Research
Papers
Zhan, Lue, Di Xiang, and Chad Lawley. 2025. "Identifying waste leakage: Behavioral responses to China's municipal soil waste classification plan," China Economic Review. 94(December 2025). [link]
Cardwell, Ryan and Chad Lawley. 2025. "What explains public support for Canada's supply management regime?" Canadian Journal of Economics . 58(2): 580-608. [Open access link]
Deaton, Brady and Chad Lawley. 2022. "A Survey of Literature Examining Farmland Prices: A Canadian Focus," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 70(2): 95-121. [Open access link]
Lawley, Chad. 2021. "COVID-19 and Canadian Farmland Markets in 2020," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 69(2): 291-298. [link]
Lawley, Chad. 2021. "Hog Barns and Neighboring House Prices: Anticipation and Post-establishment Impacts," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 103(3): 1099-1121. [link] [Online Appendix]
Lawley, Chad. 2020. "Potential Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadian Farmland Markets," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 68: 245-250. [link]
Xiang, Di and Chad Lawley. 2019. “The Impact of British Columbia’s Carbon Tax on Residential Natural Gas Consumption,” Energy Economics, 80(2019): 206-218. [link]
Cardwell, Ryan, Chad Lawley, and Di Xiang. 2018. “Milked and Feathered: The Regressive Welfare Effects of Canada’s Supply Management Regime: Reply,” Canadian Public Policy, 44(3): 278-288. [link]
Deaton, Brady, Chad Lawley, and Karthik Nadella. 2018. “Renters, Landlords, and Farmland Stewardship,” Agricultural Economics, 49(2018): 521-531. [link]
Lawley, Chad. 2018. “Ownership Restrictions and Farmland Values: Evidence from the 2003 Saskatchewan Farm Security Act Amendment,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 100(1): 311-337. [link] [Pre-print Accepted Version] [Online Appendix]
Lawley, Chad and Vincent Thivierge. 2018. “Refining the Evidence: British Columbia’s Carbon Tax and Household Gasoline Consumption,” The Energy Journal, 39(2): 147-171. [link]
Lawley, Chad and Wanhong Yang. 2015. “Spatial Interactions in Habitat Conservation: Evidence from Prairie Pothole Easements,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 71 (May): 71-89. [link]
Cardwell, Ryan, Chad Lawley, and Di Xiang. 2015. “Milked and Feathered: The Regressive Welfare Effects of Canada’s Supply Management Regime,” Canadian Public Policy, 41(1):1-14. [link]
Awarded 2015 John Vanderkamp Prize for best article in Canadian Public Policy
Lawley, Chad. 2014. “Changes in Implicit Prices of Prairie Pothole Habitat,” Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 62(2): 171-190. [link]
Lawley, Chad and Charles Towe. 2014. “Capitalized Costs of Habitat Conservation Easements,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 96(3): 657-672. [link]
Lawley, Chad. 2013. “Protectionism versus Risk in Screening for Invasive Species,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 65(3): 438-451. [link]
Towe, Charles and Chad Lawley. 2013. “The Contagion Effect of Neighboring Foreclosures,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 5(2): 313-335. [link]
Lawley, Chad, Erik Lichtenberg, and Doug Parker. 2009. “Biases in Nutrient Management Planning,” Land Economics, 85(1): 186-200. [link]
Lawley, Chad and Hartley Furtan. 2008. “The Political Trade-off between Environmental Stringency and Economic Development in Rural America,” Journal of Regional Science, 48(3): 547-566. [link]