Research and Publications
Recent Staff Papers
SOE Staff Paper 570
Mary Davis
The Economic Burden of Childhood Exposure to Secondhand
Smoke in Maine
SOE Staff Paper 569
Todd Gabe
Market Potential for a Proposed Racino in Calais, Maine 
SOE Staff Paper 568
Todd Gabe
Effects of Hollywood Slots on Bangor Area Retail Sales
SOE Staff Paper 567
Mark Anderson
Reducing Your Footprint: A Handbook for Reducing Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions
Supporting Spreadsheet
SOE Staff Paper 566
Philip Trostel and Todd Gabe
Fiscal and Economic Effects of College Attainment
REP Staff Paper 563
Thomas Allen, Todd M. Gabe, and James C. McConnon
The Economic Contribution of Agri-Tourism to the Maine Economy
SOE Staff Paper 560
Sibel Atasoy, James C. McConnon, and Todd Gabe
The Economic Importance and Impact of Microenterprises to the New England Economy
Many additional reports are available for download at the Maine Agriculture & Forestry Experiment Station and the Margaret Chase Smith Center
Recent Journal Articles
Anderson, M.W. (2007). Should Improving Student Thinking Include Altering Student Values? The Role of General Education, In Assessment Matters section of About Campus, 12(2), 23-25.
Anderson, M.W., Teisl, M., Criner, G., Tisher, S., Smith, S., Hunter, M., Norton, S.A., Jellison, J., Alyokhin, A., Gallandt, E., Haggard, S., and Bicknell, E. (2007). Attitude Change of Undergraduate Students in General Education Courses. Journal of General Education, 56(2), 149-168.
Bassano, Louis V. and James C. McConnon, Jr. (2008). Strengthening Entrepreneurship and Building Leadership Capacity in Rural Communities. Journal of Extension [On-line] 47(2). Available at http://www.joe.org/joe/2008april/a1.shtml.
Bell, K.P. (2007). Session Discussion: Preserving Rural Land. Review of Agricultural Economics 29(3), 518-519.
Bell, K.P. and Dalton, T.J. (2007). Spatial Economic Analysis in Data-Rich Environments. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 58(3), 487-501.
Davis, M.E. (2007). U.S. Environmental Politics: A Study of State Toxic Metal Water Quality Standards. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, Vol. 9(2), 143-163.
Bowen B, Davis M.E, and A Frankic. “Coastal Impacts, Marine Resources and Human Health” Oceanography, Vol. 19, No. 2 (June 2006).
Davis, M.E, Smith, T.J, Laden, F., Hart, J.E, Ryan, L., and Garshick, E. (2006). Modeling Particulate Exposure in the US Trucking Industry. Environmental Science and Technology, 40(13), 4226 -4232..
Gabe, T.M. (2006). Growth of Creative Occupations in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: A Shift-Share Analysis. Growth and Change, 37(3).
Gabe, T.M., Lynch, C., and McConnon, J. (2006). Likelihood of Cruise Ship Passenger Return to a Visited Port: The Case of Bar Harbor, Maine. Journal of Travel Research, 44(3).
Gabe, T.M., Colby, K., and Bell, K.P. (2007). The Effects of Workforce Creativity on Earnings in U.S. Counties. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 36(1), 71-83.
Garcia, R., Hart, J.E, Davis, M.E, Reaser, P., Natkin, J., Laden, F., Garshick, E., and Smith, T.J. (2007). Effects of Wind on Background Particle Concentrations at Truck Freight Terminals. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, 4, 36-38.
Holmes, T., Murphy, E., and Bell, K.P. (2006). Exotic Forest Insects and Residential Property Values. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 35(1), 155-166.
Hunt, G.L. (2006). Population-employment models: nonstationarity, cointegration, and dynamic structure and adjustment. Journal of Regional Science 46(2), 205-244.
Kearney, A.A. and Lombra, R. (2007). The non-neutral short-run effects of derivates on gold prices. Applied Financial Economics, forthcoming.
Lambert, R., Larue, B., Yelou, C., and Criner, G. (2006). Regional differences in Canadian fish and meat demands. Agribusiness: An International Journal, 22(2), 175-199.
McCann, J., Dalton, T.J., and Merkuria, M. (2006). Breeding for Africa’s New Maize Paradigm: The Southern African Drought and Low Fertility Program. International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 4(2), 99-107.
Maskey,V., Gebremedhin, T.G., and Dalton, T.J. (2006). Social and Cultural Determinants of Collective Management of Community Forest in Nepal. Journal of Forest Economics 11, 261-274.
Montgomery, M.R. (2006). Austrian Persistence? Capital-Based Business Cycle Theory and the Dynamics of Investment Spending. Review of Austrian Economics, 19(1),17-45.
Noblet, C.L., Teisl, M.F., and Rubin, J. (2006). Factors Affecting Consumer Assessment of Eco-labeled Vehicles. Transportation Research Part D, 11, 422-431.
Roe, B. and Teisl, M.F. (2007). Genetically modified food labeling: the impacts of message and messenger on consumer perceptions of labels and products. Food Policy, 32, 49-66.
Smith, T.J, Davis, M.E, Reaser, P., Hart, J.E, Laden, F., Heff, A., and Garshick, E. (2006). Overview of Particulate Exposures in the US Trucking Industry. Journal of Environmental Monitoring 8(7), 711-720 (2006).
Teisl, M.F., Rubin, J., and Noblet, C.L. (2007). Non-dirty dancing? Interactions between eco-labels and consumers. Journal of Economic Psychology, forthcoming.
Teisl, M.F., Roe, B., and Vayda, M. (2006). Incentive effects on response rates, data quality, and survey administration. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 18(3).
Trostel, P. (2006). Does public investment in higher education pay for states? National Social Science Journal, 26(2), 110-118.
Wihry, D.F. (2006). Municipal restructuring in Quebec, some lessons for Maine. Maine Policy Review 15(1), 40-54.
