Sergey Rabotyagov

  • Associate Professor
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    • Sergey Rabotyagov

    • Associate Professor

    Research areas

    A.B., International Business and German, William Jewell College
    M.S., Economics, Iowa State University
    Ph.D., Economics, Iowa State University

    Sergey Rabotyagov is an environmental economist with broad interests in water quality, land use change, non-market valuation, and causal inference in complex systems.

    Autumn 2025-26 Admissions: Professor Rabotyagov welcomes inquires from prospective students but is currently not recruiting for a particular project. 

    Courses

    • ESRM 235 | Introduction to Environmental Economics (5) - Spring
    • ESRM 235 | Introduction to Environmental Economics (5) - Summer
    • ESRM 465 | Economics of Conservation (3) - Autumn
    • SEFS 509 | Analysis of Research Problems (3) - Winter

    Current sponsored projects

    Selected publications

    Lang, Z., Rabotyagov, S., Hansen, A. T., Dalzell, B., Campbell, T., & Tao, J. (2025). Integrated assessment of cost-effective water quality improvements in the Minnesota River Basin: Combining stated preferences and simulation-optimization approaches. Environmental Management, (pages 1–22).

    Danley, B., Rabotyagov, S., & Cooke, A. (2024). Following up with forest inheritors: A survival analysis of recently inherited and recently sold non-industrial forest land in the state of Washington, USA. Small-scale Forestry, (pages 1–15).

    Lang, Z., & Rabotyagov, S. (2022). Socio-psychological factors influencing intent to adopt conservation practices in the Minnesota River Basin. Journal of Environmental Management, 307, 114466.

    van Eeden, L. M., Bogezi, C., Leng, D., Marzluff, J. M., Wirsing, A. J., & Rabotyagov, S. (2021). Public willingness to pay for gray wolf conservation that could support a rancher-led wolf-livestock coexistence program. Biological Conservation, 260, 109226.

    Hansen, A. T., Campbell, T., Cho, S. J., Czuba, J. A., Dalzell, B. J., Dolph, C. L., Hawthorne, P. L., Rabotyagov, S., Lang, Z., Kumarasamy, K., & Belmont, P. (2021). Integrated assessment modeling reveals near-channel management as cost-effective to improve water quality in agricultural watersheds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(28).

    van Eeden, L. M., Rabotyagov, S., Kather, M., Bogezi, C., Wirsing, A. J., & Marzluff, J. (2021). Political affiliation predicts public attitudes toward gray wolf (Canis lupus) conservation and management. Conservation Science and Practice, 3(3), e387.

    Lang, Z., & Rabotyagov, S. (2020). Good seeds bear good fruit: Using benefit-to-cost ratios in multiobjective spatial optimization under epistasis. Land Economics, 96(4), 599–617.

    Jalali, P., & Rabotyagov, S. (2020). Quantifying cumulative effectiveness of green stormwater infrastructure in improving water quality. Science of The Total Environment, 721, 138953.