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Lori Snyder Bennear
Assistant Professor of
Environmental Economics and Policy
Nicholas School of the Environment (primary)
and Sanford School of Public Policy
and Department of Economics
Duke University
A125-LSRC
Box 90328
Durham, NC 27708
Education
Ph.D. in Public Policy, Harvard University, 2004
M.A. in Economics, Yale University, 1996
B.A., summa cum laude in Economics and Environmental Studies, Occidental College, 1995
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Policy, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University, 2004-present.
Secondary Appointment, Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, 2008-present.
Secondary Appointment, Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Duke University, 2011-present.
Publications
Journal Articles
Bennear, Lori S., Katrina K. Jessoe and Sheila M. Olmstead (2009) “Sampling Out: Regulatory Avoidance and the Total Coliform Rule,” Environmental Science and Technology, 43(4): 5176-5182.
Bennear, Lori S. (2008) “What Do We Really Know: The Effect Of Reporting Thresholds On Inference Using Environmental Right-To-Know Data” Regulation and Governance, 2(3): 293-315.
Bennear, Lori S. and Sheila M. Olmstead, (2008) “The Impacts of the “Right to Know”: Information Disclosure and the Violation of Drinking Water Standards,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 56(2): 117-130.
Bennear, Lori S. and Robert N. Stavins (2007) “Second-Best Theory and the Use of Multiple Policy Instruments,” Environmental and Resource Economics. 37(1): 111-129.
Bennear, Lori S. (2007) “Are Management-Based Regulations Effective?: Evidence from State Pollution Prevention Programs,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 26(2) 327-348.
Bennear, Lori S., Robert N. Stavins, and Alex Wagner (2005) “Private Options to Use Public Goods: Using Revealed Preferences to Estimate Environmental Benefits," Journal of Regulatory Economics, 28(2):157-180.
Snyder, Lori D., Nolan Miller, and Robert N. Stavins (2003) “The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing,” American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings 92(2):431-435.
James Sadd, Manuel Pastor, J. Thomas Boer, and Lori D. Snyder (1999) “Every Breath You Take: The Demographics of Toxic Air Releases in Southern California” Economic Development Quarterly, 13(2)107-123.
Boer, J. Thomas, Manuel Pastor, James Sadd, and Lori D. Snyder (1997) "Is There Environmental Racism: An Empirical Analysis of the Geographical Distribution of Hazardous Waste Facilities in Los Angeles County," Social Science Quarterly 78(4): 793-810.
Book Chapters
Bennear, Lori S. (2006) “Evaluating Management-Based Regulation: A Valuable Tool in the Regulatory Tool Box?” in Coglianese, Cary and Jennifer Nash, eds. Leveraging the Private Sector: Management-Based Strategies for Improving Environmental Performance (Washington D.C.: Resources for the Future Press).
Coglianese, Cary and Lori S. Bennear (2005) “Program Evaluation of Environmental Policies: Toward Evidence-Based Decision Making” in Brewer, Gary D. and Paul C. Stern, eds. Decision Making for the Environment: Social and Behavioral Science Research Priorities, (Washington, DC: National Academies Press).
Other Publications
Bennear, Lori S. and Sheila M. Olmstead (2010) “Information Disclosure and Drinking Water Quality,” in Parry, Ian W.H and Felicia Day, ed. Issues of the Day: 100 Commentaries on Climate, Energy, the Environment, Transportation, and Public Health Policy (Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future Press, 122-123).
Bennear, Lori S. and Sheila M. Olmstead (2009) “Information Disclosure and Drinking Water Quality,” RFF Policy Commentary, Resources Magazine, Number 173: 6-7.
Bennear, Lori S. and Cary Coglianese (2005) “Measuring Progress: Program Evaluation of Environmental Policies,” Environment 47(2):22-39.
Sullivan, Melonie B., Lori S. Bennear, and William E. Painter, Jr. “A Quasi-experimental Examination of Family Centered Treatment®: Outcomes for a Juvenile Delinquent Population”
Other Media
Research Video on “Information Disclosure and Drinking Water Quality” available at:
http://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/environmentaleconomics/videos/bennearvid
Work In Progress
Bennear, Lori S. and Martin Smith “Success or Selection: An Economic Perspective on Fisheries Co-Management,” in review. Working Paper available at:
http://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/environmentaleconomics/success-or-selection
Bennear, Lori S., Alessandro Tarozzi , Alexander Pfaff, HB Soumya, Kazi Matin Ahmed, and Alexander van Geen “Bright Lines, Risk Beliefs, and Risk Avoidance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment in Bangladesh,” in review. Working Paper available at:
Soumya, HB, Alexander Pfaff, Lori S. Bennear, and Alessandro Tarozzi, Kazi Matin Ahmed, Amy Schoenfeld, and Alexander van Geen “Rising Gains From Risk Information: Learning from Groundwater Arsenic in Bangladesh,” in preparation for submission to Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences.
Bennear, Lori S. and Cary Coglianese “Alternative Regulatory Approaches in Environmental Policy,” to be included in: Kamieniecki, Sheldon and Michael Kraft eds. Oxford Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy, expected publication 2011.
Bennear, Lori S. and Martin Smith “Estimating the Effect of the Dead Zone on the Gulf Shrimp Fishery Using Synthetic Control Methods,” in preparation.
Bennear, Lori S., Madeleine Baker-Goering, and Nolan Miller “The Role of Information Framing in Environmental Health Policy: A Field Experiment on Well Water Quality,” in preparation.
Bennear, Lori S., Madeleine Baker-Goering and Michael Lenox “The Effectiveness of Information Disclosure: An Examination of the TRI.”
