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Created: 8/9/2013 Updated: 10/9/2023 Visits: 3,528	Dr. Luis Pena-Levano Assistant Professor University of California, Davis 18830 Rd 112 Tulare, CA 93274 United States lpenalevano@ucdavis.edu (559) 688-1731 (ph)

Biography
Luis Peña-Lévano is an upcoming assistant professor at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, specializing in Dairy Cattle Production, Health, & Management Economics. He is also Graduate Adjunct Faculty at Purdue Global.
Areas of specialization include dairy economics, CGE, international agricultural trade and research in climate change. His areas of interest are international finance and trade, resource economics, benefit cost analysis and the application of global economic effects using general equilibriums models. Recently, he has been awarded with the Best Publication in Environmental and Resource Economics journal. His dissertation "The Economic Benefits and Cost of Mitigating Climate Change" received the Dissertation Award in the field of Social Sciences in 2018 by Purdue University.
In the last three years (2020-2023), he has earned multiple prestigious awards, grants and fellowships including the Rising Star Award from the IFAMA Association (2023), the Robert Dykstra Fellowship from UWRF (2022), the NCR-SARE and S-SARE grants (2022, 2023), Best Paper in the ERE journal (2020), among others.

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- Cost comparison of climate change mitigation options by Pena-Levano, Luis, Farzad Taheripour and Wally Tyner Publication: Presented during the 23rd Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis (Virtual Conference) Resource Type: 2020 Conference Paper Keywords: Climate change policy, Climate impacts, Agricultural policies - Global economic and environmental outcome of livestock sector and climate change by Pena-Levano, Luis, Farzad Taheripour and Wally Tyner Publication: Presented at the 22nd Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Warsaw, Poland Resource Type: 2019 Conference Paper Keywords: Climate change policy, Climate impacts, Land use, Trade and the environment, Economic analysis of po... - Modeling emission reductions and forest carbon sequestration in GTAP: Data Base and model improvements by Pena-Levano, Luis, Farzad Taheripour and Wally Tyner Publication: Presented at the 20th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, West Lafayette, IN, USA Resource Type: 2017 Conference Paper Keywords: Software and modeling tools, Climate change policy, The GTAP Data Base and extensions - Introducing first and second generation biofuels into GTAP 9 Data Base by Taheripour, Farzad, Luis Pena-Levano and Wally Tyner Publication: GTAP Research Memorandum No. 29 Resource Type: Research Memorandum Keywords: Renewable energy - Development of a GTAP Land Use Data Base for 2011 by Pena-Levano, Luis, Farzad Taheripour and Wally Tyner Publication: GTAP Research Memorandum No. 28 Resource Type: Research Memorandum Keywords: Land use, The GTAP Data Base and extensions - The economic benefits and costs of mitigating climate change on agriculture by Pena-Levano, Luis, Farzad Taheripour and Wally Tyner Publication: Presented at the 18th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Melbourne, Australia Resource Type: 2015 Conference Paper Keywords: Climate change policy, Climate impacts, Land use, Agricultural policies

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