A5059842009- Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Russia and Soviet political economy
- Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Research Data Management Practices
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Political Conflict and Governance
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- IoT and GPS-based Vehicle Safety Systems
- Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Islamic Finance and Banking Studies
- Risk Perception and Management
University of Alaska Anchorage
2009-2024
Providence College
2009-2024
Southern California University for Professional Studies
2001
University of Southern California
2001
Integrating information from existing research, qualitative ethnographic interviews, and participant observation, we designed a field experiment that introduces idiosyncratic environmental risk voluntary sharing decision into standard public goods game. Conducted with subsistence resource users in rural villages on the Kamchatka Peninsula Northeast Siberia, find evidence consistent model of indirect reciprocity local social norms helping needy. When participants are allowed to develop...
<i>A significant proportion of deforestation in Latin America is caused by smallholders living at the frontier modern rural markets. This paper develops a household model that examines roles market integration, subsistence, time preference, and non-timber forest uses household's decision to clear for future agriculture. The explores possible impacts development programs encourage integration. shows rates clearance should be exacerbated areas which integration most rapid. An empirical...
This article tests for hierarchical migration patterns using data from the Alaskan Arctic. We focus on of Iñupiat people, who are indigenous to region, and explore role income subsistence harvests in choice. Evaluating confidential microdata US Census Bureau's 2000 Decennial Population Income with a mixed multinomial conditional logit model we find evidence step-wise up down an urban rural hierarchy, results that consistent Ravenstein's (1885) early hypothesis migration. also where migrants...
Rural communities is Alaska—predominantly Alaska Native Tribes—are at the forefront of climate change impacts and justice concerns in United States. According to 2019 statewide threat assessment report, 29 are currently experiencing significant change-related erosion. Further, 38 faces flooding, 35 have major problems with thawing permafrost. Some explored community relocation adapt these impacts. Because federal law does not recognize gradual environmental like permafrost coastal erosion as...
Abstract Migration has always been an important feature of the Arctic. This paper highlights geographic patterns human migration in Arctic Alaska using origin and destination micro-data from US Census Decennial Survey. Important identified this include large village to flows negative net villages rural regional centers. Hierarchical or step-wise that are not purely distance determined also observed. Also, backto other places is these conform general hierarchical migration. Models new...
In rural economies with missing or incomplete markets, idiosyncratic risk is frequently pooled through informal networks.Idiosyncratic shocks, however, are not limited to private goods but can also restrict an individual from partaking in benefiting a collective activity.In these situations, group must decide whether provide insurance the affected member.We describe results of laboratory experiment designed test simple sharing institution sustain pooling social dilemma risk.We tested could...
Most economic studies of pollution control analyze policies that are optimal for a given set underlying parameters. Less understood is how such perform when the parameters change and not adjusted in response, or what benefits adjustment are. We construct several measures welfare sensitivity use them to impacts arising simulation second-best, agri-environmental policies.
This paper explores hypotheses of hierarchical migration using data from the Alaskan Arctic. We focus on Iñupiat people, who are indigenous to region, and explore role income, harvests subsistence resources, other place characteristics in decisions. To test related we use confidential micro-data US Census Bureau’s 2000 Decennial Population Income. Using predicted earnings along with invariant generate probabilities a mixed multinomial conditional logit model. Our results support stepwise...