Peer-Reviewed Publications
43) Jones, B.A. (2023). "Dust Storms and Human Well-Being." Resource and Energy Economics 72: 101362. [link to journal article]
42) Jones, B.A. (2023). "Can Invasive Species Lead to Sedentary Behavior? The Time Use and Obesity Impacts of A Forest-Attacking Pest." Journal of Environmental Economics & Management 119: 102800. [link to journal article]
41) Goodkind, A., R. Berrens, and B.A. Jones. (in press). "Estimating the Climate and Health Damages of Bitcoin Mining in the US: Is Bitcoin Underwater?" Applied Economics Letters. [link to journal article]
40) Jones, B.A., A. Goodkind, and R. Berrens. (2022). “Economic Estimation of Bitcoin Mining’s Climate Damages Demonstrates Closer Resemblance to Digital Crude than Digital Gold” Scientific Reports 12: 14512. [link to journal article]
39) Jones, B.A., S. McDermott, P. Champ, and R. Berrens. (2022). “More Smoke Today for Less Smoke Tomorrow? We Need to Better Understand the Public Health Benefits and Costs of Prescribed Fire.” International Journal of Wildland Fire 31(10): 918-926. [link to journal article]
38) Kaczmarski, J., B.A. Jones, and J. Chermak. (2022). "Determinants of Demand Response Program Participation: Contingent Valuation Evidence from a Smart Thermostat Program." Energies 15(2): 590. [link to journal article]
37) Jones, B.A. (2021). "Mountain Pine Beetle Impacts on Health Through Lost Forest Air Pollutant Sinks." Forests 12(12): 1785. [link to journal article]
36) Jones, B.A. (2022). "Dust Storms and Violent Crime." Journal of Environmental Economics & Management 111: 102590. [link to journal article]
35) Jones, B.A. and S. McDermott (2021). "The Local Labor Market Impacts of US Megafires." Sustainability 13(16): 9078. [link to journal article]
34) Jones, B.A. and S. McDermott (2022). "Infant Health Outcomes in Mega-Fire Affected Communities." Applied Economics Letters 29(14): 1325-1335. [link to journal article]
Presented at EAERE (2021) and AERE@WEAI (2021)
33) Jones, B.A. (2021). "Planting Urban Trees to Improve Quality of Life? The Life Satisfaction Impacts of Urban Afforestation." Forest Policy and Economics 125: 102408. [link to journal article]
32) Wehde, W., J. Ripberger, H. Jenkins-Smith, B.A. Jones, J. Allan, and C. Silva. (2021). "Public Willingness to Pay for Continuous and Probabilistic Hazard Information." Natural Hazards Review 22(2): 04021004. [link to journal article]
31) Jones, B.A. and R. Berrens. (2021). "Prescribed Burns, Smoke Exposure, and Infant Health." Contemporary Economic Policy 39(2): 292-309. [link to journal article]
Presented at the AERE@WEAI Sessions, Denver, CO, June 27, 2020.
30) Jones, B.A. (2020). "Labor Market Impacts of Deforestation Caused by Invasive Species Spread." Environmental and Resource Economics 7: 159-190. [link to journal article]
29) Jones, B.A. (2020). "After the Dust Settles: The Infant Health Impacts of Dust Storms." Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 7(6):1005-1032. [link to journal article]
28) Jones, B.A. and J. Fleck. (2020). "Shrinking Lakes, Air Pollution, and Human Health: Evidence from California's Salton Sea." Science of the Total Environment 712: 136490. [link to journal article]
27) Goodkind, A., Jones, B.A., and R. Berrens. (2020). "Cryptodamages: Monetary Value Estimates of the Air Pollution and Human Health Impacts of Cryptocurrency Mining." Energy Research & Social Science 59: 101281. [link to journal article]
Press and Media coverage of this article
26) Jones, B.A. (2020). "Invasive Species Control, Agricultural Pesticide Use, and Infant Health Outcomes." Land Economics 96(2): 149-170. [link to journal article]
25) Jones, B.A. (2019). "Infant Health Impacts of Freshwater Algal Blooms: Evidence from an Invasive Species Natural Experiment." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 96: 36-59. [link to journal article]
Presented at the AERE@WEAI Sessions, San Francisco, CA, June 30, 2019.
