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Mary Riddel, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Dr. Mary Riddel received her M.S. in Statistics and Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Colorado State University.SPAN /SPANPrior to working at UNLV, she was the Senior Economist for the Economic Forecast Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara.SPAN /SPANHer research focuses on housing markets and regional environmental issues. She has done extensive work estimating the social costs of nuclear waste transport.SPAN /SPANHer current research examines altruism and the value of public goods. She is also interested in developing theoretical and empirical models for valuing health risks to children of arsenic in public and private drinking water.SPAN /SPANShe has published numerous academic articles in distinguished regional science and economics journals such as the Journal of Environmental Economic and Management, Journal of Regional Science, Land Economics, and Journal of Housing Economics.

Selected Research
"Winners, Losers and the Nuclear Waste Dilemma" Environmental and Resource Economics, Vol. 34 (2), June 2006 "Regional Innovative Capacity with Endogenous Employment: Empirical Evidence from the U.S." The Review of Regional Studies, 2003 "Housing Demand and Supply under Stochastic Growth" Journal of Regional Science, 40(4)771-788, 2000 "Option Wealth and Bequest Values The Value of Protecting Future Generations from the Health Risks of Nuclear Waste Storage" Land Economics, V.79(3), 2003. "Grand Canyon Visitors The Challenges of Regulatory Schemes for Balancing Alternative Interests" Natural Resources Journal, V.41(1) 2001 "A Dynamic Approach to Estimating Hedonic Prices for Environmental Goods An Application to Open Space Purchase" Land Economics, V. 77(4), 2001. "Fundamentals, Feedback Trading, and Housing Market Speculation Evidence from California" Journal of Housing Economics, 8, 272-84 (1999) "Joint Estimation of Multiple CVM Scenarios under a Double-bounded Questioning Format" Environmental and Resource Economics 12 77-98, 1998 "Using Simulated Maximum Likelihood to Estimate Censored Regressions with Applications to Double-Bounded Contingent Valuation Survey Data" Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics "An Expected Utility Model for PAC Campaign Contributions An Application to Contribution Strategies for Environmental PACs" The Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, V. 45(1) 177-194, 2003. "Finite Sample Properties of Nonstationary Binary Response Models A Monte Carlo Analysis" Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, V. 73(3)203-222, 2003. "Household Location Decisions under Environmental Risk and Uncertainty" Journal of Regional Science, V. 43(3) 435-457, 2003. "Disequilibrium in the US Housing Market An Examination of Housing Market Price and Stock Dynamics 1967-1998" Journal of Housing Economics, July 2004. "A Theoretically-Consistent Empirical Model of Generalized Expected Utility An Application to Nuclear-Waste Transport" Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Vol. 32 (2), March 2006
Contact Information
College of Business Department of Economics 4505 Maryland Parkway Box 456005 Las Vegas, NV 89154-6005 Phone: (702) 895-2792 Fax: (702) 895-1354 Email: mriddel@unlv.nevada.edu Website:

Class Schedule
ECON 262-1 MW 11:30AM-12:45PM BEH 240 ECO 702-1, MW 4:00PM-5:15PM BEH 215
Office Hours
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