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Ph.D.,
M.A.,
M.A.,
B.A.,
"Incentive
and Informational Properties of Preference Questions"
Carson, Richard T. and Theodore Groves
(Environmental and Resource Economics, 2007)
Carson, Richard T. and W. Michael Hanemann (Handbook of Environmental Economics,
K.G. Maler and J.R. Vincent, eds, (
Economic
Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques: A Manual
Bateman, Ian, Richard T. Carson Brett Day, W. Michael Hanemann, Nick Hanley, Tannis Hett, Michael Jones-Lee, Graham Loomes, Susana Mourato, Ece Özdemiroglu, David Pearce, Robert Sugden, and John Swanson (Edward Elgar, 2002)
"Contingent
Valuation: Controversies and Evidence"
with Nicholas E. Flores and
Norman F. Meade (Environmental and
Resource Economics, 2001)
"Contingent
Valuation: A User's Guide"
Carson, Richard T. (Environmental
Science & Technology, 2000)
"The Theory
and Measurement of Passive Use Value,"
Carson, Richard T., Nicholas E. Flores and Robert Cameron Mitchell)
in I.J. Bateman and K.G. Willis, eds., Valuing
Environmental Preferences: Theory and Practice of the Contingent Valuation
Method in the
Carson, Richard T. (Ecological
Economics, 1998)
Carson, Richard T., Nicholas
E. Flores, Kerry M. Martin and Jennifer L. Wright (Land Economics, 1996)
Carson, Richard T. in John Braden and Charles
Kolstad, eds., Measuring the Demand for
Environmental Commodities (Amsterdam: North‑Holland, 1991)
Using
Surveys to Value Public Goods: The Contingent Valuation Method
Mitchell, Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson (Resources for the
Future, 1989)
Individual
Contingent Valuation Studies
"Contingent Valuation
and Lost Passive Use: Damages from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill,"
Carson, Richard T.,
Robert Cameron Mitchell, W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp,
"Public
Preferences Toward Environmental Risks: The Case of Trihalomethanes"
Valuing Oil Spill
Prevention: A Case Study of California’s Central
Coast
Carson, Richard T.,
Michael B. Conaway, W. Michael
Hanemann, Jon A. Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, and Stanley Presser (Kluwer,
2004). NOTE: book has CD with word version of questionnaire, auxiliary forms
and visual aids, and full dataset.
Carson, Richard T. and Robert Cameron Mitchell and Michael
B. Conaway in Stale Navrud and
Richard C. Ready, eds., Valuing Cultural
Heritage: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings,
Monuments and Artifacts Edward Elgar, 2002)
“Population-Based
Time Preferences for Future Health Outcomes,”
Ganiats, Theodore G., Richard T. Carson, Robert M. Hamm, Scott B. Cantor, Walton Sumner, Stephen J. Spann, Michael D. Hagen, and Christopher Miller (Medical Decision Making, 2000)
Prospective Interim
Lost Use Value Due to PCB and DDT Contamination in the Southern California
Bight
Carson, Richard T., W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Jon A.
Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell,
"Valuing the
Preservation of Australia's Kakadu Conservation Zone,”
with Carson, Richard T., Leanne Wilks and David Imber (Oxford Economic Papers, 1994)
Carson, Richard T. and Robert
Cameron Mitchell (Water Resources
Research, 1993)
"The
Grand Canyon Visibility Benefits Study,"
Balson, William, Richard T. Carson and Robert Mitchell
in Proceedings of the 84th Annual Air and
Waste Management Association Meeting (Air and Waste Management Association,
1991)
“Contingent
Valuation Estimate of the Value of Kenai King Salmon”
Carson, Richard T., W.