24) Jones, B.A. and A. Goodkind. (2019). "Urban Afforestation and Infant Health: Evidence from MillionTreesNYC." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 95: 26-44. [link to journal article]
Presented at the Inaugural JEEM Conference, Moss, Norway, June 22-23, 2018.
23) Carlson, D., H. Jenkins-Smith, C. Silva, J. Ripberger, K. Gupta, W. Wehde, B.A. Jones, and R. Berrens. (2019). "Cost-Benefit Analysis, Policy Impacts, and Congressional Hearings." Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 10(1): 65-94. [link to journal article]
22) Jones, B.A. (2019). "Tree Shade, Temperature, and Human Health: Evidence from Invasive Species-Induced Deforestation." Ecological Economics 156: 12-23. [link to journal article]
21) Jones, B.A. (2018). "Forest-Attacking Invasive Species and Infant Health: Evidence from the Invasive Emerald Ash Borer." Ecological Economics 154: 282-293. [link to journal article]
Presented at the AERE@WEAI Sessions, Vancouver, BC, June 29, 2018.
20) Jones, B.A. and J. Fleck. (2018). "Urban Trees and Water Use in Arid Climates: Insights from an Integrated Bioeconomic-Health Model." Water Economics and Policy 4(4): 38pgs. [link to journal article]
19) Jones, B.A., R. Berrens, H. Jenkins-Smith, C. Silva, J. Ripberger, and D. Carlson. (2019). "Inclusive Non-Market Valuation in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): A Motivating Theory. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 8(1): 1-16. [link to journal article]
18) Jones, B.A. (2018). "Willingness to Pay Estimates for Wildfire Smoke Health Impacts in the US using the Life Satisfaction Approach." Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 7(4): 403-419. [link to journal article]
17) Jones, B.A. and S. McDermott. (2018). "The Economics of Urban Afforestation: Insights from an Integrated Bioeconomic-Health Model." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 89: 116-135 [link to journal article]
Featured as a research highlight in Nature Sustainability, May 2018 [link]
Presented at the CU Boulder Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Vail, CO, September 15, 2017.
16) Jones, B.A. (2018). "Spillover Health Effects of Energy Efficiency Investments: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Los Angeles LED Streetlight Program." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 88: 283-299 [link to journal article]
Presented at the AERE@WEAI Sessions, San Diego, CA, June 28, 2017.
15) Jones, B.A. (2018). "Measuring Externalities of Energy Efficiency Investments using Subjective Well-Being Data: The Case of LED Streetlights." Resource and Energy Economics 52: 18-32. [link to journal article]
14) Jones, B.A., R. Berrens, H. Jenkins-Smith, C. Silva, J. Ripberger, D. Carlson, K. Gupta, and W. Wehde. (2018). "In Search of an Inclusive Approach: Measuring Non-market Values for the Effects of Complex Dam, Hydroelectric and River System Operations." Energy Economics 69: 225-236. [link to journal article]
13) Jones, B.A., J. Ripberger, H. Jenkins-Smith, and C. Silva. (2017). "Estimating Willingness to Pay for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Provided by Hydropower using the Contingent Valuation Method." Energy Policy 111: 362-370. [link to journal article]
12) Jones, B.A. and R. Berrens. (2017). "Application of an Original Wildfire Smoke Health Cost Benefits Transfer Protocol to the Western US, 2005-2015." Environmental Management 60(5): 809-822. [link to journal article]
Presented at the IAWF 5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, Portland, OR, April 11-14, 2016.
11) Jones, B.A. (2017). "Are We Underestimating the Economic Costs of Wildfire Smoke? An Investigation Using the Life Satisfaction Approach." Journal of Forest Economics 27: 80-90. [link to journal article]
10) Jones, B.A. and S. McDermott. (2018). "Health Impacts of Invasive Species Through an Altered Natural Environment: Assessing Air Pollution Sinks as a Causal Pathway." Environmental and Resource Economics 71(1): 23-43. [link to journal article]
Presented at the AERE@WEAI Sessions, Portland, OR, July 2, 2016
9) Jones, B.A. (2017). "Invasive Species Impacts on Human Well-Being Using the Life Satisfaction Index." Ecological Economics 134: 250-257. [link to journal article]
8) Jones, B.A. (2017). "The Social Health Costs of Uranium Mining in the US Colorado Plateau Cohort, 1960-2005." International Journal of Public Health 62(4): 471-478. [link to journal article]
7) Carlson, D., J. Ripberger, H. Jenkins-Smith, C. Silva, K. Gupta, R. Berrens and B.A. Jones. (2016). "Contingent Valuation and the Policymaking Process: An Application to Used Nuclear Fuel in the United States." Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 7(3): 459-487. [link to journal article]
Awards
Best Article Award, 2017, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
6) Jones, B.A., S. McDermott and J. Chermak. (2016). "PLAN or get SLAM'ed: optimal management of invasive species in the presence of indirect health externalities." Journal of Environmental Management 180: 538-550. [link to journal article]
Presented at the SEA AERE sessions, New Orleans, LA, November 21-23, 2015.
