California State University Chico, Economics, 2026, Bachelor

Caleb Hearn is a Master’s student and Graduate Teaching Assistant at Colorado State University specializing in natural resource and environmental economics. His research interests entail public land economics, outdoor recreation, and conservation policy, with an emphasis on non-market valuation and applied causal inference. Prior to CSU, Caleb earned a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Applied Statistics from California State University, Chico. His undergraduate research included revealed-preference valuation of the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and econometric analysis of consumer credit markets, which earned 1st Place at the CSU Systemwide Student Research Competition.