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Overview

John C. Whitehead is affiliated with Appalachian State University in the United States and has developed a significant body of research within the field of economics, econometrics, and finance. Their research contributions span multiple subfields, including economics and econometrics, general decision sciences, transportation, ocean engineering, and global and planetary change.

Whitehead's work covers various research topics, primarily focusing on economic and environmental valuation as well as decision-making and behavioral economics. Other areas within their research portfolio include housing market and economics, water resources management and optimization, transportation planning and optimization, sport and mega-event impacts, and land use and ecosystem services.

Recent publications by Whitehead include the following papers:

  • Attribute Non-attendance as an Information Processing Strategy in Stated Preference Choice Experiments: Origins, Current Practices, and Future Directions (2020), published in Marine Resource Economics
  • State of the Art of Contingent Valuation (2020), published in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Environmental Science
  • Economic Values of Coastal Erosion Management: Joint Estimation of Use and Existence Values with Recreation Demand and Contingent Valuation Data (2020), published in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • The Future of Fishing for Fun: The Economics and Sustainable Management of Recreational Fisheries (2022), published in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
  • Nonmarket Valuation in the Environmental Protection Agency's Regulatory Process (2020), published in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Whitehead frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • O. Ashton Morgan
  • Craig E. Landry
  • Daniel K. Lew
  • Peter A. Groothuis
  • Tanga M. Mohr

The primary venues for Whitehead's published research are diverse, with multiple contributions appearing in:

  • Land Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Marine Resource Economics
  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Best Publications

  • Heading for higher ground: factors affecting real and hypothetical hurricane evacuation behavior

    John C Whitehead;Bob Edwards;Marieke Van Willigen;John R Maiolo

  • Contingent Valuation When Respondents Are Ambivalent

    Richard C. Ready;John C. Whitehead;Glenn C. Blomquist

  • COMBINING REVEALED AND STATED PREFERENCE DATA TO ESTIMATE THE NONMARKET VALUE OF ECOLOGICAL SERVICES: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE

    John C. Whitehead;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;George L. Van Houtven;Brett R. Gelso

  • Value of public goods from sports stadiums: the CVM approach

    Bruce K. Johnson;John C. Whitehead

  • The Value of Public Goods Generated by a Major League Sports Team: The CVM Approach

    Bruce K. Johnson;Peter A. Groothuis;John C. Whitehead

  • Resource Quality Information and Validity of Willingness to Pay in Contingent Valuation

    Glenn C. Blomquist;John C. Whitehead

  • Measuring recreation benefits of quality improvements with revealed and stated behavior data

    John C. Whitehead;Timothy C. Haab;Ju-Chin Huang

  • Benefit-Cost Analysis of FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grants

    Adam Rose;Keith Porter;Nicole Dash;Jawhar Bouabid

  • Testing for non-response and sample selection bias in contingent valuation: Analysis of a combination phone/mail survey

    John C. Whitehead;Peter A. Groothuis;Glenn C. Blomquist

  • Green vs. green: Measuring the compensation required to site electrical generation windmills in a viewshed

    Peter A. Groothuis;Jana D. Groothuis;John C. Whitehead

  • Willingness to pay for a Green Energy program: A comparison of ex-ante and ex-post hypothetical bias mitigation approaches

    John C. Whitehead;Todd L. Cherry

  • Willingness to pay for quality improvements: should revealed and stated preference data be combined?

    Ju-Chin Huang;Timothy C. Haab;John C. Whitehead

  • Measuring Contingent Values for Wetlands: Effects of Information About Related Environmental Goods

    John C. Whitehead;Glenn C. Blomquist

  • From Hopeless to Curious? Thoughts on Hausman’s “Dubious to Hopeless” Critique of Contingent Valuation

    Timothy C. Haab;Matthew G. Interis;Daniel R. Petrolia;John C. Whitehead

  • From Hopeless to Curious? Thoughts on Hausman's “Dubious to Hopeless” Critique of Contingent Valuation

    Timothy C. Haab;Matthew G. Interis;Daniel R. Petrolia;John C. Whitehead

  • Valuing Beach Access and Width with Revealed and Stated Preference Data

    John C. Whitehead;Christopher F. Dumas;Jim Herstine;Jeffery Hill

  • Incentive Incompatibility and Starting-Point Bias in Iterative Valuation Questions

    John C. Whitehead

  • Environmental Interest Group Behavior and Self-Selection Bias in Contingent Valuation Mail Surveys

    John C. Whitehead

  • Assessing the Validity and Reliability of Contingent Values: A Comparison of On-Site Users, Off-Site Users, and Non-users

    John C. Whitehead;Glenn C. Blomquist;Thomas J. Hoban;William B. Clifford

  • Wind Turbines and Coastal Recreation Demand

    Craig E. Landry;Tom Allen;Todd Cherry;John C. Whitehead

  • One million dollars per mile? The opportunity costs of Hurricane evacuation

    John C. Whitehead

  • Environmental Risk and Averting Behavior: Predictive Validity of Jointly Estimated Revealed and Stated Behavior Data

    John C. Whitehead

Frequent Co-Authors

Glenn C. Blomquist
Glenn C. Blomquist University of Kentucky
Pamela Wicker
Pamela Wicker Bielefeld University
Brad R. Humphreys
Brad R. Humphreys West Virginia University
Todd L. Cherry
Todd L. Cherry University of Wyoming
Adam Rose
Adam Rose University of Southern California
John B. Loomis
John B. Loomis Colorado State University
Anne S. Kiremidjian
Anne S. Kiremidjian Stanford University
Frank Lupi
Frank Lupi Michigan State University
Mark M. Brinson
Mark M. Brinson East Carolina University

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