Matthew J. Kotchen Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and Department of Economics 4420 Donald Bren Hall University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: kotchen@bren.ucsb.edu Tel: (203) 432-9533 Curriculum Vitae in pdf format. Research Statement in pdf format.
Links Bren School of Environmental Science & Management National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) UCSB Department of Economics Economics and Environmental Science (EES) PhD Training Program Workshop: Voluntary Approaches to Environmental Protection, April 24-25, 2009
Selected Publications Offsetting Green Guilt, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009, 26-31. Cost-Benefit Analysis, in Encyclopedia of Climate and Weather, 2^nd Edition, S. Schneider (ed.), Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2010. Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads: A Theory of Environmental Offsets, The Economic Journal, 119 (2009) 883-899. [NBER working paper W13643] Some Microeconomics of Eco-Entrepreneurship, in Advances in the Study of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Growth, G. Libecap (ed.), Elsevier Science, forthcoming. A Meta-Analysis of Cost of Community Service Studies, International Regional Science Review, 32 (2009) 376-399, with S. L. Schulte. Does Daylight Saving Time Save Electricity?, VOX Column, December 5, 2008, with L. Grant. What’s The Point of Daylight Time?, Op-Ed in The New York Times, November 20, 2008, with L. Grant. What Would Environmentalists Do with ANWR?, Op-Ed in The San Diego Union-Tribune, July 18, 2008. Oil and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Weekly Policy Commentary, Resources for the Future, October 5, 2008, with N. E. Burger. Grades, Course Evaluations, and Academic Incentives, Eastern Economic Journal, forthcoming, with D. A. Love. The Effect of Geomorphic Channel Restoration on Streamflow and Groundwater in a Snow-Melt Dominated Watershed, Water Resources Research, 44 (2008) , with C. Tague and S. Valentine. Reef Structure Regulates Small-Scale Spatial Variation in Coral Bleaching, Marine Ecology Progress Series, 270 (2008) 127-141, with H. Lenihan, M. Adjeroud, J. Hench, and T. Nakamura. Pharmaceuticals in Wastewater: Behavior, Preferences, and Willingness to Pay for a Disposal Program, Journal of Environmental Management, 90 (2009) 1476-82, with J. Kallaos, K. Wheeler, C. Wong, M. Zahller. Review of Our Precarious Habitat, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 299 (2008) 581-582. Equilibrium Existence and Uniqueness in Impure Public Good Models, Economics Letters, 97 (2007) 91-96. An Economics Perspective on Treating Voluntary Programs as Clubs, in Voluntary Programs: A Club Theory Perspective, Potoski and Prakash (eds.), MIT Press, forthcoming, with K. van 't Veld. Conservation: From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium, Environmental and Resource Economics, 40 (2008) 195-215, with M. R. Moore. [NBER working paper W13678] Should We Drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge? An Economic Perspective, Energy Policy, 35 (2007) 4720-4729, with N. E. Burger. [NBER working paper W13211] Private Provision of Environmental Public Goods: Household Participation in Green-Electricity Programs, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 53 (2007) 1-16, with M. R. Moore. Relating Environmental Attitudes and Contingent Values: How Robust Are Methods for Identifying Preference Heterogeneity? Environmental and Resource Economics, 37 (2007) 757-775, with G. Aldrich, K. Grimsrud, and J. Thacher. Meeting the Challenges of the Anthropocene: Toward a Science of Coupled Human-Biophysical Systems, Global Environmental Change, 17 (2007) 149-151, with O. R. Young. Green Markets and Private Provision of Public Goods, Journal of Political Economy, 114 (2006) 816-834. Explaining the Appearance and Success of Voter Referenda for Open-Space Conservation, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 52 (2006) 373-390, with S. M. Powers. Environmental Constraints on Hydropower: An Ex-Post Benefit-Cost Analysis of Dam Relicensing in Michigan, Land Economics, 82 (2006) 389-403, with M. R. Moore, F. Lupi, and E. Rutherford. Impure Public Goods and the Comparative Statics of Environmentally Friendly Consumption, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 49 (2005) 281-300. Internal and External Influences on Pro-Environmental Behavior: Participation in a Green Electricity Program, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 23 (2003) 237-46, with C. F. Clark and M. R. Moore. Environmental Voluntary Contracts Between Individuals and Industry: An Analysis of Consumer Preferences for Green Electricity, in Environmental Voluntary Contracts: Comparative Approaches to Regulation Innovation in the United States and Europe, E. Orts and K. Deketelaere (eds.), London: Kluwer Law International (2001) 409-23, with M. R. Moore and C. F. Clark. Environmental Attitudes, Motivations, and Contingent Valuation of Nonuse Values: A Case Study Involving Endangered Species, Ecological Economics, 32 (2000) 93-107, with S. D. Reiling. Do Reminders of Budget Constraints and Substitutes Influence Contingent Valuation Estimates? Another Comment, Land Economics, 75 (1999) 478-82, with S. D. Reiling. Incorporating Resistance in Pesticide Management: A Dynamic Regional Approach, in Regional Sustainability: Applied Ecological Economics Bridging the Gap Between Natural and Social Sciences, I. Ring, B. Klauer, F. Watzold, and B. Mansson (eds.), New York: Springer Verlag (1999) 126-35. Estimating and Questioning Economic Values for Endangered Species: An Application and Discussion, Endangered Species Update, 15:5 (1998) 9-15, with S. D. Reiling.
Working Papers A Free Lunch in the Commons, with S. W. Salant, 2009 [NBER Working Paper 15086] Explaining the Price of Voluntary Carbon Offsets, with M. N. Conte, 2009 [NBER Working Paper 15294] Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Indiana, with L. E. Grant, 2008. [NBER Working Paper 14429] Green Clubs, with K. van ‘t Veld, 2009. [Technical appendix] Corporate Social Responsibility for Irresponsibility, with J. J. Moon, 2007.
Selected Media Coverage Daylight Saving Time: [Video] CBS Sunday Morning; ABC News 20/20; NBC Universal; The Today Show (I); The Today Show (II). [Radio] NPR’s All Things Considered; Chicago Public Radio. [Print] Wall Street Journal; New York Times; USA Today; Associated Press; Yahoo! News; Indianapolis Star; Philadelphia Inquire; Toronto Star; National Geographic; The Boston Globe; U.S. New and World Report; ClimateWire; Freakonomics; Marginal Revolution; Scientific American. Voluntary Carbon Offsets: [Video] Energy Policy TV. [Print] The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: Region Focus; The Katoomba Group’s Ecosystem Marketplace (reprinted in numerous outlets). Green Markets: [Print] Science Daily; Stanford Social Innovation Review; The New Scientist; Ventura County Star; The Yoga Journal. Energy and ANWR: [Print] Wall Street Journal; The San Diego Union-Tribune; RFF Features; Marginal Revolution; Arctic Economics. [Radio] WXLM Talk Radio.
Courses Cost-Benefit Analysis and Nonmarket Valuation (ESM 297-3) Introduction to Environmental Policy Analysis (ESM 251) Seminar: Economics and Environmental Science (ESM 595EE) Seminar: Green Markets: Can We Buy and Sell Our Way Out of the Environmental Crisis? (ESM595P-2) Seminar: Tools and Topics for Environmental Science and Management (ESM 595WS)