Kristen Swedberg
(she/her)
ORISE Research Fellow
U.S. EPA, Office of Water
Bio
Kristen Swedberg, PhD, is an environmental economist whose work explores the social benefits of protecting water quality. She is currently participating in an ORISE Fellowship at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water in the Water Economics Center. Her research interests include water quality valuation using both revealed and stated preferences, integrated assessment modelling, and environmental policy evaluation. She completed a PhD in Economics from Virginia Tech in 2024 and M.S. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Virginia Tech in 2020. Her work in hedonic valuation of lake water quality has been published in PNAS and Land Economics.
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