5) Jones, B.A., R. Berrens, H. Jenkins-Smith, C. Silva, D. Carlson, J. Ripberger, K. Gupta and N. Carlson. (2016). "Valuation in the Anthropocene: Exploring options for alternative operations of the Glen Canyon Dam." Water Resources and Economics 14: 13-30. [link to journal article]
Presented at the APPAM 2014 Fall Research Conference, Albuquerque, NM, November 6-8, 2014.
4) Jones, B.A. (2016). "Work more and play less? Time use impacts of changing ecosystem services: The case of the invasive Emerald Ash Borer." Ecological Economics 124: 49-58. [link to journal article]
3) Jones, B.A., J. Thacher, J. Chermak and R. Berrens. (2016). "Wildfire smoke health costs: A methods case study for a southwestern US 'mega-fire.'" Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 5(2): 181-199. [link to journal article]
Presented at the IAWF 4th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Boise, Idaho, April 20-24, 2015.
2) Jones, B.A. and S. McDermott. (2015). "Linking environmental management to health outcomes: A case study of the Emerald Ash Borer." Applied Economics Letters 22(17): 1409-1414. [link to journal article]
Presented at the WEAI 89th Annual Conference, Denver, CO, June 28, 2014.
1) Jones, B.A. (2014). "What are the health costs of uranium mining? A case-study of miners in Grants, New Mexico." International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 20(4): 289-300. [link to journal article]
Awards
IJOEH Editor's Choice Article
Western Social Science Association Graduate Student Paper Competition (2nd place/Honorable Mention), March 2014
43) Jones, B.A. (2023). "Dust Storms and Human Well-Being." Resource and Energy Economics 72: 101362. [link to journal article]
42) Jones, B.A. (2023). "Can Invasive Species Lead to Sedentary Behavior? The Time Use and Obesity Impacts of A Forest-Attacking Pest." Journal of Environmental Economics & Management 119: 102800. [link to journal article]
41) Goodkind, A., R. Berrens, and B.A. Jones. (in press). "Estimating the Climate and Health Damages of Bitcoin Mining in the US: Is Bitcoin Underwater?" Applied Economics Letters. [link to journal article]
40) Jones, B.A., A. Goodkind, and R. Berrens. (2022). “Economic Estimation of Bitcoin Mining’s Climate Damages Demonstrates Closer Resemblance to Digital Crude than Digital Gold” Scientific Reports 12: 14512. [link to journal article]
39) Jones, B.A., S. McDermott, P. Champ, and R. Berrens. (2022). “More Smoke Today for Less Smoke Tomorrow? We Need to Better Understand the Public Health Benefits and Costs of Prescribed Fire.” International Journal of Wildland Fire 31(10): 918-926. [link to journal article]
38) Kaczmarski, J., B.A. Jones, and J. Chermak. (2022). "Determinants of Demand Response Program Participation: Contingent Valuation Evidence from a Smart Thermostat Program." Energies 15(2): 590. [link to journal article]
37) Jones, B.A. (2021). "Mountain Pine Beetle Impacts on Health Through Lost Forest Air Pollutant Sinks." Forests 12(12): 1785. [link to journal article]
36) Jones, B.A. (2022). "Dust Storms and Violent Crime." Journal of Environmental Economics & Management 111: 102590. [link to journal article]
35) Jones, B.A. and S. McDermott (2021). "The Local Labor Market Impacts of US Megafires." Sustainability 13(16): 9078. [link to journal article]
34) Jones, B.A. and S. McDermott (2022). "Infant Health Outcomes in Mega-Fire Affected Communities." Applied Economics Letters 29(14): 1325-1335. [link to journal article]
Presented at EAERE (2021) and AERE@WEAI (2021)
33) Jones, B.A. (2021). "Planting Urban Trees to Improve Quality of Life? The Life Satisfaction Impacts of Urban Afforestation." Forest Policy and Economics 125: 102408. [link to journal article]
32) Wehde, W., J. Ripberger, H. Jenkins-Smith, B.A. Jones, J. Allan, and C. Silva. (2021). "Public Willingness to Pay for Continuous and Probabilistic Hazard Information." Natural Hazards Review 22(2): 04021004. [link to journal article]
31) Jones, B.A. and R. Berrens. (2021). "Prescribed Burns, Smoke Exposure, and Infant Health." Contemporary Economic Policy 39(2): 292-309. [link to journal article]
Presented at the AERE@WEAI Sessions, Denver, CO, June 27, 2020.
