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14-13: Artificial Reef Attributes and The Relationship With Natural Reefs: Evidence From The Florida Keys

William L. Huth, O. Ashton Morgan, Paul Hindsley and Chris Burkhart

14-12: Pour Some Sugar in Me: Does Glucose Enrichment Improve Decision Making?

Todd McElroy, David Dickinson and Nathan Stroh

14-11: Voluntary sleep choice and its effects on Bayesian decisions: A study of two samples of college students

David Dickinson, Sean P.A. Drummond and Jeff Dyche

14-10: Maternal Pre-pregnancy BMI, Gestational Weight Gain, and Infant Birth Weight: A Within-Family Analysis in the United States

Ji Yan

14-09: Predictive Validity of Stated Preference Data: Evidence from Mountain Bike Park Visits Before and After Trail System Expansion

Kevin Atkinson and John Whitehead

14-07: Publishing in The Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy and an Evaluation (via Citation Counts) of JRAP’s Influence on Scholarship in Regional Science

Garey Durden and Patricia Gaynor

14-06: Mitigating Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Data: Evidence from Sports Tourism

John Whitehead, Melissa S. Weddell and Peter Groothuis

14-05: Surveying the Literature and the People: The Economic Impact of Sports Teams and Civic Pride

Peter Groothuis and Kurt W. Rotthoff

14-04: Individual water: Water source as an indicator of attitudes about water management and conservation in rural regions

Kristin Cockerill, Peter Groothuis, Tanga Mohr and Courtney Cooper

14-03: Emotions and Punishment in Public Good Experiments

David Dickinson and David Masclet

14-02: Norm Enforcement in Social Dilemmas: An Experiment with Police Commissioners

David Dickinson, David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval

14-01: Compensation Discrimination for Defensive Players: Applying Quantile Regression to the National Football League Market for Defensive Linemen, Linebackers and Defensive Backs

Johnny Ducking, Peter Groothuis and James Richard Hill

13-26: Water doesn’t flow up hill: Determinants of Willingness to Pay for Water Conservation Measures in the Mountains of Western North Carolina

Peter Groothuis, Kristan Cockerill and Tanga M. Mohr

13-25: Compensation Discrimination in the NFL: An Analysis of Career Earnings

Johnny Ducking, Peter Groothuis and James Richard Hill

13-24: Efficient tax reporting: The effects of taxpayer information services

Christian Vossler and Michael McKee

13-23: Incentivizing Cooperative Agreements for Sustainable Forest Management: Experimental Tests of Alternative Structures and Institutional Rules

David McEvoy, Michael Jones, Michael McKee and John Talberth

13-22: When You Know Your Neighbor Pays Taxes: Information, Peer Effects, and Tax Compliance

James Alm, Kim M. Bloomquist and Michael McKee

13-21: A Recreation Demand Model of the North Carolina For-Hire Fishery: A Comparison of Primary and Secondary Purpose Anglers

John Whitehead, Christopher F. Dumas, Craig Landry and Jim Herstine

13-20: Observed Punishment Spillover Effects: A Laboratory Investigation of Behavior in a Social Dilemma

David Dickinson, Edwin Dutcher and Cortney Rodet

13-19: What do Environmental and Resource Economists Think? Results from a Survey of AERE Members

Tim Haab and John Whitehead

13-18: The impact of glucose administration on Bayesian v. heuristic based choice

Todd McElroy, David Dickinson and Nathan Stroh

13-17: Physical Activity and Thinking: An Investigation of their Relationship

Todd McElroy, David Dickinson, Nathan Stroh and Christopher A. Dickinson

13-16: Timing of Prenatal Smoking Cessation or Reduction and Infant Birth Weight: Evidence from the United Kingdom Millennium Cohort Study

Ji Yan and Peter Groothuis

13-15: Evaluation of Talent in a Changing World: The Case of Major League Baseball

Peter Groothuis, Kurt W. Rotthoff and Mark Strazicich

13-14: Voluntary Contributions to Property Rights

David M. Bruner and John R. Boyce

13-13: Does Signaling Solve the Lemon’s Problem?

Tim Perri

13-12: Adolescent Risk Perception, Substance Use, and Educational Attainment

Ji Yan and Sally Brocksen

13-11: Measuring the Impact of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Consumer Behavior: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Ash Morgan, John Whitehead, William L. Huth, Gregory S. Martin and Richard Sjolander

13-10: Exit Discrimination in the NFL: A Duration Analysis of Career Length

Johnny Ducking, Peter Groothuis and James Richard Hill

13-09: Lemons & Loons

Tim Perri

13-08: The More Abstract the Better? Raising Education Cost for the Less Able when Education is a Signal

Tim Perri

13-07: From Hopeless to Curious? Thoughts on Hausman’s “Dubious to Hopeless” Critique of Contingent Valuation

Tim Haab, Matthew G. Interis, Daniel Petrolia and John Whitehead

13-06: A Split-Sample Revealed and Stated Preference Demand Model to Examine Homogenous Subgroup Consumer Behavior Responses to Information and Food Safety Technology Treatments

Ash Morgan, John Whitehead, William L. Huth, Gregory S. Martin and Richard Sjolander

13-05: Accounting for Heterogeneity in Behavioral Responses to Health-Risk Information Treatments

Ash Morgan, John Whitehead, William L. Huth, Gregory S. Martin and Richard Sjolander

13-04: Forecasting Exchange Rates Out-of-Sample with Panel Methods and Real-Time Data

Onur Ince

13-03: Real-Time Out-of-Sample Exchange Rate Predictability

Onur Ince and Tanya Molodtsova

13-02: The (Un)Reliability of Real-Time Output Gap Estimates with Revised Data

Onur Ince and David Papell

13-01: Adopting Energy Saving Technology: Inertia or Incentives?

Peter Groothuis and Tanga McDaniel

12-07: Willingness-to-Pay for Oyster Consumption Mortality Risk Reductions

John Whitehead, Ash Morgan, William L. Huth, Gregory S. Martin and Richard Sjolander

12-06: The Effects of Moderate Exercise on Bayesian Choices

David Dickinson and Scott R. Collier

12-05: Criterion and Predictive Validity of Revealed and Stated Preference Data: The Case of Music Concert Demand

John Whitehead, Douglas Noonan and Elizabeth Marquardt

12-04: Cognitive Resource Depletion, Choice Consistency, and Risk Preferences

Marco Castillo, David Dickinson and Ragan Petrie

12-03: Wages, Employment, and Statistical Discrimination: Evidence from the Laboratory

David Dickinson and Ronald Oaxaca

12-02: Minimum Pay Scale and Career Length in the NBA

Johnny Ducking, Peter Groothuis and James Richard Hill

12-01: Willingness to Pay for Downtown Public Goods Generated by Large, Sports-Anchored Development Projects: The CVM Approach

Bruce Johnson, John Whitehead, Daniel S. Mason and Gordon J. Walker

11-20: Estimating the Value of Medal Success at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

Brad Humphreys, Bruce Johnson, Daniel S. Mason and John Whitehead

11-19: Last Settler’s Syndrome and Land Use Change in Southern Appalachia

Kristan Cockerill, Jana D. Groothuis and Peter Groothuis

11-18: Prenatal Smoking Cessation and Infant Health: Evidence from Sibling Births

Ji Yan

11-17: Does the Minimum Cigarette Purchase Age of 21 Protect Young Mothers from Cigarettes, Help Their Babies?

Ji Yan

11-16: Spence Revisited: Signaling and the Allocation of Individuals to Jobs

Tim Perri