Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0508
(858) 534-3383 office
(858) 534-7040 fax
rcarson@ucsd.edu
Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource
Economics, 1985.
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Department of
Statistics, 1985.
M.A., George Washington University, School of Public and
International Affairs, 1979.
B.A., Mississippi State University, French/Political Science,
1977.
“Consequentiality:
A Theoretical and Experimental Exploration of a Single Binary Choice,”
Carson, Richard T., Theodore Groves and John A. List,
(Journal of the Association of Environmental
and Resource Economists, 2014.)
“The Discrete
Choice Experiment Approach to Environmental Contingent Valuation,”
Carson, Richard T. and Mikolaj Czajkowski in Stephane Hess and Andrew Daly, eds.
Handbook of Choice Modelling (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2014)
“Contingent
Valuation: A Practical Alternative When Prices Aren't Available,”
Carson, Richard T. (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012)
“A Common Nomenclature for Stated Preference Approaches,”
Carson, Richard T. and Jordan J. Louviere (Environmental and Resource Economics, 2011)
“Incentive
and Information Properties of Preference Questions: Commentary and
Extensions,”
Carson, Richard T. and Ted Groves in Jeff Bennett, ed., International Handbook of Non-Market Environmental
Valuation
(Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2011)
“Discrete
Choice Experiments Are Not Conjoint Analysis,”
Louviere, Jordan J., Terry N. Flynn
and Richard T. Carson) (Journal of Choice
Modelling, 2010)
"Incentive
and Informational Properties of Preference Questions"
Carson, Richard T. and Theodore Groves
(Environmental and Resource Economics, 2007)
Carson, Richard T. and W. Michael Hanemann (Handbook of Environmental Economics, K.G. Maler and J.R. Vincent, eds, (North Holland, 2005)
Economic
Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques: A Manual
Bateman, Ian, Richard T. Carson Brett Day, W. Michael Hanemann, Nick Hanley, Tannis Hett,
Michael Jones-Lee, Graham Loomes, Susana Mourato, Ece Özdemiroglu, David Pearce, Robert Sugden, and John Swanson
(Edward Elgar, 2002)
"Contingent
Valuation: Controversies and Evidence"
with Nicholas E. Flores and
Norman F. Meade (Environmental and
Resource Economics, 2001)
Carson, Richard T. in Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Pergamon, 2001)
"Contingent
Valuation: A User's Guide"
Carson, Richard T. (Environmental
Science & Technology, 2000)
"The Theory
and Measurement of Passive Use Value,"
Carson, Richard T., Nicholas E. Flores and Robert Cameron Mitchell)
in I.J. Bateman and K.G. Willis, eds.,
Valuing
Environmental Preferences: Theory and Practice of the Contingent Valuation
Method in the US, EC, and Developing Countries (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Carson, Richard T. (Ecological
Economics, 1998)
Carson, Richard T., Nicholas E. Flores, Kerry M. Martin and Jennifer
L. Wright (Land Economics, 1996)
Carson, Richard T. in John Braden and Charles Kolstad, eds., Measuring
the Demand for Environmental Commodities (Amsterdam: North‑Holland,
1991)
Using
Surveys to Value Public Goods: The Contingent Valuation Method
Mitchell, Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson (Resources for the
Future, 1989)
Individual
Contingent Valuation Studies
“Tropical Countries May
Be Willing to Pay More to Protect Their Forests,”
Vincent, Jeffery R., Richard T. Carson, J.R. Deshazo, Kurt A. Schwabe Ismariah Ahma, Chong Siew Kook, Chang Y. Tan and Matthew D. Potts
(Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, 2014)
“The
Influence of Rebate Programs on the Demand for Water Heaters: The Case of New
South Wales,”
Wasi, Nada and Richard T. Carson (Energy Economics, 2013)
Carson, Richard T., Michael B. Conaway Ståle Navrud in Ilde Rizzo and Anna Mignosa, eds.,
Handbook on the Economics of Cultural Heritage (Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2013)
Metcalfe, Paul, William Baker, Kevin Andrews, Giles Atkinson, Ian Bateman, Sara Butler, Richard T. Carson, Jo East, Yves Gueron, Rob Sheldon and Kenneth Train
(Water Resources Research, 2012)
“Structuring Australia's Climate
Change Plan: The Public's Views,”
Carson, Richard T., Jordan J. Louviere and Edward Wei (Energy Policy, 2010)
"Contingent
Valuation and Lost Passive Use: Damages from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill,"
Carson, Richard T., Robert Cameron Mitchell, W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Stanley Presser, and Paul A. Ruud (Environmental and Resource Economics, 2003)
"Public
Preferences Toward Environmental Risks: The Case of Trihalomethanes"
Carson, Richard T. and Robert Cameron
Mitchell in A. Alberini, D. Bjornstad, and J.R. Kahn, eds., Handbook of Contingent
Valuation (Edward Elgar, 2006)
Valuing Oil Spill
Prevention: A Case Study of California’s Central Coast
Carson, Richard T.,
Michael B. Conaway, W. Michael
Hanemann, Jon A. Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, and Stanley Presser
(Kluwer,
2004). NOTE: book has CD with
word version of questionnaire, auxiliary forms and visual aids, and full
dataset.
