Education: PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Colorado State University

Ming Wang is an incoming Junior Research Economist with the Agricultural Risk Policy Center at North Dakota State University. Her research focuses on agri-environmental conservation policies, trade, and climate change, with an emphasis on how conservation incentives affect rural employment, land use, and greenhouse gas mitigation. Her current work evaluates the regional economic trade-offs of conservation programs, the international emission leakages associated with U.S. conservation policies, and the integration of econometric and biogeochemical models to estimate the cost of climate change abatement under different policy scenarios at the farm level, providing insights to support evidence-based policymaking for sustainable agricultural systems, environmental conservation, and rural economic resilience.