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Refereed Journal Articles
- "Fostering Pluralism in an Environmental Economics Course," Sustainability and Climate Change, 2022.
- "On the Relationship between Constitutional Environmental Human Rights and Sustainable Development Outcomes," Ecological Economics, 186, August 2021. Link to paper.
- “Environmental Rights in the Asia Pacific Region: Taking Stock and Assessing Impacts,” with Josh Gellers, Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law, 22(2), 2019. Link to paper.
- “The Luxury of Environmental Concern in the US: Evidence from Google Trends Data,” with Alexi Thompson and Jordan Gwinn, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, published online July 1, 2019. Link to paper.
- “Retail Margins in Illegal Drug Markets,” with Alexi Thompson, Economic Analysis and Policy, published online March 13, 2019. Link to paper.
- “NFL Salary Cap Allocation: Matching Theory with Observed Behavior,” with Todd Potts, Economics Bulletin, published online February 18, 2019.
- “Environmental Determinants of Chinese Development Finance in Africa,” with Josh Gellers, Journal of Environment and Development, published online February 7, 2019. Link to paper.
- “The Human Rights Foundations of an EKC with a Minimum Consumption Requirement: Theory, Implications, and Quantitative Findings,” with Alexi Thompson, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, published online January 28, 2019. Link to paper.
- “Abortion and Property Crime: What Becomes of the Mothers?,” with Alexi Thompson, Economics Bulletin, published online December 27, 2018.
- Abstract correction: "...relatively LESS risk averse..." or "...relatively more risk LOVING..."
- “Towards Environmental Democracy? Procedural Environmental Rights and Environmental Justice,” with Josh Gellers, Global Environmental Politics 18 (1), 2018. Link to paper.
- “Virtual Water and an EKC for Water Pollution,” with Alexi Thompson, Water Resources Management, 31 (3), 2017. Link to paper.
- “Constitutionalizing Environmental Rights: A Practical Guide,” with Josh Gellers, Journal of Human Rights Practice, 9 (1), 2017. Link to paper.
- “Do Constitutions Matter? The Effects of Constitutional Environmental Human Rights Provisions on Environmental Outcome,” with Lanse Minkler, KYKLOS, 69 (2), 2016. Link to paper.
- “An Empirical Analysis of Fatal Crimes against Environmental and Land Activists,” with Alexi Thompson, Economics Bulletin, published online April 29, 2016.
- “On the Temporal Effects of Static Constitutional Environmental Rights Provisions on Access to Improved Sanitation Facilities and Water Sources,” Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 7 (1), 2016. Link to paper.
- “Employment Booms and Busts Stemming from Nonrenewable Resource Extraction,” with Alexi Thompson and David Yerger, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 5 (3), 2015. Link to paper.
- “Hydraulic Fracturing and the Constitutional Human Right to Water in Pennsylvania,” Pennsylvania Economic Review, 21 (2), 2014.
- “Preference-Directed Regulation When Ethical Environmental Policy Choices Are Formed With Limited Information,” Empirical Economics, 46 (2), 2014. Link to paper.
- “On the Natural and Economic Difficulties to Fulfilling the Human Right to Water Within a Neoclassical Economics Framework,” with Farhed Shah, Review of Social Economy, 71 (1), 2013. Link to paper.
- “Constitutional Environmental Human Rights in India: Negating a Negating Statement,” Inclusive: A Journal of the Kolkata Centre for Contemporary Studies, 1 (2), 2012. Link to paper.
- “Information, Choice and Political Consumption: Human Rights in the Checkout Lane,” with Lyle Scruggs, Shareen Hertel, and Samuel J. Best, Human Rights Quarterly, 33 (4), 2011. Link to paper.
- “Implementing Environmental Rights: Reviewing the Evidence from Research and Practice” with Josh Gellers, in Stacy VanDeveer, Erika Weinthal, and Jeannie Sowers, eds., Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Link to book.
- “Implementing Substantive Constitutional Environmental Rights: A Quantitative Assessment of Current Practices Using Benchmark Rankings,” with Josh Gellers, in Erin Daly and James May, eds., Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Link to book.
- “Economic and Social Rights Research: The Quantitative State of Affairs,” in Kenneth Reinert, ed., Handbook of Globalization and Development, Edward Elgar, 2017. Link to book.
- “Constitutional Environmental Human Rights: A Descriptive Analysis of 142 National Constitutions,” in Lanse Minkler, ed., The State of Economic and Social Human Rights: A Global Overview, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Link to book.
- “Implementation of the Human Right to Social Security Around the World: A Preliminary Analysis of National Social Protection Laws,” with Lyle Scruggs and Christian Zimmermann, in Lanse Minkler, ed., The State of Economic and Social Human Rights: A Global Overview, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Link to book.
- "King Roland's Dilemma: Druidia's Environment or his Daughter's Nose"
- “The Network Externalities of Constitutional Environmental Rights”
- “Environmental Rights, Eminent Domain, and Takings: Public Purpose vs. Public Use”
- “The Growing Trends of Human Rights Research in EconLit-Indexed Journals from 1972-2018”
- “Constitutionalizing Environmental Rights,” with Josh Gellers; contribution to the United Nations Environment Programme “Good Practices in the Promotion and Implementation of Environmental Rule of Law,” (Olivia Bonner, United Nations Environment Programme), forthcoming 2021.
- “Rights-based Approaches to Development in the Asia-Pacific Region: The Role of Environmental Rights,” with Josh Gellers; contribution to Accelerating Progress: An Empowered, Inclusive, and Equal Asia and the Pacific (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2019).
- “Sustainability Studies at IUP,” Department of Economics Alumni Newsletter, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Volume 63 (2018).
- “Economic Growth and Fatal Crimes Committed against Environmental and Land Activists,” Department of Economics Alumni Newsletter, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Volume 59 (2016).
- “Why do countries adopt constitutional environmental rights provisions and what, if any, effects do said provisions have on environmental outcomes?,” with Josh Gellers; contribution to the United Nations report on implementing environmental rights (Professor John Knox, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment), 2015.
- “An Economist’s Musing on Constitutions and the Environment,” Department of Economics Alumni Newsletter, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2013.
- “Agriculture in Connecticut,” with Marilyn Altobello, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Newsletter, University of Connecticut, Summer 2011.
- “Should We Top Up the Winemaker’s Cup?” with Dennis Heffley and Jeremy Jelliffe, The Connecticut Economy, Summer 2010.
- “Fast-Tracking the Due Diligence Process,” with Alex Sutton, Asset Based Finance Journal, May/June 2010, abfjournal.com.
- “Connecticut Agriculture, 2007-2008,” with Rigoberto Lopez, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Newsletter, University of Connecticut, April 2010.
- “The People’s Budget Report: Preliminary Findings,” Human Rights Budget Group c/o National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI), December 2010.
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