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Working Papers

2011

1. Characterizing Spatial Pattern in Ecosystem Service Values when Distance Decay Doesn’t Apply: Choice Experiments and Local Indicators of Spatial Association
   2011 Annual Meeting, July 24-26, 2011, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2010

2. Valuing Farmland Protection with Choice Experiments That Incorporate Preference Heterogeneity: Does Policy Guidance Depend On the Econometric Fine Print?
   2010 Annual Meeting, July 25-27, 2010, Denver, Colorado, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

2009

3. Benefit Transfer from Multiple Contingent Experiments: A Flexible Two-Step Model Combining Individual Choice Data with Community Characteristics
   Working Papers, University of Nevada, Reno, Department of Economics
   See also Journal Article in American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2009)

2008

4. Optimizing Farmland Preservation Choices Across Communities and Jurisdictional Scales: To What Extent are Amenity Values and Selection Criteria Transferable?
   2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (1)
5. Systematic Variation in Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Land Preservation and Implications for Benefit Transfer: A Meta-Analysis
   2008 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2008, Orlando, Florida, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (2)

2007

6. Is Willingness to Pay for Farmland Preservation Transferable Across States? Evidence from a Choice Experiment
   2007 Annual Meeting, July 29-August 1, 2007, Portland, Oregon TN, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

2006

7. Context Similarity and the Validity of Benefits Transfer: Is the Common Wisdom Correct?
   2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)
8. Systematic Influences of Policy Implementation and Conservation Agents on Willingness to Pay for Land Preservation
   2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

2005

9. A Battle of Taste and Environmental Convictions for Ecolabeled Seafood: A Choice Experiment
   2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (1)
10. Validating Hypothetical Surveys Using Binding Public Referenda: Implications for Stated Preference Valuation
    2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

2004

11. WHO ARE RESOURCE NONUSERS AND WHAT CAN THEY TELL US ABOUT NONUSE VALUES? AN APPLICATION TO COASTAL WETLAND RESTORATION
    2004 Annual meeting, August 1-4, Denver, CO, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

2003

12. FORECASTING SUPPORT FOR RURAL LAND USE POLICIES: THE ROLE OF PREFERENCE ASYMMETRIES
    2003 Annual meeting, July 27-30, Montreal, Canada, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

2002

13. STATED PREFERENCES AND LENGTH OF RESIDENCY IN RURAL COMMUNITIES: ARE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION VALUES HETEROGENEOUS?
    2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

2000

14. THE INFLUENCE OF SPATIAL LAND USE PATTERNS ON RURAL AMENITY VALUES AND WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR GROWTH MANAGEMENT: EVIDENCE FROM A CONTINGENT CHOICE SURVEY
    2000 Annual meeting, July 30-August 2, Tampa, FL, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association) View citations (1)

Journal Articles

Forthcoming

1. AJAE Appendix: Benefit Transfer from Multiple Contingent Experiments: A Flexible Two-Step Model Combining Individual Choice Data with Community Characteristics
   American Journal of Agricultural Economics Appendices, Forthcoming

2013

2. Foreword: The Economics of Rural and Agricultural Ecosystem Services: Purism versus Practicality
   Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2013, 42, (1)
3. META-ANALYSIS OF ECONOMICS RESEARCH REPORTING GUIDELINES
   Journal of Economic Surveys, 2013, 27, (2), 390-394
4. Stated Preferences for Intermediate versus Final Ecosystem Services: Disentangling Willingness to Pay for Omitted Outcomes
   Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2013, 42, (1)

2012

5. Enhancing the Content Validity of Stated Preference Valuation: The Structure and Function of Ecological Indicators
   Land Economics, 2012, 88, (1), 102-120
6. Enhancing the reliability of benefit transfer over heterogeneous sites: A meta-analysis of international coral reef values
   Ecological Economics, 2012, 78, (C), 80-89
7. Sustainable agricultural management contracts: Using choice experiments to estimate the benefits of land preservation and conservation practices
   Ecological Economics, 2012, 74, (C), 95-103

2011

8. An operational structure for clarity in ecosystem service values
   Ecological Economics, 2011, 70, (12), 2243-2249 View citations (2)
9. Indices of biotic integrity in stated preference valuation of aquatic ecosystem services
   Ecological Economics, 2011, 70, (11), 1946-1956 View citations (1)
10. Long-Term Health Effects, Risk Perceptions, and Implications for Agricultural Markets: Modeling Consumption Patterns for Aquacultured Seafood
    Journal of Food Distribution Research, 2011, 42, (1)

2010

11. METHODS, TRENDS AND CONTROVERSIES IN CONTEMPORARY BENEFIT TRANSFER
    Journal of Economic Surveys, 2010, 24, (3), 479-510 View citations (3)
12. Socioeconomic adjustments and choice experiment benefit function transfer: Evaluating the common wisdom
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2010, 32, (3), 421-438
13. Willingness to Pay for Water Quality Improvements in the United States and Canada: Considering Possibilities for International Meta-Analysis and Benefit Transfer
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2010, 39, (1) View citations (2)

