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Carol Jones

Senior Economist
202-694-5505
Email: cjones@ers.usda.gov

Briefly:

Carol Adaire Jones is a senior economist with the Production Economics and Technology Branch of the Resource and Rural Economics Division, (RRED) focusing on economics and policy issues associated with climate change mitigation and impacts and the interactions between the agriculture and energy sectors. In addition, she is currently co-leading a scoping project on the future of agriculture (how to feed large increases in global population, in the face of climate change and other productivity challenges), to identify targets of opportunity for ERS research.



Background:

During 2005-2008, Carol served as Chief of the Farm and Rural Household Well-Being Branch. In that capacity she focused on survey design and data analysis to measure farm household well-being, as well as research to understand the implications of farm household decisions for farm business performance, household well-being and environmental outcomes. One research theme was exploring the sources of the differential in well-being between farm and other rural households, particularly in income, wealth and health.

For the prior 5 years, Carol served as the Associate Director for Research in RRED. She also served on the faculty of the international business school INCAE in Costa Rica during 1998-1999, and of the University of Michigan (Economics Department and the School of Natural Resources) during 1984-1990, and as a Gilbert White Fellow at Resources for the Future (1988-1990). Throughout much of the 1990s, she served as Chief of the Resource Valuation Branch, Damage Assessment Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). At NOAA, Carol provided oversight of the economic analyses in all natural resource damage assessments conducted by NOAA in its capacity as a trustee for coastal and marine resources, such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In addition she was responsible for the development of the resource valuation component of the natural resource damage assessment regulations for implementing the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, in which capacity she coordinated the "Blue Ribbon Panel on the Use of Contingent Valuation in Natural Resource Damages."



Education:
Carol received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, her M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She also held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Professional Affiliations:
Carol is a member of the American Economics Association, the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)and the International Association for Research on Income and Wealth. She has served on the AERE Board of Directors twice, from 1990-93 and from 2000-03.

Selected Publications:

Recent Bulletins and Reports

Marshall, E., M. Caswell, S. Malcolm, M. Motamed. J. Hrubovcak, C. A. Jones, C. Nickerson, Measuring the Indirect Land-Use Change Associated With Increased Biofuel Feedstock Production: A Review of Modeling Efforts. 2011. Report to U.S. Congress.  February 10.

Food Environment Atlas (with various authors). 2010. ERS, USDA. http://www.ers.usda.gov/FoodAtlas/

Jones, C., 2010, "Rural Populations have Higher Rates of Chronic Disease and Disability", Amber Waves, Volume 8, Issue 2, May.

Jones, C., Milkove, D., Paszkiewicz, L. 2010. Measuring Farm Household Well-Being: Comparing Consumption- and Income-based Measures, ERR91, ERS/USDA, February. (Plus associated March 2010 Amber Waves Data Feature)

Jones, Carol Adaire, Timothy S. Parker, Mary Ahearn, Ashok K. Mishra, and Jayachandran N. Variyam, Health Status and Health Care Access of Farm and Rural Populations, EIB-57, U.S. Dept. of Agri., Econ. Res. Serv. August 2009, 64 pp. (Plus associated September 2009 Amber Waves article and podcast,"Taking the Pulse of Rural Health Care".)

"Farm Household Well-Being: The 2007 Income Forecast in a Broader Perspective," with Robert Green, USDA 2007 Agricultural Outlook Conference Proceedings, April 2007.

" Population Dynamics Are Changing the Profile of Rural Areas." with William Kandel and Tim Parker, Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, USDA, April 2007.

" Income an Incomplete Measure of Farm Household Well-Being," with Ashok Mishra. Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, USDA, April 2007.

" Agricultural Income and Finance Situation and Outlook Report," AIS-84, with Theodore Covey, Robert Green, and others, Economic Research Service, USDA, November 2006.

Economic Well-Being of Farm Households,, Economic Brief #7, Economic Research Service, USDA, March 2006.

"Environmental Credit Trading: Can Farming Benefit?" AIS-83, with Marc Ribaudo and Robert Johansson, and in Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, USDA, February 2006 [Reprinted in Amber Waves special issue, Agriculture and the Environment, July 2006]

Agricultural Income and Finance Situation and Outlook Report, with Theodore Covey, Robert Green, and others, Economic Research Service, USDA, November 2005.

" The Economics of Sequestering Carbon in the U.S. Agricultural Sector," Technical Bulletin #1909, with Jan Lewandrowski, Mark Peters, Robert House, Marlen Eve, Keith Paustian, and Mark Sperow, Economic Research Service, USDA, April 2004.

