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Submissions from 2024

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The human health effects of harmful algal blooms in Florida: The importance of high resolution data, Andrew Bechard and Corey Lang

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Voter Approval of Bond Referendums: The Role of Bond Amount and Ballot Characteristics, Andrew Bechard, Corey Lang, and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz

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Voter support for bond referenda: Does it matter if costs are presented as aggregate vs. personal costs?, Corey Lang, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, and Zachary Scott

Submissions from 2023

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Seafood consumption during harmful algal blooms: The impact of information regarding safety and health, Andrew Bechard and Corey Lang

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Property value impacts of onshore wind energy in New England: The importance of spatial heterogeneity and temporal dynamics, Luran Dong, Vasundhara Gaur, and Corey Lang

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House of the rising sun: The effect of utility-scale solar arrays on housing prices, Vasundhara Gaur and Corey Lang

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When Energy Issues Are Land Use Issues: Estimating Preferences for Utility-Scale Solar Energy Siting, Vasundhara Gaur, Corey Lang, Gregory Howard, and Ruth Quainoo

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The aftermath of ballot box success and failure: evidence from land preservation referendums, Carrie Gill, Corey Lang, and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz

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A Hedonic Study of New England Dam Removals, Todd Guilfoos and Jason Walsh

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Increasing voluntary enrollment in time-of-use electricity rates: Findings from a survey experiment, Corey Lang, Yueming (Lucy) Qiu, and Luran Dong

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Increasing voluntary enrollment in time-of-use electricity rates: Findings from a survey experiment, Corey Lang, Yueming Lucy Qiu, and Luran Dong

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Effects of expanding electric vehicle charging stations in California on the housing market, Jing Liang, Yueming (Lucy) Qiu, Pengfei Liu, Pan He, and Denise L. Mauzerall

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Case-based Reasoning and Dynamic Choice Modeling, Priya Thomas and Todd Guilfoos

Submissions from 2022

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The Influence of Projected Outcomes on Preferences over Alternative Regulations: Evidence from a Recreational Fishery, Zhenshan Chen, Pengfei Liu, Eric T. Schultz, Jacob M. Kasper, and Stephen K. Swallow

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Balancing Ecosystems, Harvests, and Seafood Markets, Jeremy Collie, Sarah Schumann, Kate Masury, Hirotsugu Uchida, and Claire Collie

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Do views of offshore wind energy detract? A hedonic price analysis of the Block Island wind farm in Rhode Island, Luran Dong and Corey Lang

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The weather affects air conditioner purchases to fill the energy efficiency gap, Pan He, Pengfei Liu, Yueming (Lucy) Qiu, and Lufan Liu

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Grassland tenure reform and grassland quality in China, Lingling Hou, Pengfei Liu, and Xiaohui Tian

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Cultivating Healthy Communities: Refugee Urban Farmers in Providence, RI: Report No. 2 of Land Conservation and Inequality Series, Julie C. Keller, Blake Harrison, and Corey Lang

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at New England Land Trusts: Report No. 1 of Land Conservation and Inequality Series, Julie C. Keller, Blake Harrison, and Corey Lang

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Aggregate data yield biased estimates of voter preferences, Corey Lang and Shana Pearson-Merkowitz

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The effect of temperature on outdoor recreation activities: evidence from visits to federal recreation sites, Pengfei Liu

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The influence of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program on local water quality, Pengfei Liu, Yu Wang, and Wei Zhang

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Assurance payments on the coordination of threshold public goods provision: An experimental investigation, Zhi Li, Dongsheng Chen, and Pengfei Liu

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The performance of multi-type environmental credit trading markets: Lab experiment evidence, Zhi Li, Pengfei Liu, and Stephen K. Swallow

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The influence of African swine fever information on consumers’ preference of pork attributes and pork purchase, Qianfeng Luo, Pengfei Liu, and Zhi Li

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Economic Value of Salt Marshes under Uncertainty of Sea Level Rise: A Case Study of the Narragansett Bay, Vivianne Mazzocco, Tahsin Hasan, Simona Trandafir, and Emi Uchida

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Economic Value of Salt Marshes under Uncertainty of Sea Level Rise: A Case Study of the Narragansett Bay, Vivianne Mazzocco, Tahsin Hasan, Simona Trandafir, and Emi Uchida

