Economy
Our article in the Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy’s “sizing up survey samples” symposium (?) is published online
This paper resulted from the BP/Deepwater Horizon damage assessment conducted for the state of Florida (Huffaker, Clouwer and Larkin 2012)....
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The NYT’s Willow article allows issue advocates to alternately assume perfectly elastic demand and supply
The decision to allow mining in Alaska is controversial (Biden Administration Expected to Move Ahead on a Major Oil Project...
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My SBCA slides stunk but I think I delivered on emphasizing a stated preference “robustness check”
I presented a paper at the SBCA meetings yesterday. The study was internally funded so I've been asked to present...
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I’m at the Society for Benefit Cost Analysis conference in DC
This is the first in-person SBCA conference since 2019 following a cancelled 2020 conference and online conferences in 2021 and...
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When is the right time to measure economic damages from a disaster?
By now most know of the train derailment in East Palestine (pronounced pal-uh-steen), Ohio and the ensuing decision to burn...
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Now we just wait for the comment from Desvousges, Mathews and Train
Yesterday I spent 2 hours revising a final version of this paper so that we can say it is "forthcoming"...
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For the first time all semester I had a whole day to do some research
Here is what I accomplished (about 2 weeks ago)... six dichotomous choice contingent valuation logit curves with the probably of...
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The latest attack on private enterprise baffles
If I hear 'woke' used as a slur one more time ... it won't be the last time because, evidently,...
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This is going into my tragedy of the commons course material
From Marginal Revolution University's Women in Economics: via Twitter: @Laurent Franckx
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