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Overview

Margaret Walls is affiliated with Resources For The Future in the United States. Their research primarily explores intersections of environmental science and economics, focusing on topics such as economic and environmental valuation, flood risk assessment and management, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Their recent publications include the following:

  • "Wildfire, smoke, and outdoor recreation in the western United States" (2021), published in Forest Policy and Economics
  • "National monuments and economic growth in the American West" (2020), published in Science Advances
  • "Economics of the US National Park System: Values, Funding, and Resource Management Challenges" (2022), published in Annual Review of Resource Economics
  • "Quantifying the Impacts of Storm Surge, Sea Level Rise, and Potential Reduction and Changes in Wetlands in Coastal Areas of the Chesapeake Bay Region" (2021), published in Natural Hazards Review
  • "Does Energy Star Certification Reduce Energy Use in Commercial Buildings?" (2022), published in Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Frequent coauthors of Margaret Walls include:

  • Matthew Wibbenmeyer
  • Jacob Gellman
  • Matthew Ashenfarb
  • Hannah Druckenmiller
  • Yanjun Liao

Margaret Walls has published multiple works in venues that regularly feature research on environmental policy and economics. Frequent publication venues include Harvard Dataverse, Nature Climate Change, Land Economics, Forest Policy and Economics, and Science Advances.

Their main fields of study encompass Environmental Science and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with applied subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Building and Construction, Soil Science, and Social Psychology.

Typical research topics addressed in their work are:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Flood Risk Assessment and Management
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Agricultural risk and resilience
  • Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
  • Urban Green Space and Health

Best Publications

  • Automobile Externalities and Policies

    Ian W.H. Parry;Margaret Walls;Winston Harrington

  • The economics of energy security

    Douglas R. Bohi;Michael A. Toman;Margaret A Walls

  • THE VALUE OF OPEN SPACE: EVIDENCE FROM STUDIES OF NONMARKET BENEFITS

    Virginia McConnell;Margaret Walls

  • The Cost of Reducing Municipal Solid Waste

    Karen L. Palmer;Hilary Sigman;Margaret Walls

  • Optimal policies for solid waste disposal Taxes, subsidies, and standards

    Karen Palmer;Margaret Walls

  • Upstream Pollution, Downstream Waste Disposal, and the Design of Comprehensive Environmental Policies

    Margaret Walls;Karen L. Palmer

  • Waste, recycling, and “Design for Environment”: Roles for markets and policy instruments

    Paul Calcott;Margaret Walls

  • Can Downstream Waste Disposal Policies Encourage Upstream "Design for Environment"?

    Paul Calcott;Margaret Walls

  • Extended Producer Responsibility and Product Design: Economic Theory and Selected Case Studies

    Margaret Walls

  • An economic agent-based model of coupled housing and land markets (CHALMS)

    Nicholas R. Magliocca;Elena Safirova;Virginia McConnell;Margaret Walls

  • Deposit-Refund Systems in Practice and Theory

    Margaret Walls

  • Assessing the energy-efficiency information gap: results from a survey of home energy auditors

    Karen Palmer;Margaret Walls;Hal Gordon;Todd Gerarden

  • Floodplain conservation as a flood mitigation strategy: Examining costs and benefits

    Carolyn Kousky;Margaret Walls

  • Distributional Impacts of an Environmental Tax Shift: The Case of Motor Vehicle Emissions Taxes

    Margaret Walls;Jean Hanson

  • Is energy efficiency capitalized into home prices? Evidence from three U.S. cities

    Margaret Walls;Todd Gerarden;Karen Palmer;Xian Fang Bak

  • Zoning, TDRs, and the Density of Development

    Virginia D. McConnell;Margaret Walls;Elizabeth Kopits

  • Private Markets, Contracts, and Government Provision What Explains the Organization of Local Waste and Recycling Markets?

    Margaret Walls;Molly Macauley;Soren Anderson

  • The Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Alternative Uses of Revenues from a Cap-and-Trade Auction

    Dallas Burtraw;Richard Sweeney;Margaret Walls

  • Extended Product Responsibility: An Economic Assessment of Alternative Policies

    Karen L. Palmer;Margaret Walls

  • What Drives Telecommuting?: Relative Impact of Worker Demographics, Employer Characteristics, and Job Types

    Margaret Walls;Elena Safirova;Yi Jiang

  • Is Energy Efficiency Capitalized into Home Prices? Evidence from Three US Cities

    Margaret Walls;Karen L. Palmer;Todd Gerarden;Xian Bak

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen L. Palmer
Karen L. Palmer Resources For The Future
Dallas Burtraw
Dallas Burtraw Resources For The Future
James N. Sanchirico
James N. Sanchirico University of California, Davis
Alan Krupnick
Alan Krupnick Resources For The Future

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