Neha Khanna, Ph.D. Professor, Economics and Environmental Studies Binghamton University Adjunct Professor, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University Contact Information Department of Economics, LT 1004 P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton University Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 Phone: 607-777-2689; Fax: 607-777-2681; Email: nkhanna@binghamton.edu Office Hours Spring 2023: to be announced Professional Information Curriculum Vitae Updated: January 27, 2023 Google Scholar Profile Awards Distinguished Member Award, Northeastern Agricutural and Resource Economics Association, 2021. SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, State University of New York, 2019-2020. Recognition of Outstanding Service, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, 2016. Best Paper Award, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Assocation, 2015. Editor's Choice Award, Western Economics International Association, 2006. Dean's Research Semester Award, Hapur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton University, 2002. Daniel J. Hoffman Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Economics Department, Binghamton University, 2001-2002. Editorships Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, July 2013 - June 2016. Guest Editor, Special Issue on Unconventional Oil and Gas Development, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, August 2015. Editorial Boards Ecological Economics, 2009 - 2022 Contemporary Economic Policy, 2004 - 2007 Recent and forthcoming conference and seminar presentations Pennsylvania State University, March 15, 2023 Institute of Economic Growth and Delhi School of Economics, November 18, 2022 National Center for Environmental Economics, US Environmental Protection Agency, June 28, 2022 (virtual talk) Indian Society for Ecological Economics, August 31, 2021 (virtual talk) O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, April 8, 2021 (virtual talk) Ph.D. Students Kaiyi Wen, in progress Ancilla Inocencio, in progress Ruohao Zhang, Ph.D. 2021, Assistant Professor, Data Science and Policy, Centre College Winner, Graduate Student Excellence in Research Award; Alice E. Trost Outstanding Dissertation Award, Binghamton University, 2020-2021. Binish Rijal, Ph.D. 2018, Post-doctoral Associate, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine. Huan Li, Ph.D. 2015, Assistant Professor, Economics, North Carolina A&T State University. Winner Binghamton University's Sustainable Communities Transdisciplinary Area of Excellence Graduate Student Research Grant, 2013-2014. Todd Guilfoos, Ph.D. 2013, Associate Professor, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, University of Rhode Island, Michael S. Delgado, Ph.D. 2012, Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University Winner Binghamton University's Excellence in Research Award, 2011-2012. Jessica Harriger-Lin, Ph.D. 2010, Associate Professor, Economics, Western Illinois University Michael O'Hara, Ph.D. 2007, Assistant Professor of Economics, St. Lawrence University (Ph.D. Martina Vidovic, Ph.D. 2003, Associate Professor of Economics, Rollins Collge At the AERE Summer 2013 conference in Banff (from left to right: Michael S. Delgado, Jessica Harriger, Neha Khanna and Martina Vidovic) At the AAEA 2014 conference in Minneapolis (from left to right: Neha Khanna, Huan Li and Michael S. Delgado) At the AAEA 2016 conference in Boston (from left to right: Chad Meyerhoefer, Neha Khanna, Michael S. Delgado and Todd Guilfoos) At the AERE summer 2017 conference in Pittsburgh (from left to right: Huan Li, Neha Khanna, Shanxia Sun, Michael S. Delgado and Yanbing Wang) At the AAEA 2017 conference in Chicago (from left to right: Sarah Jacobson, Huan Li, Shanxia Sun, Edie Yao, Neha Khanna, Yanbing Wang, Michael S. Delgado, Todd Guilfoos) In Indianapolis, spring 2019 (from left to right: Jessica Harriger-Lin, Neha Khanna and Michael S. Delgado) At Purdue University, spring 2019 (from left to right: Jixuan Yao, Neha Khanna and Michael S. Delgado) Teaching Microeconomics: ECON160c: Principles of Microeconomics, ECON500: Microeconomic Theory Environmental & Resource Economics: ECON331: Environmental Economics, ECON433: Natural Resource Economics; ECON510X: Environmental Economics and Sustainability, ECON683: Ph.D. Seminar in Environmental Economics Applied Econometrics: ECON502: Econometric Methods Research Methods: ECON694: Ph.D. Seminar II Research Areas World oil EKC Self-regulation Groundwater Envi. policy Climate change Environmental equity Other The global oil economy and international security An Analysis of Conventional Weapons