David N Laband
Biographic Data
| ID | 283279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David N Laband |
| GIVEN NAMES | David N |
| FAMILY NAME | Laband |
| SIGNATURE | LABAND D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Bob Ekelund – a recollection
Measuring rent-seeking
New frontiers of forest economics
The neglected stepchildren of forest-based ecosystem services: Cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic values
Using and Interpreting Journal Rankings: Introduction
In recent decades, ranking has become an increasingly important feature of an academic's life. Individuals, journals, universities and departments are all ranked. To an extent, this is an inherent part of what we have always done, as academics we rank students and we tend to rank them into one of four categories. As Sgroi and Oswald observe, in this symposium, rightly or wrongly the UK has been a leader in formal ways of measuring the research pe…
On the Use and Abuse of Economics Journal Rankings
There are several aspects of journal‐level citations that, taken together, provide considerably more information than mean citations per article. This information is likely to be more useful, in terms of helping someone form more accurate expectations of the quality of a given article published in a journal, than the information provided by mean citations per article only. I provide data that both illustrate this point and offer a range of inform…
Macroeconomic conditions in the U.S. and congressional voting on environmental policy: 1970–2008
Energy savings from tree shade
Factors that Influence Sales of Wildlife-Related Specialty License Plates
We analyzed data for 39 states to identify factors that influence sales of wildlife-related specialty license plates. Wildlife plate sales were not statistically influenced by specialty plate price, the number of other specialty plates available, or the requirement to display two plates. There was some evidence that sales of wildlife plates are positively related to per capita income. In addition, sales of wildlife plates appeared to be influence…
An empirical analysis of bill co-sponsorship in the U.S. Senate: The Tree Act of 2007
Economic Freedom, Corruption, and Species Imperilment: A Cross-Country Analysis
We weave together two strands of the scientific literature: we have been presented with the proposition that economic freedom and corruption are linked to economic prosperity and with the proposition that economic prosperity is related to environmental degradation. The question we explore empirically is whether economic freedom and corruption are linked, albeit perhaps indirectly through economic prosperity, to environmental degradation. Using da…
Patriotism, pigskins, and politics: An empirical examination of expressive behavior and voting
Attitudes About Children Learning to Hunt: Implications for Game Management
Attitudes About Children Learning to Hunt: Implications for Game Management." Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 13(4), p. 298
The impact of forest service litigation success on administrative appeals of proposed fuels reduction actions
General and specific spatial autocorrelation: Insights from country-level analysis of species imperilment
Spatial autocorrelation in country-level models of species imperilment
From Senators to the President: Solve the lumber problem or else
Signaling goodness: Social rules and public choice
The tragedy of the political commons: Evidence from U.S. Senate roll call votes on environmental legislation
A Public Choice Analysis of Endangered Species Listings
Dry Holes in Economic Research
Between 1974 and 1996, there was a substantial increase in the emphasis on academic research in universities located in the United States and elsewhere throughout the world. This increased emphasis was, and continues to be, reflected in a variety of increased incentives for faculty to produce research, including higher salaries, reduced teaching loads, increased money for travel, on so on. Yet, as we report in this paper, during this time period …
Expressiveness and Voting
On `Home Grown-ness' in Politics: Evidence from the 1998 Election for Alabama's Third Congressional District
Alexander A. Schuessler, A Logic of Expressive Choice
Michael L. Ross, Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia
Intellectual Collaboration
Intellectual collaboration in science includes formal coauthorship as well as presentation of papers at workshops, seminars, and professional meetings and informal commentary from colleagues, journal referees, and editors. While the incidence and extent of formal coauthorship are greater in biology than in economics, the extent of intellectual collaboration is greater in economics than in biology. Intellectual property rights to coauthored papers…
Expressiveness and Voting
The social cost of rent-seeking: First estimates
Favoritism versus Search for Good Papers: Empirical Evidence Regarding the Behavior of Journal Editors
Journal editors who publish papers authored by colleagues and former graduate students have been charged with practicing favoritism, with the implication that the papers in question are of lower quality than those written by scholars with no ties to the editor. Using citation analysis, the authors find strong evidence that although journal editors occasionally publish subpar papers authored by colleagues and former graduate students, on balance t…
On `Home Grown-ness' in Politics: Evidence from the 1998 Election for Alabama's Third Congressional District
The neglected stepchildren of forest-based ecosystem services: Cultural, spiritual, and aesthetic values
Patriotism, pigskins, and politics: An empirical examination of expressive behavior and voting
The Effects of Sexual Harassment on Job Satisfaction, Earnings, and Turnover among Female Lawyers
Using data from the American Bar Association's National Survey of Career Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction (1990), the authors estimate the incidence and impact of sexual harassment in the legal profession. Nearly two-thirds of female lawyers in private practice and nearly half of those in corporate or public agency settings reported either experiencing or observing sexual harassment by male superiors, colleagues, or clients during the two years prior…
Measuring rent-seeking
Rent seeking and hidden in-kind resource distortion: Some empirical evidence
Dry Holes in Economic Research
Between 1974 and 1996, there was a substantial increase in the emphasis on academic research in universities located in the United States and elsewhere throughout the world. This increased emphasis was, and continues to be, reflected in a variety of increased incentives for faculty to produce research, including higher salaries, reduced teaching loads, increased money for travel, on so on. Yet, as we report in this paper, during this time period …