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Valuation of Wetland Restoration: Evidence from the Housing Market in Arkansas, Matthew Richardson, Pengfei Liu, and Michael Eggleton

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The Effect of Rebate and Loan Incentives on Residential Heat Pump Adoption: Evidence from North Carolina, Xingchi Shen, Yueming (Lucy) Qiu, Pengfei Liu, and Anand Patwardhan

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Preferences for community benefits for offshore wind development projects: A case study of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, U.S., Grant Tyler, David Bidwell, Tiffany Smythe, and Simona Trandafir

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Exposure to extreme climate decreases self-rated health score: Large-scale survey evidence from China, Zhiming Yang, Bo Yang, Pengfei Liu, Yunquan Zhang, Lingling Hou, and Xiao Chen Yuan

Submissions from 2021

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Variation in Valuation: Open Space and Geography, Alex Blanchette, Corey Lang, and Jarron VanCeylon

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Achieving multiple socio-ecological institutional fits: The case of spiny lobster co-management in Wagu, Japan, Hiroe Ishihara, Kanae Tokunaga, and Hirotsugu Uchida

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Status quo bias and public policy: evidence in the context of carbon mitigation, Corey Lang, Michael Weir, and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz

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Balancing Cost Effectiveness and Incentive Properties in Conservation Auctions: Experimental Evidence from Three Multi-award Reverse Auction Mechanisms, Pengfei Liu

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Determinants of Livestock Insurance Demand: Experimental Evidence from Chinese Herders, Pengfei Liu, Lingling Hou, Dongqing Li, Shi Min, and Yueying Mu

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Incentive Compatibility and the Consequences When It Is Missing: Experiments with Water Quality Credits Purchase, Pengfei Liu and Stephen K. Swallow

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Downward Hypothetical Bias in the Willingness to Accept Measure for Private Goods: Evidence from a Field Experiment, Pengfei Liu and Xiaohui Tian

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Assurance Contracts to Support Multi-Unit Threshold Public Goods in Environmental Markets, Zhi Li, Pengfei Liu, and Stephen K. Swallow

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Coastal and Marine Socio-Ecological Systems: A Systematic Review of the Literature, Sonia Refulio-Coronado, Katherine Lacasse, Tracey Dalton, Austin T. Humphries, Suchandra Basu, Hirotsugu Uchida, and Emi Uchida

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Estimation of change in house sales prices in the United States after heat pump adoption, Xingchi Shen, Pengfei Liu, Yueming (Lucy) Qiu, Anand Patwardhan, and Parth Vaishnav

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Revenue Sharing and Social Capital in Community-Based Resource Management: Empirical Evidence from Japanese Surf-Clam Fisheries, Mihoko Wakamatsu, Hirotsugu Uchida, and Christopher M. Anderson

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Manipulation via endowments: Quantifying the influence of market power on the emission trading scheme, Xu Wang, Lei Zhu, and Pengfei Liu

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Impact of temperature on physical and mental health: Evidence from china, Zhiming Yang, Bo Yang, Pengfei Liu, Yunquan Zhang, and Xiao Chen Yuan

Submissions from 2020

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Land commodification and hukou policy innovation in China: evidence from a survey experiment, Meina Cai, Pengfei Liu, and Hui Wang

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Political trust, risk preferences, and policy support: A study of land-dispossessed villagers in China, Meina Cai, Pengfei Liu, and Hui Wang

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The Economics of Groundwater Governance Institutions Around the Globe, Eric C. Edwards and Todd Guilfoos

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Effectiveness of Public versus Private Ownership: Violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), Guanlong Fu, Pengfei Liu, and Stephen K. Swallow

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Including Additional Pollutants into an Integrated Assessment Model for Estimating Nonmarket Benefits from Water Quality, Robert Griffin, Adrian Vogl, Stacie Wolny, Stefanie Covino, Eivy Monroy, Heidi Ricci, Richard Sharp, Courtney Schmidt, and Emi Uchida

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WTP for Water Filters and Water Quality Testing Services in Guatemala, Todd Guilfoos, Sarah Hayden, Emi Uchida, and Vinka Oyanedel-Craver

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Estimating Case-Based Learning, Todd Guilfoos and Andreas Duus Pape

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The influence of risk preferences, knowledge, land consolidation, and landscape diversification on pesticide use, Lingling Hou, Pengfei Liu, Jikun Huang, and Xiangzheng Deng

