Daniel Phaneuf

Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics

Biography

Daniel J. Phaneuf is the Henry C. Taylor Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has a PhD in economics from Iowa State University and an undergraduate degree from Saint John’s University in Minnesota. Phaneuf’s research focuses on valuing the environment and natural resources, with applications to air quality, water quality, hazardous waste, and human health. He has published over sixty academic papers in both economics and general science outlets, and his research has been funded by the US EPA, USDA, NOAA, and other state and local organizations. In 2017, Phaneuf’s PhD level textbook A Course in Environmental Economics was published by Cambridge University Press. He served as the Managing Editor for J. Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM) from 2011-2013 and as the inaugural Editor in Chief for J. Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE) from 2014-2016. Phaneuf currently edits Land Economics, and he was President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) during 2019-2020. He was elected an AERE Fellow in 2022.