Applied Economics & Statistics | Faculty
Joshua Duke
- Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1998
- M.S., University of Rochester, 1994
- B.A., University of Vermont, 1992
- APEC/ECON343 Environmental Economics
- APEC/LEST450 Environmental Law
- Advising graduate students in Agricultural and Resource Economics and Water Science and Policy.
- Land Use, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, Property Rights
- Editor (with JunJie Wu), The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics
- Water Science and Policy, Program Committee
- Advisory Panel on Nutrient Trading, Chesapeake Bay Commission
- Council of Fellows, Delaware Environmental Institute
- Distinguished Member, Northeastern Agric. and Res. Econ. Assoc.
- Editorial Board, Land Economics
- NSF-WSC-I, Water Sustainability in Coastal Environments: Exploratory Research for an Integrated Study of the Effect of Anticipated Sea Level Rise on Contaminated Site Risk
- Duke (PI), Sparks, Michael, Messer (Co-PIs)
- DWRC, The Returns to Best Management Practices: Evidence from Early Proposals for Nutrient Trading in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- J. Duke (PI), Tyler Monteith (Intern)
- Mid-Atlantic Water Program, Subaward for Delaware
- J. Duke (PI), 2011-2013
- USDA-National Integrated Water Quality Program, Water Quality and Ecosystem Services from Landscape Best Management Practices that Enhance Vegetation in Urbanizing Watersheds
- S. Inamdar (PI), D. Tallamy, J. Bruck, S. Barton, J. Duke (Co-PIs), 2/2012-1/2015
- USDA-ERS, Additionally and Incentive Problems in the TMDL and WIP Nutrient Trading Frameworks Being Developed for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- J. Duke (PI), M. Ribaudo (ERS Sponsor), 2011-12
- NSF, Collaborative Research: An Experimental Economics Investigation of Groundwater Resource Dynamics
- J. Suter (PI), K. Messer, H. Michael, J. Duke (co-PIs), 2010-12
- Delaware Environmental Institute, An Economic Analysis of the Visual Effects of Offshore Wind Projects
- K. Messer (PI), J. Duke, G. Parsons, J. Johnson (co-PIs), 2011-12
- USDA-ERS, Amendment: Applying Economic Experiments to Improve the Design and Implementation of Conservation Programs
- K. Messer, M. Weinberg (PIs), J. Duke, D. Hellerstein, N. Higgins, L. Lynch (co-PIs), 2010-12
- Delaware Agricultural Lands Preservation Foundation, Exploring Ways to Ensure the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Delaware's Conservation Efforts
- K.D. Messer (PI), J.M. Duke (co-PI), 2010-12.
- USDA, AFRI, Understanding the Appreciation of Preserved Farmland Values and Evaluating Policies to Enhance Farmers’ Access to Preserved Farms.
- B.J. Schilling (PD); Project Leaders (Co-PIs): J.M. Duke, J.D. Esseks, L. Lynch; Senior Personnel (Co-PIs): P.D. Gottlieb, L.J. Marxen, K.P. Sullivan, 2009-12.
Messer, Kent D., Joshua M. Duke, and Lori Lynch. Forthcoming. Applying Experiments to Land Economics: Public Information and Auction Efficiency in Ecosystem Service Markets. Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook of Land Economics, Joshua M. Duke and JunJie Wu, editors.
Duke, Joshua M. Forthcoming—proof available. Property rights and the environment. In Encyclopedia of Energy, Natural Resources, and Environment, ed. Jason Shogren.
Arnold, Michael, Joshua M. Duke, and Kent Messer. 2013. Adverse selection in reverse auctions for ecosystem services. Forthcoming at Land Economics
Suter, Jordan F., Joshua M. Duke, Kent D. Messer, and Holly A. Michael. 2012. Behavior in a spatially-explicit groundwater resource: Evidence from the lab. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 94(5):1094-1112.
Duke, Joshua M., Allison M. Borchers, Robert J. Johnston, and Sarah Absetz. 2012. Sustainable agricultural management contracts: Using choice experiments to estimate the benefits of land preservation and conservation practices. Ecological Economics 74:95-103.
Borchers, Allison M. and Joshua M. Duke. 2012. Capitalization and proximity to agricultural and natural lands: Evidence from Delaware. Journal of Environmental Management 99:110-117.
Johnston, Robert J. and Joshua M. Duke. 2010. The importance of socioeconomic adjustments within choice experiment benefit function transfer: Is the common wisdom correct? Resource and Energy Economics 32(3):421-438.
Duke, Joshua M. and Robert J. Johnston. 2010. Nonmarket valuation of multifunctional farm and forest preservation, pp. 124-142 in New Perspectives on Agri-Environmental Policies: A Multidisciplinary and Transatlantic Approach, ed. Stephan J. Goetz and Floor Brouwer. New York: Routledge.
Klaus Moeltner, Robert J. Johnston, Randall S. Rosenberger, and Joshua M. Duke. 2009. Benefit transfer from multiple contingent experiments: A flexible two-step model combining individual choice data with community characteristics. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(5):1335-42.
Johnston, Robert J. and Joshua M. Duke. 2009. Informing preservation of multifunctional agriculture when primary research is unavailable: An application of Meta-Analysis. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 91(5):1353-59.
Johnston, Robert J. and Joshua M. Duke. 2009. Willingness to pay for land preservation across states and jurisdictional scale: Implications for benefit transfer. Land Economics 85(2):217-37.
Duke, Joshua M. and Titus O. Awokuse+. 2009. Assessing the effect of bilateral collaborations on learning outcomes. Review of Agricultural Economics 31(2):344-358.
Duke, Joshua M. 2008. Estimating amenity values: Will it improve farmland preservation policy? Choices 23(4-Fourth Quarter):11-15.
Duke, Joshua M. 2008. Private property land ownership rights in rural America. In Encyclopedia of Rural America, 2nd, Ed. G.A. Goreham, pp. 779-782.
Johnston, Robert J. and Joshua M. Duke. 2008. Benefit transfer equivalence tests with non-normal distributions. Environmental and Resource Economics 41:1-23.
Johnston, Robert J. and Joshua M. Duke. 2007. Willingness to pay for agricultural land preservation and policy process attributes: Does the method matter? American Journal of Agricultural Economics 89(4):1098-1115
Duke, Joshua M. and Lori Lynch. 2007. Gauging support for innovative farmland preservation techniques. Policy Sciences 40:123-55
Borchers, Allison M., Joshua M. Duke, and George R. Parsons. 2007. Does willingness to pay for green energy differ by source? Energy Policy 35:3327-34
Duke, Joshua M. and Lori Lynch. 2006. Four classes of farmland retention techniques: Comparative evaluation and property rights implications. Land Economics 82(2):189-213
Awokuse, Titus O. and Joshua M. Duke. 2006. The causal structure of land price determinants. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 54(2):227-45
Aull-Hyde, Rhonda, Sevgi Erdogan, and Joshua M. Duke. 2006. An experiment on the consistency of aggregated comparison matrices in AHP. European Journal of Operational Research 171:290-95
Malcolm, Scott A., Joshua M. Duke, and John Mackenzie. 2005. Valuing rights of first refusal for farmland preservation policy. Applied Economics Letters 12:285-88

