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 | | Virginia D. McConnell | | Senior Fellow | |
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PROFILE |
Virginia McConnell works on environmental issues related to air pollution and urban transportation. Her recent focus has been on the link between urban growth and the environment; specifically, she is evaluating policies to reduce vehicle pollution, programs to scrap old cars, inspection and maintenance programs, and emission taxes. She also is studying the role of economic incentives to achieve more efficient urban growth.
McConnell is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. She recently served on the National Academy of Sciences' Committee to Review the Effectiveness of Vehicle Emissions Inspection and Maintenance Programs, and has been a member of several U.S. Environmental Protection Agency advisory committees, including the Mobile Source Technical Review, a subcommittee of the Clean Air Act advisory committee.
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| Featured Publications | | The New CAFE Standards: Are They Enough on Their Own? | | Virginia D. McConnell | | RFF Discussion Paper 13-14 | May 2013 | | | | Explaining Sprawl with an Agent-Based Model of Exurban Land and Housing Markets | | Nicholas Magliocca, Virginia D. McConnell, Margaret A. Walls, Elena A. Safirova | | RFF Discussion Paper 11-33 | June 2012 | | | | Zoning on the Urban Fringe: Results from a New Approach to Modeling Land and Housing Markets | | Nicholas Magliocca, Virginia D. McConnell, Margaret A. Walls, Elena A. Safirova | | RFF Discussion Paper 11-32 | May 2012 | | Related journal article | | | | Urban Growth Externalities and Neighborhood Incentives: Another Cause of Urban Sprawl? | | Matthias Cinyabuguma, Virginia D. McConnell | | RFF Discussion Paper 12-21 | April 2012 | | | | Zoning on the Urban Fringe: Results from a New Approach to Modeling Land and Housing Markets | | Nicholas Magliocca, Virginia McConnell, Margaret Walls, and Elena Safirova | | Regional Science and Urban Economics | January 2012 | 42 | pp 198-210 | | | | Zoning on the Urban Fringe: Results from a New Approach to Modeling Land and Housing Markets | | Nicholas Magliocca, Virginia McConnell, Margaret Walls, and Elena Safirova | | Regional Science and Urban Economics | January 2012 | 42 | pp 198-210 | | | | Zoning on the urban fringe: Results from a new approach to modeling land and housing markets | | Nicholas Magliocca, Virginia McConnell, Margaret Walls, and Elena Safirova. | | Regional Science and Urban Economics | September 2011 | Vol. 41, No. 5. | doi:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2011.08.012 | Related Discussion Paper 11-32 | | | | An Agent-Based Model of Coupled Housing and Land Markets | | Nicholas Magliocca, Elena Safirova, Virginia McConnell, and Margaret Walls | | Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems | May 2011 | Vol. 35, No.3 | pp. 183-191 | | | | Should Hybrid Vehicles Be Subsidized? | | Virginia D. McConnell, Tom Turrentine | | Backgrounder | July 2010 | | | | Infill Development: Perspectives and Evidence from Economics and Planning | | Virginia D. McConnell, Keith Wiley | | RFF Discussion Paper 10-13 | May 2010 | | | | View All Related Publications |
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