Trade in the Post-Cold War Era (with Duane Chapman) Economic Inquiry, published online February 6, 2009. DOI: 10.1111/j.1465-7295.2008.00203.x. Supplement to Econ. Inq. paper The Persian Gulf, Global Oil Resources, and International Security (with Duane Chapman). Contemporary Economic Policy, 24(4): 507-519, October, 2006. Received Western Economic International Association 2006 Editor's Choice Awardfor articles published in Contemporary Economic Policy. Guns and Oil: An Economic Analysis of Aspects of Petroleum and Military Security in the Persian Gulf (with Duane Chapman) Contemporary Economic Policy, 19(4): 371-381. World Oil: The Growing Case for International Oil Policy (with Duane Chapman) Contemporary Economic Policy, 18(1): 1- 13, January, 2000. Global Oil Resources and the Persian Gulf: Security and Democracy (with Duane Chapman) Working paper WP 2003-40, Department of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University. Weapons Trade and Petroleum Price Stability: Are Measures of Political and Economic Openness and Income Important? (with Duane Chapman). Economics Department Working paper 0408. The Fourth Persian Gulf War: Persian Gulf Oil and Global Security (with Duane Chapman) Economics Department Working Paper WP0501. The Environmental Kuznets Curve Total Factor Productivity and the Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Comment and Some Intuition (with Florenz Plassmann) Ecological Economics, 63: 54-58, June 2007. A Note on the 'Simple Analytics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve' (with Florenz Plassmann) Environment and Development Economics, 11(6): 697-707, December, 2006. Household Income and Pollution: Implications for the Debate About the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis (with Florenz Plassmann) Journal of Environment and Development, 15(1): 22-41, March, 2006. Technical supplement to paper Preferences, Income and the Environment: Understanding the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis (with Florenz Plassmann) American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 88(3): 632-643, August, 2006. The Demand for Environmental Quality and the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis (with Florenz Plassmann) Ecological Economics, 51(3-4):225-236, December, 2004. The Income Elasticity of Non-Point Source Air Pollutants: Revisiting the Environmental Kuznets Curve. Economics Letters, 77(3): 387-392, December, 2002. Voluntary self-regulation and corporate sustainability Does Voluntary Self-Regulation Provide Regulatory Relief? A Lesson from the Responsible Care Program in the United States (with Huan Li) Journal of Law and Economics, 61: 63-96, September, 2018. Good News for Environmental Self Regulation? Finding the Right Link (with Yanbing Wang, Michael S. Delgado and Vicki Bogan) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 94: 217-235, 2019. Direct and Indirect Effects of Voluntary Pollution Abatement Programs: Evidence from Ohio's Tox Minus Program (with Michael S. Delgado and Georgie Stokol). in progress Voluntary Pollution Abatement and Regulation (with Michael S. Delgado) Agrciultural and Resource Economics Review, 44(1):1-20, 2015. Received Best Paper Award. Is Voluntary Pollution Abatement in the Absence of a Carrot or Stick Effective? Evidence from Facility Participation in the EPA's 33/50 Program (with Martina Vidovic) Environmental and Resource Economics, 52(3): 369-393, July 2012. DOI: 10.1007/s10640-011-9533-3. Supplement: additional sensitivity analyses Can Voluntary Pollution Prevention Programs Fulfill Their Promises? Evidence from the 33/50 Program (with Martina Vidovic) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 53(2): 180-195, March, 2007. Facility Participation in Voluntary Pollution Prevention Programs and the Role of Community Characteristics: Evidence from the 33/50 Program (with Martina Vidovic) Working paper 0103, Economics Department, Binghamton University. Third Party Verification and the Effectiveness of Voluntary Pollution Abatement Programs: Evidence from Responsible Care (with Martina Vidovic and Michael Delgado). Economic Inquiry, 54(7): 1751-177, October. The Effects of Third Party Certification on Self Regulation on Accidents in the US Chemical Industry (with Huan Li and Martina Vidovic). Journal of Regulatory Economics,53(3): 327-356, June. Unpublished supplemental appendix Pollution Leakage as an Indirect Effect of Voluntary Pollution Abatement (with Binish Rijal). In progress Public Pressure and Heterogenous Effects of Voluntary Pollution Abatement (with Ruohao Zhang). Journal of the Association on Environmental and Resource Economists: revise