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AWARDS |
Best Lecture Course, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 2004, 2007, 2008
Savitz Fellow Award, Best Doctoral Paper in Environmental Policy, Harvard University, 2002
Certificate of Excellence in Teaching, President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2001-2002
Pre-doctoral Fellow, Environmental Economics Program at Harvard University, 2001-2002
Joseph Crump Fellow, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2000-2001
Graduate Departmental Fellowship, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1997-1999
Emmette S. Redford Award for Outstanding Research, LBJ School of Public Affairs, 1996
Claudia Taylor Johnson Merit Fellowship, LBJ School of Public Affairs, 1994-1996
Phi Beta Kappa, 1992
| PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES | School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Associate Professor of Environmental Economics, 2007-2010
School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics, 2002-2007
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Research Assistant, Professor Robert N. Stavins, 1999-2002
Texas Water Development Board, Austin, Texas
Research Specialist, Office of Project Finance and Construction Assistance, 1998
The University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Assistant Director, Center for Environmental Resource Management in Latin America, 1996-1997
Research Associate, LBJ School of Public Affairs, 1996
Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission, Austin, Texas
Intern, Office of Border Affairs, 1995-1996
National Policy Association (formerly National Planning Association), Washington, D.C.
Aid and Development Project Coordinator, 1993-1994; Research Assistant, 1992-1993
| PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES |
Membership:
American Economic Association
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
| PUBLIC SERVICE |
Referee:
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Economic Review
Cambridge University Press
Contemporary Economic Policy
Economics Letters
Ecological Economics
Environmental Research Letters
Environmental Science & Technology
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
Journal of Regional Science
Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Journal of Sustainable Forestry
Land Economics
MIT Press
National Science Foundation
Natural Resource Modeling
Natural Resources Forum
Public Finance and Management
Resource and Energy Economics
Southern Economic Journal
U.S. Dept. of Energy
U.S. Geological Survey
W.W. Norton
Water Resources Management
Water Resources Research
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| Featured Publications | | Shale gas development impacts on surface water quality in Pennsylvania | | Sheila M. Olmstead, Lucija A. Muehlenbachs, Jhih-Shyang Shih, Ziyan Chu, and Alan J. Krupnick | | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | March 2013 | Vol. 110, No. 13 | pp. 4962-4967 | | | | The Value of Scarce Water: Measuring the Inefficiency of Municipal Regulations | | Erin T. Mansur, Sheila M. Olmstead | | Journal of Urban Economics | February 2012 | Vol. 71 | pp. 332-346 | | | | An Expanded Three-Part Architecture for Post-2012 International Climate Policy | | Sheila M. Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins | | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy | Winter 2012 | Vol. 6, No. 1 | pp.65-85 | | | | The Value of Household Water Service Quality in Lahore, Pakistan | | Agha Ali Akram and Sheila Olmstead | | Environmental and Resource Economics | June 2011 | Vol. 49, No. 2 | pp. 173-198 | | | | The Economics of Managing Scarce Water Resources | | Sheila Olmstead | | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy | Summer 2010 | Vol. 4, No. 2 | | | | The Economics of Water Quality | | Sheila Olmstead | | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy | Winter 2010 | Vol. 4, No. 1 | pp. 44-62 | | | | Applying market principles to environmental policy | | Sheila M. Olmstead | | Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century, 7th edition | Norman J. Vig and Michael E. Kraft, eds. | Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press | 2010 | | | | The Impact of the ‘Right to Know’: Information Disclosure and the Violation of Drinking Water Standards | | Sheila Olmstead and Lori Bennear | | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | September 2008 | Vol. 56, No. 2 | pp. 117-130 | | | | Sampling Out: Regulatory Avoidance and the Total Coliform Rule | | Sheila Olmstead, Lori S. Bennear and Katrina K. Jessoe | | Environmental Science and Technology | July 2009 | Vol. 43, No. 14 | pp. 5176-5182 | | | | The Economic Valuation of Environmental Amenities and Disamenities: Methods and Applications | | Sheila Olmstead and Robert Mendelsohn | | Annual Review of Environment and Resources, | November 2009 | Vol. 34 | 325-347. | | | | Comparing Price and Non-price Approaches to Water Conservation | | Sheila Olmstead and Robert Stavins | | Water Resources Research | April 2009 | Vol. 45 | | | | Reduced-form vs. Structural Models of Water Demand under Non-linear Prices | | Sheila Olmstead | | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, | January 2009 | Vol. 27, No. 1 | pp. 84-94 | | | | Water Demand Under Alternative Price Structures | | Sheila M. Olmstead, W. Michael Hanemann, and Robert N. Stavins | | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | September 2007 | Vol. 54, No. 2 | pp. 181-198 | | | | A Meaningful Second Commitment Period for the Kyoto Protocol | | Sheila Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins | | The Economists’ Voice | June 2007 | Vol. 4, No. 3 | | | | Markets and the Environment: An Introduction to Environmental and Resource Economics | | Sheila Olmstead and Nathaniel O. Keohane | | Washington, DC: Island Press | June 2007 | | | | The Whole and the Sum of its Parts: Comments on David Victor’s ‘Fragmented Carbon Markets and Reluctant Nations’ | | | Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World | Ed. Joseph Aldy and Robert Stavins | Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press | 2007 | | | | An International Policy Architecture for the Post-Kyoto Era | | Sheila Olmstead and Robert N. Stavins | | American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings | May 2006 | Vol. 96, No. 2 | pp. 35-38 | | | | Thirsty Colonias: Rate Regulation and the Provision of Water Service | | Sheila Olmstead | | Land Economics | February 2004 | Vol. 80, No. 1 | pp. 136-150 | | | | Water Supply and Poor Communities: What’s Price Got to Do with It? | | Sheila Olmstead | | Environment | December 2003 | Vol. 45, No. 10 | pp. 22-35 | | | | Environmental Regulation in the 1990s: A Retrospective Analysis | | Sheila Olmstead, Robert W. Hahn and Robert N. Stavins | | Harvard Environmental Law Review | July 2003 | Vol. 27, No. 2 | pp. 377-415 | | | | View All Related Publications |
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| EVENTS | | Whither Markets for Environmental Regulation of Air, Water, and Land? | | Wednesday, December 05, 2012 | | Water Conflicts and Resolution: Economy vs. Environment? | | Wednesday, March 02, 2011 | | Induced Development in Risky Locations: Fire Suppression and Land Use in the American West? | | Thursday, February 24, 2011 | | Coming Clean: An Economic Perspective on Water Quality Policy | | Wednesday, June 02, 2010 |
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| RELATED SUBTOPICS | | Asia, Benefit-Cost Analysis, Clean Water Act, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Drinking Water, Green Infrastructure, Information Disclosure, Regulation, Shale Gas, Valuation, Water Quality, Wildfire Management |
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