Karina Schoengold
Hi, I’m Karina Schoengold, assistant professor of natural resources and environmental economics with a joint appointment in the Department of Agricultural Economics and the School of Natural Resources. I am also affiliated with the UNL Water Center.
My main interests are environmental and natural resources economics, water resource economics, water pricing, irrigation technology options and agricultural economics.
My current research projects include water pricing and irrigation technology choices. Using data from Kern County in the central valley of California, I am looking at how the price of water affects both a farmers’ crop choice and type of irrigation technology.
I’m also investigating groundwater extraction in Mexico. Pursued jointly with the Instituto Nacional de Ecología (National Institute of Ecology) in Mexico City, this research looks at the price of electricity (the main component of groundwater pumping costs) and its effect on the amount of groundwater farmers pump. I’m also researching equity considerations in water pricing. This research considers various ways of pricing water (or other natural resources), such as average cost, marginal cost and block-rate pricing. When users of that resource have a mix of economic characteristics and their demand for that resource is variable, there are tradeoffs between equity and economic efficiency in the resource allocation.
In the past, I’ve been a research assistant in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department at the University of California at Berkeley. There, I surveyed literature on agricultural water use and the economics of irrigation, work which has led to several survey articles, including a forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Agricultural Economics, vol. 3. I also collected and organized data on cropping and irrigation technology patterns in California’s central valley, as well as developed econometric estimations of water use patterns.
I have been at UNL since August of 2005 and received my doctorate that year, and my master’s in 2001, from the University of California-Berkeley’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. I have a bachelor’s from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in mathematics and economics, earned in 1998.
Personnel Information
| Name | Karina Schoengold |
| University Title | Assistant Professor |
| Additional Title | Environmental Economist |
| Address | 802 Hardin Hall, Lincoln NE 68583-0922 |
| Affiliation (index) | Ag Econ |
| Phone | 402-472-2304 |
| Fax | 402-472-2946 |
| kschoengold2@unl.edu | |
| Related Websites | http://snrs.unl.edu/schoengold/index.html http://agecon.unl.edu http://watercenter.unl.edu |
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Key Publications
- The Economics of Water, Irrigation and Development (with David Zilberman), forthcoming in Handbook of Agricultural Economics: vol. 3, ed. Robert Evenson, Elsevier Science Publishers.
- Natural Resource Pricing, Allocation and Capital Investment, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley (2005).
- The Use of Pricing and Markets for Water Allocation (with David Zilberman), Canadian Water Resources Journal 30(1): 47-54, 2005.
