021:
  • Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics Association Conference, Virtual, June.
  • Lafayette College's Economics Seminar, Virtual, April
  • Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Sessions at the Midwest Economic Association (MEA) Annual Meeting, Virtual, March.
  • Guest Speaker, University of New Mexico's Sustainability Course, Virtual, March
  • Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Sessions at the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) Annual Conference, Virtual, February
  • American Economic Association's (AEA) Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) Virtual Conference, Poster, January.
• 2020:
  • Southern Economic Association Conference, Hybrid in New Orleans, LA, November
  • Faculty Resource Network Virtual National Symposium - Curriculum Innovation for Transformative Learning, Virtual (hosted by NYU), November
  • New York State Economics Association Conference, Virtual, October
  • Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Sessions at the Eastern Economic Association (EEA) Annual Conference, Boston, MA, February. 
• 2019:
  • Southern Economic Association (SEA) Annual Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL, November.
  • The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) Conference, Spokane, WA, October (presented with Sierra Arral, Heyi Cheng, and Veronica Cheng)
  • O'Malley School of Business Seminar Series, Riverdale, NY, October (presented with Heyi Cheng and Sierra Arral). 
  • Behavioral and Experimental Economists of the Mid-Atlantic (BEEMA) Conference, Villanova, PA, October. 
  • International Association for Conflict Management (IACM) Conference, Dublin, Ireland, July (Presented by Hillie Aaldering)
  • International Conference for Social Dilemmas (ICSD), Sedona, AZ, June. 
  • Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Sessions at the Midwest Economic Association (MEA) Annual Meeting, St. Louis, MO, March. 
  • Eastern Economic Association (EEA) Annual Conference, New York, NY, February (presented by Heyi Cheng, Veronica Cheng, and Sierra Arral).
•  2018:
  • Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August.  
  • Midwest Economics Association (MEA) Annual Meeting, Evanston, IL March
  • Eastern Economics Association (EEA) Annual Conference, Boston, MA, March. 
•  2017:
  • American Economic Association (AEA) Conference on Teaching and Research in Economic Education (CTREE), Denver, CO, June.
  • Midwest Economics Association (MEA) Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, OH, March.
  • Manhattan College School of Business Seminar Series, Riverdale, NY, March.
  • Eastern Economics Association (EEA) Annual Conference, New York. NY, February.
•  2016:
  • Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, August.
  • Economics Department Workshop Seminar, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, December.
  • Midwest Economics Association (MEA) Annual Meeting, Evanston, IL, April.
• 2015:
  • Missouri Valley Economics Association (MVEA) Meeting, Kansas City, MO, October.
  • Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) & Western Agricultural Economics Association (WAEA) Joint Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, July.
  • European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) Annual Conference, Helsinki, Finland, June.

• 2014:
  • Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Conference, Champaign-Urbana, IL, November.
  • Missouri Valley Economics Association (MVEA) Meeting, St. Louis, MO, October.

Professional Experience & Memberships

• Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
• Behavioral and Experimental Economists of the Mid-Atlantic 
• Southern Economic Association
• Agricultural & Applied Economics Association
• American Economic Association
• Midwest Economics Association
• Eastern Economics Association