Richard T. Carson

Richard T. Carson is a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, awarded in 1985. His research focuses on environmental valuation, climate change, environment and development, and fisheries. Carson is affiliated with the Research Groups in Environment and Resource Economics, Public Economics, and Industrial Organization. His work explores the intersection of economic theory and environmental policy, with an emphasis on sustainable development and resource management.

Richard T. Carson is a Professor of Environmental Economics at UC San Diego, specializing in Environmental Economics, Econometrics, and Survey Research. His work focuses on valuing public goods through stated preference techniques, particularly contingent valuation and discrete choice experiments. Carson's research explores the economic valuation of environmental resources, including clean water and air quality, and examines methodological issues in survey design and data collection. His publications address controversies in contingent valuation, the impact of response options on data quality, and the integration of survey methods with empirical economic analysis. His studies often apply econometric models to environmental policy and resource management.