William H. Desvousges

4.7k total citations
60 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

William H. Desvousges is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and General Decision Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, William H. Desvousges has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 13 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 12 papers in General Decision Sciences. Recurrent topics in William H. Desvousges's work include Economic and Environmental Valuation (35 papers), Housing Market and Economics (14 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (12 papers). William H. Desvousges is often cited by papers focused on Economic and Environmental Valuation (35 papers), Housing Market and Economics (14 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (12 papers). William H. Desvousges collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Hungary. William H. Desvousges's co-authors include V. Kerry Smith, F. Reed Johnson, Richard Dunford, Ann Fisher, Sara P. Hudson, George R. Parsons, Michael C. Naughton, Howard Kunreuther, Thomas C. Ginn and Kevin Boyle and has published in prestigious journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy and Water Resources Research.

In The Last Decade

William H. Desvousges

58 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William H. Desvousges United States 27 2.1k 541 463 453 452 60 2.9k
Glenn C. Blomquist United States 32 2.9k 1.3× 590 1.1× 398 0.9× 587 1.3× 325 0.7× 69 3.6k
Laura O. Taylor United States 24 2.2k 1.0× 340 0.6× 440 1.0× 488 1.1× 371 0.8× 49 2.9k
David S. Brookshire United States 31 2.9k 1.4× 343 0.6× 653 1.4× 596 1.3× 764 1.7× 77 3.8k
Robert P. Berrens United States 32 2.1k 1.0× 735 1.4× 531 1.1× 368 0.8× 741 1.6× 121 3.4k
Nicholas E. Flores United States 16 2.0k 0.9× 244 0.5× 485 1.0× 469 1.0× 544 1.2× 26 2.4k
John P. Hoehn United States 20 1.9k 0.9× 398 0.7× 455 1.0× 239 0.5× 705 1.6× 55 2.6k
Bengt Kriström Sweden 22 2.0k 0.9× 226 0.4× 488 1.1× 306 0.7× 451 1.0× 90 2.6k
Ronald G. Cummings United States 20 2.8k 1.3× 274 0.5× 474 1.0× 801 1.8× 287 0.6× 47 3.4k
Tannis Hett 4 1.7k 0.8× 269 0.5× 473 1.0× 195 0.4× 552 1.2× 5 2.1k
Gregory L. Poe United States 26 2.5k 1.2× 300 0.6× 595 1.3× 726 1.6× 481 1.1× 68 3.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Desvousges, William H., et al.. (2016). From Curious to Pragmatically Curious: Comment on “From Hopeless to Curious? Thoughts on Hausman's ‘Dubious to Hopeless’ Critique of Contingent Valuation”. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. 38(1). 174–182. 13 indexed citations
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Desvousges, William H., Ky L. Mathews, & Kenneth Train. (2015). An Adding-up Test on Contingent Valuations of River and Lake Quality. Land Economics. 91(3). 556–571. 28 indexed citations
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Dunford, Richard, Thomas C. Ginn, & William H. Desvousges. (2003). The use of habitat equivalency analysis in natural resource damage assessments. Ecological Economics. 48(1). 49–70. 150 indexed citations
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Desvousges, William H., et al.. (2003). Stigma Claims and Survey Reliability: Lessons Learned from Natural Resource Damages Litigation. Journal of Forensic Economics. 16(1). 23–36. 1 indexed citations
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Johnson, F. Reed, et al.. (2001). Role of Knowledge in Assessing Nonuse Values for Natural Resource Damages. Growth and Change. 32(1). 43–68. 10 indexed citations
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Desvousges, William H., F. Reed Johnson, & H. Spencer Banzhaf. (1999). Environmental Policy Analysis With Limited Information: Principles and Applications of the Transfer Method. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 106 indexed citations
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Johnson, F. Reed, et al.. (1998). Eliciting Stated Health Preferences. Medical Decision Making. 18(2_suppl). S57–S67. 34 indexed citations
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Boyle, Kevin, F. Reed Johnson, Daniel W. McCollum, et al.. (1996). Valuing Public Goods: Discrete versus Continuous Contingent-Valuation Responses. Land Economics. 72(3). 381–381. 135 indexed citations
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Smith, V. Kerry, William H. Desvousges, & John W. Payne. (1995). Do risk information programs promote mitigating behavior?. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 10(3). 203–221. 48 indexed citations
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Desvousges, William H., et al.. (1993). An investigation of part-whole biases in contingent valuation studies. J Environ Econ Manage. 1 indexed citations
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Desvousges, William H., et al.. (1988). Communicating radon risk effectively: Radon testing in Maryland. Final report. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 14(5). e0216458–e0216458. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, V. Kerry, William H. Desvousges, Ann Fisher, & F. Reed Johnson. (1988). Learning about radon's risk. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 1(2). 233–258. 26 indexed citations
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Smith, V. Kerry, William H. Desvousges, Ann Fisher, & F. Reed Johnson. (1987). Communicating radon risk effectively: a mid-course evaluation. Interim report. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 15. 15–15. 2 indexed citations
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Desvousges, William H., V. Kerry Smith, & Ann Fisher. (1987). Option price estimates for water quality improvements: A contingent valuation study for the monongahela river. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 14(3). 248–267. 140 indexed citations
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Smith, V. Kerry & William H. Desvousges. (1987). An Empirical Analysis of the Economic Value of Risk Changes. Journal of Political Economy. 95(1). 89–114. 159 indexed citations
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Smith, V. Kerry & William H. Desvousges. (1986). Asymmetries in the Valuation of Risk and the Siting of Hazardous Waste Disposal Facilities. American Economic Review. 76(2). 291–294. 17 indexed citations
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Desvousges, William H., et al.. (1986). The Value of Avoiding a Lulu: Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites. The Review of Economics and Statistics. 68(2). 293–293. 92 indexed citations
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Smith, V. Kerry & William H. Desvousges. (1985). The Generalized Travel Cost Model and Water Quality Benefits: A Reconsideration. Southern Economic Journal. 52(2). 371–371. 65 indexed citations
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Desvousges, William H. & Robert Eisner. (1980). Factors in Business Investment. Southern Economic Journal. 46(4). 1257–1257. 1 indexed citations
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Foreyt, John P., et al.. (1975). Benefit-cost analysis of a token economy program.. Professional Psychology. 6(1). 26–33. 11 indexed citations

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