BA, Oberlin College, 1978; PhD, MIT, 1984
Environmental Economics; Seminar in Environmental and Resource Economics; Interdisciplinary Investigations in Environmental Issues; Social Science Perspectives on Environmental Issues; Managing Complexity: America's Public Lands; Econometrics; Statistics; Mathematical Economics; Introductory Economics (combined micro and macro); Economics of Taxation; Labor Economics; Intermediate Microeconomics; The Making of Economic Policy
Environmental economics, econometrics, statistics, introductory economics, mathematical economics, public economics
Economic analysis of national parks, empirical public economics
- (with W. Reed Walker) "Explaining the Determinants of Operating Budgets at U.S. National Parks," Public Finance Review 34(5) (September 2006) 551-573
- (with J. Baldani and J. Bradfield ), Mathematical Economics, 2nd ed., Thomson South-Western, 2005;
- (with Alita Giuda and Laura Noddin), "Estimating Nonuse Values Using Conjoint Analysis," Economics Bulletin 17(7) (2005) 1-15;
- "Fringe Benefits," entry in Encyclopedia of Taxation and Tax Policy, 2nd ed., Joseph Cordes, Robert D. Ebel, and Jane G. Gravelle, editors (Washington: Urban Institute Press, 2005);
- "The Optimal Provision of Services in National Parks," Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy, 2(1) Article 9 (2002) http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/topics/vol2/iss1/art9;
- "Market Failures and the Rationale for National Parks," Journal of Economic Education 33 (Fall 2002) 347-356;
- "Managing Multiple Activities in a National Park," Land Economics 76 (August 2000) 474-485;
Junior economist, Council of Economic Advisers, Washington, DC; member, Economics Advanced Placement Committee