$41,000 - $60,000 yearly
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Job Type Full-Time Overview Prof. Simon Levin performs research on complex adaptive systems and the coupling of ecological and socioeconomic systems. As part of this program, he seeks to recruit an assistant, especially to help with computer simulations. The research assistant will help develop a spatially explicit agent-based model to investigate how heterogeneous collections of farmers respond to environmental policy incentives and how these decentralized decisions shape long-run ecological and economic outcomes in agricultural landscapes. Preliminary work illustrates how coupling ecological feedback with heterogeneous behavioral responses can generate non-linear land-use dynamics and policy outcomes that cannot be captured by representative-agent optimization approaches. The model combines spatial heterogeneity in land quality, heterogeneous farm sizes, endogenous environmental feedbacks, and alternative farmer objective functions to examine the interaction between...