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PROFILE | Margaret Walls's current research focuses on issues related to urban land use, ecosystem services, parks, and energy efficiency. She has analyzed transferable development rights programs for managing land use in urban fringe areas, assessed the value of different types of parks and open space, and investigated energy efficiency issues in buildings. In 2008-2009, she was the study director for the Outdoor Resources Review Group (see www.rff.org/orrg). In 2010, Walls became the first appointee to the Thomas J. Klutznick Chair at RFF.
Walls has published widely in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, Journal of Urban Economics, and Journal of Economic Literature, among others.
Walls was a fellow at RFF from 1987 to 1996. She then spent nearly five years in New Zealand as an associate professor of economics at Victoria University of Wellington. Walls rejoined RFF in November 2000.
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| Featured Publications | | Dedicated Funds for Parks: Designing the Right Approach | | Margaret Walls | | Parks and Recreation magazine | March 2013 | | | | Strategically Placing Green Infrastructure: Cost-Effective Land Conservation in the Floodplain | | Kousky, C., S. M. Olmstead, M. A. Walls, and M. Macauley | | Environmental Science & Technology | DOI: 10.1021/es303938c | | | | Borrowing to Save Energy: An Assessment of Energy-Efficiency Financing Programs | | Karen L. Palmer, Margaret A. Walls, Todd Gerarden | | RFF Report | 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 | | | | The Role of Land Use in Adaptation to Increased Precipitation and Flooding: A Case Study in Wisconsin’s Lower Fox River Basin | | Carolyn Kousky, Sheila M. Olmstead, Margaret A. Walls, Adam Stern, Molly K. Macauley | | RFF Report | November 2011 | | | | 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 | | | | Connecting Americans to the Great Outdoors | | Margaret A. Walls, Juha V. Siikamäki | | Resources | Summer 2010 (175) | | | | Climate Policy’s Uncertain Outcomes for Households: The Role of Complex Allocation Schemes in Cap-and-Trade | | Joshua Blonz, Dallas Burtraw, Margaret A. Walls | | RFF Discussion Paper 10-12-REV | March 2010 | | Related journal article | | | | The Incidence of U.S. Climate Policy: Alternative Uses of Revenue from a Cap-and-Trade Auction | | Dallas Burtraw, Richard Sweeney, and Margaret Walls | | National Tax Journal | September 2009 | Vol. 62 | 497-518 | Related Discussion Paper 09-17-REV | | | | The State of the Great Outdoors: America's Parks, Public Lands, and Recreation Resources | | Margaret A. Walls, Sarah R Darley, Juha V. Siikamäki | | RFF Report | September 2009 | | | | Policy Monitor: U.S. Experience with Transferable Development Rights | | Virginia McConnell and Margaret Walls | | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy | June 2009 | Vol 3, no. 2 | 288-303 | | | | The Tradeoff between Private Lots and Public Open Space in Subdivisions at the Urban-Rural Fringe | | Elizabeth Kopits, Virginia McConnell, and Margaret Walls | | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | 2007 | Vol. 89, No.5 | pp. 1191-1197 | Related Discussion Paper 07-33 | | | | View All Related Publications |
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS | | Transferable Development Rights | | Margaret Walls | | RFF First Wednesday Seminar on Zoning, Regulation, and Choice in Metropolitan Land use | RFF | March 1, 2006 | | | | | Who's in the Driver's Seat? Mobile Source Policy in the Federal System | | Virginia D. McConnell | | Symposium on Economic Aspects of Environmental Policy Making in a Federal System | Leuven, Belgium | June 1, 1995 | | | | | The Cost-effectiveness of Methanol Vehicles | | Alan J. Krupnick and Margaret Walls | | American Economic Association (AEA)/Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Annual Meetings | AEA/AERE | Washington, D.C. | December 26, 1990 | | | | | Effects of Urban Density on Vehicle Use and Ownership | | Alan J. Krupnick, Winston Harrington and Margaret Walls | | American Economic Association (AEA), 2002 Annual Meetings | AEA | Atlanta, GA | April 4, 2002 | | | | | The Economics of Solid Waste Management: Market Organization, Government Policies, and the Product Stewardship Movement | | Margaret Walls | | International Forum on the Environment | Economic and Social Research Institute, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan | Tokyo, Japan | February 18, 2002 | | | | | Comments on the Use of Cost-Benefit Analysis and EPR | | Margaret Walls | | Seminar on Extended Producer Responsibility: Programme Implementation and Assessment | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development | Paris, France | December 13, 2001 | | | | | How Does Population Density and Transit Availability Affect Vehicle Travel? Results from U.S. Household Survey Data | | Margaret Walls | | Urban Transport Forum | Institute for International Research | Wellington, New Zealand | March 1, 1998 | | | | | Extended Producer Responsibility and Design for Environment: Economic Theory and Selected Case Studies | | Margaret Walls | | Environment Canada: Workshop on Extended Producer Responsibility | Environment Canada | Calgary, Alberta, Canada | March 8, 2006 | | | | | What Drives Telecommuting? Relative Impacts of Worker Demographics, Employer Characteristics, and Job Types | | Elena Safirova | | 86th Annual Meeting of Transportation Research Board (TRB) | TRB | Washington, DC | January 22, 2007 | | | | | TDRs in Theory and Practice | | Margaret Walls | | Environment Virginia conference | VMI, Lexington, VA | April 12, 2007 | | | | | Markets for Preserving Farmland in Maryland Making TDR Programs Work Better | | Margaret Walls | | Hughes Center for Agro-Ecology Board of Directors Meeting | Queenstown, Maryland | May 14, 2007 | | | | | The Trade-Off Between Private Lots and Public Open Space in Subdivisions at the Urban-Rural Fringe | | Virginia McConnell | | American Agricultural Economics Association Annual Meetings | Portland, OR | July 28, 2007 | | | | | Working from Home: The Effects of Commute Distance and Congestion | | Elena Safirova | | Meetings of North American Regional Science Association | NARSC | Savannah, GA | November 10, 2007 | | | | | An Economic Urban Growth Model with Agent-Based Housing and Land Markets | | Elena Safirova | | North American Regional Science Conference | NARSC | San Francisco | November 20, 2009 | | | | | How Do the Costs of Climate Policy Affect Households? | | Dallas Burtraw, Josh Blonz and Margaret Walls | | 103rd Annual Conference on Taxation | National Tax Association | Chicago, Illinois | November 18, 2010 | | | | | The Role of Land Use in Adaptation to Increased Precipitation and Flooding: A Case Study in Wisconsin’s Lower Fox River Basin and Green Bay, Lake Michigan | | Carolyn Kousky | | GeoTools | NOAA | March 21, 2011 | | | | | Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Information Gap: Results from a Survey of Home Energy Auditors | | Karen Palmer | | BECC Conference | ACEEE and Precourt Center for Energy Efficiency at Stanford | Washington, DC | December 1, 2011 | | | | | Improving Home Energy Efficiency: Evaluating Consumer Loans versus Subsidies | | Margaret Walls | | International Association for Energy Economics North American Energy Conference | U.S. Association for Energy Economics/International Association for Energy Economics | Washington, DC | October 11, 2011 | | | | | Policy Analysis with an Economic Agent-Based Model of Land and Housing Markets on the Urban Fringe | | Margaret Walls, Virginia McConnell | | Academic seminar | George Mason University Department of Computational Social Sciences | George Mason University | December 2, 2011 | | | | | How Do Development Impact Fees Affect Land and Housing Prices and the Spatial Patterns of Land Use on the Urban Fringe? | | Margaret Walls | | AERE Summer Conference 2011 | AERE | Seattle, WA | June 9, 2011 | | | | |
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| EVENTS | | Is Energy Efficieny Capitalized in Home Prices? Evidence From Three Cities | | Thursday, May 23, 2013 | | Whither Markets for Environmental Regulation of Air, Water, and Land? | | Wednesday, December 05, 2012 | | Green Infrastructure: Using Natural Landscapes for Flood Mitigation and Water Quality Improvements | | Wednesday, April 04, 2012 | | Can Creative Financing Programs Close the Energy Efficiency Gap? | | Wednesday, October 05, 2011 | | View All Related Events |
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| RELATED SUBTOPICS | | Benefit-Cost Analysis, Climate Adaptation, Climate Change, Ecosystem Management, Ecosystem Services, Energy Efficiency, Environmental Accounting, Green Infrastructure, Outdoor Recreation, Parks, Refuges, and Wildernesses, Public Lands, Regulation, State and U.S. Regional Policies, Urban Sprawl |
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