Octoberl 2011
VITAE
PHILIP
E. GRAVES
OFFICE ADDRESS:
Department of Economics
Campus Box 256
University of Colorado
Boulder CO 80309-0256
Phone: (303)492-7021
E-mail: gravesp@spot.Colorado.EDU
Webpage:
http://spot.colorado.edu/~gravesp/Home.html
SSRN Author page: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AsbByAuth.cfm?per_id=81479
B.E. Press Selected Works page: http://works.bepress.com/philip_graves/
(these links provide access to many of my published and unpublished papers)
ACADEMIC TRAINING:
Ph.D. Economics, Northwestern University 1973
M.A. Economics, Northwestern University 1971
A.B. Economics, Indiana University 1968
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Environmental Economics, Urban and Regional Economics, Monetary Economics, and
Applied Price Theory.
EMPLOYMENT
1985-present Professor of Economics, University of
Colorado
1987-1988 Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Management, University of
California, Davis, Winter and Spring Quarters
1978-1985 Associate Professor of Economics, University of Colorado
1982 Visiting Associate Professor, U.C.L.A. Winter and Spring Quarter
1981-1982 Visiting Professor of Economics, Pepperdine University
1979 Scientific Visitor, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Summer
1979-1987 Faculty, Economics Institute, Summers
1977-1978 Visiting Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of
Chicago, Graduate School of Business
1974-1978 Research Project Specialist, University of Chicago, Department of
Economics
1975-1977 Part-time Faculty, Roosevelt University, Department of Economics
1971-1974 Assistant Professor of Economics, Arizona State University,
Department of Economics
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Principles of Microeconomics
Principles of Macroeconomics
Intermediate Microeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Introductory Mathematical Economics
Money and Banking
Graduate Microeconomic Theory
Graduate Macroeconomic Theory
Environmental Economics
Environmental Economics for Non-Economics Majors
Problems of the Urban Community
Economics of the Urban Environment
Graduate Seminar in Urban and Regional Economics
Topics in Urban and Regional Economics (Graduate)
Graduate Environmental Economics and Natural Resources
M.A. Research Methods
HONORS
National Science Foundation Traineeship,
1968-1971; Departmental Honors and Distinction, Indiana University; Phi Beta
Kappa; Merit Scholarship; Little 500 Scholarship (for students working more
than 20 hours per week); Distinguished Speaker at the 14th Annual Kentucky
Economic Association Meetings; Nominated for SOAR (Student Organization for
Alumni Relations) 1992,1997,1998 Teacher Recognition Award; University of
Colorado, 1992 Social Science Writing Award (Best Article category); Stanford
Calderwood Teaching Excellence Award 1997, Residence Life Academic Teaching
Award, Fall 2002.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
1. Urban Growth Policy in a Market Economy.
New York: Academic Press, 1979, 220 pp. (with G.S. Tolley
and J.L. Gardner).
2. Environmental Policy: Elements of
Environmental Analysis. Cambridge: Ballinger, 1981, 203 pp. (with G.S. Tolley and G.C. Blomquist, co-editors and Co-authors).
3. Environmental Policy: Air Quality.
Cambridge: Ballinger, 1982, 432 pp. (with G.S. Tolley
and A.S. Cohen).
4. Health and Air Quality: Evaluating the
Effects of Policy. Washington: American Enterprise Institute Studies in
Economic Policy, AEI, 1981, 163 pp. (with R.J. Krumm).
5. The Economics of Environmental Quality.
New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2nd Edition, 1986, 368 pp. (with E.S. Mills).
6. Intermediate Microeconomics. New York:
Harcourt, Brace, and Jovanovich, 1988, 519 pp. (with R. Clower
and R.L. Sexton).
7. Environmental Economics: A Critique of
Benefit-Cost Analysis. New York: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2007, 187pp.
8. Environmental Economics: An Integrated
Approach. (manuscript in progress Chapter 2 is here and Chapter 3 is here.).
9. I Don't Know. (non-fiction
novel dealing with economics, politics, and philosophy, in progress).
Journal Articles (links provided to some
papers):
1. "Domestic and International Policy
Implications of the Inflation-Unemployment Trade-off." Akron Business
and Economic Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer, 1974),
pp. 9-14 (with T. Sandler).
2. "A Reexamination of Migration, Economic
Opportunity, and the Quality of Life." Journal
of Regional Science, Vol. 16, No. 1 (March 1976), pp. 107-112.
3. "Wealth and the Cash Asset
Proportion." Journal of
Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. VIII, No. 4 (November 1976), pp. 487-496.
4. "Air Quality Maintenance: Proposed
Legislation and Analytical Issues." Journal of
Environmental Systems, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1977-1978), pp. 45-58 (with D. Santini).
5. "New Evidence on Income and the Velocity
of Money." Economic
Inquiry, Vol. XVI, No. 1 (January 1978), pp. 53-68.
6. "Air Pollution and Morbidity: SO2
Damages." Journal of the Air Pollution Control
Association, Vol. 28, No. 8 (August 1978), pp. 785-789 (with G. Fishelson).
