Richard T Carson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1218607 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard T Carson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard T |
| FAMILY NAME | Carson |
| SIGNATURE | CARSON R T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3273-8224 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 233 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The public’s views on climate policies in seven large global south countries
While public attitudes regarding climate change have been widely explored in the global north, survey work is still limited in the global south countries. Here we analysed survey data ( n = 8,400) from Chile, Colombia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Vietnam to understand climate knowledge, trusted information sources and policy preferences. Our results indicate that scientists stand out as the most trusted information source in all count…
Understanding and valuing human connections to deep-sea methane seeps off Costa Rica
Methane seeps are highly productive ecosystems that provide carbon sequestration services, host diverse communities including endemic species, and serve as habitats for commercial fisheries. Little is known about the economic value the public places on them. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are administered to a sample of Costa Rican taxpayers to evaluate their willingness to pay (WTP) in monetary terms using tradeoffs made in a survey context …
Using the Delphi method to value protection of the Amazon rainforest
Estimation of Broad-Scale Tradeoffs in Community Policing Policies
This paper looks at how to measure the tradeoffs in monetary terms that the public is prepared to make with respect to adoption of different community policing options. The approach advanced is a discrete choice experiment in which survey respondents face different policing options which can be described by a set of attributes ranging from costs to outcomes. The main contribution of this paper is to show how to go beyond the usual characterizatio…
Incorporating local visitor valuation information into the design of new recreation sites in tropical forests
Contingent Valuation
A person may be willing to make an economic tradeoff to assure that a wilderness area or scenic resource is protected even if neither that person nor (perhaps) anyone else will actually visit this area. This tradeoff is commonly labeled "passive use value." Contingent valuation studies ask questions that help to reveal the monetary tradeoff each person would make concerning the value of goods or services. Such surveys are a practical alternative …
The Environmental Kuznets Curve
In the early 1990s the attention of economists was captured by empirical evidence suggesting that rising income levels in developing countries could be good rather than bad for the environment. This evidence drove a stake into the heart of those opposing growth on environmental grounds. Ultimately, the view that income growth by itself eventually will be good for the environment also appears to be wrong because a causal relationship between incom…
Discrete Choice Experiments Are Not Conjoint Analysis
Incentive and informational properties of preference questions
Chapter 17 Contingent Valuation
Contingent Valuation and Lost Passive Use
Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques
This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It is relevant for the application of these techniques to all non-market goods and services including air and water quality; provision of public open space; health care that is not sold through private markets; risk reduction policies and investments not provided privately; provision of information as with the recorded …
Economic Benefits to Foreigners Visiting Morocco Accruing from the Rehabilitation of the Fes Medina
What value do we place on our cultural heritage, and to what extent should we preserve historic and culturally important sites and artefacts from the ravages of weather, pollution, development and use by the general public? This innovative book attempts to answer these important questions by exploring how non-market valuation techniques – used extensively in environmental economics – can be applied to cultural heritage. The book includes twelve c…
Contingent Valuation
The Impact of “No Opinion” Response Options on Data Quality
According to many seasoned survey researchers, offering a no-opinion option should reduce the pressure to give substantive responses felt by respondents who have no true opinions. By contrast, the survey satisficing perspective suggests that no-opinion options may discourage some respondents from doing the cognitive work necessary to report the true opinions they do have. We address these arguments using data from nine experiments carried out in …
Contingent Valuation
Violating Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude Questions
Referendum Design and Contingent Valuation
This paper considers the effects for offering a “would-not-vote” option in contingent valuation (CV) questions framed using the referendum format. This approach arises from a suggestion made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) panel on contingent valuation. The NOAA panel was asked to evaluate the use of this method for estimating the economic value of nonmarketed environmental resources in the context of natural resou…
Valuation of tropical rainforests
Contingent Valuation and Revealed Preference Methodologies
