Biography
Blackman specializes in the economics of the environment in developing countries. His research has focused on such topics as decentralization of environmental regulatory authority, pollution problems caused by small businesses, clean and climate-friendly technological change, market-based mechanisms for pollution control, pollution control programs based on public disclosure of environmental performance, and tropical deforestation. In connection with this work, he has conducted research in Latin America and Asia. Blackman also worked extensively on domestic regulatory reform. He has studied the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Project XL and the use of mortgage reforms to affect land use.
Blackman's work has appeared in a number of journals, including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environment and Development Economics, World Development, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. He is a member of the American Economic Association and the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Ph.D. in economics, University of Texas at Austin, 1993.
B.A. in political science and international relations, University of Pennsylvania, 1983.
Professional Experience
Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future, 2006-present.
Fellow, Resources for the Future, 1993 - present.
Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, Fall 2003.
Visiting Research Fellow, University of California at San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Fall and Winter Quarters 2001.
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Economics, 1990 - 1993.
Research Associate, Bureau of Business Research, Summer 1991.
Economist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Summers 1988 - 1989.
Program Assistant, Asociación pour la Productivité, Fada N'Gourma, Burkina Faso and Washington, D.C., 1986 - 1987.
Litigation Paralegal, Hogan and Hartson, 1983 - 1985.
Journal Articles
Can Voluntary Environmental Regulation Work in Developing Countries? Lessons from Case Studies. Alan Blackman Policy Studies Journal | forthcoming | Related Discussion Paper 07-10
Colombia's Discharge Fee Program: Economic Incentives for Polluters or Regulators? Allen Blackman Journal of Environmental Management | forthcoming | Related Discussion Paper 05-31
Land Cover in a Managed Forest Ecosystem: Mexican Shade Coffee Allen Blackman, Heidi J. Albers, Beatriz Ávalos-Sartorio, and Lisa Crooks Murphy American Journal of Agricultural Economics | forthcoming | Related Discussion Paper 07-30
Shade Coffee and Tree Cover Loss: Lessons from El Salvador Allen Blackman, Beatriz Ávalos-Sartorio, and Jeffrey Chow Environment | Vol. 49, No. 7 | pp. 22-32 | Related Discussion Paper 07-32
Voluntary Environmental Regulation in Developing Countries: A Mexican Case Study Allen Blackman and Nicholas Sisto Natural Resources Journal | Vol. 46, No. 4 | pp. 1005-1042 | Related Discussion Paper 05-16
Voluntary Environmental Agreements when Regulatory Capacity is Weak
Allen Blackman, Tom Lyon, Nicholas Sisto Comparative Economic Studies | 2006 | Vol. 48, No. 4 | pp. 682-702 | Related Discussion Paper 06-30
The Benefits and Costs of Informal Sector Pollution Control: Mexican Brick Kilns Allen Blackman, Stephen Newbold, Jhih-Shyang Shih, David Evans, Joseph Cook and Michael Batz Environment and Development Economics | October 2006 | Vol. 11, No. 5 | pp. 603-627 | Related Discussion Paper 00-46
How Does Public Disclosure Work? Evidence from Indonesia's PROPER Program Allen Blackman, Shakeb Afsah, and Damayanti Ratunanda Human Ecology Review | Vol. 11, No. 3 | pp. 235-246 | Related Discussion Paper 00-44
