Robert P Berrens
Biographic Data
| ID | 1412704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert P Berrens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert P |
| FAMILY NAME | Berrens |
| SIGNATURE | BERRENS R P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7295-217X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reuse of treated municipal wastewater in drylands: Multi-sector optimization analysis for middle Rio Grande case study
Valuing soil erosion control investments in Nigerian agricultural lands: A hedonic pricing model
Cryptodamages: Monetary value estimates of the air pollution and human health impacts of cryptocurrency mining
Benefit-Cost Analysis, Policy Impacts, and Congressional Hearings
Methods for identifying relevant policy impacts for valuation in benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) have received relatively little attention in academic research, applied policy analyses, and guidance documents. In this paper, we develop a systematic, transparent, and replicable process that draws upon information contained in records of Congressional hearings to identify relevant policy impacts for valuation in a BCA. Our approach involves classifyin…
The impact of clandestine methamphetamine labs on property values: Discovery, decontamination and stigma
Contingent Valuation and the Policymaking Process: An Application to Used Nuclear Fuel in the United States
Survey-based contingent valuation (CV) techniques are commonly used to value the potential effects of a policy change when market-based valuation of those effects is not possible. The results of these analyses are often intended to inform policy decisions, which are made within the context of formal policymaking institutions. These institutions are typically designed to reduce the large number of potential options for addressing any given policy …
Value and outcome uncertainty as explanations for the WTA vs WTP disparity
This paper contributes to the widespread discussion of the sources of the divergence between WTA and WTP values. The theoretical and empirical investigations show that value and outcome uncertainty offer an explanation for this disparity. Given a set of hypotheses generated by the theory, the paper investigates the disparity using an induced-value experimental laboratory setting. The incentive-compatible Becker-DeGroot-Marshak mechanism is employ…
A Hedonic Price Analysis of the Outfitter Market for Trout Fishing in the Rocky Mountain West
Trout is the most popular sport fish in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico where fishing outfitters bring revenues to many rural economies. This article uses the hedonic pricing method on a monopolistically competitive outfitter market in those four states to examine angler values for trout fishing characteristics. A total of 1,685 fishing trip observations were collected from 198 outfitter websites during the 2009 fishing season. Vectors…
Species preservation versus development: An experimental investigation under uncertainty
Insect infestation and residential property values: A hedonic analysis of the mountain pine beetle epidemic
Public support for reducing US reliance on fossil fuels: Investigating household willingness-to-pay for energy research and development
Investigating intended evacuation from wildfires in the wildland–urban interface: Application of a bivariate probit model
Inorganic fertilizer use and biodiversity risk: An empirical investigation
Would developing country commitments affect US households' support for a modified Kyoto Protocol
Simulating changes in forest recreation demand and associated economic impacts due to fire and fuels management activities
Using Experimental Economics to Examine Wildfire Insurance and Averting Decisions in the Wildland–Urban Interface
In response to growing wildfire concerns in the U.S. West and elsewhere, public land management agencies are promoting a variety of programs to reduce the risk exposure of homeowners to catastrophic wildfires. Experimental economics, using laboratory markets with real payoffs, provides a unique, low-cost tool for examining how changes in various policies or institutional arrangements may affect complex decision making. In this article we present …
What Price Nondisclosure? The Effects of Nondisclosure of Real Estate Sales Prices
Objective. Only a select set of states still do not require mandatory public disclosure of real estate sales prices. In this article we examine the possible public‐sector consequences of failing to make real estate sales prices publicly accessible. Methods. We propose a set of possible public‐sector consequences of sales price nondisclosure (property tax assessment inequities, tax revenue leakages, administrative inefficiencies, and related ancil…
Standing: Institutional Change and Rock Climbing in Wilderness Areas
In trying to balance multiple uses, U.S. public land managers must confront the issue of standing--whose benefits and costs get to count. As an important illustration, this policy review examines the conflict between providing access to a growing recreational user group (rock climbers) and the preservation of wilderness character in designated wilderness areas. This conflict has given rise to new interpretations by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) …
The Advent of Internet Surveys for Political Research: A Comparison of Telephone and Internet Samples
The Internet offers a number of advantages as a survey mode: low marginal cost per completed response, capabilities for providing respondents with large quantities of information, speed, and elimination of interviewer bias. Those seeking these advantages confront the problem of representativeness both in terms of coverage of the population and capabilities for drawing random samples. Two major strategies have been pursued commercially to develop …
A consumption-based theory of the environmental Kuznets curve
Internal migration and the environmental Kuznets curve for US hazardous waste sites
Determinants of lottery participation for big game hunting privileges: Resident versus nonresident elk hunters in New Mexico