Richard T. Carson, Nicholas E. Flores, Kerry M. Martin, Jennifer L. Wright, Contingent Valuation and Revealed Preference Methodologies: Comparing the Estimates for Quasi-Public Goods, Land Economics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 80-99
On the theory of growth controls
Using Surveys to Value Public Goods
Growth controls
A Seller's (& Buyer's) Guide to the Job Market for Beginning Academic Economists
In an effort to increase the stock of information available to sellers and buyers in the academic job market for beginning Ph.D. economists, this paper presents the findings of a survey of the 1985-86 hiring process by economics departments. The findings are based on a stratified random sample of all economics departments ranked in the top 20, and 380 other economics departments. Sellers in this job market, typically graduate students in the fina…
A Reply to Our Critics
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The Impact of “No Opinion” Response Options on Data Quality
According to many seasoned survey researchers, offering a no-opinion option should reduce the pressure to give substantive responses felt by respondents who have no true opinions. By contrast, the survey satisficing perspective suggests that no-opinion options may discourage some respondents from doing the cognitive work necessary to report the true opinions they do have. We address these arguments using data from nine experiments carried out in …
A Method of Estimating the Personal Ideology of Political Representatives
We suggest a method for estimating a political representative's personal ideology and its effect on his or her voting decisions. The current practice of using the ratings of a pressure group such as Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) as a proxy for personal ideology is shown to have a number of theoretical and interpretive flaws. Our technique uses the residuals from two regression equations to provide answers to two questions: Is there a syst…
Contingent Valuation
A person may be willing to make an economic tradeoff to assure that a wilderness area or scenic resource is protected even if neither that person nor (perhaps) anyone else will actually visit this area. This tradeoff is commonly labeled "passive use value." Contingent valuation studies ask questions that help to reveal the monetary tradeoff each person would make concerning the value of goods or services. Such surveys are a practical alternative …
On the theory of growth controls
Growth controls
Violating Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude Questions
Using Surveys to Value Public Goods
Economic Benefits to Foreigners Visiting Morocco Accruing from the Rehabilitation of the Fes Medina
What value do we place on our cultural heritage, and to what extent should we preserve historic and culturally important sites and artefacts from the ravages of weather, pollution, development and use by the general public? This innovative book attempts to answer these important questions by exploring how non-market valuation techniques – used extensively in environmental economics – can be applied to cultural heritage. The book includes twelve c…
A Seller's (& Buyer's) Guide to the Job Market for Beginning Academic Economists
In an effort to increase the stock of information available to sellers and buyers in the academic job market for beginning Ph.D. economists, this paper presents the findings of a survey of the 1985-86 hiring process by economics departments. The findings are based on a stratified random sample of all economics departments ranked in the top 20, and 380 other economics departments. Sellers in this job market, typically graduate students in the fina…
Understanding and valuing human connections to deep-sea methane seeps off Costa Rica
Methane seeps are highly productive ecosystems that provide carbon sequestration services, host diverse communities including endemic species, and serve as habitats for commercial fisheries. Little is known about the economic value the public places on them. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are administered to a sample of Costa Rican taxpayers to evaluate their willingness to pay (WTP) in monetary terms using tradeoffs made in a survey context …
Estimation of Broad-Scale Tradeoffs in Community Policing Policies
This paper looks at how to measure the tradeoffs in monetary terms that the public is prepared to make with respect to adoption of different community policing options. The approach advanced is a discrete choice experiment in which survey respondents face different policing options which can be described by a set of attributes ranging from costs to outcomes. The main contribution of this paper is to show how to go beyond the usual characterizatio…
A Reply to Our Critics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Method of Estimating the Personal Ideology of Political Representatives
We suggest a method for estimating a political representative's personal ideology and its effect on his or her voting decisions. The current practice of using the ratings of a pressure group such as Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) as a proxy for personal ideology is shown to have a number of theoretical and interpretive flaws. Our technique uses the residuals from two regression equations to provide answers to two questions: Is there a syst…
A Reply to Our Critics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A Seller's (& Buyer's) Guide to the Job Market for Beginning Academic Economists