On the Use and Abuse of Economics Journal Rankings
There are several aspects of journal‐level citations that, taken together, provide considerably more information than mean citations per article. This information is likely to be more useful, in terms of helping someone form more accurate expectations of the quality of a given article published in a journal, than the information provided by mean citations per article only. I provide data that both illustrate this point and offer a range of inform…
Are economists more selfish than other 'social' scientists
Is there a relationship between economic conditions and political structure
A Public Choice Analysis of Endangered Species Listings
Revealed preference for economics journals: Citations as dollar votes
New frontiers of forest economics
An empirical analysis of bill co-sponsorship in the U.S. Senate: The Tree Act of 2007
Federal budget cuts: Bureaucrats trim the meat, not the fat
Economic Freedom, Corruption, and Species Imperilment: A Cross-Country Analysis
We weave together two strands of the scientific literature: we have been presented with the proposition that economic freedom and corruption are linked to economic prosperity and with the proposition that economic prosperity is related to environmental degradation. The question we explore empirically is whether economic freedom and corruption are linked, albeit perhaps indirectly through economic prosperity, to environmental degradation. Using da…
The American Sociological Association dues structure
The American Political Science Association Dues Structure
A theory of credit bureaus
Federal budget cuts: Bureaucrats trim the meat, not the fat
Is there a relationship between economic conditions and political structure
Restriction of Farm Ownership as Rent-seeking Behavior: Family Farmers Have It Their Way
Restriction of foreign ownership of U.S. farmland has an obvious cost of foregone capital gains to farmers Yet their push to achieve state regulation of foreign investment in agricultural land has a sound economic basis. If required acreage expansion and high prices for land combine to force small, family farmers out of business, the value of their accumulated human capital falls precipitously, since it is soil specific With a large foreign deman…
Revealed preference for economics journals: Citations as dollar votes
Federal budget cuts: Rejoinder
Advertising as Information: An Empirical Note
Lamm, R. McFall, Unionism and Prices in the Food Retailing Industry, Journal of Labor Research 3 (Winter 1982), 69-79. Marion, Bruce W., Willard F. Mueller, Ronald W. Cotterill, Frederick E. Geithman, and John R. Schmelzer, Food Retailing Industrv': Market Structure, Profits, and Prices (New York: Praeger, 1979a). ______ The Price and Profit Performance of Leading Food Chains, A merican Journal of A gricultural Economics 61 (Aug. 1979b), 420-433.…
The Roots of Success: Why Children Follow in Their Parents' Career Footsteps
The social cost of rent-seeking: First estimates
Transactions costs and production in a legislative setting
Economists and the Economy
Using data from a sample of the economic literature published over the years 1950 through 1988, we find substantial support for an environmental theory of idea entrepreneurship among economists. In particular, we show that the percentage of economic articles devoted to the topics of inflation and employment are related directly to the actual inflation and unemployment rates in the economy and indirectly to the growth rate of aggregate real income…
A theory of credit bureaus
Rent seeking and hidden in-kind resource distortion: Some empirical evidence
Favoritism versus Search for Good Papers: Empirical Evidence Regarding the Behavior of Journal Editors
Journal editors who publish papers authored by colleagues and former graduate students have been charged with practicing favoritism, with the implication that the papers in question are of lower quality than those written by scholars with no ties to the editor. Using citation analysis, the authors find strong evidence that although journal editors occasionally publish subpar papers authored by colleagues and former graduate students, on balance t…
The American Economic Association Dues Structure
Because consumers have an incentive to misrepresent their incomes and accurate information about consumers' incomes is costly for sellers to obtain, income-based pricing of goods or services seems unlikely to survive for long. Indeed, income-based pricing is extremely rare. However, the American Economic Association's dues structure in which members voluntarily pay dues according to income has survived for twenty years. The authors’ survey result…
The American Political Science Association Dues Structure
The American Sociological Association dues structure
The Effects of Sexual Harassment on Job Satisfaction, Earnings, and Turnover among Female Lawyers
Using data from the American Bar Association's National Survey of Career Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction (1990), the authors estimate the incidence and impact of sexual harassment in the legal profession. Nearly two-thirds of female lawyers in private practice and nearly half of those in corporate or public agency settings reported either experiencing or observing sexual harassment by male superiors, colleagues, or clients during the two years prior…
Are economists more selfish than other 'social' scientists
Intellectual Collaboration
Intellectual collaboration in science includes formal coauthorship as well as presentation of papers at workshops, seminars, and professional meetings and informal commentary from colleagues, journal referees, and editors. While the incidence and extent of formal coauthorship are greater in biology than in economics, the extent of intellectual collaboration is greater in economics than in biology. Intellectual property rights to coauthored papers…
Alexander A. Schuessler, A Logic of Expressive Choice
Michael L. Ross, Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia
Expressiveness and Voting
On `Home Grown-ness' in Politics: Evidence from the 1998 Election for Alabama's Third Congressional District
Dry Holes in Economic Research
Between 1974 and 1996, there was a substantial increase in the emphasis on academic research in universities located in the United States and elsewhere throughout the world. This increased emphasis was, and continues to be, reflected in a variety of increased incentives for faculty to produce research, including higher salaries, reduced teaching loads, increased money for travel, on so on. Yet, as we report in this paper, during this time period …
A Public Choice Analysis of Endangered Species Listings
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