Samuel Bell

Assistant Professor (Sr Res) and Director of Sustainability Degree Program
sam.bell [at] oregonstate.edu

Office: 541-737-3781

Ballard Extension Hall

Ballard Extension Hall 240G

2591 SW Campus Way

Corvallis, OR 97331

Fields: Environmental economics, development, clean energy, sustainability, climate change, program evaluation.

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Current Research

Recent publications

"Agricultural adoption and behavioral economics: bridging the gap", with Streletskaya, N. A., et al., Applied Economics Policy and Perspectives, 2020;
"Technology Adoption Under Uncertainty: Take-Up and Subsequent Investment in Zambia", with Oliva, P., et al. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2019.
"The Random Quantity Mechanism: Laboratory and Field Tests of a Novel Cost-Revealing Procurement Mechanism", with Streletskaya, N. A., Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019.
"Urban consumer preferences for nutrient-fortified foods in Zambia: a choice experiment", with Streletskaya, N.A., et al., Agribusiness, 2020;

Work in progress

Compliance in conservation contracting with limited liability and uncertainty;
Tourists’ willingness to pay for wildlife increases in the South Luangwa National Park, Zambia;
County resilience to economic shocks, with M. Rahe, P. Lewin;
Consumer demand for distributed renewable energy with asset financing.

At OSU

Affiliated with:

Applied Economics

Headquarters:

OSU Main Campus

Courses Taught:

Microeconomic theory (graduate), AEC 512;
Program evaluation (undergrad/graduate), AEC 455/555;
Environmental economics and policy (undergrad), AEC 352;
Market tools for managing greenhouse gas emissions (undergrad/graduate), FES 400/500;
Economics of recreation and tourism (undergrad), TRAL 432
Introduction to sustainable natural resources (co-taught, graduate), MNR511;
Benefit cost analysis (undergrad), AEC434.

Professional Accomplishments

Curriculum Vitae:

sdb_cv_2021_nov.pdf

My Publications

Proceedings and Conference Presentations:

Southern Regional Science Association Annual Meeting 2019, Atlanta, GA: Paper presentation;
Agricultural & Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting 2018, Washington D.C.: Paper presentation;
Northwest Development Workshop, April 2018: OSU planning committee member;
Centre for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-environmental Research Annual Conference 2017, Shepherdstown WV: Paper presentation;
American Agricultural Economist Association annual meeting 2017, Chicago, IL: Presenter;
CGIAR, CCAFS, Feed the Future and USAID Workshop on Metrics for targeting and monitoring climate-smart agriculture (CSA), Paris, France, 2015;
FAO-MICCA Learning event webinars: speaker and facilitator 2012/13;
Africa Carbon Forum 2012 – World Bank workshop on smallholder climate initiatives, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2012;
UNFCCC COP16/CMP6 Cancun, participant and contributor at high-level side events including: Research brief & poster - Agriculture & Rural Development Day (ARDD), 2010;
IT’S DOWN 2 EARTH; Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change; The Hague, Netherlands, November 2010: Presented CDM PoA smallholder reforestation project;
UNFCCC COP15/CMP5 Copenhagen, Denmark December 2009. Presented in high-level ARDD side event on land-use MRV in ‘Ideas Marketplace’ session, 2009;
Bio-Sequestration and Climate Law and Policy, Columbia Law School, Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia University NYC, 2009;
Creating Sustainability Within Our Midst: Challenge for the 21st Century, 4thBiennial Conference US Society for Ecological Economics, Pace University NYC, 2007.

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