Bennear, Lori S. and Katherine L. Dickinson, “The Role of Program Evaluation in Environmental Policy: A Critical Evaluation of the Incentives Created by GPRA and PART.”
Grants
“Inflammatory Breast Cancer: Fatal disease with an environmental component” Duke Comprehensive Cancer Institute Core Pilot Grant, Duke University, $50,000, February 1, 2011-January 31, 2010 (with Dora Il’yasova, Joellen Schildkraut, Neil Spector). Role: Investigator
“Measuring the Effects of Hypoxia on the gulf of Mexico Shrimp Fishery,” National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), $117,256, September 1, 2009-August 31, 2013. Role: Investigator.
“Which Information Most Changes Behavior & Do Households Want It?: Responses to and Demand for Well-Water-Arsenic Tests in Bangladesh,” Center for Comparative Biology of Vulnerable Populations, Duke University $50,000, September 1, 2007-August 31, 2008 (with Alex Pfaff and Alessandro Tarozzi). Role: Investigator
“The Impacts of ‘Right to Know’: Information Disclosure and Drinking Water Quality,” National Science Foundation, Division of Social and Economic Sciences, $87,474, January 15, 2007-January 14, 2009 (Collaborative Proposal with Sheila Olmstead, Yale University. Dollar amount indicates Duke University share). Role: Principle Investigator
“An Integrative Investigation of the Sources and Effects of Groundwater Contamination for Local Communities and Homeowners in North Carolina” U.S. Department of Agriculture, Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, National Integrated Water Quality Program, $570,000, August 1, 2006-July 31, 2009, (with Avner Vengosh, Emily Klein, Marie Lynn Miranda, Erika Weinthal, and Mark Weisner). Role: Investigator
“The Role of Information in Environmental Health Policy: Measuring Household Responses to Information on Inorganic Contaminants in Private Well Water,” Center for Comparative Biology of Vulnerable Populations, Duke University, $40,435, April 1, 2006-March 31, 2007 (with Avner Vengosh). Role: Principle Investigator.
“Environmental Behavior and Decisionmaking -- Determining the Effectiveness of Environmental Information Disclosure and Provision,” U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, STAR Grant, : $284,724, January 1st, 2006 – December 31st, 2008, (with Michael Lenox and Andrew King). Role: Investigator
“Assessing Firm and Facility Environmental Performance,” Innovating Programs in Social Sciences Grant, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, $12,000, July 2005-June 2006 (with Michael Lenox) Role: Co-Principle Investigator.
Presentations
Academic Conferences and Seminars
Water and Health Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 2010
Harvard University, Environmental Economics Seminar, April 2010
University of Maryland, Economics Department, March 2010
Center for Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, September 2008
Duke University, Public Policy Faculty Seminar, April 2008
Duke University, Law and Economics Seminar, April 2008
Triangle Resource and Environmental Economics Workshop, September 2007
Resources for the Future, October 2006
Camp Resources, August 2006
Third World Congress of Environment and Resource Economists, July 2006
Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management, November 2005
Duke Environmental Institutions Seminar, March 2005
Leveraging the Private Sector Conference at Resources for the Future, August 2003
Harvard Environmental Economics and Policy Seminar, October 2003
American Economics Association Conference, January 2003
Government Conferences and Seminars
EPA, Environmental Conference of States (ECOS), Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Quality, Workshop on Performance-Based Voluntary Programs, March 2008
EPA, Workshop on Corporate Environmental Performance, January 2008
EPA and Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Evaluation of Environmental Policies Workshop, June 2006
EPA Science Forum, May 2005
OECD Working Party on National Environmental Policy, June 2005
Environmental Protection Agency, Corporate Environmental Behavior and the Effectiveness of Government Interventions Workshop, April 2004
Professional Service
Professional Organization Leadership:
Board Member, Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS)
Awards Committees:
APPAM Dissertation Award Committee, 2010.
Vernon Prize Committee for Outstanding Article in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Volume 28, 2009.
Ad hoc reviewer for journals:
American Economic Review, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Regulatory Economics, Economic Inquiry, Environment and Resource Economics, Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Waste Management
Excellence in Refereeing Award, American Economic Review, 2009.
Ad hoc reviewer for grants:
National Science Foundation, National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
Conference Discussant:
American Economics Association, Association of Policy Analysis and Management
Academic Service
Duke University Faculty Council, Representative for the Nicholas School of the Environment, 2011-2013.
Nicholas School Faculty Council, Representative for Environmental Sciences and Policy Division, 2010-2011.
Teaching
Awards
Nicholas School Award for Teacher of the Year (Class over 30 students), 2009-2010
Nicholas School Award for Teacher of the Year, 2005-2006.
Master’s Level
Environmental and Resource Economics
Program Evaluation of Environmental Economics
Ph.D. Level
Environmental Social Science Research Seminar
Other Professional Experience
Program Coordinator, Environmental Economics Program at Harvard University, 2000-2003.
Pre-doctoral Fellow, Environmental Economics Program at Harvard University, 2000-2004.
Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, 2000-2004.
Analyst, Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1997-1999.
Fellowships and Honors
Teresa Heinz Scholars for Environmental Research, 2002-2003
Dean’s Award for Excellence in Student Teaching, 2001
Crump Fellowship, Kennedy School of Government, 2001-2002
Graduate Fellowship, Kennedy School of Government, 1999-2001
Graduate Fellowship, Yale University, 1995-1997
College Honors in Economics
Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Affiliations
American Economics Association
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Personal
United States Citizen
Married to Aaron David Bennear
Mother to Fiona Rose Bennear (2007) and Isaac Dale Bennear (2009)
