Economics
Our faculty conduct research in a range of economics fields, including land use change, government regulations, and environmental planning, at the micro and macro levels.
Our students’ scholarship is fostered by our faculty whose impactful research has been recognized worldwide through:
- Publications: Our faculty’s research has been published in leading journals like the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and the Review of Economics and Statistics, to name a few.
- Leadership: Several faculty hold editorial positions or leadership positions with the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics and the EPA's Science Advisory Board and Environmental Economics Advisory Committee.
- Funding: The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, to name a few, have funded faculty research through grants.
- Collaboration: Our faculty’s collaborations with economists worldwide at organizations like the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Central Bank of Luxembourg provide important connections between the university and professional organizations.
Submissions from 2017
Optimized quantity-within-distance models of spatial welfare heterogeneity, Benedict M. Holland and Robert J. Johnston
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
Walled cities in late imperial China, Yannis M. Ioannides and Junfu Zhang
Systematic non-response in discrete choice experiments: implications for the valuation of climate risk reductions, Robert J. Johnston and Abdulallah S. Abdulrahman
Enhanced Geospatial Validity for Meta-analysis and Environmental Benefit Transfer: An Application to Water Quality Improvements, Robert J. Johnston, Elena Y. Besedin, and Ryan Stapler
Contemporary guidance for stated preference studies, Robert J. Johnston, Kevin J. Boyle, Wiktor Vic Adamowicz, Jeff Bennett, Roy Brouwer, Trudy Ann Cameron, W. Michael Hanemann, Nick Hanley, Mandy Ryan, Riccardo Scarpa, Roger Tourangeau, and Christian A. Vossler
Biophysical causality and environmental preference elicitation: Evaluating the validity of welfare analysis over intermediate outcomes, Robert J. Johnston, Eric T. Schultz, Kathleen Segerson, Elena Y. Besedin, and Mahesh Ramachandran
So you want your research to be relevant? Building the bridge between ecosystem services research and practice, Lydia Olander, Stephen Polasky, James S. Kagan, Robert J. Johnston, Lisa Wainger, David Saah, Lynn Maguire, James Boyd, and David Yoskowitz
Does school Matter? Learning outcomes of Indonesian children after dropping out of school, Magda Tsaneva
Do Parents Invest Less in Worse-Performing Children? Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis, Magda Tsaneva
Balancing the health risks and benefits of seafood: How does available guidance affect consumer choices?, Hirotsugu Uchida, Cathy A. Roheim, and Robert J. Johnston
The preference for larger cities in China: Evidence from rural-urban migrants, Chunbing Xing and Junfu Zhang
Submissions from 2016
A game theoretic analysis of firms' entry mode decisions, Sang Hoo Bae, Arpita Joardar, and Joseph Sarkis
The macroeconomic cost of catastrophic pollinator declines, Dana Marie Bauer and Ian Sue Wing
Ecosystem services indicators: Improving the linkage between biophysical and economic analyses, James Boyd, Paul Ringold, Alan Krupnick, Robert J. Johnston, Matthew A. Weber, and Kim Hall
Aggregate effects of gender gaps in the labor market: A quantitative estimate, David Cuberes and Marc Teignier
The effect of housing wealth on labor force participation: Evidence from China, Shihe Fu, Yu Liao, and Junfu Zhang
Individualized geocoding in stated preference questionnaires: Implications for survey design and welfare estimation, Robert J. Johnston, Benedict M. Holland, and Liuyang Yao
Submissions from 2015
Economic modeling of innovation in the creative industries and its implications, Sang Hoo Bae and Kyeongwon Yoo
Unaffordable housing and local employment growth: Evidence from California municipalities, Ritashree Chakrabarti and Junfu Zhang
Investment-specific technological changes: The source of long-run TFP fluctuations, Kaiji Chen and Edouard Wemy
The effect of spatial interdependencies on prioritization and payments for environmental services, Joshua M. Duke, Steven J. Dundas, Robert J. Johnston, and Kent D. Messer
Multiscale spatial pattern in nonuse willingness to pay: Applications to threatened and endangered marine species, Robert J. Johnston, Daniel Jarvis, Kristy Wallmo, and Daniel K. Lew
Social-family network and self-employment: evidence from temporary rural–urban migrants in China, Junfu Zhang and Zhong Zhao
Are people willing to pay for less segregation? Evidence from U.S. internal migration, Junfu Zhang and Liang Zheng
Submissions from 2014
Prioritizing payment for environmental services: Using nonmarket benefits and costs for optimal selection, Joshua M. Duke, Steven J. Dundas, Robert J. Johnston, and Kent D. Messer
Do EPA regulations affect labor demand? Evidence from the pulp and paper industry, Wayne B. Gray, Ronald J. Shadbegian, Chunbei Wang, and Merve Meral
Meta-Modeling and Benefit Transfer: The Empirical Relevance of Source-Consistency in Welfare Measures, Robert J. Johnston and Klaus Moeltner