Scrap Tires in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso: Ranking the Risks Allen Blackman and Alejandra Palma Journal of Environment and Development | Vol. 11, No. 3 | pp. 247-256 | Related Discussion Paper 02-46
The Economics of Tailored Regulation: Will Voluntary Site-Specific Performance Standards Necessarily Improve Welfare? Allen Blackman and James Boyd Southern Economic Journal | 2002 | Vol. 169, No 2 | pp. 309-326 | Related Discussion Paper 00-03-REV
Obstacles to a Doubly Green Revolution Allen Blackman Environment and Development Economics | 2001 | Vol. 6, No. 4 | pp. 510-513 | Related Discussion Paper 00-48
Why Don't Lenders Finance High-Return Technological Change
in Developing-Country Agriculture? Allen Blackman American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2001 | Vol. 83, No. 4 | pp. 1024-1035 | Related Discussion Paper 01-17
Location Efficient Mortgages: Is the Rationale Sound? Allen Blackman and Alan J. Krupnick Journal of Policy Analysis and Management | 2001 | Vol. 20, No. 4 | pp. 633-649 | Related Discussion Paper 99-49-REV
The Cost of Developing Site-Specific Environmental Regulations: Evidence from EPA's Project XL Allen Blackman and J. Mazurek Environmental Management | 2001 | Vol. 27, No. 1 | pp. 109-121 | Related Discussion Paper 99-35-REV
Informal Sector Pollution Control: What Policy Options Do We Have? Allen Blackman World Development | 2000 | Vol. 28, No. 12 | pp. 2067-2082 | Related Discussion Paper 00-02-REV
The Use of Economic Incentives in Developing Countries: Lessons from International Experience with Industrial Air Pollution. Allen Blackman and Winston Harrington Journal of Environment and Development | 2000 | Vol. 9, No. 1 | pp. 5-44 | Related Discussion Paper 99-39
Making Small Beautiful: Lessons from Mexican Leather Tanneries and Brick Kilns Allen Blackman Small Enterprise Development | 2000 | Vol. 11, No. 2 | pp. 4-14
Foreign Direct Investment in the Chinese Power Sector: Trends, Benefits and Barriers Allen Blackman and X. Wu Energy Policy | 1999 | Vol. 27, No. 12 | pp. 695-711 | Related Discussion Paper 98-50
Community Pressure and Clean Technology in the Informal Sector: An Econometric Analysis of the Adoption of Propane by Traditional Mexican Brickmakers Allen Blackman and G.J. Bannister Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 1998 | Vol. 35, No. 1 | pp. 1-21 | Related Discussion Paper 97-16-REV
Pollution Control in the Informal Sector: The Ciudad Juárez Brickmakers' Project Allen Blackman and G.J. Bannister Natural Resources Journal | 1997 | Vol. 37, No. 4 | pp. 829-856 | Related Discussion Paper 98-15
Benefits and Costs of Controlling Small Firm Pollution: Informal Brickmaking in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico Blackman, Allen, Steve Newbold, Jhih-Shyang Shih, David Evans, Joe Cook and Mike Batz Small Firms and the Environment in Developing Countries: Collective Impacts, Collective Action | Allen Blackman, editor | RFF Press | February 2006 | Chapter 2 Related Discussion Paper 00-46
Maquiladoras, Air Pollution, and Human Health in Ciudad Juarez and El Paso Allen Blackman Social Costs of Industrial Growth in Northern Mexico | Kathryn Kopinak, editor | San Diego, CA: University of California San Diego Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies | Forthcoming Related Discussion Paper 03-18
The Use of Economic Incentives in Developing Countries: International Experience with Air Pollution Allen Blackman and Winston Harrington The Theory and Practice of Command and Control in Environmental Policy | Gloria Helfand and Peter Berk (editors) | Hampshire, UK: Ashgale Publishers | 2003 pp. 199-238 | Related Discussion Paper 99-39
The Economics of Technology Diffusion: Implications for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Developing Countries Allen Blackman Environmental Policy and Developing Nations | Stuart Nagel | Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. | 2002 pp. 288-306 | Related Discussion Paper 99-42
