Matthew Mair

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech and an Interfaces of Global Change fellow at the Global Change Center. My research sits at the intersection of environmental economics, machine learning, and policy analysis, with a focus on understanding how human decision-making shapes environmental outcomes.

Fields: Environmental and Energy Economics, Applied Econometrics, Machine Learning

Email: mairmc@vt.edu

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Education

Ph.D., Agricultural and Applied Economics — Virginia Tech, 2024–Present

Interfaces of Global Change Fellow, Global Change Center

B.A., Economics (Environmental Economics and Policy); B.S., Political Science (International and Comparative Politics) — Appalachian State University, 2020–2024

University Honors College
Chancellor’s Scholarship (full-ride merit scholarship)