Faculty
Gorm Kipperberg
Assistant Professor
Ph.D.: University of California, Davis
Location: B313 Clark Bldg.
Telephone: (970) 491-0887
E-mail:
Research Interests:
I am an environmental economist. My research focuses on so-called nonmarket valuation. This is the effort of placing money values on environmental amenities and quality, whose values are not reflected, fully (or whatsoever) in the market place. I am also interested in studying pro-environmental consumer and producer behavior, using ideas of non-pecuniary incentives and motivations from behavioral economics. My research is typically applied in nature. I like to employ neat econometric and statistical methods in analysis of survey data to test models and their implied hypotheses. My ultimate research goal is to have real-world policy relevance.
Courses:
AREC/ECON 335 Introduction to Econometrics
AREC 381 Introduction to Environmental Economics
Selected Publications, Presentations and Projects:
Peer Reviewed Publications
Kipperberg, Gorm (2007): A Comparison of Household Recycling Behaviors in Norway and the United States, Journal of Environmental and Resource Economics, 36(2): 215-235, 2007.
Jamelske, Eric, and Gorm Kipperberg (2006): A Contingent Valuation Study and Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Switch to Automated Collection of Solid Waste with Single Stream Recycling in Madison, Wisconsin, Public Works Management and Policy, 11(2): 89-103. 2006.
Works in Progress
Reluctant Recyclers: Social Interaction in Responsibility Ascription (with Kjell Arne Brekke and Karine Nyborg), Submitted to Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (June 2007).
A Panel Mixed Logit Analysis of Farmers’ Preferences for Private-Public Attributes of Irrigation Systems (With Craig Bond and Dana Hoag), submitted to Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics (Aug. 2007).
Customer Preferences for Public Water Utility Services and Service Attributes (with Jenny Bagby and Jeff Morris), Working Paper (2007).
Social Interactions in Awareness of and Participation in Green Energy Programs: The Case of Seattle Green Power (with Yuko Onozaka), Working Note (2007).
Explaining Current Recycling Behavior under Status Quo Curbside Recycling Program versus Contingent Recycling Behavior under Expanded Recycling Options (with Erin Hicks), Working Note (2007).
An Econometric Investigation of the Determinants of Preference Reversals in Stated Choice Experiments (with Yuko Onozaka), Working Note (2007).
Heterogeneous Preferences for Community Recycling Programs (With Douglas Larson), Working Paper (Updated Fall 2006).
WTP Money and WTP Time for A Public Good: Implications for the Value of Contributing Time and Current Behavior (With Douglas Larson), Working Paper (Updated Fall 2006).
Discrete Choices with Social Interactions: An Application to Consumer Recycling, Working Paper (Updated Fall 2006).
Selected Presentations
A Panel Mixed Logit Analysis of Farmers’ Preferences for Private-Public Attributes of Irrigation Systems (With Craig Bond and Dana Hoag), Selected Paper Prepared for Presentation at the Western Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, July 29-August 1, 2007.
Paying for a Public Good in Money or Time: Is There a Fundamental Difference? (With Douglas Larson), Selected Paper Prepared for Presentation at the American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island, July 24-27, 2005.
Learning to be Responsible: The Role of Information in Norm Activation Theory (With Kjell Arne Brekke (presenter) and Karine Nyborg) , Selected Paper Prepared for Presentation at the 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology, Prague, Czech Republic, September 21-24, 2005.
Discrete Choices with Social Interactions: An Application to Consumer Recycling, Selected Paper Prepared for Presentation at the AERE Sessions of American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August 1-4, 2004.
Household recycling of different materials in Norwegian municipalities (With Bente Halvorsen), Selected Paper Prepared for Presentation at the Twelfth Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Bilbao, Spain, June 28-30, 2003.
The Determinants of Household Composting of Food Waste and Yard Waste, Selected Paper Prepared for Presentation at the Twelfth Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Bilbao, Spain, June 28-30, 2003.
Base Appointment:
Resident Instruction, Research, and Outreach