Pei-chien Lin, Richard M. Adams, Robert P. Berrens
Severe declines in Pacific Northwest salmon stocks, coupled with increasing recreational demands, and judicial decisions supporting Native American fishing rights create challenges for fishery...
Is There an Environmental Kuznets Curve for the Risk of Biodiversity Loss? (2006)
Majumder, Pallab., Berrens, Robert P., Bohara, Alok K.
The Journal of Developing Areas - Volume 39, Number 2, Spring 2006
Talberth, John, Berrens, Robert P., McKee, Michael, Jones, Michael
When confronted by catastrophic wildfire risk, homeowners simultaneously allocate resources between insurance and averting activities. Expected utility theory suggests that complete insurance...
Nepal, Mani, Bohara, Alok K., Berrens, Robert P.
The objective of this paper is to investigate links between the strength and type of social networks, as a collective or community characteristic, and private forest conservation activity in rural...
Talberth, John, Berrens, Robert P., McKee, Michael, Jones, Michael
When confronted by catastrophic wildfire risk, homeowners simultaneously allocate resources between insurance and averting activities. Expected utility theory suggests that complete insurance...
Berrens, Robert P., Bohara, Alok K., Jenkins-Smith, Hank, Silva, Carol, Weimer, David L.
The Internet offers a number of advantages as a survey mode: low marginal cost per completed response, capabilities for providing respondents with large quantities of information, speed, and...
Examination of Noise Management Approaches in the United States. (1998)
Berrens, Robert P., DeWitt, Jeffrey S., Baumann, Duane D., Nelson, Matthew E.
This report is intended to serve as a reference document on noise management approaches used in the United States. Emphasis has been placed on identifying and evaluating the full range of techniques...
A seemingly unrelated Poisson model for revealed and stated preference data
Therese Grijalva, Alok K. Bohara, Robert P. Berrens
A seemingly unrelated Poisson regression model is proposed as an alternative to single equation Poisson models for joint estimation of revealed preference (RP) and contingent behaviour (CB) trip...
A Seemingly Unrelated Poisson Model for Revealed and Stated Preference Data.
Grijalva, Therese, Bohara, Alok K, Berrens, Robert P
A seemingly unrelated Poisson regression model is proposed as an alternative to single equation Poisson models for joint estimation of revealed preference (RP) and contingent behaviour (CB) trip...
A Mixture Model of Consumers’ Intended Purchase Decisions for Genetically Modified Foods
Kristine M. Grimsrud, Ron C. Mittelhammer, Robert P. Berrens
A finite probability mixture model is used to analyze the existence of multiple market segments for a pre-market good. The approach has at least two principal benefits. First, the model is capable of...
Economic growth and environmental quality: a meta-analysis of environmental Kuznets curve studies
Hui Li, Therese Grijalva, Robert P. Berrens
Meta-analysis is used to investigate systematic variation across Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) studies. Based on 588 observations, modeling results indicate that data characteristics, study...
Pallab Mozumder, Robert P. Berrens
Following Taylor et al. (2001), we design an induced-value experiment to test for hypothetical bias in a referendum voting mechanism. In our experiment, the level of benefit from the public good...
Examining the Role of Social Isolation on Stated Preferences
John A. List, Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara, Joe Kerkvliet
Evaluating coasean bargaining experiments with meta-analysis
Tyler Prante, Jennifer A. Thacher, Robert P. Berrens
While the Coase Theorem has been a touchstone for understanding bargaining behavior, it has also been criticized for relying on unrealistic assumptions. In response, a line of experimental research...
William Neilson, Michael McKee, Robert P. Berrens
This paper contributes to the widespread discussion of the sources of the divergence between WTA and WTP values. The paper reports on theoretical and empirical investigations which show that value...
A Meta-Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curve Studies
Therese A. Cavlovic, Kenneth H. Baker, Robert P. Berrens, Kishore Gawande
An understanding of the empirical relationship between income and environmental quality is evolving through recent studies investigating the Errvirmrmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). The EKC represents an...
Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara, Carol L. Silva
This study examines the effect of environmental information disclosure requirements on future real estate transactions. The setting involves pollution from a concrete products and quarrying site near...
What Price Nondisclosure? The Effects of Nondisclosure of Real Estate Sales Prices
Robert P. Berrens, Michael McKee
Only a select set of states still do not require mandatory public disclosure of real estate sales prices. In this article we examine the possible public-sector consequences of failing to make real...
Would developing country commitments affect US households' support for a modified Kyoto Protocol?
Li, Hui, Berrens, Robert P., Bohara, Alok K., Jenkins-Smith, Hank C., Silva, Carol L., Weimer, David L.
Internal migration and the environmental Kuznets curve for US hazardous waste sites
Gawande, Kishore, Bohara, Alok K., Berrens, Robert P., Wang, Pingo
A joint investigation of public support and public values: case of instream flows in New Mexico
Berrens, Robert P., Bohara, Alok K., Jenkins-Smith, Hank, Silva, Carol L., Ganderton, Philip, Brookshire, David
Bohara, Alok K., McKee, Michael, Berrens, Robert P., Jenkins-Smith, Hank, Silva, Carol L., Brookshire, David S.
John Talberth, Robert P. Berrens, Michael McKee, Michael Jones
When confronted by catastrophic wildfire risk, homeowners simultaneously allocate resources between insurance and averting activities. Expected utility theory suggests that complete insurance...
