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Overview

Ken Willis is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within the social sciences and economics, focusing primarily on topics related to demographics, economic valuation, and housing studies.

Their work includes contributions to the following main fields of study:

  • Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these fields, Ken Willis has explored several subfields, including:

  • Demography
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Ocean Engineering
  • Finance
  • Transportation

The key topics addressed in their publications cover:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Technology Use by Older Adults
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility

Ken Willis has authored papers published in several notable academic venues. The frequent publication venues are:

  • Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy
  • Journal of Aging and Environment
  • Housing Studies

Among the recent publications authored or co-authored by Ken Willis are:

  • Research on customers' willingness-to-pay for service changes in UK water company price reviews 1994-2019, 2021, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy
  • Acknowledgement of referees, 2018-2020, 2020, Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy

In collaborations with others, Ken Willis frequently co-authors with:

  • Dominic Aitken
  • Rose Gilroy
  • Rob Sheldon
  • José M. Grisolía

Ken Willis's research interests notably intersect with studies on aging populations and housing preferences, as reflected in collaborative work such as studies on older homebuyers' preferences for accessibility and adaptability features in dwellings. This includes papers published in the Journal of Aging and Environment and Housing Studies.

Their research output illustrates a consistent engagement with themes related to both environmental economics and social aspects of aging, migration, and housing finance, contributing to multidisciplinary understanding in these fields.

Best Publications

  • Economic Valuation of the Environment

    Guy Garrod;Kenneth G. Willis

  • Valuing environmental preferences : theory and practice of the contingent valuation method in the US, EU, and developing countries

    Ian Bateman;K. G. Willis

  • Willingness-to-pay for renewable energy: Primary and discretionary choice of British households’ for micro-generation technologies

    Riccardo Scarpa;Kenneth G. Willis

  • Economic Valuation of the Environment: Methods and Case Studies

    GD Garrod;KG Willis

  • Elicitation and truncation effects in contingent valuation studies

    Ian J. Bateman;Ian H. Langford;R.Kerry Turner;Ken G. Willis

  • Performance of Error Component Models for Status-Quo Effects in Choice Experiments

    Riccardo Scarpa;Silvia Ferrini;Kenneth Willis

  • Valuing goods' characteristics : an application of the hedonic price method to environmental attributes

    G.D. Garrod;K.G. Willis

  • An Individual Travel-Cost Method of Evaluating Forest Recreation

    K. G. Willis;G. D. Garrod

  • Valuing Environmental Preferences

    Ian J. Bateman;Kenneth G. Willis

  • The environmental economic impact of woodland: a two-stage hedonic price model of the amenity value of forestry in britain

    Guy Garrod;Ken Willis

  • The non-use benefits of enhancing forest biodiversity: A contingent ranking study

    G.D. Garrod;K.G. Willis

  • Mortality and morbidity benefits of air pollution (SO2 and PM10) absorption attributable to woodland in Britain

    Neil A Powe;Kenneth G Willis

  • Valuing landscape: a contingent valuation approach

    K.G. Willis;G.D. Garrod

  • Estimating rural households' willingness to pay for health insurance.

    Ali Asgary;Ken Willis;Ali Akbar Taghvaei;Mojtaba Rafeian

  • Renewable energy adoption in an ageing population: Heterogeneity in preferences for micro-generation technology adoption

    Kenneth Willis;Riccardo Scarpa;Rose Gilroy;Neveen Hamza

  • Valuing externalities from water supply: Status quo, choice complexity and individual random effects in panel kernel logit analysis of choice experiments

    Riccardo Scarpa;Kenneth G. Willis;Melinda Acutt

  • Modelling zero values and protest responses in contingent valuation surveys

    Elisabetta Strazzera;Riccardo Scarpa;Pinuccia Calia;Guy D. Garrod

  • Consistency between contingent valuation estimates: a comparison of two studies of UK national parks.

    Ian Bateman;Ken Willis;Guy Garrod

  • Valuation of urban amenities using an hedonic price model

    N. A. Powe;G. D. Garrod;K. G. Willis

  • Estimating lost amenity due to landfill waste disposal

    Guy Garrod;Ken Willis

  • Environmental Valuation: New Perspectives

    Ken G Willis;John T Corkindale

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy Garrod
Guy Garrod Newcastle University
Riccardo Scarpa
Riccardo Scarpa Durham University
Ian J. Bateman
Ian J. Bateman University of Exeter
Peter Nijkamp
Peter Nijkamp Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Raymond J.G.M. Florax
Raymond J.G.M. Florax Purdue University West Lafayette
Colin Mayer
Colin Mayer University of Oxford
Kenneth Button
Kenneth Button George Mason University
R. Kerry Turner
R. Kerry Turner University of East Anglia
Martin Dijst
Martin Dijst Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
Allen C. Goodman
Allen C. Goodman Wayne State University

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