Department of Resource Economics
J Scott Shonkwiler

Professor, Department Chair
Department of Resource Economics
University of Nevada/Mail Stop 204
1664 North Virginia Street
Reno,  Nevada   89557

 

Office: (775) 784-1341
Email: jss@unr.edu
Building: Max Fleischmann Agriculture,  Office 224

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri (1979)

 
 
COURSES & TEACHING RESPONSIBILITIES
  • APST 270 - Introduction to Statistical Methods
  • APST 470/670 - Regression and Time Series
  • APST 714 - Advanced Applied Statistics and Econometrics I
  • APST 715 - Advanced Applied Statistics and Econometrics II
  • APST 790 - Seminar in Resource Economics
 
AWARDS, HONORS, & PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION
  • Outstanding researcher 1996-97 College of Agriculture, University of Nevada.
  • Recipient of the Outstanding Service Award presented by the Western Agricultural Economics Association, June 2000.
 
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

Eiswerth, M. E. and J. S. Shonkwiler. "Examining Post-Wildfire Reseeding on Arid Rangeland: A Multivariate Tobit Modelling Approach." Ecological Modelling, 192 (2006) pp. 286-298.

Hayes, J. P. and J. S. Shonkwiler. "Allometry, Antilog Transformations, and the Perils of Prediction on the Original Scale." Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, 79 (2006) pp. 665-674.

Shonkwiler, J. S. and J. E. Englin. "Welfare Losses Due to Livestock Grazing on Public Lands: A Count Data Systemwide Treatment." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87 (2005) pp. 302-313.

Moeltner, K. and J. S. Shonkwiler. "Correcting for On-Site Sampling in Random Utility Models." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 87 (2005) pp. 327-339.

Shonkwiler, J.S. and N.D. Hanley. "A New Approach to Random Utility Modeling Using the Dirichlet Multinomial Distribution." Envrionmental and Resource Economics, 26 (2003) pp. 401-416.

Shonkwiler, J. S. and W. D. Shaw. "A Finite Mixture Approach to Analyzing Income Effects in Random Utility Models" in The New Economics of Outdoor Recreation, N. D. Hanley, ed. Edward Elgar (2003) pp. 268-279.

Pendleton, L. H. and J. S. Shonkwiler. "Valuing Bundled Attributes: A Latent Characteristics Approach." Land Economics, 77 (2001) pp.118-129.

Shaw, W. D. and J. S. Shonkwiler. "Brand Choice and Total Purchases Revisited: An Application to Recreation Demand." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 82 (2000) pp. 515-526.

Shonkwiler, J. S. and S. T. Yen. "Two-Step Estimation of a Censored System of Equations." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81 (1999) pp. 972-982.

Shonkwiler, J. S. “Recreation Demand Systems for Multiple Site Count Data Travel Cost Models” in Valuing the Environment Using Recreation Demand Models, J.A. Herriges and C. L. Kling, eds. Edward Elgar (1999) pp. 253-269.

Harris, T. R. and J. S. Shonkwiler. "Interdependence of Retail Businesses." Growth and Change, 27 (1997) pp. 520-534.

Shonkwiler, J. S. and T. R. Harris. "Rural Retail Thresholds and Interdependencies." Journal of Regional Science, 36 (1996) pp. 617-630.

Englin, J. and J. S. Shonkwiler. "Estimating Social Welfare Using Count Data Models: An Application to Long Run Recreation Demand Under Conditions of Endogenous Stratification and Truncation." Review of Economics and Statistics, 77 (1995) pp. 104-112.