Staff Biographical Page: Carol Jones

Briefly

Carol Adaire Jones is a senior economist with the Production Economics and Technology Branch of the Resource and Rural Economics Division (RRED) at ERS, focusing on land use issues.

Background

For the last three years, she served as Chief of the Farm and Rural Household Well-Being Branch. In that capacity she focused on measuring farm household well-being; understanding farm household behavior in response to changing economic incentives and public policies, and its implications for farm business choices, and outcomes for household well-being and environmental outcomes; and the sources of the differential in economic well-being between farm and other rural households.

For the prior 5 years, Carol served as the Associate Director for Research in RRED. She also has served on the faculty of the international business school INCAE in Costa Rica during 1998-1999, and of the University of Michigan (Economics Department and the School of Natural Resources) during 1984-1990, and as a Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future (1988-1990). Throughout much of the 1990s, she served as Chief of the Resource Valuation Branch, Damage Assessment Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). At NOAA, Carol provided oversight of the economic analyses in all natural resource damage assessments conducted by NOAA in its capacity as a trustee for coastal and marine resources, such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In addition she was responsible for the development of the resource valuation component of the natural resource damage assessment regulations for implementing the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, in which capacity she coordinated the "Blue Ribbon Panel on the Use of Contingent Valuation in Natural Resource Damages."

Education

Carol received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, her M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Professional Affiliations

Carol is a member of the American Economics Association, American Agricultural Economics Association, and of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE). She has served on the AERE Board of Directors twice, from 1990-93 and from 2000-03.

Publications

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Selected Recent Bulletins and Reports

Farm Household Well-Being: The 2007 Income Forecast in a Broader Perspective, with Robert Green, USDA 2007 Agricultural Outlook Conference Proceedings, April 2007.

Income an Incomplete Measure of Farm Household Well-Being, with Ashok Mishra. Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, USDA, April 2007.

Agricultural Income and Finance Situation and Outlook Report, with Theodore Covey, Robert Green, and others, eAIS-84, Economic Research Service, USDA, November 2006.

Economic Well-Being of Farm Households, Economic Brief #7, Economic Research Service, USDA, March 2006.

Environmental Credit Trading: Can Farming Benefit? With Marc Ribaudo and Robert Johansson, Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, USDA, February 2006 [Reprinted in Amber Waves special issue, Agriculture and the Environment, July 2006]

Agricultural Income and Finance Situation and Outlook Report, with Theodore Covey, Robert Green, and others, eAIS-83, Economic Research Service, USDA, November 2005.

The Economics of Sequestering Carbon in the U.S. Agricultural Sector, with Jan Lewandrowski, Mark Peters, Robert House, Marlen Eve, Keith Paustian, and Mark Sperow, Technical Bulletin TB1909, Economic Research Service, USDA, April 2004.

Is Carbon Sequestration Economically Feasible, with Jan Lewandrowski, Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, USDA, April 2004. [Reprinted in Amber Waves special issue, Agriculture and the Environment, July 2006]

Selected Articles in Journals and Book Chapters

"The Emerging Carbon Market and the Role of Central America," with Marco Boscolo, Robert Faris, Theodore Panayotou and Lawrence Pratt, in Environment for Growth: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness in Central America, T. Panayotou, (ed.), Harvard University Press, 2000.

"Strategic Issues in the Design of a Green Certification Program for Tourism," with Lawrence Pratt, Crist Inman, Nathalia Mesa, and Jorge Rivera, in Environment for Growth: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness in Central America, T. Panayotou(ed.), Harvard University Press, 2000.

"The Effect of Modeling Substitute Activities on Recreational Benefit Estimates," with Frank Lupi, Marine Resource Economics, Volume 14, 357-374, 2000.

"Restoration-based Approaches for Compensation for Natural Resource Damages: Moving Toward Convergence in US and International Law," in Austin, Jay and Carl Bruch, ed., The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic and Scientific Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2000. [Invited paper for First International Conference on Addressing the Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic, and Scientific Perspectives, sponsored by Environmental Law Institute, Smithsonian Institution, and Kuwait Institute for Science, June 10-12, 1998.]

"Compensation for Natural Resource Damages from Oil Spills: A Comparison of USA Law and International Conventions," in "National and International Perspectives on the Legal Regulations of the Natural Environment," a Special Issue of the International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Volume 11, Number 1, 86-107, 1999.

"Restoration-based Measures of Compensation in Natural Resource Liability Statutes," with Katherine A. Pease, Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. XV, Number 4, 111-122, 1997. [Reprinted in Willis, K.G., Kenneth J. Button, and Peter Nijkamp, ed., Environmental Analysis and Economic Policy, Edward Elgar Publishers, 1999 and in Portuguese) in Revista Direito Meio Ambiente So Paulo, Brazil), 1999.]

"Public and Private Claims in Natural Resource Damage Assessments," with Theodore Tomasi and Stephanie Fluke, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 20, Number 1:111-163, 1996.