30) Jones, B.A. (2020). "Labor Market Impacts of Deforestation Caused by Invasive Species Spread." Environmental and Resource Economics 7: 159-190. [link to journal article]
29) Jones, B.A. (2020). "After the Dust Settles: The Infant Health Impacts of Dust Storms." Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 7(6):1005-1032. [link to journal article]
28) Jones, B.A. and J. Fleck. (2020). "Shrinking Lakes, Air Pollution, and Human Health: Evidence from California's Salton Sea." Science of the Total Environment 712: 136490. [link to journal article]
27) Goodkind, A., Jones, B.A., and R. Berrens. (2020). "Cryptodamages: Monetary Value Estimates of the Air Pollution and Human Health Impacts of Cryptocurrency Mining." Energy Research & Social Science 59: 101281. [link to journal article]
Press and Media coverage of this article
26) Jones, B.A. (2020). "Invasive Species Control, Agricultural Pesticide Use, and Infant Health Outcomes." Land Economics 96(2): 149-170. [link to journal article]
25) Jones, B.A. (2019). "Infant Health Impacts of Freshwater Algal Blooms: Evidence from an Invasive Species Natural Experiment." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 96: 36-59. [link to journal article]
Presented at the AERE@WEAI Sessions, San Francisco, CA, June 30, 2019.
24) Jones, B.A. and A. Goodkind. (2019). "Urban Afforestation and Infant Health: Evidence from MillionTreesNYC." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 95: 26-44. [link to journal article]
Presented at the Inaugural JEEM Conference, Moss, Norway, June 22-23, 2018.
23) Carlson, D., H. Jenkins-Smith, C. Silva, J. Ripberger, K. Gupta, W. Wehde, B.A. Jones, and R. Berrens. (2019). "Cost-Benefit Analysis, Policy Impacts, and Congressional Hearings." Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 10(1): 65-94. [link to journal article]
22) Jones, B.A. (2019). "Tree Shade, Temperature, and Human Health: Evidence from Invasive Species-Induced Deforestation." Ecological Economics 156: 12-23. [link to journal article]
21) Jones, B.A. (2018). "Forest-Attacking Invasive Species and Infant Health: Evidence from the Invasive Emerald Ash Borer." Ecological Economics 154: 282-293. [link to journal article]
Presented at the AERE@WEAI Sessions, Vancouver, BC, June 29, 2018.
20) Jones, B.A. and J. Fleck. (2018). "Urban Trees and Water Use in Arid Climates: Insights from an Integrated Bioeconomic-Health Model." Water Economics and Policy 4(4): 38pgs. [link to journal article]
19) Jones, B.A., R. Berrens, H. Jenkins-Smith, C. Silva, J. Ripberger, and D. Carlson. (2019). "Inclusive Non-Market Valuation in Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS): A Motivating Theory. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 8(1): 1-16. [link to journal article]
18) Jones, B.A. (2018). "Willingness to Pay Estimates for Wildfire Smoke Health Impacts in the US using the Life Satisfaction Approach." Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 7(4): 403-419. [link to journal article]
17) Jones, B.A. and S. McDermott. (2018). "The Economics of Urban Afforestation: Insights from an Integrated Bioeconomic-Health Model." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 89: 116-135 [link to journal article]
Featured as a research highlight in Nature Sustainability, May 2018 [link]
Presented at the CU Boulder Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Vail, CO, September 15, 2017.
16) Jones, B.A. (2018). "Spillover Health Effects of Energy Efficiency Investments: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Los Angeles LED Streetlight Program." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 88: 283-299 [link to journal article]
Presented at the AERE@WEAI Sessions, San Diego, CA, June 28, 2017.
