Lori Snyder Bennear

Journal article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · March 1, 2013 Featured Publication When policies incentivize voluntary activities that also take place in the absence of the incentive, it is critical to identify the additionality of the policy-that is, the degree to which the policy results in actions that would not have occurred otherwis ... Full text Cite

Flexible Environmental Regulation

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Impact of a randomized controlled trial in arsenic risk communication on household water-source choices in Bangladesh

Journal article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · 2012 Featured Publication We conducted a randomized controlled trial in rural Bangladesh to examine how household drinking-water choices were affected by two different messages about risk from naturally occurring groundwater arsenic. Households in both randomized treatment arms wer ... Full text Cite

What do we really know? The effect of reporting thresholds on inferences using environmental right‐to‐know data

Journal article Regulation & Governance · September 2008 Featured Publication AbstractEnvironmental right‐to‐know regulations require regulated entities to publicly disclose measures of environmental performance but exempt entities from these disclosure requirements if they manufacture, process, or u ... Full text Cite

The impacts of the "right to know": Information disclosure and the violation of drinking water standards

Journal article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · January 1, 2008 Featured Publication Information disclosure regulations are increasingly common, but their effects on the behavior of regulated firms are unclear. The 1996 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act mandated that community drinking water suppliers issue to customers annual cons ... Full text Cite

Are management-based regulations effective? evidence from state pollution prevention programs

Journal article Journal of Policy Analysis and Management · March 1, 2007 Featured Publication This paper evaluates a recent innovation in regulating risk called management-based regulation. Traditionally, risk regulation has either specified a particular means of achieving a risk-reduction goal or specified the goal and left the means of achieving ... Full text Cite