Eric Belleville

Eric Belleville is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics at Ohio State University. His research examines how spatial spillovers and externalities influence decision-making in conservation procurement schemes and renewable energy programs.

His projects analyze strategic behavior and peer effects in agglomeration bonus payment schemes through laboratory experiments, endogenous participation and spatial externalities in fisheries buyback auctions, and spatial adoption patterns of wind energy infrastructure. Across these studies, he applies laboratory methods and large administrative datasets to evaluate behavioral responses to policy design.

At Ohio State, Eric serves as a teaching assistant in the AEDE Department, contributing to undergraduate instruction by preparing labs and materials on policy evaluation and applied econometrics. He has also served as a graduate research assistant, collaborating with private and public partners on the implementation of a conservation program targeted at the local level. He intends to pursue a career in applied research within an academic or policy-oriented institution, with the broader goal of producing research that improves the design and targeting of environmental and conservation policies.