Making the Case for AREC Departments

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Originally Posted by 2008applicant

I've been doing field RA work for the past three years and am interested in microdevelopment applied work---so far I've been accepted at Davis ARE and Wisconsin AAE, but also at Duke and the demography program at Penn. I'm not totally sure whether I want to do academia or public sector/non profit type work. I've applied to more ARE programs and population geared econ programs. Hard decision weighing the potentially "better fit" of the ARE programs against prestige...but even a prof from college who has an ARE degree is telling me to go to Duke.

What department at Duke (econ?), and what are you looking to do? There's a good sized group of environmental economists at Duke, but most aren't in the econ department. Check out the faculty listings for the Nicholas School, Sanford Institute, and Fuqua. There are also a bunch of folks nearby at NC State and RTI.

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Does anybody have info about Purde Ag Econ. Just simple things like the direction of the program, placement, comparisons to other schools like Mich St., UIUC, etc.