Ju-Chin Huang

Ju-Chin Huang is a professor in the Department of Economics at Paul College. Her research focuses on methodologies and applications of non-market valuation. She has worked on a wide variety of topics including economic valuation of water quality, air quality, highway noise, recreation sites, solid waste management, hydrographic surveys, and food risk perceptions. Motivated by environmental valuation, she has also developed econometric techniques in the area of nonparametric estimation and ridge regression to improve welfare estimation in evaluating public policies.
Research Interests
- Applied Econometrics
- Environmental Valuation
Courses Taught
- ECON 402: Principles of Economics Micro
- ECON 605: Inter Microeconomic Analysis
- ECON 606: Inter. Microeconomics w/Calc
- ECON 825: Mathematical Economics
- ECON 909: Environmental Valuation
Selected Publications
Werner, S., Lemos, S., McLeod, A., Shi, W., Harris, L., Halstead, J., . . . Liang, K. (2019). Prospects for New England Agriculture: Farm to Fork. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 48(3), 473-504.
Lu, Z., Mo, W., Dilkina, B., Gardner, K., Stang, S., Huang, J. -C., & Foreman, M. C. (2019). Decentralized water collection systems for households and communities: Household preferences in Atlanta and Boston. Water Research, 167, 115134. doi:10.1016/j.watres.2019.115134
Wright, C., Halstead, J. M., & Huang, J. -C. (2019). Estimating Treatment Effects of Unit-Based Pricing of Household Solid Waste Disposal. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 48(1), 21-43. doi:10.1017/age.2018.2
Zhao, M. Q., & Huang, J. (2018). Welfare Analysis Based on Discrete Choice Models: The Representative Consumer Approximation Bias In the Presence of Nonlinear Income Effects. Environmental and Resource Economics, 71(4), 969-984.
Shi, W., & Huang, J. (2018). Correcting On-Site Sampling Bias: A New Method with Application to Recreation Demand Analysis. Land Economics, 94(3), 459-474.
Gibbs, J. P., Halstead, J. M., Boyle, K. J., & Huang, J. -C. (2002). An Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of Lake Water Clarity on New Hampshire Lakefront Properties. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 31(1), 39-46. doi:10.1017/s1068280500003464
Liu, S., Huang, J. -C., & Brown, G. L. (1998). Information and Risk Perception: A Dynamic Adjustment Process. Risk Analysis, 18(6), 689-699. doi:10.1111/j.1539-6924.1998.tb01113.x
Huang, J. -C., Haab, T. C., & Whitehead, J. C. (1997). Willingness to Pay for Quality Improvements: Should Revealed and Stated Preference Data Be Combined?. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 34(3), 240-255. doi:10.1006/jeem.1997.1013
Smith, V. K., & Huang, J. -C. (1995). Can Markets Value Air Quality? A Meta-Analysis of Hedonic Property Value Models. Journal of Political Economy, 103(1), 209-227. doi:10.1086/261981
Smith, V. K., & Huang, J. C. (1993). Hedonic models and air pollution: Twenty-five years and counting. Environmental and Resource Economics, 3(4), 381-394. doi:10.1007/bf00418818
Most Cited Publications