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CURRICULUM VITA
Arthur J. Caplan
Professor of Economics
Business Address: Department of Applied Economics
Utah State University
4835 Old Main Hill
Logan, Utah 84322-4835
Telephone: 435-797-0775 (office and messages)
435-797-0402 (fax)
e-mail: arthur.caplan@usu.edu
web site: http://sites.google.com/site/ajcaplan/
ACADEMIC DEGREES
Ph.D. Economics, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1996
Dissertation Title: "Asymmetric Externalities and Strategic Behavior: The Case of Moderate Global Warming."
M.S. Agricultural Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, 1986
Thesis Title: "Costs, Returns, and Relative Soil Loss Comparisons of Alternative Tillage Systems in the Three Precipitation Zones of the Palouse River Basin, Washington."
B.S. Economics and Communications, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1983
FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION
Primary Field: Environmental Economics
Secondary Field: Applied Microeconomics
Teaching Experience: Microeconomic Theory, Resource Economics, Behavioral Economics, Quantitative Analysis, Development Economics
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Fulbright Scholar, Department of Economics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, 2021 - 2022.
Fulbright Specialist – Behavioral Economics, Meiktila University, Myanmar, 2019.
Director of Applied Economics Graduate Programs, Utah State University, 2008-2012.
Associate Professor, Department of Applied Economics, Utah State University, 2005 – 2011.
Promoted to Professor in 2011.
Associate Editor, Journal of Hydrology, Elsevier, 2007 – 2010.
Fulbright Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Botswana, Botswana, 2007 – 2008.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Utah State University, 2001 – 2005.
Promoted to Associate Professor in 2005.
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Weber State University, 1996 – 2001.
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Dept. of Economics, University of Oregon, 1991 – 1996.
Canvasser, Clean Water Action, Minneapolis, MN, 1990 – 1991.
Coordinator, Small Projects Assistance Program, U.S. Peace Corps, Botswana, Southern Africa,
1989-1990.
Farming Systems Economist, Agricultural Technology Improvement Project, U.S. Peace Corps,
Botswana, Southern Africa, 1986-1989.
PUBLISHED RESEARCH AND WORK-IN-PROGRESS
Publications in Refereed Journals (* indicates co-authored with a graduate student)
Caplan, Arthur J. (2023) “Missing the Warning Signs? The Case of ``Yellow Air Day'' Advisories in Northern Utah.” Environmental and Resource Economics 85, 479-522.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2022) “Regulating Coopetition in an EV Charging Market.” Economic Modelling 118, 106080.
*Nehra, Arpita and Arthur J. Caplan (2022) “Nash Bargaining in a General Equilibrium Framework: The Case of a Shared Surface Water Supply.” Water Resources and Economics 39, 100206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wre.2022.100206.
*Hartley, Ethan and Arthur J. Caplan (2021) “Measuring the Social Net Benefits of COVID-19 Restrictions: The Case of Reduced Vehicle Use in a Pollution-Prone Region of Utah.” Journal of Environmental Protection 12(11), DOI: 10.4236/jep.2021.1211052.
*Caplan, Arthur J., Sherzod B. Akhundjanov, and Kristopher Toll (2021) “Measuring Heterogeneous Preferences for Residential Amenities.” Regional Science and Urban Economics 87, 103646.
*Caplan, Arthur J. and Dong-Hun Go (2020) “Measuring the Bioeconomic Impacts of Prolonged Drought on a Lake Ecosystem: The Case of the Great Salt Lake, Utah.” Natural Resource Modeling 33(2), 1-38.
*Acharya, Ramjee and Arthur J. Caplan (2020) “Optimal Investment to Control “Red Air Day” Episodes: Lessons from Northern Utah, USA.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 9(2), 227-250.
*Caplan, Arthur J. and Ramjee Acharya (2019) “Optimal Vehicle Use in the Presence of Episodic Mobile-Source Air Pollution.” Resource and Energy Economics 57, 185-204.
Caplan, Arthur J. and Reza Oladi (2018) “Green Competition, Hybrid Equilibrium, and Establishment of a Resale Market.” International Review of Economics and Finance 58, 259-269.
Oladi, Reza, Arthur J. Caplan, and John Gilbert (2018) “Sequestration and the Engagement of Developing Economies in a Global Carbon Market.” Resource and Energy Economics 52(C), 50-63.
