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Submissions from 2024

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Evaluating blockchain technology adoption in multi-tier supply chains from an institutional entrepreneurship theory perspective, Sang Hoo Bae, Sara Saberi, Mahtab Kouhizadeh, and Joseph Sarkis

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Supply chain interactions and strategic product deletion Decisions: A Game-Theoretic analysis, Sang Hoo Bae, Qingyun Zhu, and Joseph Sarkis

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Circular Migration, Marriage Markets, and HIV: Long-Run Evidence from Mozambique, Jon Denton-Schneider

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Understanding Public Preferences for Molluscan Shellfish Aquaculture: The Role of Production Technology and Environmental Impacts, Giulio Farolfi and Robert Johnston

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When Do Firms Shift Production across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?, Wayne B. Gray and Ron Shadbegian

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Consequences of omitting non-lethal wildlife impacts from stated preference scenarios, Robert J. Johnston, Tobias Börger, Nick Hanley, Keila Meginnis, Tom Ndebele, Ghamz E. Ali Siyal, Nicola Beaumont, and Frans P. de Vries

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Do numerical probabilities promote informed stated preference responses under inherent outcome uncertainty? Insight from a coastal adaptation choice experiment, Christos Makriyannis, Robert J. Johnston, and Ewa Zawojska

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Decomposition Analysis of Racial Income Inequality in the United States, Rabia Manzoor and Wayne B. Gray

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Estimating round-tripping FDI from firm-level data in China, Zeyi Qian, Junfu Zhang, and Qiangyuan Chen

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How Important Are Labor-Market Gender Gaps in the South Caucasus?, Marc Teignier and David Cuberes

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The effect of crime on mental health in South Africa, Magda Tsaneva and Lauren-Kate LaPlante

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Mapping the dynamics of FDI in China: Convergence, divergence, and policy insights within free trade zones and beyond, Yujie Zeng, Tsun Se Cheong, Michal Wojewodzki, and Xing Shi

Submissions from 2023

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Impact of Air Pollution on Mental Health in India, Uttara Balakrishnan and Magda Tsaneva

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Equity preferences and abatement cost sharing in international environmental agreements, Tobias Börger, Nick Hanley, Robert J. Johnson, Keila Meginnis, Tom Ndebele, Ghamz E. Ali Siyal, and Frans De Vries

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Biophysical Measures to Support Analysis and Communication of Existence Values, James Boyd, Robert Johnston, and Paul Ringold

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An unobserved components model of total factor productivity and the relative price of investment, Joshua C.C. Chan and Edouard Wemy

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The aggregate gains of eliminating gender and ethnic gaps in the Malaysian labor market, David Cuberes, Achim Schmillen, and Marc Teignier

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How social structure shapes female competition throughout her lifetime, Jeffrey Flory, Kenneth L. Leonard, Magda Tsaneva, and Kathryn Vasilaky

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Value transfer in ecosystem accounting applications, I. Grammatikopoulou, T. Badura, R.J Johnston, D.N Barton, S. Ferrini, M. Schaafsma, and A. La Notte

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Preventing construction deaths: The role of public policies, Wayne B. Gray and John Mendeloff

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Environmental Regulation and Labor Demand: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?, Wayne B. Gray, Ron Shadbegian, and Ann Wolverton

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Hydro-bio-geo-socio-chemical interactions and the sustainability of residential landscapes, Peter M. Groffman, Amanda K. Suchy, Dexter H. Locke, Robert J. Johnston, David A. Newburn, Arthur J. Gold, Lawrence E. Band, Jonathan Duncan, Morgan J. Grove, Jenny Kao-Kniffin, Hallee Meltzer, and Tom Ndebele

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Spatial dimensions of water quality value in New England river networks, Robert J. Johnston, Klaus Moeltner, Seth Peery, Tom Ndebele, Zhenyu Yao, Stefano Crema, Wilfred M. Wollheim, and Elena Besedin

