research overview Professor Waldman does applied and theoretical econometric research focusing on problems and opportunities in the analysis of survey data for valuing nonmarket goods and services.
keywords microeconometrics, industrial organization, environmental, telecommunications, method of survey research, nonmarket valuation
selected publications chapter Combining Stated-Choice and Stated-Frequency Data with Observed Behavior to Value NRDA Compensable Damages 2009 Sources of Error in Contingent Valuation of Environmental Commodities 2009 Guassian Quadrature versus Simulation for the Estimation of Random Parameters: Some Evidence from Stated-Preference Choice Data 2006 Combining stated-choice and stated-frequency data with observed behavior to value NRDA compensable damages: Green Bay, PCBs, and Fish Consumption Advisories. 371-393. 2006 Applications of Probit and Logit Procedures in Economic Education Research 1987 The Use of Limited Dependent Variable Models in Economic Education Research 1987 journal article Estimating Willingness to Pay for Online Health Services with Discrete-Choice Experiments. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 491-500. 2017 Privacy tradeoffs in smartphone applications. Economics Letters. 171-175. 2015 MARKET STRUCTURE AND MEDIA DIVERSITY. Economic Inquiry. 872-888. 2015 US ECONOMIC SENSITIVITY TO WEATHER VARIABILITY. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 709-720. 2011 Valuing improved hurricane forecasts. Economics Letters. 43-46. 2011 Household Evacuation Decision Making and the Benefits of Improved Hurricane Forecasting: Developing a Framework for Assessment. Weather and Forecasting. 207-219. 2010 Household Demand for Broadband Internet in 2010. BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy. 2010 Ability, location and household demand for Internet bandwidth. International Journal of Industrial Organization. 166-174. 2009 Learning and fatigue during choice experiments: A comparison of online and mail survey modes. Journal of Applied Econometrics. 351-371. 2008 Recent Progress on Endogeneity in Choice Modeling. Marketing Letters. 255-265. 2005 Broadband Internet access, awareness, and use: Analysis of United States household data. Telecommunications Policy. 615-633. 2005 United States Demand for Internet Access. The Review of Network Economics. 2004 Estimating recreational trout fishing damages in Montana's Clark Fork River basin: Summary of a natural resource damage assessment. Journal of Environmental Management. 159-170. 2002 Estimating the benefits and costs to mountain bikers of changes in trail characteristics, access fees, and site closures: choice experiments and benefits transfer. Journal of Environmental Management. 411-422. 2002 Can the Family Support Act put some life back into deadbeat dads? An analysis of child-support guidelines, award rates, and levels. The Journal of Human Resources. 226-252. 2001 What's an oscar worth?. Economic Inquiry. 1-16. 2001 Estimation in discrete choice models with choice-based samples. American Statistician. 303-306. 2000 Joint estimation of catch and other travel-cost parameters - Some further thoughts. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 82-85. 2000 A discrete/continuous choice approach to residential water demand under block rate pricing: Comment. Land Economics: a quarterly journal devoted to the study of economic and social institutions. 322-323. 2000 The influence of social programs in source countries on various classes of US immigration. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 64-74. 1999 Measurement error in recreation demand models: The joint estimation of participation, site choice, and site characteristics. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 262-276. 1998 Tax credits, labor supply, and child care. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 125-135. 1997 Natural and incentive-induced conservation in voluntary energy management programs. Southern Economic Journal. 1054-1071. 1996 A model of the skill composition of US immigration. Applied Economics. 299-308. 1996 SEARCHING FOR A MODEL OF MULTIPLE-SITE RECREATION DEMAND THAT ADMITS INTERIOR AND BOUNDARY SOLUTIONS. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 129-140. 1995 Model Specification and Treatment of Outliers in the Evaluation of a Commercial Lighting Program. 55-65. 1995 FUNCTIONAL FORM AND THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF WELFARE MEASURES - COMMENT. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 954-957. 1994 WEIGHTING NONRANDOM SAMPLES IN VOLUNTARY ENERGY-CONSERVATION PROGRAM-EVALUATION. Energy Journal. 129-141. 1994 QUALITY-ADJUSTED COST-FUNCTIONS AND POLICY EVALUATION IN THE NURSING-HOME INDUSTRY. Journal of Political Economy. 1232-1256. 1992 MULTIMARKET AMENITY COMPENSATION AND THE BEHAVIOR OF THE ELDERLY. The American Economic Review. 1374-1381. 1991 A GRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF PROBIT COEFFICIENTS. The Journal of Economic Education. 371-378. 1989 THE ROBUSTNESS OF HEDONIC PRICE ESTIMATION - URBAN AIR-QUALITY. Land Economics: a quarterly journal devoted to the study of economic and social institutions. 220-233. 1988 THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS IN HOSPITALS - SOME ECONOMETRIC CONSIDERATIONS. Journal of Health Economics. 373-380. 1985 COMPUTATION IN DURATION MODELS WITH HETEROGENEITY. Journal of Econometrics. 127-134. 1985 MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD REGRESSION OF RANK-CENSORED DATA. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 385-392. 1985 Properties of technical efficiency estimators in the stochastic frontier model. Journal of Econometrics. 353-364. 1984 A MODEL OF HETEROGENEOUS EXPECTATIONS AS A DETERMINANT OF SHORT SALES. Journal of Financial Research. 1-16. 1984 Estimation of the Term Structure of Interest Rates Using a Simple Polynomial. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 1984 THE MEAN OF THE CONDITIONAL, TRUNCATED MULTINORMAL DISTRIBUTION. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods. 2679-2689. 1984 A note on algebraic equivalence of White's test and a variation of the Godfrey/Breusch-Pagan test for heteroscedasticity. Economics Letters. 197-200. 1983 A generalized economic-uneconomic boundary for short run product and cost curves. Atlantic Economic Journal. 82-85. 1982 A stationary point for the stochastic frontier likelihood. Journal of Econometrics. 275-279. 1982 An Economic Interpretation of Parameter Constraints in a Simultaneous- Equations Model with Limited Dependent Variables. International Economic Review. 731-739. 1981 A Monte Carlo study of estimators of stochastic frontier production functions. Journal of Econometrics. 67-82. 1980
courses taught ECON 3818 - Introduction to Statistics with Computer Applications Primary Instructor - Summer 2018 Introduces statistical methods and their applications in quantitative economic analysis.
education and training M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1979 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1979 B.A., Cornell University 1969