Caplan, Arthur J. and Man-Keun Kim (2018) “A Note on Mitigating the Adverse Scale Effects Associated with Daily Driving Restrictions.” Environment and Development Economics 23(1), 63-79.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2017) “The Simple Economics of Conservation Clubs.” Environment and Natural Resources Research 7(2), 112-130.
*Moscardini, Leo and Arthur J. Caplan (2017) “Controlling Episodic Air Pollution with a Seasonal Gas Tax: The Case of Cache Valley, Utah.” Environmental and Resource Economics 66(4), 689-715.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2016) “Uncertainty and the Voluntary Provision of a Pure Public Good in a Two-Moment Decision Model.” Journal of Public Economic Theory 18(6), 910-922.
*Caplan, Arthur J., Charles Sims, and E. Jordan Anderson (2014) “Measuring the Environmental Cost of Hypocrisy.” Ecological Economics 108, 124-135.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2014) “Measuring the Surplus of Superficiality: The Case of Dented Bumper Repair.” Applied Economics Letters 21(14), 992-996.
*Basdekas, Leon, Luis A. Bastidas, Thomas B. Hardy, Arthur J. Caplan, and Mac McKee (2014) “Virgin River Multi-Objective Optimization: Maximizing Endangered Fish Habitat and Minimizing Costs.” International Journal of River Basin Management 12(1), 15-28.
*Dunn, Jarod, Arthur J. Caplan, and Ryan Bosworth (2014) “Measuring the Value of Plastic and Reusable Grocery Bags.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 3(2), 125-147.
*Caplan, Arthur J. and Yuya Sasaki (2014) “Benchmarking an Optimal Pattern of Pollution Trading: The Case of Cub River, Utah.” Economic Modelling 36(1), 502-510.
*Caplan, Arthur J., John Gilbert, and Devalina Chatterjee (2013) “Using Field-Level Characteristics as Proxy Measures to Test for the Presence of Economies of Scale in Nonpoint Pollution Control.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 42(2), 365-386.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2013) “Water Quality Trading in the Presence of Abatement Cost Sharing.” Contemporary Economic Policy 31(2), 279-290.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2011) “Carbon Sequestration and Permit Trading on the Competitive Fringe.” Economic Modelling, 28(6), 2803-2810.
Caplan, Arthur J. and Emilson C.D. Silva (2011) “Impure Public Goods, Matching Grant Rates, and Income Redistribution in a Federation with Decentralized Leadership and Imperfect Labor Mobility.” International Tax and Public Finance, 18(3), 322-336.
*Mukherjee, Shibashis and Arthur J. Caplan (2011) “GIS-Based Estimation of Housing Amenities: The Case of High Grounds and Stagnant Streams.” Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, 4(1), 49-61.
Caplan, Arthur J. and John Gilbert (2010) “Can Fighting Grade Inflation Help the Bottom Line?” Applied Economics Letters, 17(17), 1663-1667.
Caplan, Arthur J., Douglas Jackson-Smith, and Sandra Marquart-Pyatt (2010) “Does ‘Free Sampling’ Enhance the Value of Public Goods?” Applied Economics Letters, 17(4), 335-339.
*Caplan, Arthur J., David Aadland, and Anthony Macharia (2010) “Estimating Hypothetical Bias in Economically Emergent Africa: A Generic Public Good Experiment.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 39(2), 344-358.
*Larson, Jordan and Arthur J. Caplan (2009) “Estimating the Effectiveness of a Vehicle Miles Traveled Tax in Reducing Particulate Matter Emissions.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 52(3), 315-344.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2008) “Incremental and Average Control Costs in a Model of Water Quality Trading with Discrete Abatement Units.” Environmental and Resource Economics, 41(3), 419-435.
*Sasaki, Yuya and Arthur J. Caplan (2008), "Matching Heterogeneous Traders in Quantity-Regulated Markets." Computational Economics, 31(4), 341-362.
Caplan, Arthur J. and John Gilbert (2008) “D is For Dillydally?” Applied Economics Letters, 15(14), 1085-1088.
Aadland, David M., Arthur J. Caplan, and Owen R. Phillips (2007) “A Bayesian Examination of Information and Uncertainty in Contingent Valuation.” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 35(2), 149-178.
Bohara, Alok K., Arthur J. Caplan, and Therese Grijalva (2007), “The Effect of Experience and Quantity-Based Pricing on the Valuation of a Curbside Recycling Program.” Ecological Economics, 64(2), 433-443.
