Scholars@Duke
JR DeShazo

JR DeShazo CV

Joel L. Fleishman Dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
jr.deshazo@duke.edu
201 Science Dr., Box 90239, Durham, NC 27708
123 Sanford Building, Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708
CV

Scholarly Works

Micro-targeting consumers to reduce consumptive externalities.

Journal article PloS one · January 2023 When correcting for consumption externalities policymakers may employ economic incentives, a uniform moral suasion intervention, or various micro-targeted moral suasion interventions. To assess the relative effectiveness of these policy interventions, we r ... Full text Cite

Identifying and addressing drinking water system sprawl, its consequences, and the opportunity for planners’ intervention: evidence from Los Angeles County

Journal article Journal of Environmental Planning and Management · October 15, 2019 Across the United States, poorly-performing, small drinking water systems operate under nominal public oversight in spatial patterns that neither cohere with other administrative jurisdictions nor conform to environmental, efficiency, or equity criteria. T ... Full text Cite

Where to locate transit stops: Cross-intersection profiles of ultrafine particles and implications for pedestrian exposure.

Journal article Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987) · February 2018 Epidemiological studies have shown that exposure to traffic-related pollutants increases incidence of adverse health outcomes. Transit users in cities across the globe commonly spend 15-45 min or more waiting at transit stops each day, often at locations w ... Full text Cite

How does the presence of HOV lanes affect plug-in electric vehicle adoption in California? A generalized propensity score approach

Journal article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · September 1, 2017 Policymakers have sought to spur consumer adoption of advanced clean vehicles by granting them single-occupancy access to high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. We offer the first evaluation of these policies that accommodates geographic variability in the ma ... Full text Cite

Designing policy incentives for cleaner technologies: Lessons from California's plug-in electric vehicle rebate program

Journal article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · July 1, 2017 We assess the performance of alternative rebate designs for plug-in electric vehicles. Based on an innovative vehicle choice model, we simulate the performance of rebate designs that vary in terms of vehicle technologies, consumer income eligibility, and c ... Full text Cite

ELECTRIC AND PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLE DEMAND: LESSONS FOR AN EMERGING MARKET

Journal article Economic Inquiry · April 1, 2017 Understanding demand in the new plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) market is critical to designing more effective adoption policies. We use stated preference data from an innovative choice experiment to estimate demand for PHEVs relative to battery ele ... Full text Cite

Improving incentives for clean vehicle purchases in the United States: Challenges and opportunities

Journal article Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · December 1, 2016 Full text Cite

The effects of the built environment, traffic patterns, and micrometeorology on street level ultrafine particle concentrations at a block scale: Results from multiple urban sites

Journal article Science of the Total Environment · May 15, 2016 This study attempts to explain explicitly the direct and quantitative effects of complicated urban built-environment on near-road dispersion and levels of vehicular emissions at the scale of several city blocks, based on ultrafine particle concentrations ( ... Full text Cite

Incorporating local visitor valuation information into the design of new recreation sites in tropical forests

Journal article Ecological Economics · December 1, 2015 In rapidly industrializing countries, decisions need to be made as to what characteristics new tropical forest parks in or near urban areas should have. Using a discrete choice experiment, we estimate prospective visitors' willingness-to-pay for a range of ... Full text Cite

Cost-benefit analysis of onsite residential graywater recycling: A case study on the city of Los Angeles

Journal article Journal American Water Works Association · September 1, 2015 A cost-benefit analysis of onsite graywater recycling in single-family and multifamily homes was conducted to evaluate the merits of graywater recycling in the Los Angeles, Calif., area. Graywater recycling reduces potable water demand by 27 and 38% in sin ... Full text Cite

Creation of Malaysia’s Royal Belum State Park: A Case Study of Conservation in a Developing Country

Journal article Journal of Environment and Development · March 13, 2015 The incentives for resource extraction and development make the conservation of biodiversity challenging within tropical forestlands. The 2007 establishment of the Royal Belum State Park in the Malaysian state of Perak offers lessons for creating protected ... Full text Cite

Designing and implementing surveys to value tropical forests

Journal article Journal of Tropical Forest Science · January 1, 2015 This paper describes a household survey that was used to collect data for valuing protection and recreational use of tropical rainforests in Peninsular Malaysia. The survey was developed and implemented from 2007 till 2010 and was the largest environmental ... Cite

Pricing Plug-in Electric Vehicle Recharging in Multi-unit Dwellings: Financial Viability and Fueling Costs

Book section · January 1, 2015 This research explores whether pricing structures and levels likely to provide electric vehicle drivers with financial motivation to recharge at multi-unit dwellings might provide sufficient opportunity for station cost recovery. Compared to a popular 50 m ... Full text Cite

Willingness to pay for public health policies to treat illnesses.

