Scott A. Wentland

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Scott A. Wentland

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Research Areas

Applied Microeconomics, Housing/Real Estate/Urban Economics, Public Economics, Taxation, Environmental Valuation

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Peer Reviewed Publications 
Journal Articles

  • “Real Effects of Tax Uncertainty: Evidence from Firm Capital Investments” with K. Wentland and M. Jacob. Management Science, Forthcoming.
  • “Why Disclose Less Information? Toward Resolving a Disclosure Puzzle in the Housing Market” with X. Bian, J. Contat, and B. Waller. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Forthcoming.
  • “Mitigating Agency Costs in the Housing Market” with G. Turnbull and B. Waller, Real Estate Economics, Vol. 50 (3) 2022.
  • "Foreclosure Externalities and Home Liquidity" with X. Bian, R. Brastow, and B. Waller. Real Estate Economics, Vol. 49(3) 2021 
  • "This Old House: Historical Restoration as a Neighborhood Amenity" with G. Turnbull, B. Waller, W. Witschey, and V. Zahirovic-Herbert, Land Economics, Vol. 95(2) 2019.
  • "Who Benefits from Targeted Property Tax Relief? Evidence from Virginia Elections" with J. Moulton and B. Waller, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 37(2) 2018.
  • "Temporally Dynamic Externalities and Real Estate Liquidity" with R. Brastow and B. Waller, Journal of Real Estate Research, 40(2) 2018.
  • "The Role of Transaction Costs in Impeding Market Exchange in Real Estate," with X. Bian and B. Waller, Journal of Housing Research, 25(2) 2016.
  • "How Many Listings are Too Many? Agent Listing Externalities and the Residential Housing Market," with X. Bian, G. Turnbull, and B. Waller, Journal of Housing Economics, Vol. 28 2015.
  • "Estimating the Effect of Crime Risk on Property Values and Time on Market: Evidence from Megan's Law in Virginia," with B. Waller and R. Brastow, Real Estate Economics, 42(1) 2014.
  • "Not in my Backyard: The Effect of Substance Abuse Treatment Centers on Property Values" with C. LaRoche and B. Waller, Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, Vol. 6 2014.
  • "Political Beliefs and Tort Awards: Evidence of Rationally Political Jurors from Two Data Sets," Review of Law & Economics, 8(3) 2012.


Other Publications (Chapters, Special Issue Articles, Short Articles/Correspondence, Pedagogical Articles, etc.)

  • “Statistics: unify ecosystems valuation” with N. Brown, A. Femia, D. Fixler, O. Gravgård, S. Kaumanns, G. P. Oneto, S. Schürz, and F. Tubiello.  Nature, 593 (341), 2021. 
  • “Neighborhood Sorting Dynamics in Real Estate: Evidence from the Virginia Sex Offender Registry” with X. Bian, R. Brastow, M. Stoll, and B. Waller: Chapter 3 in Joshua Hall, Kerianne Lawson, and Jacob Shia (eds.), Measuring Amenities and Disamenties in the Housing Market: Applications of the Hedonic Model. Morgantown: Regional Research Institute, 2021.
  • “Accounting for Land in the U.S.: Integrating Physical Land Cover, Land Use, and Monetary Valuation” with Z. Ancona, J. Boyd, K. Bagstad, J. Hass, M. Gindelsky, J. Moulton. Ecosystem Services, vol. 46, 2020.
    • Special issue on natural capital accounting in the EU and US
  • “Integrating Physical and Economic Data into Experimental Water Accounts for the United States: Lessons and Opportunities” with K. Bagstad, Z. Ancona, J. Hass, P. Glynn, M. Vardon, and J. Fay. Ecosystems Services, vol. 45, 2020.
    • Special issue on natural capital accounting in the EU and US
  • "Valuing Housing Services in the Era of Big Data: A User Cost Approach Leveraging Zillow Microdata" with M. Gindelsky and J. Moulton. 2019 NBER-CRIW Volume on Big Data for 21st Century Economic Statistics. 
  • “The Natural Capital Accounting Opportunity: Let’s Really Do the Numbers,” BioScience, 68(12) 2018. With J. Boyd, K. Bagstad, J.C. Ingram, C. Shapiro, J. Adkins, F. Casey, C. Duke, P. Glynn, E. Goldman, M Grasso, J. Hass, J. Johnson, G.M. Lange, J. Matuszak, A. Miller, K. Oleson, S. Posner, C. Rhodes, F. Soulard, M. Vardon, F. Villa, and B. Voigt
  • "Marketing during a Recession: An Illustration of How Economic Principles Guide Marketing Approaches," with M. Marks and A. O'Connor, Journal for Economic Educators, 14 (1) 2014.


Current Research (Updated May 2022)

(*Some of these may have been presented under a different title at a conference/seminar/workshop - see my CV on the home page for the list of academic presentations)

Working Papers
 

  • “Monetary Policy and the Housing Market” with J. Moulton
  • “For What It’s Worth: Measuring Land Value in the Era of Big Data and Machine Learning” with G. Cornwall and J. Moulton
  • “Toxic Assets: How the Housing Market Responds to Environmental Information Shocks” with N. Sanders and J. Moulton
  • “District Randomization and the Problem of Political Social Cost” with P. Stone
  • “Are There Company-Specific Advantages with Protecting Intellectual Property Rights?” with J. Huang and K. Wentland
  • “Accounting for Environmental Activity: Measuring Public Environmental Expenditures and the Environmental Goods and Services Sector in the U.S.” with J. Hass, T. Highfill, D. Fixler, and K. Wentland
  • “It’s the Smell: How Resolving Uncertainty about Local Disamenties Affects the Housing Market” G. Cornwall and J. Chen
  • “When Do Property Taxes Matter? Tax Salience and Heterogeneous Policy Effects” with J. Moulton, M. Gindelsky, and K. Wentland

Works in Progress

  

  • “Returns to Homeownership and Inequality: Evidence from the First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit” with M. Gindelsky, J. Moulton, and K. Wentland
  • “Segment Reporting Trade-Offs for Financial Reporting” with M. Cobabe, B. Johnson, and K. Wentland
  • “Let’s Make a Deal: Local Business Incentives and Home Prices” with A. Bailey and J. Moulton
  • "Real Estate Markets in the Wake of Kelo: Empirical Evidence from Changes to Eminent Domain Law" with G. Cornwall, L. Krasnozhon, and J. Moulton
  • “Who Bought and Sold During the Great U.S. Housing Boom and Bust?” with M. Gindelsky and J. Moulton

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