Research

   

Work in Progress

• Project: The Economics of Biodiversity Additionality: Patterns of Land Use and Reforestation in Bolivia (with Ben Groom, Charles Palmer, Lykke Andersen, Ben Balmford and Sabrina Eisenbarth)

• Party affiliation and issue salience: environmental preferences and the 2016 Presidential election (with Charles Palmer)

• Patterns of class conflict in the 2016 Presidential election

• Sick of noise: the health effects of loud neighbours and urban din 

   

Refereed Journal Articles

• “Urban Noise and Sleep” (with Yi Fan). Applied Economics, vol. 54, issue 50, 2022

• “New Data on Public Biodiversity Spending” (with Ben Groom). Nature Ecology & Evolution, March 2021

• “RCTs as an opportunity to promote interdisciplinary, inclusive, and diverse quantitative development research” (with Joana Naritomi, Sandra Sequeira and Jonathan Weigel). World Development, Vol. 127, March 2020

• “Applying a novel environmental health framework theory (I-ACT) to noise pollution policies in the United States, United Kingdom, and the Netherlands” (with Monica S. Hammer, Yi Fan, Suzanne S. Hammer, Tracy K. Swinburn, Miram Weber, and Richard L. Neitzel). Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, December 2017

• “Modelling Land Use, Deforestation, and Policy: A Hybrid Optimisation-Heterogeneous Agent Model with Application to the Bolivian Amazon” (with Lykke Andersen, Ben Groom, Evan Killick, Juan Carlos Ledezma, Charles Palmer). Ecological Economics, vol. 135, pp. 76-90, May 2017

• “Smoking Status and Subjective Well-Being” (with Frank Chaloupka), Tobacco Control, 26:195-201, 2017

• “Net Carbon Emissions from Deforestation in Bolivia during 1990-2000 and 2000-2010: Results from a carbon bookkeeping model” (with Lykke Andersen, Anna Sophia Doyle, Susana del Granado, Juan Carlos Ledezma, Agnes Medinaceli, Montserrat Valdivia), PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151241, 2016

• “Boom-Bust Patterns in the Brazilian Amazon” (with Eustaquio Reis and Petterson M. Vale), Global Environmental Change (35):391-399, 2015

• “Soybeans, Poverty and Inequality in the Brazilian Amazon” (with Eustaquio Reis and Evan Killick), World Development, vol 52, December 2013

• “A social and ecological assessment of tropical land uses at multiple scales: the Sustainable Amazon Network” (with Toby A. Gardner, et al.) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 368 (20120166), April 2013

• “The Happiness Reducing Costs of Noise Pollution,” Journal of Regional Science, vol. 53, no. 2, 2013

• "Innovation, Inequality and Intellectual Property Rights" (with Usha Nair-Reichert), World Development, Volume 37, Issue 5, May 2009

• “Valuing future development rights and the costs of conservation easements” (with Kathryn Anderson) Ecological Economics, Volume 68, Issues 1-2, December 2008

• “Transportation costs and the spatial distribution of land use in the Brazilian Amazon” (with Eustaquio Reis), Global Environmental Change vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 54-68, February 2008

• “The effect of healthcare-acquired infection on length of hospital stay and cost” (with Nicholas Graves, Frances Birrell, Shane Doidge, Prabha Ramritu, David Lairson, and Michael Whitby), Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology v. 28: pp. 280-292, February 2007

• “Correcting for bias when estimating the cost of hospital-acquired infection: an analysis of lower respiratory tract infections in non-surgical patients” (with Nick Graves and Jennifer Roberts) Health Economics Vol. 14 no. 7, July 2005

• “An empirical investigation of the Internet and international trade: The case of Bolivia” (with Caroline L. Freund) Latin American Journal of Economic Development vol 1 number 2, April 2004

• “On the Effect of the Internet on International Trade” (with Caroline L. Freund), Journal of International Economics 62(1) January 2004

• “The Importance of Trade and Geography in the Pattern of Spatial Dependence of Growth Rates” Review of Development Economics, vol. 6 no. 3, 2002

• “The Internet and International Trade in Services” (with Caroline L. Freund), American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), vol. 92 no. 2, May 2002

• “Taxing Losses: Economic Suicide or Shrewd Trade Policy?” (with J.S. Butler), Journal of Interdisciplinary History vol. 33 issue 1, summer 2002

• “Testing for causality in short panels: the case of infrastructure development and population growth in the Brazilian Amazon” (with Eustaquio Reis), Journal of Regional Science vol. 41 no. 4, November 2001

• “Causality Tests for Cross Country Panels: A look at FDI and Economic Growth in Less Developed Countries” (with Usha Nair), lead article, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics vol. 63 no. 2, 2001

• “Dropping the debt: Is it such a good idea?” (with Tim Allen), Journal of International Development Vol. 12, no. 6, 2000

• “An Estimation of Land Degradation in the Amazon” Ecological Economics, 31(1) October 1999

• “Trade, Specialization, and Productivity Growth” (with James E. Rauch), Canadian Journal of Economics, vol. 32, no. 4, August 1999

• “Household Characteristics and Income Inequality During Inflationary Periods: Recent Evidence from Surinam” (with Andrew Horowitz), World Development, vol. 26 no. 2 February 1998

• “Investment, Growth and Causality Testing in Panels” Economie et Prevision, no. 126-5, 1996

   

Books

• The Dynamics of Deforestation and Economic Growth in the Brazilian Amazon, (with Clive W.J. Granger, Eustaquio Reis, Lykke Andersen, and Sven Wunder).  Cambridge University Press, December 2002

   

Book Chapters

• "Noise" Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: An Encyclopedia, Timothy C. Haab Ph.D., John C. Whitehead Eds. Greenwood (2014)

• “Complexity and the attribution of cost to Hospital Acquired Infection” (with Nicholas Graves and Frances Birrell) in The Economics of Infectious Disease, Jennifer A Roberts, Ed. Oxford University Press, (2005)

• “The Internet and Evolving Patterns of International Trade” (with Caroline Freund), in Barfield, C., Heiduk, G., Welfens P.J.J., eds., Internet, Economic Growth and Globalisation, Springer: Heidelberg and New York. (2003)

• “Supplier Networks, Multinationals, and Development” (with M. Klasen) in Manufacturing Across Borders and Oceans: Japan, the United States, and Mexico, Gabriel Szekely, Editor, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Monograph Series, 36. University of California, San Diego (1991)

   

"Retired" Working Papers

• The choice of institutions: the role of risk and risk aversion (with Paul Zak)

• A dynamic 'fixed effects' model for heterogeneous panel data