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James Price
- Assistant Professor, School of Freshwater Sciences
Biography
Dr. James Price is an Assistant Professor and Environmental Economist at the School of Freshwater Sciences, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. He was formerly a postdoctoral research fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Brock University, and the University of British Columbia – Okanagan, and holds master’s and doctoral degrees in economics from the University of New Mexico, with concentrations in economic theory, environmental and natural resource economics, and econometrics. Dr. Price’s research focuses on nonmarket valuation and municipal water modeling, including issues related to source water protection, in situ water quality, drinking water quality, small-scale irrigation, residential water demand, and urban flooding. He has extensive experience working in interdisciplinary settings and with partners from local government agencies and research institutes.
Education
- PhD, Economics, University of New Mexico, 2012
- MA Economics, University of New Mexico, 2010
- BA, Sociology, Calvin College, 2001
Research Interests
- Environmental economics
- Nonmarket valuation
- Source water protection
- Water quality
- Municipal water supply and demand
Selected Publications
Price, J., Dupont, D., Adamowicz, W., & Lloyd-Smith, P. (2025). Protecting against flood impacts: A choice experiment evaluating household preferences for insurance and home infrastructure improvements. Land Economics.
Borchardt, S., Boyer, T., & Price, J. (2025). Valuing shoreland development and environmental disturbances: A hedonic analysis of lakefront properties in Wisconsin. Lake and Reservoir Management.
Asadi, M., Price, J., Kessels, R., & Mozumder, P. (2024). Hurricane-induced power disruptions: Households’ preferences for improving infrastructure resilience. Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, 8, 235–261.
Price, J., & Sanchez, F. (2023). Financial implications of COVID-19 for public water systems. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 149, 04023054.
Price, J., & Dupont, D. (2023). Financial risks due to residential flooding: Incorporating household perceptions to better understand behaviors. In D. Gramlich (Ed.), Water risk modeling: Developing risk-return management techniques in finance and beyond (pp. 91–120). Palgrave Macmillan.
Price, J., Bohara, A., & Hansen, W. (2022). Determinants of displacement and displacement duration following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita: A hurdle model approach. GeoHazards, 3, 412–427.
Heberling, M., Price, J., Nietch, C., Elovitz, M., Smucker, N., Thurston, H., Schupp, D., Safwat, A., & Never, T. (2022). Linking water quality to drinking water treatment costs using time series analysis: Examining the effect of a treatment plant upgrade in Ohio. Water Resources Research, 58, e2021WR031257.
Renzetti, S., Price, J., Dupont, D., & Mazumder, A. (2021). Testing household preferences for the importance of the frequency and severity of water quality impairment. Canadian Water Resources Journal, 46, 153–167.
Price, J., & Heberling, M. (2020). The effects of agricultural and urban land use on drinking water treatment costs: An analysis of U.S. community water systems. Water Economics and Policy, 6, 2050008.
Price, J., Boyer, T., & Noodin, M. (2020). Challenges and opportunities for nonmarket valuation of water among the Anishinaabe nations of the Great Lakes Basin. The Solutions Journal, 11, 23–33.
Hoover, F., Price, J., & Hopton, M. (2020). Examining the effects of green infrastructure on residential sales prices in Omaha, NE. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 54, 126778.
Price, J., Lloyd-Smith, P., Dupont, D., & Adamowicz, W. (2019). Floods and water service disruptions: Eliciting customer willingness-to-pay for public utility pricing and infrastructure decisions. Water Economics and Policy, 5, 1850021.
Price, J., & Heberling, M. (2018). The effects of source water quality on drinking water treatment costs: A review and synthesis of empirical literature. Ecological Economics, 151, 195–209.
Price, J., Heberling, M., & Nietch, C. (2018). Economic support for decisions on source water protection. Journal - American Water Works Association, 110(4), 56–61.
Steinman, A., Cardinale, B., Munns, W., Ogdahl, M., Allan, J., Angadi, T., Bartlett, S., Brauman, K., Byappanahalli, M., Doss, M., Dupont, D., Johns, A., Kashian, D., Lupi, F., McIntyre, P., Miller, T., Moore, M., Muenich, R., Poudel, R., Price, J., … Washburn, E. (2017). Ecosystem services in the Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research, 43, 161–168.
Price, J., Renzetti, S., Dupont, D., Adamowicz, W., & Emelko, M. (2017). Production costs, inefficiency, and source water quality: A stochastic cost frontier analysis of Canadian water utilities. Land Economics, 93(1), 1–11.
Price, J., Dupont, D., & Adamowicz, W. (2017). As time goes by: Examination of temporal stability across stated preference question formats. Environmental and Resource Economics, 68, 643–662.
Price, J., Janmaat, J., Sugden, F., & Bharati, L. (2016). Water storage systems and preference heterogeneity in water-scarce environments: A choice experiment in Nepal’s Koshi River Basin. Water Resources and Economics, 13, 6–18.
Raheem, N., Archambault, S., Arellano, E., Gonzales, M., Kopp, D., Rivera, J., Guldan, S., Boykin, K., Oldham, C., Valdez, A., Colt, S., Lamadrid, E., Wang, J., Price, J., … Dingwell, E. (2015). A framework for assessing ecosystem services in acequia irrigation communities of the Upper Río Grande watershed. WIREs Water, 2, 559–575.
Price, J., Chermak, J., & Felardo, J. (2014). Low-flow appliances and household water demand: An evaluation of demand-side management policy in Albuquerque, NM. Journal of Environmental Management, 133, 37–44.
Price, J., & Bohara, A. (2013). Maternal healthcare amid political unrest: The effects of armed conflict on antenatal care utilization in Nepal. Health Policy and Planning, 28, 309–319.
Price, J., McCollum, D., & Berrens, R. (2010). Insect infestation and residential property values: A hedonic analysis of the mountain pine beetle epidemic. Forest Policy and Economics, 12, 415–422.
Thacher, J., Chermak, J., Grimsrud, K., Krause, K., & Price, J. (2010). Invasive alien weeds and western cattle ranching: Lessons learned from yellow starthistle in New Mexico. Western Economics Forum, 9, 19–26.