Laura Taylor
Area(s) of Expertise
- Environmental Valuation
- Program Evaluation
- Benefit/cost Analysis
- Coastal Land Markets
- Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy Policy
Research Summary
Her research focuses on policy evaluation and the valuation of natural resources and the environment. Recent applications include improving benefits estimation for policies designed to reduce human mortality, examining household responses to price and non-price water conservation policies, and evaluating the impact of offshore wind energy on coastal tourism markets. She is a member of the Science Advisory Board for the US Environmental Protection Agency, the North Carolina Task Force for the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement (BOEMRE), and recently served on the NC Legislative Research Commission Advisory Subcommittee on Offshore Energy Exploration.
Publications
- The amenity costs of offshore wind farms: Evidence from a choice experiment , Energy Economics (2018)
- Conservation policies: Who responds to price and who responds to prescription? , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT (2016)
- Disentangling property value impacts of environmental contamination from locally undesirable land uses: Implications for measuring post-cleanup stigma , JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS (2016)
- Global change and conservation triage on National Wildlife Refuges , ECOLOGY AND SOCIETY (2015)
- Amenity values of proximity to National Wildlife Refuges: An analysis of urban residential property values , ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS (2013)
- Combining Revealed and Stated Preference Data to Estimate Preferences for Residential Amenities: A GMM Approach , LAND ECONOMICS (2013)
- Municipal Rebate Programs for Environmental Retrofits: An Evaluation of Additionality and Cost-Effectiveness , JOURNAL OF POLICY ANALYSIS AND MANAGEMENT (2013)
- Hypothetical Bias in Choice Experiments: Is Cheap Talk Effective at Eliminating Bias on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Choice? , B E JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS & POLICY (2012)
- Valuing risk reductions: Incorporating risk heterogeneity into a revealed preference framework , RESOURCE AND ENERGY ECONOMICS (2011)
- Exchange Rules and the Incentive Compatibility of Choice Experiments , ENVIRONMENTAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS (2010)