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Liability for natural resource damages from oil spills: A survey, James J. Opaluch

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How Are Tourists Affected By Offshore Wind Turbines? A Case Study Of The First U.S. Offshore Wind Farm, Simona Trandafir, Vasundhara Gaur, Priya Behanan, Emi Uchida, Corey Lang, and Haoran Miao

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Whatever floats your vote: understanding voter support for public port infrastructure investments, Jarron VanCeylon, Corey Lang, and Austin Becker

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Language effects on bargaining, Michael J. Weir, Catherine M. Ashcraft, Natallia Leuchanka Diessner, Bridie McGreavey, Emily Vogler, and Todd Guilfoos

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Characterizing Heterogeneous Behavior of Non-Point-Source Polluters in a Spatial Game under Alternate Sensing and Incentive Designs, Asim Zia, Shanshan Ding, Kent D. Messer, Haoran Miao, Jordan F. Suter, Jacob R. Fooks, Todd Guilfoos, Simona Trandafir, Emi Uchida, Yushiou Tsai, Scott Merrill, Scott Turnbull, and Christopher Koliba

Submissions from 2019

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Valuation of the External Costs of Unconventional Oil and Gas Development: The Critical Importance of Mineral Rights Ownership, Andrew Boslett, Todd Guilfoos, and Corey Lang

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Sustainability and tourism: the effect of the United States’ first offshore wind farm on the vacation rental market, Andrew Carr-Harris and Corey Lang

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Impact of the Grain for Green program on forest cover in China, Guanlong Fu, Emi Uchida, Muna Shah, and Xiangzheng Deng

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Social Learning and Communication with Threshold Uncertainty, Todd Guilfoos, Haoran Miao, Simona Trandafir, and Emi Uchida

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Value of protected areas to avian persistence across 20 years of climate and land-use change, Michelle A. Peach, Jonathan B. Cohen, Jacqueline L. Frair, Benjamin Zuckerberg, Patrick Sullivan, William F. Porter, and Corey Lang

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Smart Growth at the Ballot Box: Understanding Voting on Affordable Housing and Land Management Referendums, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz and Corey Lang

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Inter-annual hydroclimatic variability in coastal Tanzania, Robert V. Rohli, Sara A. Ates, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Michael J. Polito, Stephen R. Midway, Edward Castañeda-Moya, Arthur J. Gold, Emi Uchida, Mwita M. Mangora, and Makoto Suwa

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Fishery Socioeconomic Outcomes Tool: A Rapid Assessment Tool for Evaluating Socioeconomic Performance of Fisheries Management, Sarah L. Smith, Rachel Karasik, Aristoteles Stavrinaky, Hirotsugu Uchida, and Merrick Burden

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Collaborative research across boundaries: Mangrove ecosystem services and poverty traps as a coupled natural-human system, Emi Uchida, Victor H. Rivera-Monroy, Sara A. Ates, Edward Castañeda-Moya, Arthur J. Gold, Todd Guilfoos, Mario F. Hernandez, Razack Lokina, Mwita M. Mangora, Stephen R. Midway, Catherine McNally, Michael J. Polito, Matthew Robertson, Robert V. Rohli, Hirotsugu Uchida, Lindsey West, and Xiaochen Zhao

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Identifying Drivers of Genetically Modified Seafood Demand: Evidence from a Choice Experiment, Michael J. Weir and Thomas W. Sproul

Submissions from 2018

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Slow and deliberate cooperation in the commons, Chris Brozyna, Todd Guilfoos, and Stephen Atlas

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Learn to Conserve: The Effects of In-School Energy Education on At-Home Electricity Consumption, Carrie Gill and Corey Lang

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The Economic and Health Effects of the Chemical Spill in the Elk River, Todd Guilfoos, Dalton Kell, Andrew Boslett, and Elaine L. Hill

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Assessing the Efficiency of Local Open Space Provision, Corey Lang

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Incomplete Information and Adverse Impacts of Environmental Cleanup, Corey Lang and Patrick Cavanagh

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How does municipal policy affect state and local actions? Evidence from land conservation spending, Corey Lang, Patrick Prendergast, and Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz

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Evaluating impacts from noxious facilities: Including public preferences in current siting mechanisms, James J. Opaluch, Stephen K. Swallow, Thomas Weaver, Christopher W. Wessells, and Dennis Wichelns

