Dr. Qin Fan is a Professor in the Department of Economics, Craig School of Business
at California State University, Fresno. She received her Ph.D. in Environmental and
Resource Economics from the Pennsylvania State University in August 2013. Her research
focuses on the linkage between human behavior and environmental system. Her previous
and current research involves examining regional economic impacts of climate change
by considering feedback from different markets and updating human behavioral changes.
She uses empirical techniques and modeling works to link environmental systems to
human decision-making and public policies. She has led many research projects that
are funded through highly competitive research grants. Her recent work has been published
in Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE), Land
Economics, Climate Change Economics, Climatic Change, Journal of Agricultural Economics,
Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Applied Economics, Risk Analysis, among
others. Dr. Fan integrates her research into teaching materials and increases students
engagement in active learning using practical research and case studies. She has advised
both undergraduate and graduate students including Craig Honors and Smittcamp Family
Honors students at California State University, Fresno.
Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics, Climate Change and Natural Disasters.
Fan, Q. and Bakkensen, L. (2022). Household Sorting as Adaptation to Hurricane Risk
in the United States. Land Economics. 98(2):219-238.
Jauregui, A., Fan, Q., and Curry, J. (2021). “House Price Capitalization of Stormwater
Retention Basins: Evidence from Fresno-Clovis Metropolitan Area in California”. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11146-021-09860-2.
Davlasheridze, M., Fan, Q., Highfiled, W., and Liang, J. (2021). Economic Impacts
of Storm Surge Events: Examining State and National Ripple Effects. Climatic Change. 166(1): 1-20.
Liang, J., Fan, Q., and Hu, Y. (2021). “Dynamic Relationship Between Commodity Prices
and Local Housing Market: Evidence for Linear and Nonlinear Causality.”. Applied Economics. 53(15): 1743-1755.
Fan, Q., and Liang, J. (2020). “The Effects of California’s School Finance Reform:
Empirical Evidence from the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF).” Journal of Education Finance. 46(2): 140-157.
Fan, Q. and Hansz, J. A. (2020). "The Spatial and Time-Varying Contagion Effect of
Foreclosures". Journal of Real Estate Research. 42(3): 397-419.
Davlasheridze, M. and Fan, Q. (2019). "Valuing Seawall Protection in the Wake of Hurricane
Ike.". Economics of Disasters and Climate Change. 3: 257-279.
Fan, Q. and Davlasheridze, M. (2019). “Economic Impacts of Migration and Brain Drain
After Major Catastrophe: The Case of Hurricane Katrina.” Climate Change Economics. 10(01): 1-21.
Fan, Q., Fisher-Vanden, K., and Klaiber, H.A. (2018). “Climate Change, Migration,
and Regional Economic Impacts in the U.S.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE). 5(3): 643-671.
Fan, Q and Salas Garcia, V. B. (2018). “Information Access and Smallholder Farmers’
Selling Decisions in Peru.” Journal of Agricultural Economics. 69(2):476-494