PROPER: Indonesia's Public Disclosure Pollution Control Program Allen Blackman Implementing the Habitat Agenda: In Search of Urban Sustainability | Patrick Wakely et al., eds. | London, U.K.: University College London, Development Planning Unit | 2002 pp. 146-147 | Related Discussion Paper 00-44
The Economics of Climate-Friendly Technology Diffusion in Developing Countries Allen Blackman Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology | Michael Toman, ed. | RFF Press | 2001 | pp. 248-252
Tire Piles as an Environmental and Health Hazard on the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Preliminary Assessment Focusing on Paso Del Norte
Allen Blackman, Alan Krupnick, and Alejandra Palma Applied Sciences Laboratory, Inc. | 2001 Related Discussion Paper 02-46
The Economics of Tailored Regulation and the Implications for Project XL
Allen Blackman National Science Foundation (NSF)/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | December 2000, Revised May 2001 | Related Discussion Paper 00-03
The Competitive Implications of Facility-Specific Environmental Agreements: The Intel Corporation and Project XL James Boyd, Janice Mazurek, Alan Krupnick, and Allen Blackman Environmental Regulation and Market Power: Competition, Time Consistency and International Trade | E. Petrakis, E. Sartzetakis and A. Xepapadeas, eds. | Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd. | 1999 | pp. 96-115
Crossborder Environmental Management and the Informal Sector: The Ciudad Juárez Brickmakers Project Allen Blackman and G.J. Bannister Cooperation and Conflict: Case Studies of Environmental Management on the Borders | R. Kiy and J. Wirth, eds. | College Station, TX: Texas A&M Press | 1998 Related Discussion Paper 96-22
Less Developed Countries' Performance in High Value Agricultural Trade
M. Burfisher, M. Missian and Allen Blackman U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS) Staff Report No. AGES 9118 | 1990
Short Articles, Issue Briefs, and Other Publications
Testing the Rhetoric: Location Efficient Mortgages May Have More Costs and Risks than Proponents Claim Allen Blackman Regulation Magazine | Spring 2002 | Vol. 25, No. 1 | pp. 34-38 Related Discussion Paper 99-49
Controlling Pollution from Small-Scale Sources: Leather Tanneries in León, Mexico Allen Blackman Report to the Tinker Foundation | 2000
Energy Efficiency and Climate Impacts of Foreign Direct Investment in China's Power Sector Allen Blackman and X. Wu Sinosphere | 1999 | Vol. 2, No. 1 | p. 35 Related Discussion Paper 98-50
Los Ladrilleros de Ciudad Juárez: De Cómo Evitar una Mayor Contaminación Atmosferica Allen Blackman and G.J. Bannister La Journada Ecologia | July 18, 1996 | Ańo 4, Numero 48 | pp. 6-7
Crossborder Environmental Management and the Informal Sector: The Ciudad Juárez Brickmakers Project Allen Blackman and G.J. Bannister Encuentros | 1996 | Vol. 3, No. 1 | pp. 8-10 (Also published in the North American Institute Newsletter, October 2-4, 1996.)
The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Texas Cotton M. Mohammadioun, J. Olsen and Allen Blackman 1992 Beltwide Cotton Conference | National Cotton Council (NCC) | Proceedings of the 1992 Beltwide Cotton Conference | Memphis, TN: NCC | 1992 | Vol. 1, pp. 460-463
The Impact of the US-Mexico Free Trade Agreement on Texas Cotton M. Mohammadioun, J. Olsen, and Allen Blackman Texas Business Review | June 1992
The Usefulness of Macroeconomic Statistics in
Explaining International Differences in the Diffusion
of Process Innovations: A Note Allen Blackman and James W. Boyd RFF Discussion Paper 95-10 | January 1995 | Abstract An electronic version of this report is not available.
