William Jaeger

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Fields: environmental and natural resource economics, water, climate change, agricultural economics, institutional economics, interdisciplinary research on human-natural systems, sustainability.

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Research interests include water resources, land use, climate change, interdisciplinary research on human-natural systems, the environmental Kuznets curve, sustainability.

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Jaeger’s teaching includes courses in environmental and natural resource economics, water economics, and sustainability.

Biography

Dr. Jaeger is professor in the Department of Applied Economics, where he teaches environmental and resource economics and where he is an extension agricultural and resource policy specialist. His research includes water resources, climate change, and interdisciplinary research on human-natural systems. Prior to coming to Oregon State University, Dr. Jaeger spent 12 years in the economics department at Williams College, MA. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Venice, Italy. He has taught at the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and was a research economist at the World Bank. He serves on the board of directors of ELAW, the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide.

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2019

Journal Article

W. Jaeger, Amos, A., Conklin, D. R., Langpap, C., Moore, K., and Plantinga, A. J., “Scope and limitations of drought management within complex human–natural systems”, Nature Sustainability, vol. 2, no. 8, pp. 710 - 717, 2019.

2017

Journal Article

W. Jaeger, Amos, A., Bigelow, D. P., Chang, H., Conklin, D. R., HAGGERTY, R. O. Y., Langpap, C., Moore, K., Mote, P. W., Nolin, A. W., Plantinga, A. J., Schwartz, C. L., Tullos, D., and Turner, D. P., “Finding water scarcity amid abundance using human–natural system models”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 114, no. 45, pp. 11884 - 11889, 2017.

2015

Book Chapter

W. Jaeger, “Institutions and Water”, in Handbook of Water Economics, Edward Elgar Pulbishing, 2015.

2014

Journal Article

C. Grout, Plantinga, A. J., and Jaeger, W., “Pay or Waive: An Economic Assessment of Property Owner Compensation Laws in the United States”, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 103 - 119, 2014.

2013

Journal Article

W. Jaeger, “Determinants of urban land market outcomes: Evidence from California”, Land Use Policy, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 966 - 973, 2013.
W. Jaeger, Plantinga, A. J., Chang, H., Dello, K., Grant, G., Hulse, D., McDonnell, J. J., Lancaster, S., Moradkhani, H., Morzillo, A. T., Mote, P., Nolin, A., Santelmann, M., and Wu, J. J., “Toward a formal definition of water scarcity in natural-human systems”, Water Resources Research, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 4506 - 4517, 2013.

2011

Journal Article

W. Jaeger and Egelkraut, T. M., “Biofuel economics in a setting of multiple objectives and unintended consequences”, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 4320 - 4333, 2011.
C. A. Grout, Jaeger, W., and Plantinga, A. J., “Land-use regulations and property values in Portland, Oregon: A regression discontinuity design approach”, Regional Science and Urban Economics, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 98 - 107, 2011.
W. Jaeger, “The Welfare Effects of Environmental Taxation”, Environmental and Resource Economics, vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 101 - 119, 2011.

2010

Journal Article

B. B. Boehlert and Jaeger, W., “Past and future water conflicts in the Upper Klamath Basin: An economic appraisal”, Water Resources Research, vol. 46, no. 10, p. n/a - n/a, 2010.

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