7. "The Urban Growth Question." Law
and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Spring,
1979), pp. 211-238 (with G.S. Tolley and J.L.
Gardner).
8. "A Life-Cycle Empirical Analysis of
Migration and Climate, by Race." Journal of
Urban Economics, Vol. 6, No. 2 (April 1979), pp. 135-147.
9. "Over-Urbanization and Its Relation to
Economic Growth for Less Developed Countries." Economic Forum, Vol.
X, No. 1 (Summer, 1979), pp. 95-100 (with R.L.
Sexton).
Reprinted
in Urban Development in the Third World, Pradip
K. Ghosh (Ed), Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1984,
pp. 160-166.
10. "Relative Risk Aversion: Increasing or
Decreasing?" Journal of
Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. XIV, No. 2 (June 1979), pp.
205-214.
11. "Household Migration: Theoretical and
Empirical Results." Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 6,
No. 3 (July 1979), pp. 383-404 (with P. Linneman).
12. "Income and Migration Reconsidered."
Journal
of Human Resources, Vol. XIV, No. 1 (Winter,
1979), pp. 112-119.
13. "Benefits of Pollution Control: The SO2
Case." Journal of Environmental Systems, Vol. 9,
No. 3 (1979-1980), pp. 231-257 (with G. Fishelson).
14. "Migration and Climate." Journal of
Regional Science, Vol. 20, No. 2 (May 1980), pp. 227-237.
15. "The Velocity of Money: Evidence for the
U.K. 1911-1966." Economic
Inquiry, Vol. XVIII, No. 4 (October 1980), pp. 631-639.
16. "Morbidity and Pollution." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 9, No. 4 (December 1982), pp. 311-327 (with R.J. Krumm).
17. "Economics Departmental Rankings:
Research Incentives, Constraints and Efficiency." American
Economic Review, Vol. 72, No. 5 (December 1982),
pp. 1131-1141 (with J. Marchand and R. Thompson).
18. "Slavery, Amenities and Factor Price
Equalization: A Note on Migration and Freedom." Explorations
in Economic History, Vol. 20 (April 1983), pp. 156-162 (with R.L. Sexton
and R.K. Vedder).
19. "Migration and Job Change: A Multinomial Logit Approach." Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 14,
No. 3 (November, 1983), pp. 263-279 (with P. Linneman).
20. "Migration with a Composite Amenity: The
Role of Rents." Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 23,
No. 4 (November, 1983), pp. 541-546.
21. "A Multi-Disciplinary Interpretation of
Migration: Amenity Capitalization in Both Land and Labor Markets." The Annals of Regional Science, Vol. 18, No. 2 (July 1984),
pp. 35-44 (with R.L. Sexton and T.A. Knapp).
22. "Economics Departmental Rankings: Reply
and Errata." American Economic Review, Vol. 74,
No. 4 (September 1984), pp. 834-836 (with J. Marchand
and R. Thompson).
23. "A Theory of International Migration
Flows: U.S. Immigration from Mexico." Review of
Regional Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Winter 1984) pp. 1-7 (with T.A. Knapp).
24. "Are Natural Hazards Temporally
Random?" Applied Geography, Vol. 5, No. 1,
(January 1985), pp. 5-12 (with Anne Bresnock).
25. "Hedonic Analysis in a Spatial Context:
Theoretical Problems in Valuing Location-Specific Amenities." Economic Record, Vol. 61, No. 175
(December 1985), pp. 737-743 (with T.A. Knapp).
26. "Demonstrating Their Freedom: The
Post-Emancipation Migration of Black Americans." Research in Economic
History, Vol. 10 JAI Press, Inc.: Greenwich, Connecticut, pp. 207-233,
1986, (with R. Vedder, L. Galloway and R. Sexton).
27. "Development, Mobility, and Slavery: Real
Income and Spatial Equilibration in the Postbellum
South." American Economist, Vol. XXX, No. 1
(Spring 1986), pp. 36-39, (with R. Sexton).
28. "A Note on Interfirm
Implications of Wages and Status." Journal of Labor
Research, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Spring 1987), pp. 209-212, (with D. Lee and R.
Sexton).
29. "An Organizational Alternative for
Academics: A Sporting Proposal." Atlantic Economic
Journal, Vol. XV, (March 1987), pp. 63-66, (with M. Schmitz, R. Sexton and
D. Lee).
30. "The Income Elasticity of Money Demand in
Less Developed Open Economies." Journal of the
Southwestern Society of Economists, Vol. 15, No. 1 (1988), pp. 165-71 (with
J. Marchand).
31. "Mobility Behavior of the Elderly." Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 24, No. 1 (March 1988), pp. 1-8 (with T.A. Knapp).
32. "The Robustness of Hedonic Price
Estimation: Urban Air Quality." Land Economics, Vol. 63,
No. 3 (August 1988), pp. 220-233 (with J. Murdock, M. Thayer, and D.
Waldman).