In an effort to increase the stock of information available to sellers and buyers in the academic job market for beginning Ph.D. economists, this paper presents the findings of a survey of the 1985-86 hiring process by economics departments. The findings are based on a stratified random sample of all economics departments ranked in the top 20, and 380 other economics departments. Sellers in this job market, typically graduate students in the fina…
Using Surveys to Value Public Goods
Growth controls
On the theory of growth controls
Contingent Valuation and Revealed Preference Methodologies
Richard T. Carson, Nicholas E. Flores, Kerry M. Martin, Jennifer L. Wright, Contingent Valuation and Revealed Preference Methodologies: Comparing the Estimates for Quasi-Public Goods, Land Economics, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 80-99
Referendum Design and Contingent Valuation
This paper considers the effects for offering a “would-not-vote” option in contingent valuation (CV) questions framed using the referendum format. This approach arises from a suggestion made by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) panel on contingent valuation. The NOAA panel was asked to evaluate the use of this method for estimating the economic value of nonmarketed environmental resources in the context of natural resou…
Valuation of tropical rainforests
Contingent Valuation
Violating Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude Questions
Contingent Valuation
The Impact of “No Opinion” Response Options on Data Quality
According to many seasoned survey researchers, offering a no-opinion option should reduce the pressure to give substantive responses felt by respondents who have no true opinions. By contrast, the survey satisficing perspective suggests that no-opinion options may discourage some respondents from doing the cognitive work necessary to report the true opinions they do have. We address these arguments using data from nine experiments carried out in …
Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques
This manual offers a detailed, up-to-date explanation of how to carry out economic valuation using stated preference techniques. It is relevant for the application of these techniques to all non-market goods and services including air and water quality; provision of public open space; health care that is not sold through private markets; risk reduction policies and investments not provided privately; provision of information as with the recorded …
Economic Benefits to Foreigners Visiting Morocco Accruing from the Rehabilitation of the Fes Medina
What value do we place on our cultural heritage, and to what extent should we preserve historic and culturally important sites and artefacts from the ravages of weather, pollution, development and use by the general public? This innovative book attempts to answer these important questions by exploring how non-market valuation techniques – used extensively in environmental economics – can be applied to cultural heritage. The book includes twelve c…
Contingent Valuation and Lost Passive Use
Chapter 17 Contingent Valuation
Incentive and informational properties of preference questions
The Environmental Kuznets Curve
In the early 1990s the attention of economists was captured by empirical evidence suggesting that rising income levels in developing countries could be good rather than bad for the environment. This evidence drove a stake into the heart of those opposing growth on environmental grounds. Ultimately, the view that income growth by itself eventually will be good for the environment also appears to be wrong because a causal relationship between incom…
Discrete Choice Experiments Are Not Conjoint Analysis
Contingent Valuation
A person may be willing to make an economic tradeoff to assure that a wilderness area or scenic resource is protected even if neither that person nor (perhaps) anyone else will actually visit this area. This tradeoff is commonly labeled "passive use value." Contingent valuation studies ask questions that help to reveal the monetary tradeoff each person would make concerning the value of goods or services. Such surveys are a practical alternative …
Incorporating local visitor valuation information into the design of new recreation sites in tropical forests
Using the Delphi method to value protection of the Amazon rainforest
Estimation of Broad-Scale Tradeoffs in Community Policing Policies
This paper looks at how to measure the tradeoffs in monetary terms that the public is prepared to make with respect to adoption of different community policing options. The approach advanced is a discrete choice experiment in which survey respondents face different policing options which can be described by a set of attributes ranging from costs to outcomes. The main contribution of this paper is to show how to go beyond the usual characterizatio…
Understanding and valuing human connections to deep-sea methane seeps off Costa Rica
Methane seeps are highly productive ecosystems that provide carbon sequestration services, host diverse communities including endemic species, and serve as habitats for commercial fisheries. Little is known about the economic value the public places on them. Discrete Choice Experiments (DCEs) are administered to a sample of Costa Rican taxpayers to evaluate their willingness to pay (WTP) in monetary terms using tradeoffs made in a survey context …
Economics (22 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (15 works) · Microeconomics (14 works) · Willingness to pay (11 works) · Business (10 works) · Contingent valuation (10 works) · Public economics (10 works) · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Geography (7 works)