Intra-Regional Amenities, Wages, and Home Prices: The Role of Forests in the Southwest
Michael S. Hand, Jennifer A. Thacher, Daniel W. McCollum, Robert P. Berrens
Forests provide non-market goods and services that people are implicitly willing to pay for through hedonic housing and labor markets. But it is unclear if compensating differentials arise in these...
Mozumder, Pallab, Raheem, Nejem, Talberth, John, Berrens, Robert P.
With evidence of increasing wildfire risks in wildland-urban interface zones in the U.S. West and elsewhere, understanding intended evacuation behavior is a growing issue for community planners. This...
Investigation of Stated and Revealed Preferences for an Elk Hunting Raffle
Joseph M. Little, Kristine M. Grimsrud, Patricia A. Champ, Robert P. Berrens
The charter forest experiment at the Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) in New Mexico provides land managers, policymakers, and researchers a unique opportunity to examine an alternative public...
The Impacts of Social Networks and Household Forest Conservation Efforts in Rural Nepal
Mani Nepal, Alok K. Bohara, Robert P. Berrens
This paper investigates links between the strength and type of social networks and private forest conservation activity in rural Nepal. Using Nepal household survey data, this paper tests the effects...
Exploring nonmarket values for the social impacts of environmental policy change
Berrens, Robert P., Brookshire, David, Ganderton, Philip, McKee, Mike
Although the majority of contingent valuation studies have been for environmental goods, the method can be applied to public goods in general. Further, a specific environmental policy may generate...
Li, Hui, Jenkins-Smith, Hank C., Silva, Carol L., Berrens, Robert P., Herron, Kerry G.
Contingent valuation Bayesian Renewable energy Nuclear energy Research and development (R& D) Uncertainty
WELFARE EFFECTS OF FISHERY POLICIES: NATIVE AMERICAN TREATY RIGHTS AND RECREATIONAL SALMON FISHING
Lin, Pei-Chien, Adams, Richard M., Berrens, Robert P.
Severe declines in Pacific Northwest salmon stocks, coupled with increasing recreational demands, and judicial decisions supporting Native American fishing rights create challenges for fishery...
VALUING THE PROTECTION OF MINIMUM INSTREAM FLOWS IN NEW MEXICO
Berrens, Robert P., Ganderton, Philip, Silva, Carol L.
Currently, New Mexico law does not provide any legal avenue of protecting instream flows. A change in the status quo requires that a prima facie case be made— establishing sufficient evidence of...
CONTINGENT VALUATION OF RURAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT WITH TESTS OF SCOPE AND MODE STABILITY
Lindberg, Kreg, Johnson, Rebecca L., Berrens, Robert P.
Contingent valuation is used to measure the social impacts of tourism in rural Oregon communities. Impacts are substantial, for example, annual household willingness to pay (WTP) to reduce traffic...
POLICY CHANGES AND THE DEMAND FOR LOTTERY-RATIONED BIG GAME HUNTING LICENSES
Scrogin, David, Berrens, Robert P., Bohara, Alok K.
Lotteries are commonly used to allocate big game hunting privileges. In this study, lottery demand and consumer surplus are modeled before and after policy changes designed to increase participation....
Testing for Budget Constraint Effects in a National Advisory Referendum Survey on the Kyoto Protocol
Li, Hui, Berrens, Robert P., Bohara, Alok K., Jenkins-Smith, Hank C., Silva, Carol L., Weimer, David L.
In contrast to providing standard reminders about remembering household budgets, does asking survey respondents about their discretionary income and its use affect their voting responses in a...
Forest Amenities and Location Choice in the Southwest
Hand, Michael S., Thacher, Jennifer A., McCollum, Daniel W., Berrens, Robert P.
Locations with natural characteristics, such as forest, are thought to be attractive residential locations. This proposition is tested in the Southwest United States, composed of Arizona and New...
A META-ANALYSIS OF ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE STUDIES
Cavlovic, Therese A., Baker, Kenneth H., Berrens, Robert P., Gawande, Kishore
An understanding of the empirical relationship between income and environmental quality is evolving through recent studies investigating the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). The EKC represents an...
JOHN TALBERTH, ROBERT P. BERRENS, MICHAEL MCKEE, MICHAEL JONES
When confronted by catastrophic wildfire risk, homeowners simultaneously allocate resources between insurance and averting activities. Expected utility theory suggests that complete insurance...
Private transfers to cope with a natural disaster: evidence from Bangladesh
MOZUMDER, PALLAB, BOHARA, ALOK K., BERRENS, ROBERT P., HALIM, NAFISA
Based on multiple rounds of household survey data collected in the year after the 1998 massive flooding in Bangladesh, we investigate the role of private transfers as a social coping response to...
Rationed Access and Welfare: The Case of Public Resource Lotteries
David O. Scrogin, Robert P. Berrens
Pressures on public lands and waterways are resulting increasingly in the rationing of public access by lottery. Upon accounting for the uncertainties of random rationing, discrete choice models lend...
Valuing the Loss of Rock Climbing Access in Wilderness Areas: A National-Level, Random-Utility Model
Therese C. Grijalva, Robert P. Berrens, Alok K. Bohara, Paul M. Jakus, W. Douglass Shaw
Given potential growth in outdoor rock climbing and its concentration on public lands, the management of climbing access in wilderness areas is an issue of considerable national controversy in the...
Robert P. Berrens, David S. Brookshire, Michael McKee, Christian Schmidt
In situations characterized by true uncertainty and potential irreversibility, the safe minimum standard (SMS) approach is a decision rule to protect some critical natural resource-unless the social...