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Carol Mansfield

Expertise

Health and Environmental Economics
Microeconomic Data Analysis
Environmental Policy Analysis

Biography

Carol Mansfield, PhD, specializes in empirical analysis of individual decision making for management and policy applications related to the environment and health. She has estimated benefits for environmental and health projects using both revealed and stated preference techniques including hedonic pricing, travel cost, cost-of-illness, averting behavior, benefit transfer, meta-analysis, contingent value, and conjoint surveys. She has extensive experience with survey-based data collection for preference elicitation and exposure analysis, including instrument design, management, and statistical analysis of the responses. Dr. Mansfield has managed numerous multi-disciplinary teams researching environmental health and natural resource management policies. She is a member of the American Economic Association and the Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists, as well as an adjunct associate professor of economics at Duke University. Before joining RTI, Dr. Mansfield was an assistant professor in the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences.

Education

PhD, Economics, University of Maryland, College Park; BA, Economics, Yale University.

Selected Publications

Mansfield, C.A., Johnson, F.R., & Van Houtven, G.L. (August 2006). The missing piece: Valuing averting behavior for children's ozone exposures. Resource and Energy Economics, 28 (3):215-228.

Cassingham, K., Sills, E., Pattanayak, S., & Mansfield, C. (2003). Spatial assessment of a voluntary forest conservation program in North Carolina. In L.D. Teeter, B.W. Cashore, & D. Zhang (Ed.), Forest Policy for Private Forestry: Global and Regional Challenges. Oxom, UK: CABI International.

Mansfield, C.A., Pattanayak, S.K., McDow, W., McDonald, R., & Halpin, P. (2002 Feb). Shades of Green: Measuring the Value of Urban Forests in the Housing Market.

Mansfield, C., Van Houtven, G.L., & Huber, J. (2002). Compensating for public harms: Why public goods are preferred to money. Land Economics, 78 (3):368-389.

Mansfield, C.A., & Smith, V.K. (2002). Tradeoff at the trough: TMDL’s and the evolving status of water quality policy. In J.A. List, & A. de Zeeuw (Ed.), Recent Advances in Environmental Economics. Cheltenhen, UK: Edward Elgar.

Mansfield, C., Van Houtven, G., & Huber, J. (2001). The efficiency of political mechanisms for siting nuisance facilities: Are opponents more likely to participate than supporters? Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 22 (2-3):141-161.

Mansfield, C.A. (March 1999). Despairing over disparities: Explaining the differences between willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-accept. Environmental & Resource Economics, 13 (2):219-234.

Smith, V.K., Schwabe, K.A., & Mansfield, C.A. (1999). Does nature limit environmental federalism? In A. Panagariya, P.R. Portney, & R.M. Schwab (Ed.), Environmental and Public Economics: Essays in Honor of Wallace E. Oates. Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar.

Smith, V.K., & Mansfield, C. (1998 Nov). Buying Time: Real and Hypothetical Offers,. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 36 (3):209-224.

Mansfield, C.A. (January 1998). A consistent method for calibrating contingent value survey data. Southern Economic Journal, 64 (3):665-681.

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