Corey Lang

Biographic Data

ID3703665
NAMECorey Lang
GIVEN NAMESCorey
FAMILY NAMELang
SIGNATURELANG C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Rhode Island
ORCID0000-0003-3454-7760
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS39
WORKS AS AUTHOR12
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Social gap at the ballot box

    Open AccessCorey Lang, Vasundhara Gaur et al.ARTICLEEnergy Research & Social Science2026References: 7

    Solar energy, and renewable energy in general, receives broad public support, but specific projects continue to face significant hurdles and high rejection rates. We leverage a municipal referendum on a specific solar array to study an individual-level support gap, defined as someone who holds positive attitudes of solar energy in general but votes against this specific project. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first paper to quantitative…

  • Voter Approval of Bond Referendums

    Open AccessAndrew Béchard, Corey Lang et al.ARTICLEState Politics & Policy Quarterly2024References: 11

    Municipal and state governments are often constitutionally bound to ask voters to approve new government debt through voting on bond referendums. Generally, politicians expect voters to balk at higher-cost bonds and be more willing to approve lower-cost bonds. However, there is minimal research on how the amount of a bond affects voter support. We implement a survey experiment that presents respondents with hypothetical ballots, in which the cost…

  • Land for Whom? Diversity, Land Trusts, and Farmers and Gardeners from Marginalized Backgrounds in New England, U.S

    Julie C Keller, Blake Harrison et al.ARTICLESociety & Natural Resources2024References: 6

    Land trusts in the U.S. play an important role in preventing the loss of farmland to development. Farmers seeking affordable land may benefit from these conservation efforts. Yet the distribution of these benefits across farmer groups is unclear. This study asks: To what extent are land trusts meeting the needs of farmers and gardeners from marginalized backgrounds? Interviews with land trust staff and focus groups with marginalized farmers and g…

  • The aftermath of ballot box success and failure

    Open AccessCarrie Gill, Corey Lang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Policy2023References: 41

    State and local governments put hundreds of referendums on the ballot each year. Often, they pass but sometimes they fail. What happens after a successful or failed attempt at the ballot box? Do advocates go back to voters with another request? And if they do, do they tend to succeed? We employ a regression discontinuity empirical framework to causally estimate referendum dynamics in the arena of land conservation. Our results suggest municipalit…

  • Status quo bias and public policy

    Open AccessCorey Lang, Michael Weir et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    This article examines whether individuals’ preferences for government policy are affected by status quo bias. We designed a contingent valuation survey that asks respondents directly about their willingness to pay (WTP) for their state to be a part of a regional carbon mitigation policy. The survey has two randomized frames, which differ in whether or not their state is already part of the policy. We distributed the survey to a representative sam…

  • Smart Growth at the Ballot Box

    Open AccessShanna Pearson-Merkowitz, Corey LangARTICLEUrban Affairs Review2020Cited by: 6References: 52

    This study investigates voter decision-making on two smart-growth components: land preservation and affordable housing. We seek to understand how voters make concurrent decisions about unpaired smart-growth components at the ballot box. Previous studies of smart growth, affordable housing, and environmental preservation have focused primarily on describing the attitudes and traits of voters on these policies, utilize aggregate voting outcomes, or…

  • The individual determinants of support for open space bond referendums

    Open AccessPatrick Prendergast, Patrick J Prendergast et al.ARTICLELand Use Policy2019Cited by: 5References: 42

  • Can urban areas help sustain the preservation of open space? Evidence from statewide referenda

    Open AccessMatthew Altonji, Corey Lang et al.ARTICLEEcological Economics2016

  • Who Benefits from Environmental Regulation? Evidence from the Clean Air Act Amendments

    António Bento, Antonio M Bento et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2015

    Using geographically disaggregated data and exploiting an instrumental variable strategy, we show that contrary to conventional wisdom, the benefits of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) were progressive. The CAAA created incentives for local regulators to target the initially dirtiest areas for cleanup, creating heterogeneity in the incidence of air quality improvements that favored lower-income households. Based on house price appreciatio…

  • Partisan sorting in the United States, 1972-2012

    Open AccessCorey Lang, Shanna Pearson-MerkowitzARTICLEPolitical Geography2015Cited by: 21References: 25

  • Targeting Maps

    Open AccessCorey Lang, Christopher B Barrett et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2012Cited by: 4References: 4

  • Heterogeneous transport costs and spatial sorting in a model of New Economic Geography

    Open AccessCorey LangARTICLEPapers of the Regional Science…2009Cited by: 3References: 4