Michael Hanemann and Dan Steinberg (Journal of Behavioral Economics, 1990)
"Existence
Values for Groundwater Protection,"
Mitchell, Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson (Report
to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989)
Theoretical
and Methodological Issues
“The
Tobit Model With A Non-Zero Threshold,”
Krosnick, Jon A., Allyson Holbrook, Matthew K. Berent, Richard T. Carson, W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Robert Cameron Mitchell, Paul A. Ruud, V. Kerry Smith, Wendy R. Moody, Melanie C. Green, and Michael Conaway (Public Opinion Quarterly, 2002)
“Dissecting
the Random Component,”
Jordan Louviere, Deborah Street, Richard T. Carson, Andrew Ainslie, J. R. Deshazo, Trudy Cameron, David Hensher, Robert Kohn and Tony Marley (Marketing Letters, 2002)
“Violating
Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude
Questions,”
Holbrook, Allyson L. Jon A. Krosnick, Richard T. Carson and Robert Cameron Mitchell (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2000)
“Combining
Sources of Preference Data for Modeling Complex Decision Processes,”
Louviere, Jordan J., Robert J. Meyer, David Bunch, Richard T. Carson, Benedict Delleart, W. Michael Hanemann, David Hensher, and Julie Irwin (Marketing Letters, 1999)
"Referendum
Design and Contingent Valuation: The NOAA Panel's No-Vote Recommendation,"
Carson, Richard T., W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Jon A.
Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell,
"Sequencing and Valuing Public Goods,"
Carson, Richard T., Nicholas E. Flores and W. Michael Hanemann (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1998)
“Contingent
Valuation: Theoretical Advances Since the NOAA
Panel,”
Carson, Richard T. (American Journal
of Agricultural Economics, 1997)
"Modeling
Response Incentive Effects in Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation
Data"
Alberini, Anna, Barbara Kanninen and
Richard T. Carson (Land Economics, 1997)
"The Relationship Between
Income Elasticities of Demand and Willingness to Pay,"
Flores, Nicholas E. and Richard T. Carson (Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management, 1997)
"Contingent
Valuation and Tests of Insensitivity to Scope,"
Carson, Richard T. in R.J. Kopp, W. Pommerhene, and N. Schwartz, eds., Determining the Value of Non-Marketed Goods: Economic, Psychological, and Policy
Relevant Aspects of Contingent Valuation Methods, (Boston: Kluwer, 1997).
"Sequencing and Nesting in
Contingent Valuation Surveys,"
Carson, Richard T. and Robert Cameron Mitchell (Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management, 1995)
"Current
Issues in the Design, Administration, and Analysis of Contingent Valuation
Surveys,"
Mitchell, Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson in
P.O. Johansson, B. Kristrom, and K.G. Mäler,
eds., Current Issues in Environmental
Economics (Manchester University Press, 1995)
"Experimental
Analysis of Choice,"
Carson, Richard T.,
Jordan J. Louviere, Donald Anderson, Phipps Arabie, David Bunch, David Hensher,
Richard M. Johnson, Warren F. Kuhfeld, Dan Steinberg, Joffre Swait, Harry
Timmermans, and James B. Wiley (Marketing
Letters, 1994)
"Passive Use
Values and Contingent Valuation: Introducing the Issues,"
Carson, Richard T., Norman F. Meade and V. Kerry Smith (Choices, 1993)
"The Issue
of Scope in Contingent Valuation Surveys,"
Carson, Richard T. and Robert Cameron Mitchell (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1993)
"Contingent
Valuation and the Legal Arena,"
Carson, Richard T. and Robert Cameron Mitchell in
Raymond Kopp and V. Kerry Smith, eds., Natural
Resource Damages. (Resources for the Future, 1993)
Carson, Richard T. in Kevin Ward and John
Duffield, eds., Natural Resource Damages:
Law and Economics. (Wiley, 1992)
"Models
for Truncated Counts,"
Grogger, Jeffrey T. and Richard T. Carson (Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1991)
"Discounting
Statistical Lives,"
Horowitz,
John K. and Richard T. Carson (Journal of
Risk and Uncertainty, 1990)
"Experimental
Design for Discrete Choice Voter Preference Surveys,"
Carson, Richard T. and Dan Steinberg (1989 Proceeding of the Survey Methodology
Section of the American Statistical Association, 1990)
"How Far Out on
the Learning Curve Are We with Contingent Valuation?,"
Mitchell,
Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson in Proceedings
of the Conference on the Role of Social/Behavior Science in Water Resource
Management (American Society of Civil Engineers/Engineering
Foundation/Universities' Council on Water Resources, 1988).
