Joseph L. Fisher Dissertation Winners

2003-2004

Bentley Coffey, Duke University, Dept. of Economics -- Bentley is completing his doctorate on how people with severe asthma make decisions about where to live and the effects, if any, of air quality on those decisions. He seeks to add to our understanding of methodology for the valuation of air quality and in turn, offer some suggestions for improving public environmental policy.

Susana Ferreira, University of California, San Diego, Dept. of Economics -- Susana is completing three essays on environmental topics. Her first two essays address the problem of property rights and international trade in influencing rates of deforestation and the effects of these influences over time, as people's incomes, education levels, and other characteristics change. Her third essay empirically tests some hypotheses in the "green accounting" literature in which measures of a nation's total investment include the value of environmental resources. Her results challenge some of the accounting methods that the World Bank and other organization use in their approaches to green accounting.

Toshihiro Uchida, Georgia State University, Dept. of Economics -- Toshi is studying environmental policy in Japan -- specifically, three different approaches to pollution remediation. He is evaluating the effectiveness of voluntary approaches to emissions reduction as encouraged by Japan's counterpart to the U.S.'s Toxics Release Inventory; the decisions by firms to adopt environmental management systems and whether and if so, how these systems affect "the bottom line;" and a variety of economic and environmental effects of eco-labeling on companies and consumers.

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