Eric J. Belasco

Nonresident Senior Fellow

Research Areas

Agriculture policy

Farm subsidies

Research / Program Teams

Economics

Contact

Research Assistant

Bio

Eric J. Belasco is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he studies federal agricultural support programs, such as crop insurance and disaster aid. He is concurrently an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics at Montana State University.

Dr. Belasco has also worked as an assistant professor at Texas Tech University and as a research associate at the Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research.

He has a PhD and an MS in economics from North Carolina State University and a BA in economics from Saint Mary’s College of California.

Experience

  • Assistant Professor, Montana State University, 2011–15
  • Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University, 2008–11
  • Research Associate, Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research, 2007

Education

PhD and MS, economics, North Carolina State University

BS, economics, Saint Mary’s College of California