Mona Ahmadiani

Mona Ahmadiani is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University, affiliated with the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Tehran. Her research focuses on environmental and natural resource economics, particularly nonmarket valuation of recreational fisheries and climate adaptation. She also studies well-being economics, aiming to reduce inequalities in quality of life related to environmental and social factors. Her work employs revealed and stated preference methods, such as discrete choice experiments, and integrates geospatial data analysis for policy-relevant insights.

Her recent publications address topics like soil health valuation in Texas, disaster cost modeling for power outages, and the use of GPS data for tracking recreational fishing activities. She has also explored global and regional determinants of happiness, extreme weather impacts on well-being, and spatial disparities in quality of life. Her methodological contributions include tidy data approaches for workforce indicators analysis. She has been active in coastal resilience studies, flood insurance markets, and environmental policy evaluation.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned in the provided texts. Her advising history or grant activities are not detailed here. She maintains an academic website and can be contacted via mona.ahmadiani@ag.tamu.edu for collaborations or inquiries.