Caplan, Arthur J. and Emilson C.D. Silva (2007) “An Equitable, Efficient, and Implementable Scheme to Control Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” International Tax and Public Finance, 14(3), 263-279.
Caplan, Arthur J., Therese Grijalva, and Douglas Jackson-Smith (2007) “Using Choice Question Formats to Determine Compensable Values: The Case of a Landfill Siting Process.” Ecological Economics, 60(4), 834-846.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2006) “A Comparison of Emissions Taxes and Permit Markets for Controlling Correlated Externalities.” Environmental and Resource Economics, 34(4), 471-492.
Aadland, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2006) “Curbside Recycling: Waste Resource or Waste of Resources?” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25(4), 855-874.
Aadland, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2006) “Cheap Talk Reconsidered: New Evidence From CVM.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 60(4), 562-578.
*Caplan, Arthur J. and Yuya Sasaki (2006) “Interactive Geometry for Surplus Sharing in Cooperative Games.” Journal of Economic Education, 37(3), 382.
Caplan, Arthur J. and John Gilbert (2006) “Interactive Scenario Analysis of Exhaustible Resource Problems.” Computers in Higher Education Economics Review, 18, 4-9.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2005) “Seeing is Believing: Simulating Forest-Harvest Problems with Microsoft Excel in an Intermediate-Level Natural-Resource Economics Course.” Perspectives on Economic Education Research, 1(1), 44-52.
Caplan, Arthur J. and Emilson C.D. Silva (2005) “An Efficient Mechanism to Control Correlated Externalities: Redistributive Transfers and the Coexistence of Regional and Global Pollution Permit Markets.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 49(1), 68-82.
*Tesfamichael, Aklilu, Arthur J. Caplan, and Jagath Kaluarachchi (2005) “Risk-Cost-Benefit Analysis of Atrazine in Drinking Water from Agricultural Activities and Policy Implications.” Water Resources Research, 41(5), 1-13.
Aadland, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2004) “Incentive Incompatibility and Starting-Point Bias in Iterative Valuation Questions: Comment.” Land Economics, 80(2), 312-315.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2003) “Reputation and the Control of Pollution.” Ecological Economics, 47(2-3), 197-212.
Aadland, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2003) “Willingness to Pay for Curbside Recycling With Detection and Mitigation of Hypothetical Bias.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 85(2), 492-502.
Caplan, Arthur J., Richard C. Cornes, and Emilson C.D. Silva (2003) “An ‘Ideal Kyoto Protocol’: Emissions Trading, Redistributive Transfers and Global Participation.” Oxford Economic Papers, 55, 216-234.
Caplan, Arthur J., Therese Grijalva, and Paul M. Jakus (2002) “Waste Not or Want Not? A Contingent Ranking Analysis of Curbside Waste Disposal Options.” Ecological Economics, 43(2-3), 185-197.
Caplan, Arthur J., Richard C. Cornes, and Emilson C.D. Silva (2000) “Pure Public Goods and Income Redistribution in a Federation with Decentralized Leadership and Imperfect Labor Mobility.” Journal of Public Economics, 77(2), 265-284.
Aadland, David M. and Arthur J. Caplan (1999) “Household Valuation of Curbside Recycling.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 42(6), 781-800.
Brist, Lonnie E. and Arthur J. Caplan (1999) “More Evidence on the Role of Secondary Education in the Development of Lower-Income Countries: Wishful Thinking or Useful Knowledge?” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 48(1), 155-176.
Caplan, Arthur J. and Emilson C.D. Silva (1999) “Federal Acid Rain Games.” Journal of Urban Economics, 46(1), 25-52.
Caplan, Arthur J., Christopher J. Ellis, and Emilson C.D. Silva (1999) “Winners and Losers in a World with Global Warming: Noncooperation, Altruism, and Social Welfare.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 37(3), 256-271.
Silva, Emilson C.D. and Arthur J. Caplan (1997) “Transboundary Pollution Control in Federal Systems.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 34(2), 173-186.
Book Chapters (Peer Reviewed)
Finnoff, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2011) “Bioeconomics and International Trade: The Case of the Great Salt Lake, Utah.” New Development in Computable General Equilibrium Analysis for Trade Policy, John Gilbert ed., Frontiers in Economics and Globalization, Volume 7, Emerald Group Publishing, United Kingdom.
