research overview
- Professor Waldman does applied and theoretical econometric research focusing on problems and opportunities in the analysis of survey data for valuing nonmarket goods and services.
- Contact Info
Waldman, Donald M
Positions
- Professor Emerita/Emeritus, Economics
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- microeconometrics, industrial organization, environmental, telecommunications, method of survey research, nonmarket valuation
Publications
selected publications
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- Combining Stated-Choice and Stated-Frequency Data with Observed Behavior to Value NRDA Compensable Damages 2009
- Sources of Error in Contingent Valuation of Environmental Commodities 2009
- Guassian Quadrature versus Simulation for the Estimation of Random Parameters: Some Evidence from Stated-Preference Choice Data 2006
- Combining stated-choice and stated-frequency data with observed behavior to value NRDA compensable damages: Green Bay, PCBs, and Fish Consumption Advisories. 371-393. 2006
- Applications of Probit and Logit Procedures in Economic Education Research 1987
- The Use of Limited Dependent Variable Models in Economic Education Research 1987
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journal article
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Estimating Willingness to Pay for Online Health Services with Discrete-Choice Experiments.
Applied Health Economics and Health Policy.
491-500.
2017
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Privacy tradeoffs in smartphone applications.
Economics Letters.
171-175.
2015
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MARKET STRUCTURE AND MEDIA DIVERSITY.
Economic Inquiry.
872-888.
2015
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US ECONOMIC SENSITIVITY TO WEATHER VARIABILITY.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
709-720.
2011
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Valuing improved hurricane forecasts.
Economics Letters.
43-46.
2011
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Household Evacuation Decision Making and the Benefits of Improved Hurricane Forecasting: Developing a Framework for Assessment.
Weather and Forecasting.
207-219.
2010
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Household Demand for Broadband Internet in 2010.
BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy.
2010
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Ability, location and household demand for Internet bandwidth.
International Journal of Industrial Organization.
166-174.
2009
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Learning and fatigue during choice experiments: A comparison of online and mail survey modes.
Journal of Applied Econometrics.
351-371.
2008
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Recent Progress on Endogeneity in Choice Modeling.
Marketing Letters.
255-265.
2005
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Broadband Internet access, awareness, and use: Analysis of United States household data.
Telecommunications Policy.
615-633.
2005
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United States Demand for Internet Access.
The Review of Network Economics.
2004
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Estimating recreational trout fishing damages in Montana's Clark Fork River basin: Summary of a natural resource damage assessment.
Journal of Environmental Management.
159-170.
2002
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Estimating the benefits and costs to mountain bikers of changes in trail characteristics, access fees, and site closures: choice experiments and benefits transfer.
Journal of Environmental Management.
411-422.
2002
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Can the Family Support Act put some life back into deadbeat dads? An analysis of child-support guidelines, award rates, and levels.
The Journal of Human Resources.
226-252.
2001
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What's an oscar worth?.
Economic Inquiry.
1-16.
2001
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Estimation in discrete choice models with choice-based samples.
American Statistician.
303-306.
2000
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Joint estimation of catch and other travel-cost parameters - Some further thoughts.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
82-85.
2000
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A discrete/continuous choice approach to residential water demand under block rate pricing: Comment.
Land Economics: a quarterly journal devoted to the study of economic and social institutions.
322-323.
2000
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The influence of social programs in source countries on various classes of US immigration.
Journal of the American Statistical Association.
64-74.
1999
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Measurement error in recreation demand models: The joint estimation of participation, site choice, and site characteristics.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
262-276.
1998
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Tax credits, labor supply, and child care.
The Review of Economics and Statistics.
125-135.
1997
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Natural and incentive-induced conservation in voluntary energy management programs.
Southern Economic Journal.
1054-1071.
1996
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A model of the skill composition of US immigration.
Applied Economics.
299-308.
1996
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SEARCHING FOR A MODEL OF MULTIPLE-SITE RECREATION DEMAND THAT ADMITS INTERIOR AND BOUNDARY SOLUTIONS.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
129-140.
1995
- Model Specification and Treatment of Outliers in the Evaluation of a Commercial Lighting Program. 55-65. 1995
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FUNCTIONAL FORM AND THE STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF WELFARE MEASURES - COMMENT.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
954-957.
1994
- WEIGHTING NONRANDOM SAMPLES IN VOLUNTARY ENERGY-CONSERVATION PROGRAM-EVALUATION. Energy Journal. 129-141. 1994
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QUALITY-ADJUSTED COST-FUNCTIONS AND POLICY EVALUATION IN THE NURSING-HOME INDUSTRY.
Journal of Political Economy.
1232-1256.
1992
- MULTIMARKET AMENITY COMPENSATION AND THE BEHAVIOR OF THE ELDERLY. The American Economic Review. 1374-1381. 1991
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A GRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF PROBIT COEFFICIENTS.
The Journal of Economic Education.
371-378.
1989
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THE ROBUSTNESS OF HEDONIC PRICE ESTIMATION - URBAN AIR-QUALITY.
Land Economics: a quarterly journal devoted to the study of economic and social institutions.
220-233.
1988
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THE DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS IN HOSPITALS - SOME ECONOMETRIC CONSIDERATIONS.
Journal of Health Economics.
373-380.
1985
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COMPUTATION IN DURATION MODELS WITH HETEROGENEITY.
Journal of Econometrics.
127-134.
1985
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MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD REGRESSION OF RANK-CENSORED DATA.
Journal of the American Statistical Association.
385-392.
1985
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Properties of technical efficiency estimators in the stochastic frontier model.
Journal of Econometrics.
353-364.
1984
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A MODEL OF HETEROGENEOUS EXPECTATIONS AS A DETERMINANT OF SHORT SALES.
Journal of Financial Research.
1-16.
1984
- Estimation of the Term Structure of Interest Rates Using a Simple Polynomial. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 1984
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THE MEAN OF THE CONDITIONAL, TRUNCATED MULTINORMAL DISTRIBUTION.
Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods.
2679-2689.
1984
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A note on algebraic equivalence of White's test and a variation of the Godfrey/Breusch-Pagan test for heteroscedasticity.
Economics Letters.
197-200.
1983
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A generalized economic-uneconomic boundary for short run product and cost curves.
Atlantic Economic Journal.
82-85.
1982
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A stationary point for the stochastic frontier likelihood.
Journal of Econometrics.
275-279.
1982
- An Economic Interpretation of Parameter Constraints in a Simultaneous- Equations Model with Limited Dependent Variables. International Economic Review. 731-739. 1981
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A Monte Carlo study of estimators of stochastic frontier production functions.
Journal of Econometrics.
67-82.
1980
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Estimating Willingness to Pay for Online Health Services with Discrete-Choice Experiments.
Applied Health Economics and Health Policy.
491-500.
2017
Teaching
courses taught
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ECON 3818 - Introduction to Statistics with Computer Applications
Primary Instructor - Summer 2018
Introduces statistical methods and their applications in quantitative economic analysis.
Background
education and training
- M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1979
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison 1979
- B.A., Cornell University 1969
International Activities
geographic focus
- Australia Country