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Wolfram Schlenker
International Affairs Building, Room 1308
Assistant Professor, International and Public Affairs and Economics
Phone: 212-854-1806
ws2162@columbia.edu


Biography:
Wolfram Schlenker teaches classes in environmental and natural resource economics. His research interests include the economics of climate change, water rights, and their impact on agricultural output, as well as models of exhaustible resources with endogenous discoveries.

His most recent publication is "Will U.S. Agriculture Really Benefit From Global Warming? Accounting for Irrigation in the Hedonic Approach" in American Economic Review (March 2005).

He holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley (2003) and a Master of engineering and management sciences from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (2000), as well as a Master of environmental management from Duke University (1998).

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Research Interests: Agriculture / Agricultural Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Water, Environmental Economics, Environment, Climate Change