Caplan, Arthur J. and Emilson C.D. Silva (2005) “Equitable and Efficient International Schemes to Control Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” The Political Economy of Policy Reform: Essays in Honor of J. Michael Finger, Douglas Nelson ed., Contributions to Economic Analysis, Elsevier Inc., Netherlands.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2002) “Poverty and Access to Health Care: An Academic Service Learning Project in Economics.” Putting the Invisible Hand to Work: Concepts and Models for Service Learning in Economics, K.M. McGoldrick and A. Ziegert eds., University of Michigan Press.
Textbook
Caplan, Arthur J. (2002) A Practicum in Behavioral Economics. Utah State University, Open Educational Resource. Creative Commons Attribution. Available at: https://uen.pressbooks.pub/behavioraleconomics/.
Educational Resources (Peer Reviewed)
Caplan, Arthur J. and John Gilbert (2006) “Resource-Extraction Simulation Models in Excel.” An online supplement for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics by Tom Tietenberg, Seventh Edition, Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. Available at http://wps.aw.com/aw_tietenberg_envnatrese_7/0,10924,2439699-,00.htm
Caplan, Arthur J. and John Gilbert (2006) “How-To Manual for Resource-Extraction Simulation Models in Excel. ” an online supplement for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics by Tom Tietenberg, Seventh Edition, Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. Available at http://wps.aw.com/aw_tietenberg_envnatrese_7/0,10924,2439699-,00.html.
Manuscripts in Review and In Progress
Caplan, Arthur J., “Household Demand for Community- and Rooftop-Solar Electricity: Conceptual and Numerical Assessments.” Department of Applied Economics, Utah State University.
Caplan, Arthur J., Tiffany K. Woods, Brent Chamberlain, and Sarah C. Klain, “Measuring Heterogeneous Preferences for the Preservation of Farmland: The Case of Utah’s Wasatch Front.” Department of Applied Economics, Utah State University.
Woods, Tiffany K., Brent Chamberlain, Sarah C. Klain, and Arthur J. Caplan, “Cultural Ecosystem Services of Agroecosystems Along the Wasatch Front, Utah.” Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, Utah State University.
Siu, Way Yan, Man Li, and Arthur J. Caplan, “Land-Use Change at the Rural-Urban Nexus: The Greenbelt Act Study.” Department of Applied Economics, Utah State University.
Nehra, Arpita, Reza Oladi, Sherzod Akhundjanov, and Arthur J. Caplan, “Regional Water Transfer and Economic Growth: A Synthetic Control Analysis.” Department of Applied Economics, Utah State University.
Caplan, Arthur J., “Habits and Externalities.” Department of Applied Economics, Utah State University.
Publications in the Popular Press
Caplan, Arthur J. (1998) “A Testimony for Recycling.” Northern Utah Junction, Nov., pg 5.
Aadland, David and Arthur J. Caplan (2000) “Recycling in Utah: Too Little or Too Much?” Salt Lake Tribune, May 20.
Stafford, Edwin R. and Arthur J. Caplan (2001) “Why ‘America Recycles Day’ Matters.” Salt Lake Tribune, November 11.
Stafford, Edwin R. and Arthur J. Caplan (2002) “Pay-as-You-Throw Puts Cost of Waste Removal on Heaviest Users.” Salt Lake Tribune, January 27.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2002) “Logan Transportation at Crossroad.” The Logan Herald Journal, Soapbox Column, December 7.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2004) “Air Woes Require Deeper Dialogue.” The Logan Herald Journal, Soapbox Column, February 20.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2005) "Musings of a Cache Backpacker." The Logan Herald Journal, Soapbox Column, September 16.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2011) “A Practical Solution to our Red Air Day Problem.” The Logan Herald Journal, Soapbox Column, January 31.
Caplan, Arthur J. (2014) “Land-Transfer Study Based on Shakiest of Assumptions.” Salt Lake Tribune, Op-Ed, December 25.
RESEARCH GRANTS
Fulbright Scholars Award – Teaching Environmental Economics in Israel (Ben Gurion University of the
Negev), 2021 - 2022 ($24,000), PI.
Fulbright Specialist – Behavioral Economist, Meiktila, Myanmar (Meiktila University of Economics), 2019 (Award No. FSP-P002774 for $10,000), PI.
Utah Agricultural Experiment Station Seed Grant – Scenario Analysis of Ecosystem Services of Agricultural Land Along the Wasatch Front (with Jennifer Reeve, Man-Keun Kim, Curtis Dyreson, Jennifer MacAdam, and Brent Chamberlain), July 2018 – Aug. 2020 ($65,000), Co-PI
Seed Program to Advance Research Collaborations (SPARC) Grant – Co-Adaptation of a Large Carnivore and Human Society Across a Dynamic Wildland-Rural-Urban Interface (with D. Layne Coppock, Julie K. Young, and Kerry Rood), July – August 2017 ($35,000), Co-PI.