Reprinted in Joseph Herriges and Cathy Kling (eds) Revealed
Preference Approaches to Environmental Valuation: Volume II (in Ashgate Publishing Company's
The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy, July 2008).
33. "On Mandatory Deposits, Fines, and the
Control of Litter." The Natural Resources Journal,
Vol. 28, No. 4 (Fall 1988), pp. 837-847 (with D. Lee and R. Sexton).
34. "On the Role of Amenities in Models of
Migration and Regional Development." Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 29,
No. 1 (February 1989), pp. 71-87 (with T.A. Knapp).
35. "Multiple Choice Testing: Questions and
Response Position." The Journal of Economic Education,
Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer 1989) pp. 239-245 (with A. Bresnock
and N. White).
36. "International Student Demand for Higher
Education in the U.S." Research in Higher Education,
Vol. 30 (September 1989) (with R.L. Wobbekind).
37. "Statutes Versus
Enforcement: The Case of the Optimal Speed Limit." American Economic Review, Vol. 79, No.
4 (September 1989) pp. 932-936 (with D. Lee and R. Sexton).
38. "A Note on Drinking, Driving, and
Enforcement Costs." Southern Economic Journal,
Vol. 56, No. 3 (January 1990) pp. 793-796 (with D. Lee and R. Sexton).
39. "Monopoly Supply." Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 18,
No. 4 (December 1990) pp. 32-37 (with G. Kripalani,
R. Sexton, and G. Tolley).
40. "Alcohol in the Workplace: A Research
Note." Journal of Labor Research, Vol. XII, No. 1
(Winter 1991) pp. 91-94 (with D. Lee and R. Sexton).
41. "Multimarket Amenity Compensation and the
Behavior of the Elderly," American
Economic Review, Vol. 81, No. 5 (December 1991) pp. 1374-1381 (with D.
Waldman).
42. "Controlling the Abandonment of
Automobiles: Mandatory Deposits vs. Fines." Journal
of Urban Economics, Vol. 31, No. 1 (January 1992), pp. 14-24 (with D. Lee
and R. Sexton).
43. "Incorporating Inventories into Supply
and Demand Analysis," Atlantic
Economic Journal, Vol. 20, No. 4 (December 1992), pp. 41-45 (with R.
Sexton, R. Clower, D. Lee).
44. "Lowering Blood Alcohol on Our Waterways:
Means and Costs," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol.
52, No. 1 (January 1993), pp. 101-106 (with D. Lee and R. Sexton).
45. "The Role of Equilibrium and
Disequilibrium in Modeling Regional Growth and Decline: A Critical
Reassessment," Journal of
Regional Science, Vol. 33, No. 1 (February 1993), pp. 69-84 (with Peter Mueser).
46. "Speed Variance, Enforcement, and the
Optimal Speed Limit," Economics Letters, Vol. 42 (1993), pp. 237-43
(with D. Lee and R. Sexton).
47. "The Short and Long Run Marginal Cost
Curves: A Pedagogical Note," Journal of
Economic Education, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter 1993), pp. 34-37 (with D. Lee
and R. Sexton).
48. "Lowering the Age Requirement for Adult
Courts: An Analytical Framework," Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol.
21, No. 4 (December 1993) pp. 67-70 (with R. Sexton, D. Lee).
49. "Alternative Fishery Management Policies:
Monitoring Costs Versus Catch Limits," Environmental
and Resource Economics, Vol. 4, (1994) pp. 595-598 (with R. Sexton, D. Lee,
S. Jackstadt).
50. "Examining the Role of Economic
Opportunity and Amenities in Explaining Population Redistribution," Journal of
Urban Economics, Vol. 37, No. 1 (February 1995) pp. 1-25 (with P. Mueser).
51. "Union Myopia and the Taxation of
Capital," Journal of Social, Political & Economic Studies, Vol.
20, No. 3 (Fall 1995), pp. 299-315 (with D. Lee, R. Sexton).
52. "Korean Exports and Economic Growth: An
Econometric Reassessment," Journal of Economic Development, Vol 20, No. 2 (Fall 1995), pp. (with J.A. Holman).
53. "Slope Versus Elasticity and the Burden
of Taxation," Journal of
Economic Education, Volume 27, No. 3 (Summer,
1996), pp. 229-232 (with R. Sexton, D. Lee).
54. "Amenities and Fringe Benefits: Omitted
Variable Bias," The American
Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 58, No. 3 (July, 1999), pp.
399-404 (with R. Sexton, M. Arthur).
55. "Amenities and the Labor Earnings
Function," Journal of
Labor Research, Vol. XX, No. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 367-376 (with R. Sexton,
M. Arthur).
56. "Hedonic Wage Equations for Higher
Education Faculty,” Economics of
Education Review Vol. 21, Issue 5 (October 2002), pp. 491-496 (with R.
Sexton and J. Marchand).
57. "Implications of Consumer Heterogeneity
in Time-Series Estimates of US Money Demand," Applied Economics, Vol 34, No. 5 (March, 2002), pp. 659 - 665 (with J. A. Holman).
