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Laura O. Taylor is affiliated with the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within economics, environmental science, and related interdisciplinary fields.

The main fields of study in their work include Economics, Econometrics and Finance, as well as Environmental Science. Subfields prominently addressed are Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Aerospace Engineering.

Main topics covered by their research involve Economic and Environmental Valuation, Housing Market and Economics, Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy, Health Systems, Economic Evaluations and Quality of Life, Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment and Transportation Policies, and Global Energy and Sustainability Research.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Laura O. Taylor are:

  • Using Revealed Preference Methods to Estimate the Value of Reduced Mortality Risk: Best Practice Recommendations for the Hedonic Wage Model, 2020, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
  • Translating a Global Emission-Reduction Framework for Subnational Climate Action: A Case Study from the State of Georgia, 2021, Environmental Management
  • Utility-Scale Solar Farms and Agricultural Land Values, 2022, Land Economics
  • Advances in Causal Inference at the Intersection of Air Pollution and Health Outcomes, 2023, Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • Water Use in the Landscape: A Comparison of Water Quality and Irrigation Technologies on Behavior, 2021, Water Resources Research

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Laura O. Taylor include:

  • Lee Parton
  • Mary F. Evans
  • Marilyn A. Brown
  • Blair Beasley
  • Fikret Atalay

Their research has appeared in a variety of academic venues, including:

  • Review of Environmental Economics and Policy
  • Environmental Management
  • Land Economics
  • Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • Water Resources Research

Best Publications

  • Unbiased Value Estimates for Environmental Goods: A Cheap Talk Design for the Contingent Valuation Method

    Ronald G. Cummings;Laura O. Taylor

  • What Determines the Value of Life: A Meta‐Analysis

    Janusz R. Mrozek;Laura O. Taylor

  • The Hedonic Method

    Laura O. Taylor

  • On Behavioral-Environmental Economics

    Jason F. Shogren;Laura O. Taylor

  • Using meta-analysis for benefits transfer: Theory and practice

    John C. Bergstrom;Laura O. Taylor

  • Externality effects of small-scale hazardous waste sites: evidence from urban commercial property markets

    Keith R. Ihlanfeldt;Laura O. Taylor

  • Objective versus Subjective Measures of Water Clarity in Hedonic Property Value Models

    P. Joan Poor;Kevin J. Boyle;Laura O. Taylor;Roy Bouchard

  • Estimating the Demand for Protecting Freshwater Lakes from Eutrophication

    Kevin J. Boyle;P. Joan Poor;Laura O. Taylor

  • Altruism spillovers: Are behaviors in context-free experiments predictive of altruism toward a naturally occurring public good?

    Susan K. Laury;Laura O. Taylor

  • Conservation Policies: Who Responds to Price and Who Responds to Prescription?

    Casey J. Wichman;Laura O. Taylor;Roger H. von Haefen

  • Do as you say, say as you do: evidence on gender differences in actual and stated contributions to public goods

    Kelly M. Brown;Laura O. Taylor

  • Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Developments in Hedonic Modeling

    Laura O. Taylor

  • Does Realism Matter in Contingent Valuation Surveys

    Ronald G. Cummings;Laura Osborne Taylor

  • Do Economists Recognize an Opportunity Cost When They See One? A Dismal Performance from the Dismal Science

    Paul J Ferraro;Laura O Taylor

  • The economic impact of broadband deployment in Kentucky

    David Shideler;Narine Badasyan;Laura Taylor

  • Environmental amenities as a source of market power.

    L. O. Taylor;V. K. Smith

  • Induced-value tests of the referendum voting mechanism

    Laura O. Taylor;Michael McKee;Susan K. Laury;Ronald G. Cummings

  • Estimating the Value of Water Use Permits: A Hedonic Approach Applied to Farmland in the Southeastern United States

    Ragan A. Petrie;Laura O. Taylor

  • Exchange Rules and the Incentive Compatibility of Choice Experiments

    Laura O. Taylor;Mark D. Morrison;Kevin J. Boyle

  • The value of public and private green spaces under water restrictions.

    Darla Hatton MacDonald;Neville D. Crossman;Parvin Mahmoudi;Laura O. Taylor

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin J. Boyle
Kevin J. Boyle Virginia Tech
Mark Morrison
Mark Morrison University of Queensland
Peter C. Boxall
Peter C. Boxall University of Alberta
John C. Bergstrom
John C. Bergstrom University of Georgia
Alan Krupnick
Alan Krupnick Resources For The Future
Jason F. Shogren
Jason F. Shogren University of Wyoming
Michael McKee
Michael McKee Appalachian State University
Paul J. Ferraro
Paul J. Ferraro Johns Hopkins University
Keith R. Ihlanfeldt
Keith R. Ihlanfeldt Florida State University

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