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Modeling transaction costs in household adoption of landscape conservation practices, Robert J. Johnston, Tom Ndebele, and David A. Newburn

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Locally-weighted meta-regression and benefit transfer, Klaus Moeltner, Roshan Puri, Robert Johnston, Elena Besedin, Jessica A. Balukas, and Alyssa Le

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Modeling multi-scale influences on household lawncare decisions: Formal and informal neighborhood conforming effects on fertilizer use, David A. Newburn, Colin Polsky, Robert Johnston, Haoluan Wang, and Tom Ndebele

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Output measurement and technological shocks in business cycles, Irina Panovska and Edouard Wemy

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JUE Insight: Measuring the Stringency of Land Use Regulation Using a Shadow Price Approach, Junfu Zhang

Submissions from 2022

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Involvement, Engagement, and Community: Dimensions and Correlates of Parental Participation in a Majority–Minority Urban School District, John C. Brown, Erin M. Graves, and Mary A. Burke

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How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?, Brendan Casey, Wayne B. Gray, Joshua Linn, and Richard D. Morgenstern

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Size-Dependent Gender Gaps in Entrepreneurship: The Case of Chile, David Cuberes and Marc Teig-Nier

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Deworming as HIV Prevention for Young Women: Evidence from Zimbabwe, Jon Denton-Schneider

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Barriers to cover crop adoption: Evidence from parallel surveys in Maryland and Ohio, Joshua M. Duke, Robert J. Johnston, Amy L. Shober, and Zhongyuan Liu

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Improving targeting of farmers for enrollment in agri-environmental programs, Joshua M. Duke, Robert J. Johnston, Amy L. Shober, and Zhongyuan Liu

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Super bowl participation and the local economy: Evidence from the stock market, Rui Du and Junfu Zhang

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Labour market conditions and adult health in Mexico, Pinar Mine Gunes and Magda Tsaneva

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An ecosystem services approach to natural resource and environmental economics, Robert J. Johnston

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City size, family migration, and gender wage gap: Evidence from rural–urban migrants in China, Chunbing Xing, Xiaoyan Yuan, and Junfu Zhang

Submissions from 2021

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The Trade Disruption Hypothesis Fails for State-Sponsored Genocides and Mass Atrocities: Why It Matters, Charles H. Anderton and Roxane Anderton

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Is Imitation Bad for the Production of Creative Works?, Sang Hoo Bae and Kyeongwon Yoo

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Air pollution and academic performance: Evidence from India, Uttara Balakrishnan and Magda Tsaneva

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Socioecological Factors and Farmer Perceptions Impacting Pesticide Use and Pollinator Conservation on Cucurbit Farms, Elias H. Bloom, Dana Marie Bauer, Abigail Kaminski, Ian Kaplan, and Zsofia Szendrei

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Urban growth shadows, David Cuberes, Klaus Desmet, and Jordan Rappaport

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Do women give up competing more easily? Evidence from speedcubers, Chao Fang, Ernest Zhang, and Junfu Zhang

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Land conversion across cities in China, Shihe Fu, Xiaocong Xu, and Junfu Zhang

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Is shoreline armoring a response to marsh migration? Modeling relationships between coastal marshes and private adaptation decisions, George Gardner and Robert J. Johnston

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Subways and Road Congestion†, Yizhen Gu, Chang Jiang, Junfu Zhang, and Ben Zou

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Guidance to Enhance the Validity and Credibility of Environmental Benefit Transfers, Robert J. Johnston, Kevin J. Boyle, Maria L. Loureiro, Ståle Navrud, and John Rolfe

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Using landscape metrics to characterize towns along an urban-rural gradient, Abigail Kaminski, Dana Marie Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Cynthia S. Loftin, and Erik J. Nelson

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Hukou status, housing tenure choice and wealth accumulation in urban China, Yu Liao and Junfu Zhang