58. "The Bias Against New Innovations in
Health Care: A Model of Willingness-to-Pay," Value in
Health, Vol. 5 , No. 2 (2002), pp. 67-70 (with J.
Dow, P. Mueser, and S. Walton).
59. "Monitoring Costs and Tougher
Sanctions: The Case of Classroom Cheating,” The American Journal of
Economics and Sociology, Vol. 62, No. 4 (October, 2003), pp. (with G. Galles, R. Sexton, and S. Walton).
60. "Nonoptimal
Levels of Suburbanization" Environment
and Planning A, Vol. 35, No. 2 (February, 2003), pp. 191-198.
61. "Environmental Perceptions and
Environmental Reality: When More Is Less," Environment
and Planning, A, (Commentary section) Vol. 35, No. 6 (June, 2003), pp.
951-954.
62. "Valuing Public Goods," Challenge: The
Magazine of Economic Affairs, Vol. 46, No. 5 (September-October 2003),
pp.100-112.
63. "Reforming Governments," Ama-gi: The Journal of the Hayak
Society at the London School of Economics, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Lent Term, 2004), pp. 18-20.
64. "Real Government Reform," Journal
of Private Enterprise, Vo. XIX, No. 2 (Spring 2004). pp. 43-60.
(a variant of this paper with more connections to the
literature can be found at: Graves, Philip E., 2007. "A Simple Coase-Like
Mechanism that Transfers Control of Government Spending Levels from Politicians
to Voters," Economics
Discussion Papers 2007-12, Kiel Institute for the World Economy or at:
Philip E. Graves (2007). A Simple Coase-Like
Mechanism that Transfers Control of Government Spending Levels from Politicians
to Voters. Economics Discussion Papers, No 2007-12. http://www.economics-ejournal.org/economics/discussionpapers/2007-12
). See also SSRN for latest variant.
65. "New Entry and the Rate of Return to
Education: The Case of
Registered Nurses," Atlantic Economic Journal, Vol. 33 (September
2005), pp. 325-336 (with R. Sexton and S. Walton).
66. "Demand and Supply Curves: Rotations Versus Shifts," Atlantic
Economic Journal, Vol. 34, No. 3 (September 2006), pp. 361-364 (with R.
Sexton).
67. "The Economics of Ghost Towns," Journal of
Regional Analysis and Policy, Vol. 39, no.2 (2009) pp.131-40 (with E.
Tynon and S. Weiler).
68. "Optimal Public Goods Provision:
Implications of Endogenizing the Labor/Leisure
Choice," Land Economics,
Vol. 84, No. 4 pp. 701-707 (with N. Flores).
69. "A Note on the Valuation of Collective
Goods: Overlooked Input Market Free Riding forNon-Individually
Incrementable Goods," The B.E. Journal of
Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 9 : Iss. 1 (Topics) Article 5 (2009).
70. "Cross-Price Elasticity and Income Elasticity of Demand: Are Your Students Confused?" The American Economist, Vol. 54, no. 2 (Fall, 2009), pp. 107-110.
71, "A Scientific Rationale for Belief in God," Journal for
Interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Science, No 5, July, 2009.
72. "A Note on the Design of Experiments
Involving Public Goods," Environmental Economics Vol. 1, no. 2 (2010), pp 8-10. Also at SSRN.
Manuscripts Under Review or In Progress (as indicated)
“Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Projects: A Plethora of Systematic Biases,” Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis (R&R) links at: SSRN."The Retirement Timing
Decision: Theory and Policy" (with P. Mueser, D.
Waldman, manuscript).
"Value Uncertainty and
Diverging Measures of Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept" (with
P. Mueser, J. Dow, manuscript).
"Retail Gasoline Price
Dispersion and Joint Production: An Hedonic Price Analysis" (with J. Lucier, N. Flores, manuscript).
"The Production Possibilities Frontier: Issues of Theory and
Pedagogy" (manuscript in progress).
"On The Social Rate of Discount: Implications
of an Input Market Failure to Generate Optimal Income" (manuscript in
progress).
“Low-Income Female Migration and the Welfare Magnet Effect: New
Evidence from CPS Data" (with M. J. Greenwood, manuscript).
Contributions to Books:
1. "Overall Assessment of Market
Performance." Chapter 13 in Urban Growth Policy in a
Market Economy. New York: Academic Press, 1979 (with G. S. Tolley and J.L. Gardner), pp. 197-209.
2. "Policy Conclusions." Chapter 14 in Urban Growth Policy in a Market Economy.
New York: Academic Press, 1979 (with G.S. Tolley),
pp. 211-216.
3. "Rural to Urban Migration: Population
Distribution Patterns." In A Survey of Agricultural Economics
Literature, Volume III: Economics of Welfare, Rural Development and Natural
Resources in Agriculture, 1940s to 1970s, Lee R. Martin (ed.).
University of Minnesota Press, 1981, for the American Agricultural Economics
Association (with M. Clawson), pp. 362-390.
