Elizabeth Marshall

Economist
202-694-5571
emarshall@ers.usda.gov
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Briefly

Liz Marshall is an economist in the Conservation and Environment Branch of the Resource and Rural Economics Division at USDA's Economic Research Service.

Background

Liz's research focuses on the potential impacts of programs, policies, and changing growing conditions on patterns of land use, environmental impact, and economic response within the domestic agricultural sector. At ERS, she works on the development and application of a national agricultural production model (REAP) to issues ranging from the environmental and economic impacts of bioenergy crop production to agricultural adaptation strategies around climate change. Liz has been at ERS since 2010. Prior to joining ERS, she was a resource economist heading up the Biofuels Production and Policy project at the World Resources Institute.

Education

Liz has an M.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota.

ERS Publications by this Author

Dedicated Energy Crops and Competition for Agricultural Land Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Adaptation in the U.S. Fieldcrop Sector Global Drivers of Agricultural Demand and Supply Agricultural Adaptation to a Changing Climate: Economic and Environmental Implications Vary by U.S. Region Baselines in Environmental Markets: Tradeoffs Between Cost and Additionality See all

Amber Waves Articles by this Author

Farmers Employ Strategies To Reduce Risk of Drought Damages Climate Change, Water Scarcity, and Adaptation Adaptation Can Help U.S. Crop Producers Confront Climate Change Baselines--Key to the Costs and Benefits of Environmental Markets Biofuels and Land-Use Change: Estimation Challenges

Journal Publications by this Author

Agricultural production under climate change: the potential impacts of shifting regional water balances in the United States