Yanxu Long

I am a postdoctoral scholar affiliated with NatCap TEEMs in University of Minnesota’s Department of Applied Economics. My research lies at the intersection of environmental and development economics, with emphasis on forests, ecosystem services, and natural capital accounting.

I study economic impacts of environmental policies and environmental consequences of economic development using applied econometrics, spatial data, and interdisciplinary methods.

I earned my Ph.D. in Applied Economics from University of Minnesota in February 2025 under supervision of Marc F. Bellemare and Stephen Polasky. My dissertation examines relationships between forests and people, including poverty alleviation and forest conservation, payments for ecosystem services and rural livelihoods, and large-scale tree planting and local economic development.