4. "The Environment: Methodology and
Approach." Chapter 1 in Environmental Policy: Elements of Environmental
Analysis. Cambridge: Ballinger, 1981 (with G.S. Tolley
and G.C. Blomquist), pp. 1-21.
5. "Benefits from Pollution Abatement."
Chapter 5 of Environmental Policy: Elements of Environmental Analysis.
Cambridge: Ballinger, 1981 (with G.S. Tolley and G.C.
Blomquist), pp. 92-117.
6. "Location and Environmental
Analysis." Chapter 6 of Environmental Policy: Elements of Environmental
Analysis. Cambridge: Ballinger, 1981 (with G.S. Tolley),
pp. 118-144.
7. "Toward Improved Environmental
Policy." Chapter 8 of Environmental Policy: Elements of Environmental
Analysis. Cambridge: Ballinger, 1982 (with G.S. Tolley
and A.S. Cohen), pp. 1-11.
8. "Air Quality: Methodology and
Approach." Chapter 1 of Environmental Policy: Air Quality.
Cambridge: Ballinger, 1982 (with G.S. Tolley and A.S.
Cohen), pp. 1-11.
9. "Issues in Health Benefit
Measurement." Chapter 3 of Environmental Policy: Air Quality.
Cambridge: Ballinger, 1982 (with R.J. Krumm and D.M. Violette), pp. 27-116.
10. "Interactions and Nonlinearities in Air
Pollution Damages." Chapter 4 of Environmental Policy: Air Quality.
Cambridge: Ballinger, 1982 (with R.J. Krumm), pp.
117-140.
11. "Estimation of Damage Coefficients: The
SO2 Example." Chapter 5 of Environmental Policy: Air Quality.
Cambridge: Ballinger, 1982 (with G. Fishelson), pp.
141-152.
12. "Total Benefits: The Use of Coal in
Electricity." Chapter 6 of Environmental Policy: Air Quality.
Cambridge: Ballinger 1982 (with G.S. Tolley and R.L.
Sexton), pp. 153-170.
13. "Toward Improved Air Pollution
Policy." Chapter 17 of Environmental Policy: Air Quality.
Cambridge: Ballinger, 1982 (with G.S. Tolley and D.M.
Violette), pp. 365-421.
14. "Amenities and Migration Over the Life-Cycle." Chapter 10 of The
Economics of Urban Amenities, D.B. Diamond and G.S. Tolley
(eds.). New York: Academic Press, 1982 (with J. Regulska),
pp. 210-221.
15. "Allocation of Research and Development
Funds: A Methodology for Choice With an Application to Residential Solar
Heat." in Energy Technology Research, Development and Adoption JAI
Press, forthcoming R.J. Krumm, G.S. Tolley, B. Kroetch and G. Fishelson (eds.), (with others).
16. "Employment and Resident Location
Change." Chapter 2 of Housing and Migration.
R.J. Krumm (ed.) Mt. Pleasant, MI: Blackstone Books,
1988 (with P. Linneman).
17. "An Historical Perspective on
Inter-regional Migration in the United States." Chapter 7 of Housing
and Migration, R.J. Krumm (ed.) Mt. Pleasant, MI:
Blackstone Books, 1988 (with R. Vedder and L.
Galloway).
18. "Housing and Monetary Policy."
Chapter 9 of Housing and Migration, R.J. Krumm
(ed.) Mt. Pleasant, MI: Blackstone Books, 1988 (with G.S. Tolley
and R.J. Krumm).
19. "Regional Location Patterns in the United
States: Recent Changes and Future Prospects." In Migration and Labor
Market Adjustment, J. Van Dijk, H. Folmer, H.W. Herzog, Jr. and A.M. Schlottman
(eds). Norwell, MA: Kluwer
Academic Publishers (with M.J. Greenwood and J.A. Chalmers), 1989.
20. "Aesthetics." Chapter 7 of Measuring
the Demand for Environmental Quality, J. Braden and C. Kolstad
(eds), North-Holland Contributions to Economic
Analysis Series, pp. 213-226, 1991.
21. "The Hedonic Method: Value of Statistical
Life, Wage Compensation, and Property Value Compensation," Chapter 13 of Research
Tools in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, A. Batabyal and P. Nijkamp (eds), World Scientific (in press), pp. 187-213.
22. "Environmental Valuation: The Sum of
Specific Damages Approach," Chapter 14 of Research Tools in Natural
Resource and Environmental Economics, A. Batabyal
and P. Nijkamp (eds), World
Scientific (in press), pp. 215-222.
Reviews, and Other Research:
1. "Framework for Evaluating the Economic
Effects of an Air Pollution Control Plan." Proceedings
of the 69th Annual Meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association, June
1976 (with G.S. Tolley).
2. "What has Been Learned About
Air Pollution Control?" Proceedings of the 69th
Annual Meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association, June 1976 (with
G.S. Tolley).
