Gregory L. Poe

Gregory L. Poe

Cornell environmental economist who worked on nonmarket valuation and is the third author of the 2008 Land Economics study of decoy effects in choice experiments.

Who they are

Gregory L. Poe was born in 1960 and died on 11 March 2017, aged 56. He joined Cornell's Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management in 1993 and became a professor there. Cornell's obituary gives a BA in economics from Pomona College (1983), and an MS (1988) and PhD in natural resource economics (1993) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and records his service as a Peace Corps fisheries adviser in Cameroon from 1983 to 1986. His work covered applied welfare economics, nonmarket valuation, experimental economics and water pollution policy, including improved measures of hypothetical and actual demand for public environmental goods such as water. He served as editor of Resource and Energy Economics.

Key papers

Bateman, I. J., Munro, A., & Poe, G. L. (2008). Decoy effects in choice experiments and contingent valuation: asymmetric dominance. Land Economics, 84(1), 115-127.

Key ideas

Adding an asymmetrically dominated option significantly changed choices between the other options for non-market goods.

The shift carried through to the valuations people later gave those options.

Sources

  1. doi:10.3368/le.84.1.115
  2. Gregory Poe, expert in environmental economics, dies at 56, Cornell Chronicle, 2017