and resubmit Groundwater management Groundwater Management: The Effect of Water Flows on Welfare Gains (with Andreas Pape, Todd Guilfoos and Karen Salvage) Ecological Economics, 95: 31-40, 2013, DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2013.07.013. The Efficiency of Viable Groundwater Policies: Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer in Kansas (with Todd Guilfoos and Jeffrey M. Peterson) Land Economics, 92(4): 618-640, 2016. Issues in environmental policy Firm Behavior Under Unanticipated Change in Regulation: Power Plant Emissions during the 2018-2019 Federal Government Shut Down (with Huan Li and Ruohao Zhang) Cooking Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Quality, and Child Mortality in India (with Tsengunjav Byambasuren, Nancy Chau and Arnab Basu) Strategic Local Regulators and the Efficacy of Pollution Standards (with Ruohao Zhang) Hybrids and Household Behavior: Implications for Miles Traveled and Gasoline Consumption (with Shanxia Sun and Michael S. Delgado) Energy Economics, 84, October 2019. Interview with EVWorld.com The Value of Environmental Status Signaling (with Michael Delgado and Jessica Harriger). Working paper version. Ecological Economics, 111: 1-11, 2015. Output, Emissions and Technology: Some Thoughts Economics Letters, 118: 284-286, 2013, DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2012.11.007. Challenge Paper on Air Pollution (with Bjorn Larson, lead author, and Guy Hutton). Prepared for the Copenhagen Consensus 2008. Measuring Environmental Quality: An Index of Pollution Ecological Economics, 35(2000): 191-202. November. High Priority Violations and Intra-firm Pollution Substitution (with Binish Rijal) Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 103: 102359, 2020, September. Firm Behavior Under Unanticipated Change in Regulation: Power Plant Emissions During the 2018-2019 Federal Government Shutdown (with Ruohao Zhang and Huan Li). Under review Climate change Analyzing the Economic Cost of the Kyoto Protocol Ecological Economics, 38(1): 59-68, July 2001. Energy Efficiency and Petroleum Depletion in Climate Change Policy (with Duane Chapman). In Hall D.C. and R.B. Howarth (editors), The Long-Term Economics of Climate Change: Beyond A Doubling of Greenhouse Gas Concentrations. Advances in the Economics of Environmental Resources, Vol. 3. JAI Press. Crying No Wolf: Why Economists Don't Worry About Climate Change and Should. (with Duane Chapman). Editorial. Climatic Change. 46(3): 225-232, 2000. November. Time Preference, Abatement Costs, and International Climate Policy: An Appraisal of IPCC 1995. (with Duane Chapman). Contemporary Economic Policy, XIV: 56-66, 1996. Environmental equity Local Air Quality Impacts of Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania (with Ruohao Zhang, Huan Li, Alan Krupnick, Daniel M. Sullivan & Elaine Hill) Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics: 10(2), March 2023. Environmental Health News press coverage; BU press coverage Cooking Fuel Choice, Indoor Air Quality and Child Mortality in India (with Arnab Basu, Tsenguunjav Byambasuren and Nancy Chau) IZA Discussion Paper No. 13295, May 2020. The Environmental Justice of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from New York State (with Ruohao Zhang and Huan Li). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 110: 102554, October. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102554, 2021. Environmental Justice and The Multi-generational Persistence of Environmental Exposure (wtih Huan Li and Ruohao Zhanga ) Income Inequality and Mortality: Understanding the differences in Black and White Mortality in the United States (with Martina Vidovic) Other issues in environmental and resource economics New Evidence on Diversity in Environmental and Resource Economics (with Kuminoff N., Ciaramello K., Dooley H., Heintzelman M., Kosnik L-R., Lewis L. and Trimble E.) Review of Environmental Economics and Policy: 17(1), 2023. Featured on Resources Radio A Narrative on Two Weaknesses of the TRI for Research Purposes Working paper 2019-05, Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 2019. Conspicuous Consumption and Inequality: The Role of Preferences (with Jessica Harriger-Lin and Andreas Pape) Journal of Economic Inequality, 18: 365-389, 2020. Technical supplement and additional sensitivity analyisis Assessing the Precision of Turning Point Estimates in Polynomial Regression Models (with Florenz Plassmann) Econometric Reviews, 26(5): 503-528, September, 2007. On the economics of non-renewable resources. UNESCO's Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, 2003. Also, Economics Dept. Working Paper 0102.