Alice M. Kilduff

I am an agricultural and environmental economist studying how social inequities, ecological processes, and new technologies shape farmers’ exposure to and resilience against environmental risk. My dissertation shows how historical and institutional legacies create racial disparities in crop insurance, how women farmers’ climate risk strategies are mediated by access to resources, and provides the first economic valuation of mycorrhizal fungi as a critical ecological support for agriculture. More broadly, my work combines spatial econometrics, bioeconomic modeling, and survey methods to examine the distributional effects of environmental risk and the ecological underpinnings of resilience, with the goal of informing both scholarship and policy on equity, sustainability, and climate adaptation.