National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) Cooperative Research, Education and Extension Management System (C-REEMS) Grant – Tannin-containing legumes in pasture lands and their ecological services (with Juan Villalba, Jennifer MacAdam, Jennifer Reeve, Man-Keun Kim, Roslynn Brain, and Jeanette Norton), June 2016 – May 2020 ($500,000), Co-PI.
Utah Agricultural Experiment Station Seed Grant – Measuring the Environmental Costs of Hypocrisy, May 2012, Utah State University ($19,677), PI.
Intervening to Encourage Residential Water Conservation in Utah: Follow-up Survey of SPARC Households (with David Rosenberg and Joanna Endter-Wada), September 2011, Western Water Association, University of Colorado ($12,800), Co-PI.
Utah Agricultural Experiment Station Seed Grant – Bioeconomic Model of the Great Salt Lake Watershed, June 2010, Utah State University ($16,000), PI.
Utah Agricultural Experiment Station Seed Grant – Bridging the Climate-Change Debate Among Economists: Sequestration, Global Carbon Permits, and International Trade, June 2010, Utah State University ($16,000), Co-PI.
Seed Program to Advance Research Collaborations (SPARC), Utah State University – Intervening to Encourage Water Conservation: Developing an Interdisciplinary Urban Water Conservation Research Program at USU (with David Rosenberg and Joanna Endter-Wada), June 2009, Utah State University ($35,000), Co-PI.
U.S. EPA Targeted Watershed Grant Program – Tri-State Bear River Basin Watershed Project (coordinated by Dr. Nancy Mesner, Water Quality Specialist, College of Natural Resources and Jack Barnett, Director of the Bear River Commission), January 2004 – September 2009, Utah State University ($750,000), Co- PI.
Fulbright Scholars Award – Lecturing/Research in Botswana, Africa (University of Botswana), 2007-2008 (Award No. 07-12043 for $89,000), PI.
Water Initiative Grant Program - Policy Decision Modeling for Water Quality Improvement (with Terry Glover), January 2005, Utah State University ($8,100), Co-PI.
Experimental Economics Research Fund, Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming – A Bayesian Examination of Anchoring Bias and Cheap Talk in Contingent Valuation Studies (with David Aadland and Owen R. Phillips), July 2005, University of Wyoming ($6,000), Co-PI.
Division of Environmental Services, City of Logan – Cache County Household Recycling and Solid Waste Study (with Douglas Jackson-Smith and Sandy Marquart-Pyatt), February 2005, Utah State University ($17,250), Co-PI.
Water Initiative Grant Program – Contributing to Drought Management Through Understanding Factors Influencing Human Conservation Behavior (with Joanna Endter-Wada, Peggy Petrzelka, and Theresa Selfa), February 2004, Utah State University ($15,000), Co-PI.
National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant #0108159 – Household Valuation of Curbside Recycling (with David Aadland), September 2001-2002, Utah State University ($125,000), Co-PI.
Division of Environmental Services, City of Logan – Cache County Landfill Study (with Therese Grijalva and Douglas Jackson-Smith), August 2002, Utah State University ($32,000), Co-PI.
Division of Environmental Services, City of Logan – Logan Recycling Survey (with Therese Grijalva, Edwin Stafford, and Cathy Hartman), April 2002, Utah State University ($2,000), Co-PI.
New Faculty Research Grant – Public Disclosure Programs and Firm Environmental Performance: Is There an ‘Information Echo Effect’ in the Toxic Release Inventory? 2002, Utah State University ($11,000), PI.
STUDENT MENTORING
PhD Students
Dissertation Committee Chair – 3
Dissertation Committee Member – 16
Master’s Students
Master’s Thesis Committee Chair – 17
Master’s Thesis Committee Member – 17
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Committee and Advisory Assignments
Faculty Senate Executive Committee, Utah State University, 2018.
Faculty Senate Member, College of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Utah State University,
2015 – 2018.
Faculty Evaluation Committee, Faculty Senate, Utah State University, 2012 – 2015.
Director of Graduate Programs, Department of Applied Economics, College of Agriculture, Utah
State University, 2008 – 2012.
Ombudsman for Promotion and Tenure Review, College of Agriculture, 2005 – present, USU.