Carson, Richard T. and Robert Cameron Mitchell and Michael B. Conaway in Stale Navrud and Richard C. Ready, eds.,
Valuing Cultural
Heritage: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings,
Monuments and Artifacts Edward Elgar, 2002)
“Population-Based
Time Preferences for Future Health Outcomes,”
Ganiats, Theodore G., Richard T. Carson, Robert M. Hamm, Scott B. Cantor, Walton Sumner, Stephen J. Spann, Michael D. Hagen, and Christopher Miller
(Medical Decision Making, 2000)
Prospective Interim
Lost Use Value Due to PCB and DDT Contamination in the Southern California
Bight
Carson, Richard T., W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Jon A.
Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, Stanley Presser, Paul A. Ruud, and V. Kerry Smith
(Report to National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, 1994)
"Valuing the
Preservation of Australia's Kakadu Conservation Zone,”
Carson, Richard T., Leanne Wilks and David Imber (Oxford Economic Papers, 1994)
Carson, Richard T. and Robert
Cameron Mitchell (Water Resources
Research, 1993)
"The
Grand Canyon Visibility Benefits Study,"
Balson, William, Richard T. Carson and Robert Mitchell
in Proceedings of the 84th Annual Air and
Waste Management Association Meeting
(Air and Waste Management Association, 1991)
Carson,
Richard T., Robert Cameron Mitchell and Paul Ruud in C.V. Mathai, ed. Visibility and Fine Particulates
(Air
and Waste Management Association, 1990)
“Contingent
Valuation Estimate of the Value of Kenai King Salmon”
Carson, Richard T., W.
Michael Hanemann and Dan Steinberg (Journal of Behavioral Economics, 1990)
"Existence
Values for Groundwater Protection,"
Mitchell, Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson
(Report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1989)
"The Use of
Simulated Political Markets to Value Public Goods,"
Carson,
Richard T., W. Michael Hanemann and Robert Cameron Mitchell (Discussion Paper
87-7, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego, 1987)
Theoretical
and Methodological Issues
“Statistical
Properties of Consideration Sets,”
Carson, Richard T. and Jordan J. Louviere (Journal of Choice Modelling, 2014)
Louviere, Jordan J., Richard T. Carson, Leonie Burgess, A.A.J. Marley, Deborah Street, (Journal of Choice Modelling, 2013).
“Ordering Effects and Choice Set Awareness in Repeat-Response Stated Preference Studies,”
Day, Brett, Ian J. Bateman, Richard T. Carson, Diane Dupont, Jordan J. Louviere, Sanae Morimoto, Riccardo Scarpa and Paul Wang
(Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2012)
Carson, Richard T. and Jordan J.
Louviere in Philip Clarke, Emma Frew, Jordan Louviere and Emma McIntosh,
eds.,
Applied Methods of Cost-Benefit Analysis in Health Care (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)
Carson, Richard T., Jordan Louviere
and Nada Wasi (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009)
“The
Tobit Model With A Non-Zero Threshold,”
Carson, Richard T. and Yixiao Sun, (Econometrics Journal, 2007)
Krosnick, Jon A., Allyson Holbrook, Matthew K. Berent, Richard T. Carson, W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Robert Cameron Mitchell,
Paul A. Ruud, V. Kerry Smith, Wendy R. Moody, Melanie C. Green, and Michael Conaway (Public Opinion Quarterly, 2002)
“Dissecting
the Random Component,”
Jordan Louviere, Deborah Street, Richard T. Carson, Andrew Ainslie, J. R. Deshazo, Trudy Cameron, David Hensher, Robert Kohn and Tony Marley (Marketing Letters, 2002)
“Violating
Conversational Conventions Disrupts Cognitive Processing of Attitude
Questions,”
Holbrook, Allyson L. Jon A. Krosnick, Richard T. Carson and Robert Cameron Mitchell (Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2000)
“Combining
Sources of Preference Data for Modeling Complex Decision Processes,”
Louviere, Jordan J., Robert J. Meyer, David Bunch, Richard T. Carson, Benedict Delleart, W. Michael Hanemann, David Hensher, and Julie Irwin (Marketing Letters, 1999)
"Referendum
Design and Contingent Valuation: The NOAA Panel's No-Vote Recommendation,"
Carson, Richard T., W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Jon A.
Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, Stanley Presser,
Paul A. Ruud, and V. Kerry Smith, (Review of Economics and Statistics,
1998)
"Sequencing and Valuing Public Goods,"
Carson, Richard T., Nicholas E. Flores and W. Michael Hanemann (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 1998)
“Contingent
Valuation: Theoretical Advances Since the NOAA
Panel,”
Carson,
Richard T. (American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
1997)
"Modeling
Response Incentive Effects in Dichotomous Choice Contingent Valuation
Data"
Alberini, Anna, Barbara Kanninen and Richard T. Carson (Land Economics, 1997)
“Temporal
Reliability of Estimates from Contingent Valuation,”
Carson, Richard T., W.
Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Jon A. Krosnick, Robert C. Mitchell, Stanley
Presser, Paul A. Ruud, and V. Kerry Smith,
(Land
Economics, 1997)
"The Relationship Between
Income Elasticities of Demand and Willingness to Pay,"
Flores, Nicholas E. and Richard T. Carson (Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management, 1997)
"Contingent
Valuation and Tests of Insensitivity to Scope,"
Carson, Richard T. in R.J. Kopp, W. Pommerhene,
and N. Schwartz, eds., Determining the
Value of Non-Marketed Goods:
Economic,
Psychological, and Policy Relevant Aspects of Contingent Valuation Methods, (Boston: Kluwer, 1997).
"Sequencing and Nesting in
Contingent Valuation Surveys,"
Carson, Richard T. and Robert Cameron Mitchell (Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management, 1995)
"Current
Issues in the Design, Administration, and Analysis of Contingent Valuation
Surveys,"
Mitchell, Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson in
P.O. Johansson, B. Kristrom, and K.G. Mäler,
eds., Current Issues in Environmental
Economics
(Manchester University Press, 1995)
"Experimental
Analysis of Choice,"
Carson, Richard T.,
Jordan J. Louviere, Donald Anderson, Phipps Arabie, David Bunch, David Hensher,
Richard M. Johnson,
Warren F. Kuhfeld,
Dan Steinberg, Joffre Swait, Harry Timmermans, and James B. Wiley (Marketing Letters, 1994)
"Passive Use
Values and Contingent Valuation: Introducing the Issues,"
Carson, Richard T., Norman F. Meade and V. Kerry Smith (Choices, 1993)
"The Issue
of Scope in Contingent Valuation Surveys,"
Carson, Richard T. and Robert Cameron Mitchell (American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
1993)
"Contingent
Valuation and the Legal Arena,"
Carson, Richard T. and Robert
Cameron Mitchell in Raymond Kopp and V. Kerry Smith, eds., Natural Resource Damages. (Resources for the Future, 1993)
Carson, Richard T. in Kevin Ward and John
Duffield, eds., Natural Resource Damages:
Law and Economics. (Wiley, 1992)
"Models
for Truncated Counts,"
Grogger, Jeffrey T. and Richard T. Carson (Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1991)
"Discounting
Statistical Lives,"
Horowitz,
John K. and Richard T. Carson (Journal of
Risk and Uncertainty, 1990)
"Experimental
Design for Discrete Choice Voter Preference Surveys,"
Carson, Richard T. and Dan Steinberg (1989 Proceeding of the Survey Methodology Section
of the American Statistical Association, 1990)
"How Far Out on
the Learning Curve Are We with Contingent Valuation?,"
Mitchell,
Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson in Proceedings
of the Conference on the Role of Social/Behavior Science in Water Resource
Management
(American Society of Civil Engineers/Engineering
Foundation/Universities' Council on Water Resources, 1988).
"Evaluating
the Validity of Contingent Valuation Studies,"
Mitchell, Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson in
George Peterson, B.L. Driver, and Robin Gregory, eds.
Amenity
Resource Valuation: Integrating Economics With Other
Disciplines (Venture Publishing, 1988).
"Robust Regression
in the Presence of Heteroscedasticity,"
Carson, Richard T. and Shankar Subramanian (Advances in Econometrics, 1988)
Other
Environmental Economics Topics
“The
Private and Social Economics of Bulk Electricity Storage,”
Carson, Richard T. and Kevin Novan (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2013).