The objective of this study is to investigate the statistical determinants of lottery applications for New Mexico elk hunting licenses from three different groups: (1) residents, (2) guided nonresidents, and (3) nonguided nonresidents. Relatively scant empirical information is available to game managers on the statistical determinants of lottery applications for elk hunting privileges, and what is available does not distinguish between groups. Gi…
Incorporating distributional considerations in the safe minimum standard approach: Endangered species and local impacts
Revealed preferences of a state bureau: Case of New Mexico's underground storage tank program
Leaking underground storage tanks (USTs) are a pervasive national environmental problem. Cleanup of leaking USTs is largely publicly financed and under the control of state agencies. In the transition to new compliance standards, individual states have taken advantage of provisions in federal regulations to implement their own programs. This raises the policy question of environmental federalism and the appropriate locus of government control. Th…
Applying contingent valuation in the design of fee hunting programs: Pheasant hunting in oregon revisited
The feasibility of user fees to support a public stocking program for pheasant hunting at the E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area in Western Oregon was initially evaluated by Adams et al. (1989) using the survey‐based contingent valuation (CV) method. Subsequent to the CV survey, an experimental “put and take”; stocking program was conducted at the site. Several fee levels were charged for hunting pheasants, and visitation records kept. Application of the…
The Advent of Internet Surveys for Political Research: A Comparison of Telephone and Internet Samples
The Internet offers a number of advantages as a survey mode: low marginal cost per completed response, capabilities for providing respondents with large quantities of information, speed, and elimination of interviewer bias. Those seeking these advantages confront the problem of representativeness both in terms of coverage of the population and capabilities for drawing random samples. Two major strategies have been pursued commercially to develop …
Using Experimental Economics to Examine Wildfire Insurance and Averting Decisions in the Wildland–Urban Interface
In response to growing wildfire concerns in the U.S. West and elsewhere, public land management agencies are promoting a variety of programs to reduce the risk exposure of homeowners to catastrophic wildfires. Experimental economics, using laboratory markets with real payoffs, provides a unique, low-cost tool for examining how changes in various policies or institutional arrangements may affect complex decision making. In this article we present …
Investigating intended evacuation from wildfires in the wildland–urban interface: Application of a bivariate probit model
Simulating changes in forest recreation demand and associated economic impacts due to fire and fuels management activities
Cryptodamages: Monetary value estimates of the air pollution and human health impacts of cryptocurrency mining
Insect infestation and residential property values: A hedonic analysis of the mountain pine beetle epidemic
Contingent Valuation and the Policymaking Process: An Application to Used Nuclear Fuel in the United States
Survey-based contingent valuation (CV) techniques are commonly used to value the potential effects of a policy change when market-based valuation of those effects is not possible. The results of these analyses are often intended to inform policy decisions, which are made within the context of formal policymaking institutions. These institutions are typically designed to reduce the large number of potential options for addressing any given policy …
Valuation Issues in an Urban Recreational Fishery: Spring Chinook Salmon in Portland, Oregon
The contingent valuation method (CVM), using a payment card format, is applied to recreational demand for spring chinook salmon fishing in the greater Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. A two-limit model is used to estimate the individual valuation function. There is no evidence that spring chinook salmon fishing is a congestible good over a range of postulated increases in user intensities. Evaluated across a range of run size increases, the re…
Valuation Issues in an Urban Recreational Fishery: Spring Chinook Salmon in Portland, Oregon
The contingent valuation method (CVM), using a payment card format, is applied to recreational demand for spring chinook salmon fishing in the greater Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. A two-limit model is used to estimate the individual valuation function. There is no evidence that spring chinook salmon fishing is a congestible good over a range of postulated increases in user intensities. Evaluated across a range of run size increases, the re…
The Paretian Liberal Paradox and ecological economics
Applying contingent valuation in the design of fee hunting programs: Pheasant hunting in oregon revisited
The feasibility of user fees to support a public stocking program for pheasant hunting at the E. E. Wilson Wildlife Area in Western Oregon was initially evaluated by Adams et al. (1989) using the survey‐based contingent valuation (CV) method. Subsequent to the CV survey, an experimental “put and take”; stocking program was conducted at the site. Several fee levels were charged for hunting pheasants, and visitation records kept. Application of the…
A joint investigation of public support and public values: Case of instream flows in New Mexico
Determinants of lottery participation for big game hunting privileges: Resident versus nonresident elk hunters in New Mexico
The objective of this study is to investigate the statistical determinants of lottery applications for New Mexico elk hunting licenses from three different groups: (1) residents, (2) guided nonresidents, and (3) nonguided nonresidents. Relatively scant empirical information is available to game managers on the statistical determinants of lottery applications for elk hunting privileges, and what is available does not distinguish between groups. Gi…
