Adrienne Ohler
Associate Professor of Applied Economics
University of Missouri
Adrienne Ohler is an associate professor of applied economics in the Division of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Missouri and associate director of policy research at the Financial Research Institute.
Her research focuses on environmental and resource economics, energy economics, regulatory economics, and health economics. She studies how public policy, institutional design, and technological change affect energy and water systems, environmental quality, natural-resource use, public infrastructure, human and animal health, and economic outcomes. Her work has examined energy markets, residential electricity demand, advanced metering, water quality, distressed water systems, and the value of environmental amenities.
Before her current faculty appointment, Ohler was an associate extension professor and research associate professor at the University of Missouri. She previously spent more than a decade at Illinois State University, where she was an associate professor of economics and director of outreach for the Institute for Regulatory Policy Studies. She has also held visiting appointments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Colorado School of Mines.
Ohler received the Western Agricultural Economics Association’s Outstanding Published Research Award in 2015.
Ohler earned a Ph.D. in economics and a master’s in statistics from Washington State University, a master’s in applied economics from Montana State University, and a bachelor’s in mathematics and economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
