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Category: Self-loathing
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I recently received a request for the NLogit code for this article: Whitehead, John C., and Daniel K. Lew. "Estimating recreation benefits through joint estimation of revealed and stated preference discrete choice data." Empirical Economics 58 (2020): 2009-2029. I was happy to oblige but it took a second because, since we estimated those models, I…
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Important new discussion paper from a star-studded cast of environmental and resource economists*… …on the need for the environmental economics discipline to take better care in considering the systemic issues of race and justice in our research published by Resources for the Future: Our paper argues that systemic racism is such a fundamental force in…
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From the inbox: I am [name] from [name] Publishing. Would you be interested in publishing your work "Corrigendum: A revealed preference approach to valuing non-market recreational fishing losses from the Deepwater Horizon spill" as a paperback edition? At [name]Publishing, we have worked with more than 250,000 authors, offering them international, free-of-charge publishing.Can you imagine your…
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Ummm…this: "People are getting dumber. That's not a judgment; it's a global fact. In a host of leading nations, IQ scores have started to decline."
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"Are you REALLY the guy that wrote that book on nonmarket valuation?" Nameless graduate student, to me, at lunch today Context: I was honored to give the keynote address to open the International Society of Forest Resource Economics Annual Meeting, this morning (Proof here because I know most of you don't believe I would be…
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I had the pleasure today of attending (and paying for refreshments) for a program titled: Creating Confident Girls, Cultivating Women Who Lead, put on by a local organization called Ruling Our Experiences (Rox) Rox' mission "IS TO EQUIP GIRLS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS NECESSARY TO LIVE HEALTHY, INDEPENDENT,PRODUCTIVE AND VIOLENCE-FREE LIVES." Being the father…
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My sophomore level environmental and resource econ course has a research component. The students are required to write an abstract suitable for submission to an undergraduate research conference. Most of the students are estimating Turnbull willingness to pay using dichotomous choice data from published papers employing regional case studies. As an exercise during the semester…
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I emailed the link to my blog post to the journal that has me in their reviewer database twice so I can't log in to do the review. This is the reply I received less than an hour later. From the inbox: Dear Whitehead, Wait. "Dear Whitehead"? What, are you an undergraduate at a regional state…
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It has gone down something like this: Get a review assignment from a journal Am unable to login to the journal website to retrieve the paper Find out that the journal has created two accounts for me Journal sends me the paper to review via email Can't login to submit my review I submit my…
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