Incorporating distributional considerations in the safe minimum standard approach: Endangered species and local impacts
Revealed preferences of a state bureau: Case of New Mexico's underground storage tank program
Leaking underground storage tanks (USTs) are a pervasive national environmental problem. Cleanup of leaking USTs is largely publicly financed and under the control of state agencies. In the transition to new compliance standards, individual states have taken advantage of provisions in federal regulations to implement their own programs. This raises the policy question of environmental federalism and the appropriate locus of government control. Th…
Internal migration and the environmental Kuznets curve for US hazardous waste sites
A consumption-based theory of the environmental Kuznets curve
Standing: Institutional Change and Rock Climbing in Wilderness Areas
In trying to balance multiple uses, U.S. public land managers must confront the issue of standing--whose benefits and costs get to count. As an important illustration, this policy review examines the conflict between providing access to a growing recreational user group (rock climbers) and the preservation of wilderness character in designated wilderness areas. This conflict has given rise to new interpretations by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) …
The Advent of Internet Surveys for Political Research: A Comparison of Telephone and Internet Samples
The Internet offers a number of advantages as a survey mode: low marginal cost per completed response, capabilities for providing respondents with large quantities of information, speed, and elimination of interviewer bias. Those seeking these advantages confront the problem of representativeness both in terms of coverage of the population and capabilities for drawing random samples. Two major strategies have been pursued commercially to develop …
Would developing country commitments affect US households' support for a modified Kyoto Protocol
Simulating changes in forest recreation demand and associated economic impacts due to fire and fuels management activities
Using Experimental Economics to Examine Wildfire Insurance and Averting Decisions in the Wildland–Urban Interface
In response to growing wildfire concerns in the U.S. West and elsewhere, public land management agencies are promoting a variety of programs to reduce the risk exposure of homeowners to catastrophic wildfires. Experimental economics, using laboratory markets with real payoffs, provides a unique, low-cost tool for examining how changes in various policies or institutional arrangements may affect complex decision making. In this article we present …
What Price Nondisclosure? The Effects of Nondisclosure of Real Estate Sales Prices
Objective. Only a select set of states still do not require mandatory public disclosure of real estate sales prices. In this article we examine the possible public‐sector consequences of failing to make real estate sales prices publicly accessible. Methods. We propose a set of possible public‐sector consequences of sales price nondisclosure (property tax assessment inequities, tax revenue leakages, administrative inefficiencies, and related ancil…
Inorganic fertilizer use and biodiversity risk: An empirical investigation
Investigating intended evacuation from wildfires in the wildland–urban interface: Application of a bivariate probit model
Public support for reducing US reliance on fossil fuels: Investigating household willingness-to-pay for energy research and development
Insect infestation and residential property values: A hedonic analysis of the mountain pine beetle epidemic
Species preservation versus development: An experimental investigation under uncertainty
A Hedonic Price Analysis of the Outfitter Market for Trout Fishing in the Rocky Mountain West
Trout is the most popular sport fish in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico where fishing outfitters bring revenues to many rural economies. This article uses the hedonic pricing method on a monopolistically competitive outfitter market in those four states to examine angler values for trout fishing characteristics. A total of 1,685 fishing trip observations were collected from 198 outfitter websites during the 2009 fishing season. Vectors…
Value and outcome uncertainty as explanations for the WTA vs WTP disparity
This paper contributes to the widespread discussion of the sources of the divergence between WTA and WTP values. The theoretical and empirical investigations show that value and outcome uncertainty offer an explanation for this disparity. Given a set of hypotheses generated by the theory, the paper investigates the disparity using an induced-value experimental laboratory setting. The incentive-compatible Becker-DeGroot-Marshak mechanism is employ…
Contingent Valuation and the Policymaking Process: An Application to Used Nuclear Fuel in the United States
Survey-based contingent valuation (CV) techniques are commonly used to value the potential effects of a policy change when market-based valuation of those effects is not possible. The results of these analyses are often intended to inform policy decisions, which are made within the context of formal policymaking institutions. These institutions are typically designed to reduce the large number of potential options for addressing any given policy …
The impact of clandestine methamphetamine labs on property values: Discovery, decontamination and stigma
Cryptodamages: Monetary value estimates of the air pollution and human health impacts of cryptocurrency mining
Economics (23 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (22 works) · Business (18 works) · Geography (12 works) · Microeconomics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Ecology (9 works) · Housing Market and Economics (8 works) · Willingness to pay (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)