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Maureen L. Cropper
CitizenshipUnited States
Alma materBryn Mawr College
Cornell University
AwardsDistinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, 2011
Member, National Academy of Sciences, 2008.
Scientific career
FieldsEconomics
InstitutionsUC Riverside
University of Southern California
University of Maryland
Resources for the Future
World Bank
Websitehttps://www.econ.umd.edu/facultyprofile/Cropper/Maureen

Maureen Cropper is an economist who serves as Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Maryland. She is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

Research

Her research has focused on estimating the value of health benefits, particularly increases in life expectancy and reductions in the risk of chronic illnesses, that are associated with improvements in air and water quality due to environmental regulations. She has also studied road safety, assessing how the value of health benefits should vary over the life course, the impact of electric power reforms in India, and the impact of climate change on migration.[1][2][3]

Cooper has research affiliations at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the University of Maryland, and Resources for the Future. She has been an associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, Resource and Energy Economics, and the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. She has been President of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and chaired the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, and the Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board.[4]

Selected works

  • ML Cropper; WE Oates. "Environmental economics: a survey". Journal of Economic Literature. 30 (2): 675–740.
  • ML Cropper; LB Deck; KE McConnell (1988). "On the choice of functional form for hedonic price functions". The Review of Economics and Statistics: 668–675.
  • M Cropper; C Griffiths. "The interaction of population growth and environmental quality". The American Economic Review. 84 (2): 250–254.
  • * Arrow, Kenneth J.; Cropper, Maureen L.; Eads, George C.; Hahn, Robert W.; Lave, Lester B.; et al. (April 12, 1996). "Is There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation?". Science. 272 (5259): 221–222. doi:10.1126/science.272.5259.221. eISSN 1095-9203. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 8602504.
  • M Cropper; E Kopits (2005). "Why have traffic fatalities declined in industrialized countries? Implications for pedestrians and vehicle occupants". The World Bank.

References

  1. ^ "Maureen Cropper: Informing the Debate over Environmental Regulations | ECON l Department of Economics l University of Maryland". www.econ.umd.edu. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  2. ^ "Maureen Cropper". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  3. ^ "Maureen Cropper, Ph.D. — Maryland Population Research Center". www.popcenter.umd.edu. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
  4. ^ "Maureen L. Cropper". Resources for the Future. July 20, 2015. Retrieved August 1, 2018.
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