Now this looks like a job for me; So everybody, just follow me; ‘Cause we need a little controversy; ‘Cause it feels so empty without me*
Since John called me out in public to start re-posting and then started while I was at an administrative retreat
I’m working on the first day email to students in my 2000 level in-person environmental econ class
Class starts on Tuesday (1/17) and the email should go out on Friday or Monday. Welcome to ECO 2620! This course is about environmental (air and water quality) and natural (oil, fish) resources. It is an economics course so the focus is
Env-econ: the reboot
Sometimes I forget the amount of content @johnwhitehead81 and I created at https://t.co/JbxmB6cByt for almost 15 years. Glad people are still finding it useful. Tempted to start posting again. https://t.co/WNvxWja9Dt — Tim Haab (@tim_env_econ) January 8, 2023
Consumption-Based vs. Income-Based Carbon Footprints
The idea of an individual's or a household's carbon footprint is how much that person or household contributes to climate change. All anthropogenic climate change is caused by humans (by definition), so let's take all the humans who have ever
Bibliography of North American Reservoir Recreation Non-market Valuation Studies
Burt, Oscar R., and Durward Brewer. "Estimation of net social benefits from outdoor recreation." Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society (1971): 813-827. Cameron, Trudy A., W. Douglass Shaw, Shannon E. Ragland, J. Mac Callaway, and Sally Keefe. "Using actual and contingent
Pragmatic and existential concerns about the social cost of carbon
There is a great new policy forum article in Science defending the use of the social cost of carbon (SCC) in climate policy analysis, written by four great environmental economists (Joe Aldy, Matt Kotchen, Robert Stavins, and James Stock). While
Stand-up economist: Grading Economics Textbooks on Climate Change
Yoram Bauman: This is the fifth such review I’ve been involved in and it is almost certainly the last review I’ll be doing, for the simple reason that the vast majority of textbooks now have excellent content on climate change! (If
Reply to “Reply to Whitehead” by Desvousges, Mathews and Train: (4) My treatment of the weighted WTP is biased in favor of the DMT (2015) result/conclusion
DMT (2020) draw attention to my treatment of the weighted WTP estimates. The regression model for the second scenario has a negative sign for the constant and a positive sign for the slope. When I "mechanically" calculate WTP for the
Reply to “Reply to Whitehead” by Desvousges, Mathews and Train: (2) What is the effect of negative WTP?
When dichotomous choice CVM data is of low quality, the measure of central tendancy is sensitive to assumptions. As I showed in a paper presented earlier this year (Landry and Whitehed 2020), with the highest quality data it makes no
Reply to “Reply to Whitehead” by Desvousges, Mathews and Train: (1) Is the log-linear model meaningless?
When dichotomous choice CVM data has a negative WTP problem, one of the standard corrections is to estimate a log-linear model and present the median WTP. With many estimated log-linear models the mean WTP is undefined. This is because the