Selected Presentations
Deforestation and Shade Grown Coffee in Oaxaca, Mexico Allen Blackman Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Annual Meetings | Washington, DC | June 22, 2004 Also presented at Resources for the Future, Washington, DC, February 2004; University of Maryland Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics, College Park, March 2003; Latin American & Caribbean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Cartagena, CO, July 2003; World Bank Environmental Economics for Development Policy Seminar; Washington, DC, July 2003; National Commission on Forestry (CONAFOR), Oaxaca, Mexico, January 2004; National Institute of Forestry, Agricultural, and Animal Research, Mexico, D.F., January 2004; World Wildlife Federation, Mexico, D.F., January 2004; Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 2002
Cap-and-Trade Systems for Air Emissions: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing Countries Allen Blackman National Institute of Ecology | Mexico, D.F. | June 22, 2004
When Small is Dirty: Mexican Brick Kilns and Leather Tanneries Allen Blackman Research Seminar on Mexico and U.S.-Mexican Relations | University of California at San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies | San Diego, CA | October 1, 2001
Clean Technological Change in Developing-Country Industrial Clusters: Mexican Leather Tanning Allen Blackman American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting | AAEA | Chicago, IL | August 1, 2001 Also presented at University of California, San Diego, Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, San Diego, CA, February, 2002; University of Guanajuato, Department of Economics, Guanajuato, Gto. May 2002; Camara de la Industria de Curtduria del Esta do de Guanajuato (CICUR), León, Gto (Mexico) May 2002; and Second World Congress of Environmental Economists, Monterey, CA, June 2002.
The Economics of Tailored Regulation: EPA's Project XL Allen Blackman Beyond Compliance: What Motivates Environmental Behavior? | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/National Science Foundation--Decision, Risk and Management Science Program | Washington, D.C. | June 1, 2001
Benefits and Costs of Alternative Pollution Control Strategies for Traditional Brick Kilns in Cd. Juárez, Mexico Allen Blackman 13th Meeting of the Joint Advisory Committee for the Improvement of Air Quality in the Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua/El Paso, Texas/Dona Ańa County, NM Air Basin | El Paso, TX | December 1, 1999 Also Presented at the 2nd Annual Border Air Emissions Trading Conference, Cd. Juárez, Mexico; American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meetings, Tampa, FL, August 2000; and Technical Conference of the Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP), Las Cruces, NM, November 1999.
Location Efficiency and Mortgage Default Allen Blackman U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Policy | Washington, D.C. | November 1, 1999
Promoting Clean Production by Small Enterprises Allen Blackman World Bank seminar: "Greening Industry: New Roles for Communities, Markets and Governments" | The World Bank | Washington, D.C. | November 1, 1999
How do Public Disclosure Pollution Control Strategies Work? Evidence from Indonesia's PROPER Program. Allen Blackman and S. Afsah American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting | AAEA | Nashville, TN | August 1, 1999
Community Pressure and Public Disclosure: Three Case Studies Allen Blackman Workshop on Poverty, Environment and Growth | The World Bank | Washington, D.C. | March 1, 1999
Cross-Border Pollution Control Allen Blackman Conference on Air Quality and Economic Growth | Dallas Federal Reserve Bank | San Antonio, TX | August 1, 1998
Foreign Direct Investment in the Chinese Power Sector: Trends, Benefits and Barriers
Allen Blackman Workshop on Technology Transfer for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Sustainable Development | Beijing, China | November 1, 1997 Also presented at the Asia Pacific Energy Forum, Washington, DC, April 1998; and the Forum for Environmental Science, Engineering and Finance, Washington, D.C., May 1999.
An Econometric Analysis of the Adoption of Propane by Traditional Brickmakers in Cd. Juárez, Mexico Allen Blackman Western Economic Association (WEA) Meetings | WEA | San Francisco, CA | June 1, 1996 Also Presented at American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meetings, San Antonio, TX, July 1996; University of Maryland, Department of Agricultural and Resouce Economics, College Park, MD, April 1997; University of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Madison, WI, September 1997; and Princeton University, Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program Seminar, Princeton, NJ, December 1997.
Professional Activities
Memberships: American Economic Association Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Manuscripts and Reviews: American Economic Review Contemporary Economic Policy Economic Development and Cultural Change Energy Journal Environment and Development Economics Journal of Development Economics Journal of Environment and Development Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Journal of Public Economics Global Development Network Research Awards National Science Foundation
Consulting: World Bank InterAmerican Development Bank Asian Development Bank Mexican Ministry of the Environment Colombian Ministry of the Environment, Housing and Territorial Development
Public Service
Latin American and Carribean Environmental Economics Program (LACEEP) Scientific Committee
Dissertation Committees: Carnegie Mellon University University of Göteborg Catholic University of Chile
