Dallas W. Wood
Western Carolina University
E-mail: dwood {at} wcu {dot} edu
Personal Website: http://sites.google.com/site/dallaswwood
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Primary Fields: Health Economics, Environmental Economics
Special Interests: Discrete Choice Experiments, Food and Nutrition Economics, Climate Policy.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Economics, North Carolina State University, 2015.
M.E., Economics, North Carolina State University, 2012
B.S., Economics, North Carolina State University, 2005.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, Western Carolina University, 2023-Present
Senior Economist, RTI International, 2014-Present
Economist, RTI International, 2009-2011.
Associate Economist, RTI International, 2006-2009.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Early Career Author Award, RTI International, 2019
AAEA Outstanding Poster Award in the Land, Water, and Environmental Economics Section, 2016
Graduate Fellow at Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), 2013
USDA National Needs Fellow, North Carolina State University, 2011-2012
Vernon Smith Prize (3rd Place), European Center of Austrian Economics Foundation, 2010
NCSU Outstanding Economics Senior Award, 2005
NCSU Special Economic Achievement Award, 2004
Phi Beta Kappa
CURRENT GRANTS
Principal Investigator - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $224,376 for Examining the Effects of Taxes and Warning Labels on Parents’ Purchases of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Using a Choice Experiment, 2021-2023.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Ben Chaouch, Z., Xu, Q., Chaudhuri, S.E., Gebben, D.J., Harris, R.C., Hurst, F.P., Flythe, J.E., Mansfield, C., Saha, A., Sheldon, M., Siah, K.W., Tarver, M.E., Treiman, K., West, M., Wood, D. and Lo, A.W. (2025) "Use of Bayesian decision analysis in the design of patient-centered clinical trials for kidney failure devices", Computers in Biology and Medicine, 198, 111150. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.111150
Wood, D., Williams, P., Thompson, J., Peinado, S., Tilley, A., Gebben, D., Major, J., Weinberg, J., Yoon, S., & Tarver, M. (2024). "A Threshold Technique Study to Understand Patient Preference for Smooth versus Textured Breast Implants." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery – Global Open, 13(1), e6362. http://doi.org/10.1097/GOX.0000000000006362
Wood, D., Treiman, K., Rivell, A., van Deen, W. K., Heyison, H., Mattar, M. C., Power, S., Strauss, A., Syal, G., Zullow, S. & Ehrlich, O. G. (2024). "Communicating Information Regarding IBD Remission to Patients: Evidence From a Survey of Adult Patients in the United States." Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izae201
Flythe, J. E., Forfang, D., Harris, R. C., Wood, D., Hurst, F. P., & Tarver, M. E. (2023). "Risk Tolerance in the Setting of Wearable Dialysis Devices: A Patient Preference Study Using the Threshold Technique." Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, 34(6), p 951-954. http://doi.org/10.1681/ASN.0000000000000120
Scott, F. I., Ehrlich, O., Wood, D., Viator, C., Rains, C., DiMartino, L., & Rubin, D. T. (2023). "Creation of an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Referral Pathway for Identifying Patients Who Would Benefit From Inflammatory Bowel Disease Specialist Consultation." Inflammatory Bowel Diseases. https://doi.org/10.1093/ibd/izac216
Kocher, E., Wood, D., Lim, S. C., Jackson-Morris, A., Kataria, I., Ngongo, C., & Mustapha, F. I. (2022). "Community priorities for obesity prevention among low-income adults in Kuala Lumpur: a discrete choice experiment. Health Promotion International, 37(6), daac156. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daac156
Moor, S. E., Tusubira, A. K., Wood, D., Akiteng, A. R., Galusha, D., Tessier-Sherman, B., & Schwartz, J. I. (2022). Patient preferences for facility-based management of hypertension and diabetes in rural Uganda: a discrete choice experiment." BMJ open, 12(7), e059949. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-059949
Wood, D., Larson, J., Jones, J., Galperin, D., Shelby, M., & Gonzalez, M. (2022). "World oil price impacts on country-specific fuel markets: Evidence of a muted global rebound effect." Energy Economics, 106024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2022.106024
Summers, R., Wood, D. Lew, .N., Karns, S., Muth, M., Nardinelli, C., Peckham, J., and Wolff, C. (2022). "Prospective Evaluation of Health Communication Effects on Market Outcomes." Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/bca.2022.1
Stewart, D. E., Wood, D. W., Alcorn, J. B., Lease, E. D., Hayes, M., Hauber, B., & Goff, R. E. (2021). "A revealed preference analysis to develop composite scores approximating lung allocation policy in the US." BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 21(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-020-01377-7
Derby, L., Kronish, I., Wood, D., Cheung, Y. K., Cohn, E., Duan, N., & Moise, N. (2020). "Engaging stakeholders to understand preferences for personalized (N-of-1) trials in patients with multiple chronic conditions." Psychomomatic medicine 82(6): A115-A116.