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The re-occurrence of violations in occupational safety and health administration inspections, John Mendeloff, Wayne B. Gray, Philip Armour, and Frank Neuhauser

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Local Labor Markets and Child Learning Outcomes in India, Magda Tsaneva and Uttara Balakrishnan

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The effect of a large-scale workfare program on child marriage in India, Magda Tsaneva and Ashley O’Donoghue

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Capital-labor substitution elasticity: A simulated method of moments approach, Edouard Wemy

Submissions from 2020

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Understanding Recent Growth Dynamics in Small Urban Places: The Case of New England, David Cuberes and Richard Ramsawak

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What does it cost to ensure salt marsh migration? Using hedonic modeling to inform cost-effective conservation, George Gardner and Robert J. Johnston

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Spatial Dimensions of Stated Preference Valuation in Environmental and Resource Economics: Methods, Trends and Challenges, Klaus Glenk, Robert J. Johnston, Jürgen Meyerhoff, and Julian Sagebiel

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The effects of teenage childbearing on education, physical health, and mental distress: Evidence from Mexico, Pinar Mine Gunes and Magda Tsaneva

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Using Meta-Analysis for Large-Scale Ecosystem Service Valuation: Progress, Prospects, and Challenges, Robert J. Johnston and Dana Marie Bauer

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Valuing non-market valuation studies using meta-analysis: A demonstration using estimates of willingness-to-pay for water quality improvements, Stephen C. Newbold and Robert J. Johnston

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Equilibrium and A-efficient fertility with increasing returns to population and endogenous mortality, Robert Tamura and David Cuberes

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The Effect of Weather Variability on Child Marriage in Bangladesh, Magda Tsaneva

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The effect of violent crime on teenage pregnancy in Mexico, Magda Tsaneva and Pinar Mine Gunes

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Commodity Consistent Meta-Analysis of Wetland Values: An Illustration for Coastal Marsh Habitat, Hermine Vedogbeton and Robert J. Johnston

Submissions from 2019

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Classifying private landowners to improve understanding of management decisions and conservation opportunities in urbanizing forested landscapes, Jessica A. Balukas, Kathleen P. Bell, and Dana Marie Bauer

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How Costly Are Labor Gender Gaps? Estimates by Age Group for the Balkans and Turkey, David Cuberes, Ana Maria Munoz-Boudet, and Marc Teignier

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The determinants of entrepreneurship gender gaps: A cross-country analysis, David Cuberes, Sadia Priyanka, and Marc Teignier

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Household location in English cities, David Cuberes, Jennifer Roberts, and Cristina Sechel

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Walled cities and urban density in China, Rui Du and Junfu Zhang

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The impacts of lower natural gas prices on jobs in the U.S. manufacturing sector, Wayne Gray, Joshua Linn, and Richard Morgenstern

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Managing groundwater in a mining region: an opportunity to compare best-worst and referendum data, Darla Hatton MacDonald, John M. Rose, Robert J. Johnston, Rosalind H. Bark, and Jodie Pritchard

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Does one size really fit all? Ecological endpoint heterogeneity in stated preference welfare analysis, Anne Kejser Jensen, Robert J. Johnston, and Søren B. Olsen

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Modeling Distance Decay Within Valuation Meta-Analysis, Robert J. Johnston, Elena Y. Besedin, and Benedict M. Holland

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Special Flood Hazard Effects on Coastal and Interior Home Values: One Size Does Not Fit All, Robert J. Johnston and Klaus Moeltner

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Loan relation with foreign banks and information asymmetry: evidence from earnings management by local firms in Korea, Sangwook Lee, Sang Hoo Bae, and Inshik Seol

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Valuing non-market economic impacts from natural hazards, Abbie A. Rogers, Fiona L. Dempster, Jacob I. Hawkins, Robert J. Johnston, Peter C. Boxall, John Rolfe, Marit E. Kragt, Michael P. Burton, and David J. Pannell

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The Effect of a Workfare Programme on Psychological Wellbeing in India, Magda Tsaneva and Uttara Balakrishnan