“Arsenic
Mitigation in Bangladesh: A Household Labor Market Approach,”
Carson, Richard T., Phoebe Koundouri, and Céline Nauges (American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2010)
“Environmental
Kuznets Curve: Searching for Empirical Regularity and Theoretical
Structure”
Carson, Richard T. (Review of
Environmental Economics and Policy, 2010)
“Fisheries
Management Under Cyclical Population Dynamics,”
Carson, Richard T., Clive Granger, Jeremy Jackson and Wolfram Schlenker (Environmental and Resource Economics, 2009)
“Discounting
Behavior and Environmental Decisions,”
Carson, Richard T. and Brigitte Roth Tran (Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and
Economics, 2009).
“A
Nested Logit Model of Recreational Fishing Demand in Alaska”
Carson, Richard T., W. Michael Hanemann and Thomas C. Wegge (Marine Resource Economics, 2009)
Carson, Richard T., Maria Damon, Leigh T. Johnson, and Jamie Gonzalez (Journal of Environmental Management, 2009)
“Forecasting
the Path of China’s CO2 Emissions: Using Province Level
Information,”
Auffhammer,
Maximillian and Richard T. Carson (Journal
of Environmental Economics and Management, 2008)
Carson, Richard T. and Nadja Marinova (UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Policy Brief 13, 1999)
"The
Relationship Between Air Pollution Emissions and
Income: U.S. Data,"
Carson,
Richard T., Yongil Jeon and Donald R. McCubbin (Environment and Development Economics,
1997)
"Baseline
Risk and Preference for Reductions in Risk-to-Life,"
Horowitz, John K. and Richard T. Carson (Risk Analysis, 1993)
"A
Classification Tree for Predicting Consumer Preferences for Risk
Reduction,"
Horowitz, John K. and Richard T. Carson (American Journal of Agricultural Economics,
1991)
"Property
Rights, Protest, and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities,"
Mitchell, Robert Cameron and Richard T. Carson, (American Economic Review, 1986)
"Implications of
Environmental Policy for U.S. Agriculture: The Case of Ambient Ozone,"
Kopp,
Raymond J., William J. Vaughan and Michael Hazilla,
and Richard T. Carson (Journal of
Environmental Management, 1985)
Energy Oriented Input‑Output
Models for 1972 and 2000
Hoch, Irving and Richard T. Carson (Electric
Power Research Institute, 1984).
Other Topics
“Aggregation Issues
in Forecasting Aggregate Demand: An Application to U.S. Commercial Air
Travel,”
Carson, Richard
T., Tolga Cenesizoglu and
Roger Parker (International Journal of
Forecasting, 2011)
“Exploring the
Number of First Order Political Subdivisions Across
Countries: Some Stylized Facts,”
Auffhammer, Maximillian and Richard
T. Carson (Journal of Regional Science,
2009).
“Archetypal Analysis: A New Way to Segment Markets Based on Extreme Individuals,”
Li, Gui, Paul Wang, and Jordan Louviere (in A Celebration of Ehrenberg and Bass:
Marketing Knowledge, Discoveries and Contribution, ANZMAC, 2003).
"On
the Theory of Growth Controls,"
Engle, Robert F., Peter Navarro and Richard T. Carson (Journal of Urban Economics, 1992)
"Growth
Controls: Policy Analysis for the Second Generation,"
Navarro, Peter and Richard T. Carson (Policy Sciences, 1991)
"Measuring
the Benefits of Fresh Water Quality Changes: Techniques and Empirical
Findings,"
Carson, Richard T. and Kerry Martin in Ariel
Dinar and David Zilberman, eds.,
The Economics and Management of Water and Drainage in Agriculture (Boston: Kluwer, 1991).
"An
Examination of Systematic Differences in the Appreciation of Individual Housing
Units,"
Kiel, Kathy A. and Richard T. Carson (Journal of Real Estate Research, 1990)
"A
Seller's (& Buyer's) Guide to the Job Market for Beginning Academic
Economists,"
Carson, Richard T. and Peter Navarro (Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1988)
"Fundamental
Issues in Natural Resource Damage Assessment,"
Carson, Richard T. and Peter Navarro (Natural Resources Journal, 1988)
"A Robust
Data Smooth Based on an L‑Estimator,"
Carson, Richard T. and Shankar Subramanian
(1985 Proceeding
of the Statistical Computing Section of the American Statistical Association,
1986)
"A Method of
Estimating the Personal Ideology of Political Representatives,"
Carson, Richard T. and Joe A. Oppenheimer (American Political Science Review, 1984)
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