research overview
- Professor Flores' research emphasizes theory, development of methodology, and application of research tools to advance the economic science of environmental and public goods.
- Contact Info
Flores, Nicholas E Professor
Positions
Research Areas
Research
keywords
- Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Benefit Cost Analysis
Publications
selected publications
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chapter
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journal article
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Risk interdependency, social norms, and wildfire mitigation: a choice experiment.
Natural Hazards.
1327-1354.
2020
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Relevant Recruiting for Online Survey Participation
2018
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Catching Fire? Social Interactions, Beliefs, and Wildfire Risk Mitigation Behaviors.
Society and Natural Resources.
807-824.
2015
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Hypothetical Bias Reconsidered: Payment and Provision Uncertainties in a Threshold Provision Mechanism.
Environmental and Resource Economics.
433-454.
2014
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Social Amplification of Wildfire Risk: The Role of Social Interactions and Information Sources.
Risk Analysis: an international journal.
800-817.
2013
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Trying Not to Get Burned: Understanding Homeowners' Wildfire Risk-Mitigation Behaviors.
Environmental Management (New York): an international journal for decision-makers, scientists and environmental auditors.
1139-1151.
2012
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Is Urban Stream Restoration Worth It?1.
Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
603-615.
2012
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Demand Revelation, Hypothetical Bias, and Threshold Public Goods Provision.
Environmental and Resource Economics.
231-243.
2009
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Hybrid allocation mechanisms for publicly provided goods.
Journal of Public Economics.
311-325.
2009
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Optimal Public Goods Provision: Implications of Endogenizing the Labor/Leisure Choice.
Land Economics: a quarterly journal devoted to the study of economic and social institutions.
701-707.
2008
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Reliability of individual valuations of public and private goods: Choice consistency, response time, and preference refinement.
Journal of Public Economics.
1595-1606.
2008
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Estimating the economic benefits of acidic rock drainage clean up using cost shares.
Ecological Economics.
348-355.
2008
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Cost credibility and the stated preference analysis of public goods.
Resource and Energy Economics.
195-205.
2007
- Does gender matter for demand revelation in threshold public goods experiments?. Economics Bulletin. 2007
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Student Demand for Streaming Lecture Video: Empirical Evidence from Undergraduate Economics Classes.
International Review of Economics Education.
57-78.
2007
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Insights into wildfire mitigation decisions among wildland-urban interface residents.
Society and Natural Resources.
759-768.
2006
- Emerging tools for evaluating digital library services: conceptual adaptations of LibQUAL+ and CAPM. Journal of Digital Information. 2006
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Multiple-Bounded Uncertainty Choice Data as Probabilistic Intentions.
Land Economics: a quarterly journal devoted to the study of economic and social institutions.
549-560.
2003
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Contingent Valuation and Incentives.
Land Economics: a quarterly journal devoted to the study of economic and social institutions.
591-604.
2002
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Market Failure in Information: The National Flood Insurance Program.
Land Economics: a quarterly journal devoted to the study of economic and social institutions.
515-521.
2002
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A Framework for Evaluating Digital Library Services.
D-Lib Magazine.
2002
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MONEY, WHO NEEDS IT? NATURAL RESOURCE DAMAGE ASSESSMENT.
Contemporary Economic Policy.
171-178.
2002
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Non-paternalistic altruism and welfare economics.
Journal of Public Economics.
293-305.
2002
- Contingent valuation: controversies and evidence. Environmental and Resource Economics. 173-210. 2001
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Sequencing and Valuing Public Goods.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
314-323.
1998
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The Relationship between the Income Elasticities of Demand and Willingness to Pay.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
287-295.
1997
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Reconsidering the Use of Hicks Neutrality to Recover Total Value.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
49-64.
1996
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Contingent Valuation and Revealed Preference Methodologies: Comparing the Estimates for Quasi-Public Goods.
Land Economics: a quarterly journal devoted to the study of economic and social institutions.
80-80.
1996
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Risk interdependency, social norms, and wildfire mitigation: a choice experiment.
Natural Hazards.
1327-1354.
2020
Teaching
courses taught
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ECON 3818 - Introduction to Statistics with Computer Applications
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021
Introduces statistical methods and their applications in quantitative economic analysis.
Background
education and training
- Ph.D., University of California-San Diego 1995
- M.S., University of California-San Diego 1994
- M.A., University of California-San Diego 1993
- B.A., University of Texas at Austin 1989
awards and honors
International Activities
global connections related to teaching and scholarly work (in recent years)
- Japan Country
- New Zealand Country