USU Library Advisory Council, 2005 – 2008, Utah State University.
Library Committee, College of Business, Chair, 2003 – 2008, Utah State University.
Natural Resource and Environmental Policy Program, College of Natural Resources, Affiliated
Faculty Member, 2001 – 2004, Utah State University.
Service-Learning Faculty Steering Committee Member, 2003 – 2007, Utah State University.
Hillel Association, Acting Faculty Advisor, 2002 – 2013, Utah State University.
President's Council Standing Committee - Environmental Issues, Faculty Member, 1996-2001,
Weber State University.
Research, Scholarship, Professional Growth Committee, 1997-1998, Weber State University.
Honors Faculty Advisory Council, 1998 - 2001, Weber State University.
Honors Director Search Committee, 1998, Weber State University.
Appointment, Promotion, Academic Freedom, and Tenure Committee, 1998 to 1999, Weber
State University.
Library Policy Advisory Committee, 1998 to 2001, Weber State University.
Teaching and Learning Assessment Committee, 2000 to 2001, Weber State University.
Holocaust Remembrance Week Organizing Committee, 1998 - 2001, Weber State University.
Women In Business Organizing Committee, 1999, John B. Goddard School of Business and
Economics, Weber State University.
Student Economic Association, Faculty Advisor, 1997 to 2001, Weber State University.
Membership in Professional Organizations
American Economic Association, 1995 – 1996, 2013 – 2014, 2015 – 2016.
Western Economic Association, 1997 – 1999, 2009 - 2014.
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 1999 - present.
Western Agricultural Economics Association, 2001-2003, 2012 – 2014.
Southern Economic Association, 2013-2014.
Editorial Boards
Journal of Hydrology, Associate Editor, 2007 – 2010.
Manuscript Reviews
Journal of Public Economics Oxford Economic Papers
Journal of Environ. Econ. & Mgmt. International Economic Review
Resource and Energy Economics Water Resources Research
Energy Economics Society and Natural Resources
Journal of Ag. & Resource Economics Marine Resource Economics
Environment and Development Econ. Journal of Third World Studies
Economic Development & Cultural Chg. European Economic Review
International Tax & Public Finance Amer. J. of Agric. Economics
Environment and Resource Econ. Journal of Applied Economics
Agricultural and Resource Econ. Rev. Ecological Economics
Journal of Economic Education J.of Econ Behavior and Organ.
Agric. Resource Econ. Review J. of Economic Surveys
Contemporary Economic Policy J. of Assoc. of Environ. and Res. Economists
Land Economics
VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
Adams Neighborhood Steering Committee Member, Logan, Utah 2018 – present.
Adult Literacy Volunteer, English Learning Center, Logan, Utah 2016.
Board of Directors, Congregation Brith Sholem, Ogden, Utah 2014 - present.
Parent Board Member, North. Utah Select Lax/Logan High Lax, Utah 2013 – 2018.
Adult Literacy Volunteer, Bridgerland Literacy Program, Logan, Utah 2013 – 2015.
Site Coordinator, Bear River Charter School, Logan, Utah 2010 – 2011.
President, Edith Bowen Laboratory School PTA, Logan, Utah 2006 – 2007.
President-Elect, Edith Bowen Laboratory School PTA, Logan, Utah 2005 – 2006.
Volunteer Coordinator, PTA Board Member, Edith Bowen Lab School, Logan, Utah 2004
Read Aloud Volunteer Reader, Edith Bowen Laboratory School, Logan, Utah 2002 – 2006.
First Amend. School Parent Comm. Member, Edith Bowen Lab School, Logan, Utah, 2003.
Citizens for the Preservation of Logan Neighborhoods, Member, 2003 - 2004.
Northern Utah Recycling Association, Ogden, Utah, 1997.
Board of Directors, Congregation Brith Sholem, Ogden, Utah, 1997 - 2001.
Teacher’s Assistant, Brith Sholem Religious School, Ogden, Utah, 1998 - 2000.
Utah Humanities Council, Ogden, Utah, 1998 -1999.
Strawboss, The Eugene Growers' Market, Eugene, Oregon, 1995 -1996.
Mentor, Jefferson Middle School, Eugene, Oregon, 1994 -1996.
Parents' Night Out Volunteer, Easter Seals, Eugene, Oregon, 1993-1996.
Economics Representative to Graduate Teaching Fellows Fed., University of Oregon, 1994 - 95.