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 | | Sheila M. Olmstead | | Senior Fellow | |
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PROFILE |
Sheila Olmstead’s research focuses on natural resource management and pollution control, with a particular emphasis on water resource economics, including urban water demand management, market-based approaches to water conservation, drinking water quality regulation, access to drinking water among low-income populations, and the efficient allocation of water across sectors. Her recent work investigates the impacts of information disclosure on drinking water quality violations, regulatory avoidance under the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act, the influence of federal fire suppression policy on land development in the American West, and key components of a post-2012 international climate policy architecture.
Olmstead’s research has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Environmental Science and Technology, and Water Resources Research. With Nathaniel Keohane, she is the author of the 2007 book Markets and the Environment. Before coming to RFF in 2010, Olmstead was an Associate Professor (2007-2010) and Assistant Professor (2002-2007) of Environmental Economics at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she taught courses in natural resource economics, water resource economics, and principles of microeconomics.
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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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TESTIMONY | | There are no publications available for this type. |
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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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