Modeling Spatial Patchiness and Hot Spots in Stated Preference Willingness to Pay, Robert J. Johnston and Mahesh Ramachandran
Submissions from 2013
The economics of rural and agricultural ecosystem services: Purism versus practicality, Dana Marie Bauer and Robert J. Johnston
Do the job effects of regulation differ with the competitive environment?, Wayne B. Gray and Ronald J. Shadbegian
Stated preferences for intermediate versus final ecosystem services: Disentangling willingness to pay for omitted outcomes, Robert J. Johnston, Eric T. Schultz, Kathleen Segerson, Elena Y. Besedin, and Mahesh Ramachandran
Meta-analysis of economics research reporting guidelines, T. D. Stanley, Hristos Doucouliagos, Margaret Giles, Jost H. Heckemeyer, Robert J. Johnston, Patrice Laroche, Jon P. Nelson, Martin Paldam, Jacques Poot, Geoff Pugh, Randall S. Rosenberger, and Katja Rost
Measuring the performance of convention and visitors bureaus, Timothy J. Tyrrell and Robert J. Johnston
What to Value and How? Ecological Indicator Choices in Stated Preference Valuation, Minjuan Zhao, Robert J. Johnston, and Eric T. Schultz
Submissions from 2012
Sustainable agricultural management contracts: Using choice experiments to estimate the benefits of land preservation and conservation practices, Joshua M. Duke, Allison M. Borchers, Robert J. Johnston, and Sarah Absetz
A new estimate of the impact of OSHA inspections on manufacturing injury rates, 1998-2005, Amelia M. Haviland, Rachel M. Burns, Wayne B. Gray, Teague Ruder, and John Mendeloff
Enhancing the content validity of stated preference valuation: The structure and function of ecological indicators, Robert J. Johnston, Eric T. Schultz, Kathleen Segerson, Elena Y. Besedin, and Mahesh Ramachandran
Enhancing the reliability of benefit transfer over heterogeneous sites: A meta-analysis of international coral reef values, Luz M. Londoño and Robert J. Johnston
Integrating Ecology and Economics for Restoration: Using Ecological Indicators in Valuation of Ecosystem Services, Eric T. Schultz, Robert J. Johnston, Kathleen Segerson, and Elena Y. Besedin
The rocket science of sustainable tourism, Timothy J. Tyrrell and Robert J. Johnston
The role of tourism in sustainable communities, Timothy J. Tyrrell and Robert J. Johnston
Submissions from 2011
Greening transportation fleets: Insights from a two-stage game theoretic model, Sang Hoo Bae, Joseph Sarkis, and Chung Sik Yoo
Spatially delineated public goods and spatially located public bads: A hedonic approach to measuring urban revitalization, John Brown and Jacqueline Geoghegan
The effectiveness of environmental monitoring and enforcement: A review of the empirical evidence, Wayne B. Gray and Jay P. Shimshack
Valuing farmland protection: Do empirical results and policy guidance depend on the econometric fine print?, Robert J. Johnston and John C. Bergstrom
An operational structure for clarity in ecosystem service values, Robert J. Johnston and Marc Russell
Bioindicator-based stated preference valuation for aquatic habitat and ecosystem service restoration, Robert J. Johnston, Eric T. Schultz, Kathleen Segerson, and Elena Y. Besedin
Indices of biotic integrity in stated preference valuation of aquatic ecosystem services, Robert J. Johnston, Kathleen Segerson, Eric T. Schultz, Elena Y. Besedin, and Mahesh Ramachandran
Foreword the economics of land use change: Advancing the frontiers, Lori Lynch and Jacqueline Geoghegan
Do small businesses create more jobs? New evidence for the united states from the national establishment time series, David Neumark, Brandon Wall, and Junfu Zhang
Modeling mass killing: For gain or ethnic cleansing?, Attiat F. Ott and Sang Hoo Bae
Interjurisdictional competition for FDI: The case of China's "development zone fever", Junfu Zhang
The advantage of experienced start-up founders in venture capital acquisition: Evidence from serial entrepreneurs, Junfu Zhang
Tipping and residential segregation: A unified schelling model, Junfu Zhang
Submissions from 2010
Outsourcing with quality competition: Insights from a three-stage game-theoretic model, Sang Hoo Bae, Chung Sik Yoo, and Joseph Sarkis
Labor scarcity as an underlying cause of the increasing prevalence of deforestation due to cattle pasture development in the southern Yucatán region, Christopher Busch and Jacqueline Geoghegan
Digital piracy and firms' strategic interactions: The effects of public copy protection and DRM similarity, Pilsik Choi, Sang Hoo Bae, and Jongbyung Jun
Commercial and industrial land use change, job decentralization and growth controls: A spatially explicit analysis, Michail Fragkias and Jacqueline Geoghegan
Accounting for carbon stocks in models of land-use change: An application to Southern Yucatan, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Deborah Lawrence, Laura C. Schneider, and Katherine Tully
What kinds of injuries do OSHA inspections prevent?, Amelia Haviland, Rachel Burns, Wayne Gray, Teague Ruder, and John Mendeloff
Economic analysis for ecosystem-based management: Applications to marine and coastal environments, Daniel S. Holland, James N. Sanchirico, Robert J. Johnston, and Deepak Joglekar