"Evaluating
the Validity of Contingent Valuation Studies,"
Mitchell, Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson in
George Peterson, B.L. Driver, and Robin Gregory, eds. Amenity Resource Valuation: Integrating Economics With Other
Disciplines (Venture Publishing,
1988).
"Robust Regression
in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity,"
Carson, Richard T. and Shankar Subramanian (Advances
in Econometrics, 1988)
Other
Environmental Economics Topics
“Forecasting
the Path of China’s CO2 Emissions: Using Province Level
Information,”
Auffhammer, Maximillian
and Richard T. Carson (Journal of
Environmental Economics and Management, forthcoming)
Carson, Richard T. and Nadja Marinova (UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Policy Brief 13, 1999)
"The
Relationship Between Air Pollution Emissions and
Income: U.S. Data,"
Carson,
Richard T., Yongil
Jeon and Donald R. McCubbin (Environment and Development Economics, 1997)
"Baseline
Risk and Preference for Reductions in Risk-to-Life,"
Horowitz, John K. and Richard T. Carson (Risk Analysis, 1993)
"A
Classification Tree for Predicting Consumer Preferences for Risk
Reduction,"
Horowitz, John K. and Richard T. Carson (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1991)
"Property
Rights, Protest, and the Siting of Hazardous Waste
Facilities,"
Mitchell, Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson, (American Economic Review, 1986)
"Implications
of Environmental Policy for U.S. Agriculture: The Case of Ambient Ozone,"
Kopp,
Raymond J., William J. Vaughan and Michael Hazilla,
and Richard T. Carson (Journal of
Environmental Management, 1985)
Energy Oriented Input‑Output
Models for 1972 and 2000
Irving Hoch and Richard T. Carson (Electric Power Research Institute,
1984).
Other Topics
“Archetypal Analysis: A New Way to Segment Markets Based on Extreme Individuals,”
Li, Gui, Paul Wang, and Jordan Louviere (in A Celebration of Ehrenberg and Bass: Marketing Knowledge, Discoveries and Contribution, ANZMAC, 2003).
"On
the Theory of Growth Controls,"
Engle, Robert F., Peter Navarro and Richard T. Carson (Journal of Urban Economics, 1992)
"Growth
Controls: Policy Analysis for the Second Generation,"
Navarro, Peter and Richard T. Carson (Policy Sciences, 1991)
"Measuring
the Benefits of Fresh Water Quality Changes: Techniques and Empirical
Findings,"
Carson, Richard T. and Kerry Martin in Ariel Dinar and David Zilberman, eds., The Economics and Management of Water and
Drainage in Agriculture (Boston: Kluwer, 1991).
"An
Examination of Systematic Differences in the Appreciation of Individual Housing
Units,"
"A
Seller's (& Buyer's) Guide to the Job Market for Beginning Academic
Economists,"
Carson, Richard T. and Peter Navarro (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1988)
"Fundamental
Issues in Natural Resource Damage Assessment,"
Carson, Richard T. and Peter Navarro (Natural Resources Journal, 1988)
"A Robust
Data Smooth Based on an L‑Estimator,"
Carson, Richard T. and Shankar Subramanian (1985 Proceeding of the Statistical Computing
Section of the American Statistical Association, 1986)
"A Method of
Estimating the Personal Ideology of Political Representatives,"
Richard T. Carson and Joe A. Oppenheimer (American Political Science Review, 1984)
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