3. "New Estimates of the Effect of Minimum
Wages on the U.S. Economy by Measuring the Impact on Productivity." In Fair
Standards, Senate Committee on Human Resources, Subcommittee on Labor (with
R.J. Krumm and G.S. Tolley).
4. "New Estimates of the Effect of Minimum
Wages on the U.S. Economy by Updating Measures of Sensitivity." In Fair
Standards, Senate Committee on Human Resources, Subcommittee on Labor (with
R.J. Krumm and G.S. Tolley).
5. "Amenities, Job Search, and the Migration
Decision: A Multinomial Logit Analysis." University of Colorado Discussion Papers in Economics, #141,
(October 1979), and University of Chicago Urban Economic Report, #212
(January 1980) (with P. Linneman).
6. "Morbidity and Pollution." University
of Colorado Discussion Papers in Economics, #143 (October 1979) (with
R.J. Krumm).
7. "Design of Incentives for Spatial
Intervention for Developing Countries." In
Proceedings of the Conference on Urbanization and Developing Countries,
Brazil, August 1980 (with G.S. Tolley and R.J. Krumm).
8. "The Supply Concept in the MAS/SAM
Model." Paper prepared for the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Contract #PO210800,
February 1980.
9. Book Review: Natural Resource Economics,
by Charles W. Howe. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1979, 350 pp. in Journal
of Energy and Development, Vol. VI, No. 1 (Autumn,
1980), pp. 174-176 (with D. Violette).
10. Book Review: Air and Water Pollution
Control: A Benefit-Cost Assessment, by A. Myrick Freeman III. New York:
John Wiley and Sons 1982, XII + 186 pp. in The
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, November 1983, pp. 838-840.
11. "Mnemonics for Demand Determinants."
2nd ed., (reprinted from the first edition). In Great
Ideas for Teaching Economics. Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co. 1984, p. 22.
12. "W*R*I*P." In Great Ideas for
Teaching Economics, 2nd ed., Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman
and Co. 1984, p. 177.
13. "A Mnemonic Device for the Determinants
of Supply." In Great Ideas for Teaching Economics.
2nd ed., Glenview, IL: Scott, Foresman and Co. 1984,
(with R.L. Sexton) p.28.
14. "Improving the Accuracy of Hedonic Price
Methods: Econometric Analysis of Existing Data Sets," Vol. VI of Improving
the Reducing Costs of Environmental Benefit Assessments, USEPA Contract
#CR812054-01-1, Office of Policy Analysis and Planning, U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, Washington, D.C. 20460 (with J. Murdock, M. Thayer and D.
Waldman).
15. "Statute Revision: Economical Approaches
to Crime Reduction," Economic Times: An Economic Journal of World
Events, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1995), pp. 19-21.
16. "Demand and Supply Curves: Rotations
Versus Shifts" ERN Educator:
Courses, Cases & Teaching (electronic journal) This paper (with R.
Sexton) was recently listed on SSRN's Top Ten download list.
17. Book Review: Priceless: On Knowing the
Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing, By Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling. New York: The New Press 2004, 277 pp. in
The Journal of Economic Literature Vol (March, 2005), pp. 188-190.
18. "Democracy and Corruption: Comment" Liberal Democracy Nepal Bulletin, Vol.
2, No. 2 (2005).
19. "A Simple Coase-Like Mechanism
that Transfers Control of Government Spending Levels from Politicians to
Voters." economics discussion Papers, No 2007-12, 2007. http:/
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Journal of Human Resources
Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Urban Economics
Land Economics
National Science Foundation
Review of Economics and Statistics
Urban Studies
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Economic Association, Regional Science
Association International
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION, ADVISORY COMMITTEES,
PAPERS PRESENTED
Urban Ecosystems Workshop, San Diego, January
12-17, 1975, put on by the National Science Foundation (RANN) and the American
Institute of Planners to identify methods by which environmental research could
be better incorporated in the political decision-making process. The final
report of this project: The Political Environment: An
Ecosystems Approach to Urban Management (AIP, 1976).
Member of the United States SCOPE (Scientific
Committee on Problems of the Environment) of the ICSU (International Council of
Scientific Unions) Environmental Simulation Modelling
Advisory Committee which guided the preparation of the book, Environmental Modelling and Decision Making, Praeger
Special Studies in U.S. Economic, Social and Political Issues, 1976.
"Environmental Pollutants
and the Urban Economy." Paper
presented with G.S. Tolley at the Committee on
Urban Economics (CUE) meeting at Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 25, 1976.
"Risk and Optimal
Environmental Standards."
Presented with G.S. Tolley at the Conference on
Environmental Benefit Estimation, University of Chicago, June
9, 1977.
Participant at the National Science Foundation
(RANN) Regional Environmental Systems Workshop in Seattle, Washington on June
20-24, 1977.
"The Locational
Impact of Environmental Policy."
Presented with G.S. Tolley at the Conference on
Regional and Urban Impact of Government Policy at SUNY, Buffalo, May 5, 1978.
"A Reevaluation of the
Human Migration Response."
Presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the Western Economic Association,
June 21, 1978, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii (with P. Linneman).
"The Environmental Costs of
the Use of Coal in the Production of Electricity." Presented with G.S. Tolley
at the ORSA/TIMS Conference in Los Angeles, November 13-15, 1978.
Member of Governor Richard D. Lamm's Air Pollution Technical Working Committee of
the State of Colorado.
"Estimating the Benefits of
Improved Air Quality." Presented with R.J. Krumm and D.M. Violette to a meeting of the Benefit Methodology Panel,
National Commission on Air Quality, December 10, 1979, in Washington,
D.C.
"Intraregional Mobility of Black Americans:
The Postbellum South," presented with R.L.
Sexton and R.K. Vedder at the 12th annual meeting of
the Atlantic Economic Society, New York City, October 8-11, 1981.
"Human Migration: An Interdisciplinary
Approach," presented with R.L. Sexton (co-author) at the 13th
International Atlantic Economic Conference, Montego Bay, Jamaica, February
11-16, 1982.
"Sunshine, Urbanization and Income: An Intertemporal Examination of Compensating Differentials in
American Migration," presented with R.K. Vedder
and L.E. Galloway (co-authors) at the 13th International Atlantic Economic
Conference, Montego Bay, Jamaica, February 11-16, 1982.
Discussion Leader of "Our Changing
Society--Economics and Politics," American Humanics
Management Institute, Asilomar Conference Center,
Pacific Grove, California, January 1-5, 1982.
Presented "A Theory of International
Migration: The Case of U.S. Immigration from Mexico" (with T.A. Knapp) at The Second Conference on Regional Impacts of
U.S.-Mexico Economic Relations: Challenges and Opportunities, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AA, May 25-28, 1983.
Presented "Are Natural
Hazards Temporally Random?" (with A. Bresnock) and
"Migration with a Composite Amenity," at the University of Wyoming,
Laramie, April 7, 1983.
Presented "Climate, Amenities, and Elderly
Migration" at a Workshop on Migration of the Elderly, University of
Colorado, November 8, 1984.
Presented "On the Role of Land and Labor Market
Interaction in the Spatial Array of Human Activities," Regional Science
Association, 31st North American Meetings, November 11, 1984.
Presented "A Test of the
Multimarket Amenity Capitalization Hypothesis" (with D. Waldman) at the Econometric
Society Meetings in New York, December 30, 1985.
Presented "Two Views of Recent Regional
Location Patterns in the United States: Competing Models with Non-Competing
Implications" (with M.J. Greenwood) at the International Conference on
Migration and Labor Market Efficiency, University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Tennessee, October 15-17, 1987.
Presented "A Test of the Multimarket Amenity
Capitalization Hypothesis" at the Population Center Seminar, The Rand
Corporation (with D. Waldman, co-author), Santa Monica, California, February
25, 1988, at the University of Chicago, Applications in Economics Workshop,
Chicago, Illinois, March 28, 1988, at the Economics Seminar, University of
California-Davis, Davis, California, April 14, 1988, at the Labor Economics
Workshop, UCLA, October 18, 1988, and at the Economics Seminar, University of
Kentucky, September 22, 1988.
Presented "Where to Live: Person Traits,
Place Traits, and the Human Location Decision," as the Distinguished
Speaker at the 14th Annual Conference of the Kentucky Economic Association,
September 23, 1988.
Presented "Valuing Aesthetics" at a
conference on Measuring the Demand for Environmental Commodities, The
Bismarck Hotel, Chicago, November 18, 1988.
Presented "Amenities and the Retirement
Migration Decision," at the Second Colorado Conference on Elderly
Migration, Aspen Lodge, Allenspark, CO, September 29,
1991.
Presented "The Economics of
Environmental Quality" and "Natural Resource Scarcity" to thirty
high school students and thirty high school teachers, in Boulder, CO June 22,
1991 and in Davis, CA June 29, 1991.
Presented "The Role of Equilibrium and
Disequilibrium in Modeling Regional Growth and Decline," at the 38th North
American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Monteleone Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 9, 1991.
Taught microeconomic principles
and environmental/natural resource economics at the National Economics
University, Hanoi, Vietnam from September 19, 1992 to November 4, 1992, for the
National Academy of Sciences (funded by the Ford Foundation).
Participated in a special
consultation on U.S.-Indochina cooperation and exchange in tertiary education,
scholarly research and training, at the Social Science Research Council in New
York, December 13/14, 1992.
Presented "Where Do I Go When I Am Through With School?" at Claremont (Pomona) and at
Pepperdine University on March 24 and March 25, 1993, respectively.
Participated in "Covering the Economy in an
Emerging Democracy: A Conference for Journalists" in Budapest, Hungary May
31-June 2, 1993, Brataslava, Slovakia, and Prague,
Czech Republic June 10-11, 1993.
Presented "Toward the Alleviation of the
"Special Interest" Problem in Government," University of Chicago
Workshop in Economic Policy and Public Finance, January 10, 2001.