Socioeconomic adjustments and choice experiment benefit function transfer: Evaluating the common wisdom, Robert J. Johnston and Joshua M. Duke
Methods, trends and controversies in contemporary benefit transfer, Robert J. Johnston and Randall S. Rosenberger
Willingness to pay for water quality improvements in the United States and Canada: Considering possibilities for international meta-analysis and benefit transfer, Robert J. Johnston and Paul J. Thomassin
The role of inspection sequence in compliance with the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) standards: Interpretations and implications, Kilkon Ko, John Mendeloff, and Wayne Gray
The Pennsylvania certified safety committee program: An evaluation of participation and effects on work injury rates, Hangsheng Liu, Rachel M. Burns, Agnes G. Schaefer, Teague Ruder, Christopher Nelson, Amelia M. Haviland, Wayne B. Gray, and John Mendeloff
Operationalizing place making in a choice experiment context, Craig D. Yannes, Nicholas E. Lownes, Norman W. Garrick, and Robert J. Johnston
Submissions from 2009
Estimating willingness to pay for aquatic resource improvements using benefits transfer, Robert J. Johnston and Elena Y. Besedin
Willingness to pay for land preservation across states and jurisdictional scale: Implications for benefit transfer, Robert J. Johnston and Joshua M. Duke
The impact of open space preservation policies: Evidence from the Netherlands and the US, Eric Koomen, Jacqueline Geoghegan, and Jasper Dekkers
Evaluation of agricultural land preservation programs, Lori Lynch, Wayne Gray, and Jacqueline Geoghegan
Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970-2005, Thomas K. Rudel, Laura Schneider, Maria Uriarte, B. L. Turner, Ruth DeFries, Deborah Lawrence, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Susanna Hecht, Amy Ickowitz, Eric F. Lambin, Trevor Birkenholtz, Sandra Baptista, and Ricardo Grau
The performance of university spin-offs: An exploratory analysis using venture capital data, Junfu Zhang
Why do some US universities generate more venture-backed academic entrepreneurs than others?, Junfu Zhang
Submissions from 2008
Predatory behavior of governments: The case of mass killing, Sang Hoo Bae and Attiat F. Ott
The public economics of self control, Sang Hoo Bae and Attiat F. Ott
The effects of Wal-Mart on local labor markets, David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, and Stephen Ciccarella
Submissions from 2007
The Optimal Number of Firms With an Application to Professional Sports Leagues, Sanghoo Bae and Jay Pil Choi
The effects of moratoria on residential development: Evidence from a matching approach, Antonio Bento, Charles Towe, and Jacqueline Geoghegan
Agency structure and firm culture: OSHA, EPA, and the steel industry, Mary E. Deily and Wayne B. Gray
The environmental performance of polluting plants: A spatial analysis, Wayne B. Gray and Ronald J. Shadbegian
Are farmland preservation program easement restrictions capitalized into farmland prices? What can a propensity score matching analysis tell us?, Lori Lynch, Wayne Gray, and Jacqueline Geoghegan
Employment Dynamics and Business Relocation: New Evidence from the National Establishment Time Series, David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, and Brandon Wall
Benefits and costs from sulfur dioxide trading: A distributional analysis, Ronald J. Shadbegian, Wayne Gray, and Cynthia Morgan
Access to venture capital and the performance of venture-backed start-ups in silicon valley, Junfu Zhang
Submissions from 2006
A model of piracy, Sang Hoo Bae and Jay Pil Choi
An exploratory empirical investigation of environmental audit programs in S&P 500 companies, Sanghoo Bae and Inshik Seol
Are agricultural land preservation programs self-financing?, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Lori Lynch, and Shawn J. Bucholtz
Forecasting residential land use change, Elena G. Irwin, Kathleen P. Bell, and Jacqueline Geoghegan
Where the jobs are: Business dynamics and employment growth, David Neumark, Junfu Zhang, and Brandon Wall
Land abandonment in an agricultural frontier after a plant invasion: The case of bracken fern in southern Yucatán, Mexico, Laura Schneider and Jacqueline Geoghegan
Assessing multi-dimensional performance: Environmental and economic outcomes, Ronald J. Shadbegian and Wayne B. Gray
Submissions from 2005
Spatial aspects of environmental policy, Jacqueline Geoghegan and Wayne Gray
The declining effects of OSHA inspections on manufacturing injuries, 1979-1998, Wayne B. Gray and John M. Mendeloff
When and why do plants comply? Paper mills in the 1980s, Wayne B. Gray and Ronald J. Shadbegian
Inside the black box: How do OSHA inspections lead to reductions in workplace injuries?, John Mendeloff and Wayne B. Gray
Pollution abatement expenditures and plant-level productivity: A production function approach, Ronald J. Shadbegian and Wayne B. Gray
Submissions from 2004
Temporal dynamics and spatial scales: Modeling deforestation in the southern Yucatan peninsular region, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Laura Schneider, and Colin Vance
Temporal dynamics and spatial scales: Modeling deforestation in the southern Yucatán peninsular region, Jacqueline Geoghegan, Laura Schneider, and Colin Vance
