Economy

In which we* use old-timey contingent valuation willingness to pay for a recreation trip questions. After this paper and others (in the…

From Data are Plural (10/11):  Michigan air permit violations. For local news organization Planet Detroit, freelance journalist Shelby Jouppi has built a daily-updating dashboard of air quality permit…

From the WaPo (Olive oil prices reach record highs as Spain’s harvest is halved): Extreme heat, wildfires and drought have decimated much…

I recently received a request for the NLogit code for this article: Whitehead, John C., and Daniel K. Lew. “Estimating recreation benefits…

From the WSJ (National Parks Will Close if Government Shuts Down): National parks will close their gates if lawmakers don’t pass legislation…

It was the same paper. I was excited to boast that I might be the only person who has ever presented the…

The other day in my intro environmental and natural resource economics class we used the BDM method to elicit willingness to pay…

From Nature News (Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers) via Retraction Watch Weekend Reads [brackets added below]: Searching for key…

My go to classroom experiment has been Veconlab‘s supply and opportunity cost experiment for at least a decade (here is a 2016…

The title is “External Validity of Inferred Attribute Non-Attendance: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment with Real and Hypothetical Payoffs”. Here is the…