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Joanne Ho
jjho@u.washington.edu
http://students.washington.edu/jjho
Education
B.A. International studies, University of WashingtonPostgraduate Diploma Economics, University of Sussex
M.A. International Economics, University of Sussex
Ph.C. College of Forest Resources, University of Washington
Honors
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (German Academic Exchange Service Grant) 2008
- NSF IGERT fellow
- UW Library Research Award 2004
Research
- Equity and welfare in emerging market agricultural development (China studies, anthropology, economics)
- Post-war ecological legacies and detriments on farming communities and livelihoods in southern Vietnam (anthropology, agronomy)
- Civil society and community participation in policy decisions (political science, development studies)
- Agroforestry in Sub-Saharan Africa (institutional economics, ecology)
- Environmental shocks and El Nino-Southern Oscillation and effects on economic performance (PhD dissertation topic-- climatology, industrial economics)
- Allocation of water resources between agricultural and industrial sector (welfare economics)
- Gender and household division of labor in small-scale society (gender studies, welfare economics)
- Regional trade and regional integration (trade economics)
- Exchange rate valuation in East Asia (international economics)
Publications and Presentations
Ho, J. "Behind the Scenes: Economist Hedges Bets on Wildfires in California." LiveScience, August 22, 2008.
Link to Article
Freeburg, Adam, Sara Breslow, Julie Combs, Emma Flores, Steve Harrell, Tom Hinckley, Joanne Ho, Joyce LeCompte-Mastenbrooke, Eric Nassau, Alicia Robbins, Haldre Rogers, Patrick Shamberger and Lauren Urgenson, MCCE IGERT: An Experiment in International Interdisciplinary Graduate Education. AAAS, Pacific Division 88th Annual Meeting, Boise State University, Boise, ID June 17 - 21, 2007 New Humanities and Science Convergences. III: The Greening of the Disciplines (Awarded AAAS Pacific Division Rita Peterson Award in Science Education).
Highlights
Ethnographic interviews on post-subsistence farming communities and their cash-crop experiences in transitioning into a market economy (Sichuan, China)World Bank project on Poverty Reduction Strategy Process policy assessment (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Forecasting China’s economic performance towards 2015 and effects on demographic and social equity (Brighton, United Kingdom)
