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Activity log: Affiliates of the "MIKESELL ENV/RES ECON LAB" June 1, 2006 This date marks the official start of Mikesell Lab research supported by a new National Science Foundation grant entitled "Improving the Valuation of Risk Reductions" (SES-0551009). This research further exploits data originally collected under research funding from the U.S. EPA and Health Canada, and pursues a number of methodological issues and extensions suggested by previous research. Over the next two years, this funding will support research in the Mikesell Lab and also involves subcontracts to J.R. DeShazo at UCLA and Paul Slovic at Decision Research. May 26, 2006 Trudy Cameron chaired the Oregon Ad-Hoc Workshop in Environmental Economics (hosted bi-annually at centrally located Willamette University). This workshop is designed to allow environmental and resource researchers at a number of Oregon Universities to present work-in-progress in an informal collegial environment. The workshop is generously sponsored by the economics department at Willamette University. Mikesell lab researcher Dan Burghart was one of four presenters in this session, where he described his field paper research on “Scenario Updating and Inattention in Stated Choices.” April 15, 2006: Mikesell Lab researcher Dan Burghart has been accepted for the Stanford Summer School in Neuroeconomics 2006 to be held July 17 - July 28 at Stanford University, California. The organizers are Colin Camerer (Caltech) Paul Gilmcher (NYU) Antonio Rangel (Stanford). Dan has been working with UO faculty member Bill Harbaugh on neuroeconomics, using the fMRI facility at the University of Oregon's Lewis Center for Neuroimaging. Dan combines his interest in Neuroeconomics with current research in the allocation of attention by respondents in survey-based non-market valuation research. April 10-12, 2006: Trudy Cameron, along with collaborator J.R. DeShazo from UCLA's School of Public Affairs, presented research results and participated in panel discussions at a workshop hosted by the U.S. EPA's National Center for Environmental Research, National Center for Environmental Economics (NCER/NCEE) Workshop entitled Morbidity and Mortality: How Do We Value the Risk of Illness and Death?. In Session II, J.R. DeShazo presented some of the results from the second paper of Ryan Bosworth's University of Oregon Ph.D. disseration: "Is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure?" (discussed by Kelly Maguire of the US EPA and by Kevin Boyle of Virginia Tech. In Session III, DeShazo participated in a panel concerning the use of the internet for household surveys used in non-market valuation of environmental health risks. Other panelists included Nathalie Simon, U.S. EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics, Shelby Gerking, University of Central Florida, Alan Krupnick, Resources for the Future, Jon Krosnick, Stanford University, and Brian Harris-Kojetin, Office of Management and Budget. Mikesell Lab work supporting some of the discussion is reported in Cameron and DeShazo (2005) "Comprehensive selectivity assessment for a major consumer panel: attitudes toward government regulation of environment, health and safety risks". Session VII of this conference (all of Wednesday morning) was devoted exclusively to the work that has been conducted over the last four years at the Mikesell lab (in collaboration with JR DeShazo at UCLA). The strategy of dedicating a half-day to a single research program is experimental for EPA conferences that review the research produced by STAR grants. This was the first case where a STAR conference was extended by a half-day to allow a more detailed presentation and discussion of just one major research program. The first Wednesday session was devoted to an outline of the research strategy and a review of the general empirical specification and the baseline results. Then a panel of expert discussants--James Hammitt, Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, Harvard University; Lauraine Chestnut, Stratus Consulting Inc.; and Nathalie Simon, U.S. EPA, National Center for Environmental Economics--provided comments on the work. A second session then covered some of the extensions and generalizations of the basic model, followed by questions and comments from the audience and free-format discussion by Cameron and DeShazo. The entire NCER/NCEE conference is archived as a webcast. February 23-25, 2006: Trudy Cameron, along with Ph.D. students Ryan Bosworth and Dan Burghart, attended the W1133 annual meetings in San Antonio. The W1133 is an organization with a research agenda focused on:
February 6, 2006: Ryan Bosworth presented his dissertation research at the Department of Economics at the University of Montana, Missoula, MT. February 2, 2006: Ryan Bosworth presented his dissertation research at the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Baltimore, MD. February 1, 2006: Ryan Bosworth presented his dissertation research at the National Center for Environmental Economics at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC. January 26-27, 2006: Ryan Bosworth presented his dissertation research at the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in Blacksburg, VA. January 12-13, 2006: Ryan Bosworth presented his dissertation research at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. January 6-8, 2006: Trudy Cameron attended the 2006 Allied Social Sciences Associations annual meetings in Boston, Massachusetts. In a session entitled "Innovations in Environmental Valuation Methods," she presented her joint paper with J.R. DeShazo of UCLA's School of Public Policy, "The Effect of Health Status on Willingness to Pay for Morbidity and Mortality Risk Reductions" (a portion of the research from a project funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Health Canada, through a grant to UCLA with a subcontract to the University of Oregon). Discussants for the paper were Anna Alberini of the University of Maryland and V. Kerry Smith of North Carolina State University. Cameron also served as a discussant in a session called "Consequences of Urban Structure on Environmental Amenities," providing comments on a paper by Spencer Banzhaf ( Resources for the Future) Nick Flores, Randy Walsh, and Josh Sidon (University of Colorado-Boulder) entitled "Neighborhood Choice and Endogenous Demographics: Implications for Environmental Justice." Finally, Cameron chaired a session on "Frontiers in Recreational Demand Modeling," featuring work by authors at North Carolina State University, the University of Toronto, UC Berkeley, and the US Environmental Protection Agency. Cameron's other activities included a Board of Directors meeting for the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), and the Annual AERE Luncheon (along with opportunities to catch up with friends and collaborators from past projects). December 2, 2005: Ryan Bosworth and Trudy Cameron attended the December edition of the Oregon Ad Hoc Environmental Economics Workshop at Willamette University in Salem, OR. Ryan presented some results from his dissertation research. October 28-29, 2005: Ryan Bosworth and Trudy Cameron presented research results at the 8th Occasional California Workshop on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics at the Bren School at UC Santa Barbara. This workshop has been hosted by UCSB, roughly every 18 months, for many years. The Workshop is now supported in part by grants from the US EPA and the UCSB Center for Environmental Economics and Policy and the UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. Ryan presented "“Advances in evaluating the demand for public risk prevention policies" (a working paper joint with Trudy Cameron and JR DeShazo of UCLA). Trudy presented “The effects of health status on WTP for morbidity and Mortality risk reductions” (joint with JR DeShazo of UCLA).
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