Journal article Journal of health economics · January 2015 As the US pursues health care reform, it is important to understand the patterns in demand for, and opposition to, public provision of medical treatments. Using data from a nationally representative survey, we develop and estimate a utility-theoretic choic ... Full text Cite

Tropical countries may be willing to pay more to protect their forests.

Journal article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2014 Inadequate funding from developed countries has hampered international efforts to conserve biodiversity in tropical forests. We present two complementary research approaches that reveal a significant increase in public demand for conservation within tropic ... Full text Cite

Pricing workplace charging: Financial viability and fueling costs

Journal article Transportation Research Record · January 1, 2014 Overnight home charging is expected to be the most common and cost-effective way of refueling plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). Workplace charging is also expected to play a prominent role and provide various benefits, such as extending the number of elect ... Full text Cite

A multi-stakeholder perspective on the use of alternative test strategies for nanomaterial safety assessment.

Journal article ACS nano · August 2013 There has been a conceptual shift in toxicological studies from describing what happens to explaining how the adverse outcome occurs, thereby enabling a deeper and improved understanding of how biomolecular and mechanistic profiling can inform hazard ident ... Full text Cite

Demand for health risk reductions

Journal article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · January 1, 2013 A choice model based on utility in a sequence of prospective future health states permits us to generalize the concept of the value of statistical life (VSL). Our representative national survey asks individuals to choose between costly risk-reducing progra ... Full text Cite

Critical review: Regulatory incentives and impediments for onsite graywater reuse in the united states

Journal article Water Environment Research · January 1, 2013 Graywater is a potential water source for reducing water demand. Accordingly, a review was undertaken of graywater reuse regulations and guidelines within the 50 United States. Major issues considered included acceptability for graywater segregation as a s ... Full text Cite

Congressional Politics

Book section · January 1, 2012 Cite

Critical review: Present onsite graywater reuse regulatory incentives and impediments in the United States

Conference Weftec 2012 85th Annual Technical Exhibition and Conference · January 1, 2012 Graywater reuse has been identified as a potential water source for reducing water demand. Accordingly, a review of graywater reuse regulations/guidelines within the fifty United States was undertaken. Major issues considered included acceptability for seg ... Full text Cite

Scenario adjustment in stated preference research

Journal article Journal of Choice Modelling · January 1, 2011 Poorly designed stated preference (SP) studies are subject to a number of well-known biases, but many of these biases can be minimized when they are anticipated ex ante and accommodated in the study's design or during data analysis. We identify another sou ... Full text Cite

Demand for health risk reductions: A cross-national comparison between the U.S. and Canada

Journal article Journal of Risk and Uncertainty · December 1, 2010 Using a large stated preference survey conducted across the U. S. and Canada, we assess differences in individual willingness to pay (WTP) for health risk reductions between the two countries. Our utility-theoretic choice model allows for systematically va ... Full text Cite

Is an ounce of prevention worth a pound of cure? Comparing demand for public prevention and treatment policies.

Journal article Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · July 2010 BackgroundPublic policy can affect the allocation of resources between programs designed to prevent illnesses or injuries and programs designed to treat those who are already sick or injured. Information about preferences for treatment and prevent ... Full text Cite

The effect of children on adult demands for health-risk reductions.