Cheung, Y. K., Wood, D., Zhang, K., Ridenour, T. A., Derby, L., St Onge, T., & Moise, N. (2020). "Personal preferences for Personalised Trials among patients with chronic diseases: an empirical Bayesian analysis of a conjoint survey." BMJ Open, 10(6). http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036056
Wood, D., Kosa, K., Brown, D., Ehrlich, O. G., Higgins, P. D., & Heller, C. (2020). "Preferences of Adult Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease for Attributes of Clinical Trials: Evidence From a Choice-Based Conjoint Analysis." Crohn's & Colitis 360, 2(1). https://doi.org/10.1093/crocol/otz048
Jones, J., Abdullah, M., Wood, D., and Jones P. (2019). "Economic modeling for improved prediction of saving estimates in healthcare costs from consumption of healthy foods: The Mediterranean style diet case study." Food & Nutrition Research, 63. https://doi.org/10.29219/fnr.v63.3418
Zheng, Y., Wood, D., Wang, H.H., and Jones J.P.H. (2018). "Predicting Potential Impacts of China’s Retaliatory Tariffs on the U.S. Farm Sector." Choices, 33(2), 1-6. [AAEA Quality of Communication Award] http://www.choicesmagazine.org/UserFiles/file/cmsarticle_640.pdf
Russell, L, Wood,D., Langemeier, M., and Ibendahl, G. (2018). "The Effect of the 2007 Ethanol Mandate on Downside Risk in Agriculture: Evidence from Kansas Farmers." Applied Economics Letters, 26(8), 698-702. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2018.1489495
Moise, N., Wood, D., Kronish, I., Duer-Hefele, J., Davidson, K., Duan, N., St. Onge, T., Pu, T., and Cheung, Y.K.K. (2018). "Patient preferences for Personalized (N-of-1) trials: A conjoint analysis." Journal of Clinical Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclinepi.2018.05.020
Lewis, M. A., Stine, A., Paquin, R. S., Mansfield, C., Wood, D., Rini, C., Roche, M., Powell, C.M., Berg, J.S., and Bailey Jr, D. B. (2018). "Parental preferences toward genomic sequencing for non-medically actionable conditions in children: a discrete-choice experiment." Nature: Genetics in Medicine, 20(2), 181. https://doi.org/10.1038/gim.2017.93
Verrill, L., Wood, D., Cates, S., Lando, A., and Zhang, Y. (2017). "Vitamin-Fortified Snack Food May Lead Consumers to Make Poor Dietary Decisions." Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 117(3), 376-385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2016.10.008
Finkelstein, E., Mansfield, C., Wood, D., Rowe, B., Chay, J., and Ozdemir, S. (2017). "Tradeoffs between civil liberties and national security: A discrete choice experiment." Contemporary Economic Policy, 35(2), 292-311. https://doi.org/10.1111/coep.12188
Link, A., Rowe, B., and Wood, D. (2011). "Information about information: Public investments in information retrieval research. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2(2), 192–200. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-011-0046-7
BOOK CHAPTERS
Rowe, B. and Wood, D. (2013). "Are home internet users willing to pay ISPs for improvements in cyber security?" In B. Schneier (Ed.), Economics of information security and privacy 3 (pp. 193–212). Minneapolis, MN: Springer.
WORKING PAPERS
Wood, D. The Effect of Climate Change on the Size and Cost of Wildfires: Evidence from Wildfires in US National Forests.
SELECTED TECHNICAL REPORTS
Wood, D.W., Hauber, B., Hayes, M. (2020, May). A Revealed Preference Analysis to Develop a Composite Score that Approximates Lung Allocation Policy. Prepared for United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
Cates, S., Wood, D.W., Creel, D., Brophy, J., Love, E., Barefoot, A. (2022, December). Analyzing Consumers’ Value of “Product of USA” Labeling Claims. Prepared for United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Wood, D.W., Williams, P., DeFrank, J., Peinado, S., Tilley, A. (2022, January). Patient Preference Information Survey Tool for Breast Implants. Prepared for Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Wood, D.W., Hauber, B., Hayes, M. (2020, May). A Revealed Preference Analysis to Develop a Composite Score that Approximates Lung Allocation Policy. Prepared for United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
Wood, D.W., Jones, J., Muth, M.K., & Beach, R. (2019, March). USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Trade Model. Prepared for United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Wood, D.W., Brophy, J.E., Coglaiti, M.C., Karns, S.A., Muth, M.K., & Rains, C. (2018, February). Economic Model to Predict Consumer Behavioral Response to Health Information and Warnings. Prepared for Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Wood, D. W., Coats, E. M., & Loomis, B. R. (2016, September). A comparative study of four models for forecasting regular and menthol cigarette sales. Prepared for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Office on Smoking and Health.
Wood, D. W., Birur, D. K., Bradley, S. R., Brophy, J. E., Karns, S. A., Muth, M. K., & Zheng, Y. (2015, March). FDA regulation and enforcement policy trade impact model (Report No. 0211460.015). Prepared for Food and Drug Administration (FDA).