Daniel Phaneuf

About

Daniel Phaneuf is the Henry C. Taylor Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research is focused on environmental economics with specific expertise in non-market valuation and applied econometrics. He is especially interested in understanding the value of the environment through decisions that interact with it, such as location and spending choices. Much of his current work concentrates on understanding the economic costs of water pollution in the United States. He holds a PhD in Economics from Iowa State University, obtained in 1997, and a BS in Economics from Saint John's University, earned in 1990. His academic contributions include courses in applied econometric analysis, environmental and natural resource economics, and global health economics. He is also an editor for Land Economics and has authored a course in environmental economics. His work aims to inform policy and decision-making related to environmental and resource issues, with a focus on the U.S.

Research topics

• Geography
• Sociology
• Medicine
• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Biology
• Demography
• Cell biology
• Pathology
• Management

Selected publications

• Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding tick-borne disease prevention in Lyme disease-endemic areas of the Upper Midwest, United States

  Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases · 2022 · 73 citations

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• Best Practices for Implementing Recreation Demand Models

  Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · 2020 · 73 citations

  This article discusses best practices for implementing recreation demand models. We focus on insights that research and experience provide for the typical recreation application, where the analyst uses individual-level data to measure the value of changes in recreation site access or quality at one or more destinations. We examine issues related to data collection, pre-analysis tasks, modeling, and assessing quality, in addition to a discussion of future research needs. Our focus is on understan…

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• Property values and cyanobacterial algal blooms: Evidence from satellite monitoring of Inland Lakes

  Ecological Economics · 2022-06-06 · 42 citations

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• Valuing water quality in the United States using a national dataset on property values

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023-04-03 · 27 citations

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  High-quality water resources provide a wide range of benefits, but the value of water quality is often not fully represented in environmental policy decisions, due in large part to an absence of water quality valuation estimates at large, policy relevant scales. Using data on property values with nationwide coverage across the contiguous United States, we estimate the benefits of lake water quality as measured through capitalization in housing markets. We find compelling evidence that homeowners…

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• Valuing improvements in the ecological integrity of local and regional waters using the biological condition gradient

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2023-04-24 · 21 citations

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  Scientific knowledge related to quantifying the monetized benefits for landscape-wide water quality improvements does not meet current regulatory and benefit-cost analysis needs in the United States. In this study we addressed this knowledge gap by incorporating the Biological Condition Gradient (BCG) as a water quality metric into a stated preference survey capable of estimating the total economic value (use and nonuse) for aquatic ecosystem improvements. The BCG is grounded in ecological princ…

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Frequent coauthors

• Catherine L. Kling

  41 shared

• Till Requate

  33 shared

• Jean‐Pierre Julien

  Université Laval

  26 shared

• Robert M. Tanguay

  26 shared

• David A. Keiser

  University of Massachusetts Amherst

  20 shared

• Jasna Križ

  Université Laval

  19 shared

• Joseph A. Herriges

  Bureau of Land Management

  18 shared

• Michelle Hadchouel

  Institut National de Recherche en Santé Publique

  16 shared

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