15) Jones, B.A. (2018). "Measuring Externalities of Energy Efficiency Investments using Subjective Well-Being Data: The Case of LED Streetlights." Resource and Energy Economics 52: 18-32. [link to journal article]
14) Jones, B.A., R. Berrens, H. Jenkins-Smith, C. Silva, J. Ripberger, D. Carlson, K. Gupta, and W. Wehde. (2018). "In Search of an Inclusive Approach: Measuring Non-market Values for the Effects of Complex Dam, Hydroelectric and River System Operations." Energy Economics 69: 225-236. [link to journal article]
13) Jones, B.A., J. Ripberger, H. Jenkins-Smith, and C. Silva. (2017). "Estimating Willingness to Pay for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions Provided by Hydropower using the Contingent Valuation Method." Energy Policy 111: 362-370. [link to journal article]
12) Jones, B.A. and R. Berrens. (2017). "Application of an Original Wildfire Smoke Health Cost Benefits Transfer Protocol to the Western US, 2005-2015." Environmental Management 60(5): 809-822. [link to journal article]
Presented at the IAWF 5th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, Portland, OR, April 11-14, 2016.
11) Jones, B.A. (2017). "Are We Underestimating the Economic Costs of Wildfire Smoke? An Investigation Using the Life Satisfaction Approach." Journal of Forest Economics 27: 80-90. [link to journal article]
10) Jones, B.A. and S. McDermott. (2018). "Health Impacts of Invasive Species Through an Altered Natural Environment: Assessing Air Pollution Sinks as a Causal Pathway." Environmental and Resource Economics 71(1): 23-43. [link to journal article]
Presented at the AERE@WEAI Sessions, Portland, OR, July 2, 2016
9) Jones, B.A. (2017). "Invasive Species Impacts on Human Well-Being Using the Life Satisfaction Index." Ecological Economics 134: 250-257. [link to journal article]
8) Jones, B.A. (2017). "The Social Health Costs of Uranium Mining in the US Colorado Plateau Cohort, 1960-2005." International Journal of Public Health 62(4): 471-478. [link to journal article]
7) Carlson, D., J. Ripberger, H. Jenkins-Smith, C. Silva, K. Gupta, R. Berrens and B.A. Jones. (2016). "Contingent Valuation and the Policymaking Process: An Application to Used Nuclear Fuel in the United States." Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 7(3): 459-487. [link to journal article]
Awards
Best Article Award, 2017, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis
6) Jones, B.A., S. McDermott and J. Chermak. (2016). "PLAN or get SLAM'ed: optimal management of invasive species in the presence of indirect health externalities." Journal of Environmental Management 180: 538-550. [link to journal article]
Presented at the SEA AERE sessions, New Orleans, LA, November 21-23, 2015.
5) Jones, B.A., R. Berrens, H. Jenkins-Smith, C. Silva, D. Carlson, J. Ripberger, K. Gupta and N. Carlson. (2016). "Valuation in the Anthropocene: Exploring options for alternative operations of the Glen Canyon Dam." Water Resources and Economics 14: 13-30. [link to journal article]
Presented at the APPAM 2014 Fall Research Conference, Albuquerque, NM, November 6-8, 2014.
4) Jones, B.A. (2016). "Work more and play less? Time use impacts of changing ecosystem services: The case of the invasive Emerald Ash Borer." Ecological Economics 124: 49-58. [link to journal article]
3) Jones, B.A., J. Thacher, J. Chermak and R. Berrens. (2016). "Wildfire smoke health costs: A methods case study for a southwestern US 'mega-fire.'" Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 5(2): 181-199. [link to journal article]
Presented at the IAWF 4th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Boise, Idaho, April 20-24, 2015.
2) Jones, B.A. and S. McDermott. (2015). "Linking environmental management to health outcomes: A case study of the Emerald Ash Borer." Applied Economics Letters 22(17): 1409-1414. [link to journal article]
Presented at the WEAI 89th Annual Conference, Denver, CO, June 28, 2014.
1) Jones, B.A. (2014). "What are the health costs of uranium mining? A case-study of miners in Grants, New Mexico." International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health 20(4): 289-300. [link to journal article]
Awards
IJOEH Editor's Choice Article
Western Social Science Association Graduate Student Paper Competition (2nd place/Honorable Mention), March 2014