Presented "The Valuation of Public Goods: Why
Do We Work?" (with Nick Flores) at the CU
Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop 2001, July 16 - 17, 2001, The
Village at Breckenridge, Breckenridge, Colorado.
Presented "Transferring Control of Government
Spending to the Voter," University of Wyoming, Department of Economics,
October 4, 2001.
Presented "Valuing Public Goods," and
"The Valuation of Public Goods: Why Do We Work," University of
Chicago, Department of Economics, Workshop in Economic Policy and Public
Finance, October 31, 2001.
Presented "Non-Optimal Levels of
Suburbanization," Colorado State University, Department of Economics,
February 15, 2002.
Presented "Failure to Properly Value Public
Goods: Public Policy Implications," Georgia State University, Department
of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, August 22, 2002.
Presented "Public Policy Implications of
Improper Public Goods Valuation: The WTA-WTP Disparity," Colorado State
University, Department of Economics, October 4, 2002.
Presented "Public Policy Implications of
Improper Public Goods Valuation: The WTA-WTP Disparity," University of
Colorado, Department of Economics, November 1, 2002.
Presented "The Economics of
Ghost Towns," at the 49th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional
Science Association International, Condado Plaza and
Casino Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 15, 2002.
Discussant at the Invited
Session to Honor the Memory of Sherwin Rosen, AEA-AERE joint session, ASSA
meetings, Washington, D.C. Convention Center, January 3-5, 2003.
Presented "Transferring Control of Government
Spending to the Voter," at the 28th Annual Conference of the Association
of Private Enterprise Education, Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV, April 8, 2003.
Presented "Public Policy Implications of
Improper Public Goods Valuation: The WTA-WTP Disparity," George Mason
University, ICES, September 26, 2003.
Presented "Public Policy Implications of
Improper Public Goods Valuation: The WTA-WTP Disparity," University of
Missouri, October 3, 2003.
Presented "Transferring Control of Government
Spending to the Voter," Colorado State University, Department of
Economics, October 10, 2003.
Presented “Low-Income Female Migration and the
Welfare Magnet Effect: New Evidence from CPS Data" at the 50th Annual
North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International DoubleTree Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, November
20-22, 2003.
Presented “Linking Regional Science and Urban
Economics: Long-Run Interactions among Preferences for Amenities and Public
Goods" at the 50th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science
Association International DoubleTree Hotel,
Philadelphia, PA, November 20-22, 2003.
Presented "The Simple Analytics of the
WTA-WTP Disparity for Public Goods" University of Chicago, Department of
Economics, Workshop in Economic Policy and Public Finance, December 5, 2003.
Presented "Proper Valuation of Public Goods
and the WTA-WTP Disparity: Public Policy Implications," North Carolina State
University (presented at RTI), March 1, 2004.
Presented "Proper Valuation of Public Goods:
Policy Implications," Rochester Institute of Technology, The Gosnell Lecture, September 22,
2004.
Presented "Resource Misallocation from Goods Misvaluation: When Psychological Underpinnings of Demand
'Matter', " "Linking Regional Science and Urban Economics: Long-Run
Interactions Among Preferences for Amenities and Public Goods," and
"Over-Development of Rural Areas Due to Non-Optimal Urban Public Good
Provision," at the 51st Annual North American Meetings of the Regional
Science Association International, Renaissance Seattle, Seattle, WA, November
11-13, 2004.
Presented "Some Policy
Implications of a Flaw in the Valuation of Public Goods," West Virginia
University, September 9, 2005.
Presented "Some Legal and Economic
Implications of a Flaw in the Valuation of Public Goods (...or Smith/Coase Versus Pigou/Samuelson),"
University of British Columbia Law School, January 9, 2006.
Presented "Non-Optimal Regional Sprawl:
Filtering Implications of Central City Public Good Provision Failure,"
North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) meetings (53rd Annual North
American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Fairmont
Royal York, Toronto, CA, November 16-18, 2006.
Presented "Linking Regional Science and Urban
Economics: Long-Run Interactions Among Preferences for
Amenities and Public Goods," University of Louisville, April 1, 2009.
Presented: "If the Large Wta-Wtp
Gap for Public Goods is Real (And There are Good Reasons to Think So)
Conventional Welfare Measures are Simply Incorrect," at the Eleventh
Annual CU Environmental and Resource
Economics Workshop,September 17-18, 2009 Lion Square
Lodge, Vail, Colorado.
CONSULTANT TO
Equitable Environmental Health, Inc.; Commonwealth
Edison; Ministry of Planning of Panama; HUD; Synergy, Inc.; Chamber of Commerce
of the United States; Illinois Institute for Environmental Quality; Argonne
National Laboratory; ERC, Inc.; Resource Management Consultants, Inc.;
Energy-Environmental Consultants, Inc.; Energy and Resource Consultants, Inc.;
U.S. Bureau of Mines; Rand Corporation, Foundation for Teaching Economics,
Foundation for American Communications, RCF, Inc..