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The effect of violent crime on female decision-making within the household: evidence from the Mexican war on drugs, Magda Tsaneva, Marc Rockmore, and Zahra Albohmood

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Coastal dynamics and adaptation to uncertain sea level rise: Optimal portfolios for salt marsh migration, Orencio Duran Vinent, Robert J. Johnston, Matthew L. Kirwan, Anke D. Leroux, and Vance L. Martin

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The labour income share and the relative price of investment in the US: an empirical investigation, Edouard Wemy

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Evaluating willingness to pay for the temporal distribution of different air quality improvements: Is China's clean air target adequate to ensure welfare maximization?, Liuyang Yao, Junfeng Deng, Robert J. Johnston, Imran Khan, and Minjuan Zhao

Submissions from 2018

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Finance and urbanization in early nineteenth-century New York, Howard Bodenhorn and David Cuberes

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Macroeconomic costs of gender gaps in a model with entrepreneurship and household production, David Cuberes and Marc Teignier

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Using Ecosystem Service Values to Evaluate Tradeoffs in Coastal Hazard Adaptation, Robert J. Johnston, Christos Makriyannis, and Adam W. Whelchel

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Benefit transfer of environmental and resource values: Progress, prospects and challenges, Robert J. Johnston, John Rolfe, and Ewa Zawojska

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Are Choice Experiment Treatments of Outcome Uncertainty Sufficient? An Application to Climate Risk Reductions, Christos Makriyannis, Robert J. Johnston, and Adam W. Whelchel

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Benefit relevant indicators: Ecosystem services measures that link ecological and social outcomes, Lydia P. Olander, Robert J. Johnston, Heather Tallis, James Kagan, Lynn A. Maguire, Stephen Polasky, Dean Urban, James Boyd, Lisa Wainger, and Margaret Palmer

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The effects of climate variability on psychological well-being in India, Sharon Pailler and Magda Tsaneva

Submissions from 2017

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The economics of conflict, production, and exchange, Charles H. Anderton and Roxane A. Anderton

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The Effect of Piracy and Digital Rights Management on Vertically Related Content Industries, Sang Hoo Bae, Myungsup Kim, and Kyeongwon Yoo

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Deep-rooted determinants of the fertility transition across countries, Alberto Basso and David Cuberes

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Managing small natural features: A synthesis of economic issues and emergent opportunities, Dana Marie Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Erik J. Nelson, and Aram J.K. Calhoun

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Do exurban communities want more development?, Dana Marie Bauer, Stephen K. Swallow, Pengfei Liu, and Robert J. Johnston

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Measuring the stringency of land use regulation: The case of China's building height limits, Jan K. Brueckner, Shihe Fu, Yizhen Gu, and Junfu Zhang

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Effects of New Grocery Store Development on Inner-City Neighborhood Residential Prices, Belkis Cerrato Caceres and Jacqueline Geoghegan

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The effect of the Spanish Reconquest on Iberian cities, David Cuberes and Rafael González-Val

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Two-Stage Determinants of the Organic Food Retailing Landscape: The Case of Manhattan, New York, Carolyn Dimitri, Jacqueline Geoghegan, and Stephanie Rogus

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Carbon tax competitiveness concerns: Assessing a best practices carbon credit, Wayne B. Gray and Gilbert E. Metcalf

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Optimized quantity-within-distance models of spatial welfare heterogeneity, Benedict M. Holland and Robert J. Johnston

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Conserving small natural features with large ecological roles: A synthetic overview, Malcolm L. Hunter, Vicenç Acuña, Dana Marie Bauer, Kathleen P. Bell, Aram J.K. Calhoun, María R. Felipe-Lucia, James A. Fitzsimons, Eduardo González, Michael Kinnison, David Lindenmayer, Carolyn J. Lundquist, Rodrigo A. Medellin, Erik J. Nelson, and Peter Poschlod