" Is Carbon Sequestration Economically Feasible," with Jan Lewandrowski, Amber Waves, Economic Research Service, USDA, April 2004. [Reprinted in Amber Waves special issue, Agriculture and the Environment, July 2006]

Selected Articles in Journals and Book Chapters

Jones, C. A., C. Nickerson, and N. Cavallaro.(Forthcoming 2012)."U.S. Agricultural Policies and Greenhouse Gas Emissions," inLand Use and the Carbon Cycle: Science and Applications in Coupled Natural-human Systems, D. G. Brown, N. H.F. French, B. C. Reed, and D. T. Robinson (eds.), Cambridge University Press: Cambridge MA.

Beckman, Jayson, Carol Adaire Jones, and Ronald Sands. 2011.  "A Global General Equilibrium Analysis of Biofuel Mandates and Greenhouse Gas Emissions." Amer. J. Agr. Econ.1-8; doi: 10.1093/ajae/aaq086

Cosby, Arthur G., Tonya T. Neaves, Ronald E. Cossman, Jeralynn S. Cossman, Wesley L. James, Neal Feierabend, David M. Mirvis, Carol A. Jones, and Tracey Farrigan, "Preliminary Evidence for an Emerging Nonmetropolitan Mortality Penalty in the United States," American Journal of Public Health, August, 2008, 98(8):1470-1472.

Jones, C.A., W. Kandel, and T. Parker, "Population Dynamics are Changing the Profile of Rural Areas," Journal of Rural Mental Health, Volume 31, No. 3, Summer 2007, pp 46-53.

"Economic Valuation of Resource Injuries in Natural Resource Liability Suits," Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, Nov./Dec. 2000, Vol. 126 (6): 358-365.

"The Emerging Carbon Market and the Role of Central America," with Marco Boscolo, Robert Faris, Theodore Panayotou and Lawrence Pratt, in Environment for Growth: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness in Central America, T. Panayotou (ed.), Harvard University Press, 2000.

"Strategic Issues in the Design of a Green Certification Program for Tourism," with Lawrence Pratt, Crist Inman, Nathalia Mesa, and Jorge Rivera, in Environment for Growth: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness in Central America, T. Panayotou (ed.), Harvard University Press, 2000.

"The Effect of Modeling Substitute Activities on Recreational Benefit Estimates," with Frank Lupi, Marine Resource Economics, Volume 14, 2000.

"Restoration-based Approaches for Compensation for Natural Resource Damages: Moving Toward Convergence in US and International Law," in Austin, Jay and Carl Bruch, ed., The Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic and Scientific Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2000. [Invited paper for First International Conference on Addressing the Environmental Consequences of War: Legal, Economic, and Scientific Perspectives, sponsored by Environmental Law Institute, Smithsonian Institution, and Kuwait Institute for Science, June 10-12, 1998.]

"Compensation for Natural Resource Damages from Oil Spills: A Comparison of USA Law and International Conventions," in "National and International Perspectives on the Legal Regulations of the Natural Environment," a Special Issue of the International Journal of Environment and Pollution, Volume 11, Number 1, 1999.

"Restoration-based Measures of Compensation in Natural Resource Liability Statutes," with Katherine A. Pease, Contemporary Economic Policy, Vol. XV, Number 4, 1997. [Reprinted in Willis, K.G., Kenneth J. Button, and Peter Nijkamp, ed., Environmental Analysis and Economic Policy, Edward Elgar Publishers, 1999, and in Portuguese, in Revista Direito Meio Ambiente, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1999.]

"Use of Non-market Valuation Methods in the Courtroom: Recent Affirmative Precedents in Natural Resource Damage Assessments," Water Resources Update. Issue Number 109: Autumn 1997.

"Avaliação da Perda Pública Causada por Danos aos Recursos Naturais" [Valuing the Public Loss from Injuries to Natural Resources], Revista Direito Meio Ambiente(São Paulo, Brazil), Volume 3, 1997.

"Public and Private Claims in Natural Resource Damage Assessments," with Theodore Tomasi and Stephanie Fluke, Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 20, Number 1, 1996.

Valuation of Environmental Quality at Michigan Recreational Fishing Sites: Methodological Issues and Policy Applications, with Yusen Sung.  Final Report to Michigan Department of Natural Resources and US Environmental Protection Agency, Contract No. CR-816247-01-2, 1991 (Final version: 1993).

"Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of OSHA Health and Safety Inspections," with Wayne Gray, Journal of Human Resources, Volume 26, No. 4, 623-653, Fall 1991.

"Are OSHA Health Inspections Effective? A Longitudinal Study in the Manufacturing Sector," with Wayne Gray, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. LXXIII, No. 3, 504-508, August 1991.

"Social Cost of Uniform Regulatory Standards in a Hierarchical Government," with Suzanne Scotchmer, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 19, 61-72, 1989.

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