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The Individual Determinants of Support for Open Space Bond Referendums, Patrick Prendergast, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, and Corey Lang

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Evolution and future of the sustainable seafood market, C. A. Roheim, S. R. Bush, F. Asche, J. N. Sanchirico, and H. Uchida

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A multiscale approach to balance trade-offs among dam infrastructure, river restoration, and cost, Samuel G. Roy, Emi Uchida, Simone P. de Souza, Ben Blachly, Emma Fox, Kevin Gardner, Arthur Gold, Jessica Jansujwicz, Sharon Klein, Bridie McGreavy, Weiwei Mo, Sean M.C. Smith, Emily Vogler, Karen Wilson, Joseph Zydlewski, and David Hart

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FindPrimaryPairs: An Efficient Algorithm for Predicting Element-Transferring Reactant/Product Pairs in Metabolic Networks, Jon Lund Steffensen, Keith M. Dufault-Thompson, and Ying Zhang

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Prospect Theory and Tenure Reform: Impacts on Forest Management, Karen A. Sullivan, Emi Uchida, Thomas W. Sproul, and Jintao Xu

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The Bobolink Project: Selling Public Goods From Ecosystem Services Using Provision Point Mechanisms, Stephen K. Swallow, Christopher M. Anderson, and Emi Uchida

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Integrating Watershed Hydrology and Economics to Establish a Local Market for Water Quality Improvement: A Field Experiment, Emi Uchida, Stephen K. Swallow, Arthur J. Gold, James Opaluch, Achyut Kafle, Nathaniel H. Merrill, Clayton Michaud, and Carrie Anne Gill

Submissions from 2017

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Anthropogenic drivers of mangrove loss: Geographic patterns and implications for livelihoods, Rinku Roy Chowdhury, Emi Uchida, Luzhen Chen, Victor Osorio, and Landon Yoder

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The Cost of Unconventional Gas Extraction: A Hedonic Analysis, Michael S. Delgado, Todd Guilfoos, and Andrew Boslett

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Evaluating the Role of Personality Trait Information in Social Dilemmas, Todd Guilfoos and Kenneth J. Kurtz

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Natural resource damage assessment for the Hebei Spirit oil spill: An application of Habitat Equivalency Analysis, Tae Goun Kim, James Opaluch, Daniel Seong Hyeok Moon, and Daniel R. Petrolia

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The impact of water quality in Narragansett Bay on housing prices, Tingting Liu, James J. Opaluch, and Emi Uchida

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Institutional Repositories and Academic Social Networks: Competition or Complement? A Study of Open Access Policy Compliance vs. ResearchGate Participation, Julia A. Lovett, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Divana Boukari, and Corey Lang

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Optimal Groundwater Extraction under Uncertainty and a Spatial Stock Externality, Nathaniel H. Merrill and Todd Guilfoos

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Bayesian Downscaling Methods for Aggregated Count Data, Clayton P. Michaud and Thomas W. Sproul

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Heterogeneity in loss aversion: evidence from field elicitations, Thomas W. Sproul and Clayton P. Michaud

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TURFs, collective fishery management, and fishery cooperatives, Hirotsugu Uchida

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Balancing the health risks and benefits of seafood: How does available guidance affect consumer choices?, Hirotsugu Uchida, Cathy A. Roheim, and Robert J. Johnston

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Pricing ecolabeled seafood products with heterogeneous preferences: An auction experiment in Japan, Hiroki Wakamatsu, Christopher M. Anderson, Hirotsugu Uchida, and Cathy A. Roheim

Submissions from 2016

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Can urban areas help sustain the preservation of open space? Evidence from statewide referenda, Matthew Altonji, Corey Lang, and Gavino Puggioni

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Endowment Effects and Drinking Water Quality, Pamela L. Booth, Todd Guilfoos, and Emi Uchida

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Efficiency of Viable Groundwater Management Policies, Todd Guilfoos, Neha Khanna, and Jeffrey M. Peterson

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Predicting human cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma using case-based decision theory, Todd Guilfoos and Andreas D. Pape

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Special Issue on Economics of Water Quality: Challenges, Policies, and Behavioral Mechanisms, Todd Guilfoos and Emi Uchida

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The Effect of Cost-share Programs on Ground Water Exploitation and Nonpoint-source Pollution under Endogenous Technical Change, C. S. Kim and Todd Guilfoos