Food and Resource Economics Department

Youngho (Young) Kim

Assistant Professor

Youngho (Young) Kim is an Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics in the Department of Food and Resource Economics at the University of Florida. His research examines the design and evaluation of economic policies that address market failures in the provision of environmental services, with an emphasis on payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs and environmental credit markets.

Before joining the University of Florida, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environmental Economics at the University of Oxford. He earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Maryland and his B.S. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University.

Research

Research Fields

Applied Microeconomics, Environmental & Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics.

Teaching

Education
- Ph.D. in Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland, 2024
- B.S. in Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, 2017

Publications
- Google Scholar
- REPEC
Personal website
https://www.econyoungkim.com