November 2015
Steven M. Smith
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Ave.
Haverford, PA 19041
Web: https://sites.google.com/site/stevenmichaelsmith/
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 217-493-4640
Academic Positions
Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics and Environmental Studies, Haverford College
Education
Ph.D., Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder
Fields: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Economic History,
New Institutional Economics
M.A., Economics, University of Colorado, Boulder
B.A., Mathematics, magna cum laude, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Minors: Economics and Literature
Semester Abroad, University of Otago, New Zealand
20142014
2011
2007
2006
Dissertation
“Disturbances to Irrigation Systems in the American Southwest: Assessing the Performance of
Acequias under Various Governance Structures, Property Rights, and New Entrants.”
Finalist for the Ronald H. Coase Dissertation Award (2015)
Committee: Professors Lee J. Alston (Chair), Nicholas Flores, Krister Andersson,
Jonathan E. Hughes, and Charles Howe
Research
Published Articles:
“Common Property Resources and New Entrants: Uncovering the Bias and Effects of New
Users.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Vol. 3,
No. 1 (March, 2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/683683
“Emergence of Collective Action in a Groundwater Commons: Irrigators in the San Luis
Valley of Colorado.” (with Kelsey Cody, Michael Cox and Krister Andersson). Society and
Natural Resources Vol. 4, Issue 28 (April 2015)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2014.970736
“Payment for Environmental Services: Hypotheses and Evidence.” Annual Review of
Natural Resource Economics, Vol. 5. (October 2013). (with Lee J. Alston and Krister
Andersson). Earlier version published as NBER Working Paper No. 18740 (January 2013)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151830
Working Papers:
“Responding to a Groundwater Crisis: The Effects of Self-Imposed Economic Incentives.”
(with Krister Andersson, Kelsey Cody, Michael Cox and Darren Ficklin). Submitted.
“Will REDD+ Increase Inequality within Forest User Groups? Global Comparative
Evidence.” (with Krister Andersson, Lee J. Alston, Amy Duchelle, Esther Mwangi, Anne
Larson, Claudio de Sassi, Erin Sills, William D. Sunderlin and Grace Wong). Submitted.
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“Economic Incentives and Crowding-in Social Norms in a Groundwater Commons.”
“From Communal Irrigation to Central Irrigation Districts: An Economic Assessment of New
Mexico’s Transition.”
“The Role of External Legislation in the Development of Irrigation Institutions.”
“Common or Private Property: The Relative Efficiency of Alternative Water Rights.”
Current Projects:
“Irrigation and Western Agricultural Development 1900-1978: Differential Effects of Surface
and Ground Water.” (with Eric Edwards)
“The Economic Impacts of Peruvian Water Law.” (with Lynne Lewis)
Presentations
AALAC Conference: Economic History of Race, Gender, and Class, Middlebury, VT
“From Communal Irrigation to Central Irrigation Districts:
An Economic Assessment of New Mexico’s Transition”
2015
89th Annual Conference of The Western Economic Association International, Denver, CO 2014
“From Communal Irrigation to Central Irrigation Districts:
An Economic Assessment of New Mexico’s Transition”
18th Annual Conference of The International Society for New Institutional Economics,
Durham, NC
“From Communal Irrigation to Central Irrigation Districts:
An Economic Assessment of New Mexico’s Transition”
2014
15th Annual CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Vail, CO
“Common or Private Property: The Relative Efficiency of Alternative Water Rights”
2013
Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, Boulder, CO
“From Communal Irrigation to Central Irrigation Districts: An Economic
Assessment of New Mexico’s Transition”
2013
14th Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons,
Kita Fuji, Japan
“Trust, Repeated Interactions, and User Group Disturbances in
Common Property Irrigation”
17th Annual Conference of The International Society for New Institutional Economics,
Florence, Italy
“Trust, Repeated Interactions, and User Group Disturbances in
Common Property Irrigation”
Design and Dynamics of Institutions for Collective Action, Utrecht, the Netherlands
“Common-Pool Resources and Disturbances of Social Capital:
The Case of the Taos Valley Acequias”
2013
2013
2012
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14th Annual CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Beaver Creek, CO
“Common-Pool Resources and Disturbances of Social Capital:
The Case of the Taos Valley Acequias”
2012
Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conference, Boulder, CO
“The Evolution of Acequias in New Mexico”
2012
Service
Haverford Public Policy Forum: Environmental Policy Session Moderator
2015
Awards
Finalist for the Ronald H. Coase Dissertation Award
Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Hayek Fund for Scholars
Richard C. Meckley Graduate Fellowship
Graduate Research Fellow
Stanford Calderwood Student Teaching Award
Dean’s List—DePauw University
2015
2013
2013
2012-2013
2012-2013
2011-2012
2003-2007
Research Experience
Graduate Research Fellow, Center for the Governance of Natural Resources
Research Assistant, CNH Snowmelt Project (Krister Andersson)
2012-2014
2012-2014
Teaching Experience
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Haverford College:
New Institutional Economics and Natural Resources
Natural Resource Economics
Environmental Economics
Fall 2015
Spring 2015, 2016
Fall 2014
Instructor at University of Colorado:
Environmental Economics for non-majors
Spring 2012; Summer 2013, 2014
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Summer 2011, 2012; Fall 2011, 2012; Spring 2014
Teaching Assistant at University of Colorado:
Principles of Macroeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
Introduction to Statistics w/ Computer Applications
Spring 2011
Fall 2009, 2010
Spring 2010
Advising
Committee Member
Kelsey Cody, Ph.D. in Environmental Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder
Work Experience
ALPS Fund Services Inc., Denver, CO, Mutual Fund Accountant
AustraLearn, Westminster, CO, Electronic Application Project Specialist
Professional Affiliations
American Economic Association
20152007- 2009
2007
Curriculum Vitae: Steven M. Smith
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Economic History Association
International Association for the Study of the Commons
Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics
Western Economic Association International
Refereed Journals
Ecological Economics, Journal of Economic History
References
Professor Lee J. Alston
Ostrom Chair and Professor of Economics
Director of the Ostrom Workshop
Indiana University
513 N. Park Avenue, Bloomington, IN 47408
[email protected]
Professor Krister Andersson
Department of Political Science and Environmental Studies
Director of Center for the Governance of Natural Resources
University of Colorado
333 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
Professor Anne Preston
Department of Economics, Chair
Haverford College
370 Lancaster Ave., Haverford, PA 19041
[email protected]
Professor Nicholas Flores
Department of Economics, Chair
University of Colorado
256 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309
[email protected]
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