2009

14. Benefit Transfer from Multiple Contingent Experiments: A Flexible Two-Step Model Combining Individual Choice Data with Community Characteristics
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009, 91, (5), 1335-1342
    See also Working Paper (2009)
15. Implications of a Land Value Tax with Error in Assessed Values
    Land Economics, 2009, 85, (4), 576-586 View citations (1)
16. Informing Preservation of Multifunctional Agriculture when Primary Research Is Unavailable: An Application of Meta-Analysis
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009, 91, (5), 1353-1359 View citations (3)
17. Meta-Analysis, Benefit Transfer, and Methodological Covariates: Implications for Transfer Error
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2009, 42, (2), 227-246 View citations (2)
18. Neil A. Powe, Redesigning Environmental Valuation: Mixing Methods Within Stated Preference Techniques, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (2007) ISBN 978 1 84542 279 0 202 pp
    Ecological Economics, 2009, 68, (5), 1564-1565
19. Selection Effects in Meta-Analysis and Benefit Transfer: Avoiding Unintended Consequences
    Land Economics, 2009, 85, (3), 410-428 View citations (3)
20. Willingness to Pay for Land Preservation across States and Jurisdictional Scale: Implications for Benefit Transfer
    Land Economics, 2009, 85, (2), 217-237 View citations (9)

2008

21. Benefit Transfer Equivalence Tests with Non-normal Distributions
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2008, 41, (1), 1-23 View citations (6)

2007

22. Choice experiments, site similarity and benefits transfer
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2007, 38, (3), 331-351 View citations (10)
23. Fish harvest tags: An alternative management approach for recreational fisheries in the US Gulf of Mexico
    Marine Policy, 2007, 31, (4), 505-516 View citations (2)
24. Robert A. Young, Determining the Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods, Resources For the Future, Washington DC (2005) ISBN 1891853988 (pbk.), 374 pp
    Ecological Economics, 2007, 60, (4), 847-848
25. Roy Brouwer and David Pearce, Editors, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Water Resources Management, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (2005) ISBN 1843763591 (cased), 404 pp
    Ecological Economics, 2007, 63, (4), 831-832
26. Willingness to Pay for Agricultural Land Preservation and Policy Process Attributes: Does the Method Matter?
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007, 89, (4), 1098-1115 View citations (17)

2006

27. A Battle of Taste and Environmental Convictions for Ecolabeled Seafood: A Contingent Ranking Experiment
    Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2006, 31, (02) View citations (2)
28. Characterizing the effects of valuation methodology in function-based benefits transfer
    Ecological Economics, 2006, 60, (2), 407-419 View citations (9)
29. Is hypothetical bias universal? Validating contingent valuation responses using a binding public referendum
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2006, 52, (1), 469-481 View citations (6)
30. What Determines Willingness to Pay per Fish? A Meta-Analysis of Recreational Fishing Values
    Marine Resource Economics, 2006, 21, (1) View citations (9)

2005

31. Estimating Recreational User Counts: Corrigendum
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2005, 87, (2), 524-527
32. Systematic Variation in Willingness to Pay for Aquatic Resource Improvements and Implications for Benefit Transfer: A Meta-Analysis
    Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 2005, 53, (2-3), 221-248 View citations (35)

2003

33. Angling management organizations: integrating the recreational sector into fishery management
    Marine Policy, 2003, 27, (6), 471-487 View citations (4)
34. Estimating Recreational User Counts
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003, 85, (3), 554-568
35. Farmland Preservation and Differential Taxation: Evaluating Optimal Policy Under Conditions of Uncertainty
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2003, 32, (2)
36. Preferences for Residential Development Attributes and Support for the Policy Process: Implications for Management and Conservation of Rural Landscapes
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2003, 32, (1) View citations (10)
37. Rural Amenity Values and Length of Residency
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2003, 85, (4), 1000-1015 View citations (5)

2002

38. Combining Economic and Ecological Indicators to Prioritize Salt Marsh Restoration Actions
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2002, 84, (5), 1362-1370 View citations (9)
39. Spatial Factors and Stated Preference Values for Public Goods: Considerations for Rural Land Use
    Land Economics, 2002, 78, (4), 481-500 View citations (15)

2001

40. Estimating Amenity Benefits of Coastal Farmland
    Growth and Change, 2001, 32, (3), 305-325 View citations (7)
41. MEASURING CONSUMER PREFERENCES FOR ECOLABELED SEAFOOD: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON
    Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2001, 26, (01) View citations (19)

1999

42. Assessing Consumer Preferences for Ecolabeled Seafood: The Influence of Species, Certifier, and Household Attributes
    American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1999, 81, (5), 1084-1089 View citations (25)
43. Asymmetries in Ordered Strength of Preference Models: Implications of Focus Shift for Discrete-Choice Preference Estimation
    Land Economics, 1999, 75, (2), 295-310 View citations (4)
44. Estimating Willingness to Pay and Resource Tradeoffs with Different Payment Mechanisms: An Evaluation of a Funding Guarantee for Watershed Management
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1999, 38, (1), 97-120 View citations (8)

1996

45. Uncertain Biomass Shift and Collapse: Implications for Harvest Policy in the Fishery
    Land Economics, 1996, 72, (4), 500-518 View citations (7)

1995

46. CONTINGENT VALUATION FOCUS GROUPS: INSIGHTS FROM ETHNOGRAPHIC INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES
    Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 1995, 24, (1) View citations (19)

1973

47. Possible extensions to the factorial ecology method: a note
    Environment and Planning A, 1973, 5, (6), 719-734