Journal article Journal of health economics · May 2010 We examine patterns in adults' willingness to pay for health-risk reductions. We allow both their marginal utilities of income and their marginal disutilities from health risks to vary systematically with the structures of their households. Demand by adult ... Full text Cite

Differential attention to attributes in utility-theoretic choice models

Journal article Journal of Choice Modelling · January 1, 2010 We show in a theoretical model that the benefit from additional attention to the marginal attribute within a choice set depends upon the expected utility loss from making a suboptimal choice if it is ignored. Guided by this analysis, we then develop an emp ... Full text Cite

Demand for environmental policies to improve health: Evaluating community-level policy scenarios

Journal article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · May 1, 2009 Using a national survey and a discrete choice experiment format, we estimate demand for environmental polices to improve health. We use a richly detailed community-level approach that describes illnesses avoided, premature deaths avoided, policy duration, ... Full text Cite

The effect of consumers' real-world choice sets on inferences from stated preference surveys

Journal article Environmental and Resource Economics · January 1, 2009 For stated preference (SP) studies, we develop a model that assesses the influence of choice set misspecification arising from the omission of perceived substitutes among real-world alternatives in the same class of goods. This problem is most likely to be ... Full text Cite

Timing and form of federal regulation: The case of climate change

Conference University of Pennsylvania Law Review · June 1, 2007 Cite

The environmental consequences of decentralizing the decision to decentralize

Journal article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · January 1, 2007 Environmental statutes that initiate devolution frequently contain provisions that allow tiers of government to control the final assignment of policymaking authority. These provisions may allow one tier of government to propose a re-assignment of authorit ... Full text Cite

Activities in models of recreational demand

Journal article Land Economics · January 1, 2007 Economists have taken divergent approaches to incorporating on-site activities into their empirical specifications of site choice models. We develop a model that explicitly allows individuals to choose both on-site attributes and site activities. This mode ... Full text Cite

Frontiers in stated preferences methods: An introduction

Journal article Environmental and Resource Economics · May 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Public agencies as lobbyists

Journal article Columbia Law Review · December 1, 2005 In this Article Professors DeShazo and Freeman identify a new mechanism by which Congress can control delegated power: the use of other agencies as lobbyists - a phenomenon the Article calls lateral legislative control. Agency lobbying can help to solve th ... Cite

Recent progress on endogeneity in choice modeling

Journal article Marketing Letters · December 1, 2005 We describe recent progress in several areas related to endogeneity, including: choice set formation and attention to attributes; interactions among decision-makers; respondents' strategic behavior in answering stated preference choices; models of multiple ... Full text Cite

The congressional competition to control delegated power

Journal article Texas Law Review · May 1, 2003 Cite

Upgrading municipal environmental services to European Union levels: A case study of household willingness to pay in Lithuania

Journal article Environment and Development Economics · January 1, 2003 Lithuania is one of ten countries in Central and Eastern Europe that is aligning its environmental policies with those of the European Union (EU). The costs of harmonizing environmental policies are expected to be extremely high and to fall disproportionat ... Full text Cite

Dissecting the Random Component of Utility

Journal article Marketing Letters · December 1, 2002 We illustrate and discuss several general issues associated with the random component of utility, or more generally "unobserved variability". We posit a general conceptual framework that suggests a variance components view as an appropriate structure for u ... Full text Cite

Designing transactions without framing effects in iterative question formats

Journal article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · January 1, 2002 Several studies document that iterative question formats used in contingent valuation studies produce anomalies in respondent behavior that appear to threaten the validity of welfare estimates. By decomposing iterative question formats into their ascending ... Full text Cite

Designing choice sets for stated preference methods: The effects of complexity on choice consistency

Journal article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · January 1, 2002 We vary the complexity of choice sets used in stated preference methods to evaluate the impact on choice consistency. We define five measures of complexity that capture either the amount of information or the correlational structure of information in a cho ... Full text Cite

The effect of supply and demand shocks on the non-market valuation of local public goods

Journal article Environment and Development Economics · January 1, 1999 For local public goods, supply or demand shocks may create periods during which it is welfare enhancing for households to undertake spatial arbitrage by relocating residentially. We point out that the magnitude and direction of the average benefit estimate ... Full text Cite

Household demand for improved solid waste management: A case study of Gujranwala, Pakistan

Journal article World Development · January 1, 1996 Solid waste management in most cities of the developing world is unsatisfactory despite consuming a relatively high proportion of municipal budgets. Most attempts at improving performance have focused on supply-side issues such as collection and disposal c ... Full text Cite

An economic model of smallholder deforestation: a consideration of the shadow value of land on the frontier

Journal article Management of Tropical Forests · January 1, 1995 Examines the determinants of agricultural expansion by settler households following initial land clearing. Based on an evaluation of relevant literature, a theoretical framework is developed to model households' land-clearing behaviour. The authors identif ... Cite