Catherine L. Kling
Professor
Contact Information
Iowa State University568D Heady Hall
Ames, IA 50011
(515) 294-5767
ckling@iastate.edu
Education
- PhD, University of Maryland, 1986
- BBA, University of Iowa, 1981
Research Interests
Natural resource and environmental economics.
Selected Publications
- Kling, Catherine L., Economic Incentives to Improve Water Quality in Agricultural Landscapes: Some New Variations on Old Ideas, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Herriges, Joseph A.; Kling, Catherine L.; Liu, Chih-Chen; Tobias, Justin, What Are the Consequences of Consequentiality?, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 59 no. 1 (2010): 67-81.
- Zhao, Jinhua; Kling, Catherine L., Welfare Measures When Agents Can Learn: A Unifying Theory, Economic Journal Vol. 119 (2009): 1560-1585.
Awards and Honors
- Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, Fellow, 2006, Board member, 2000-2003
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, Executive Committee, 2003-current, Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, 1998-2003 and 2008-2011
- Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, President, 2011-2012, Vice President, 2002-2003, Board of Directors, 1996-98
- Outstanding Journal Article Award, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2007
- American Agricultural Economics Association Quality of Research Discovery Award, Honorable Mention, 2000 and 2001
- Western Agricultural Economics Association Outstanding Published Research, 1998
Professor
Cathy Kling, professor of economics at Iowa State University, serves as the division head of CARD's Resource and Environmental Policy Division. She received a bachelor's degree in business and economics from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland. In her work at CARD, Kling is undertaking research to examine how agricultural practices affect water quality, wildlife, soil carbon content, and greenhouse gasses.
Kling is married to Terry Alexander, also an economist at Iowa State, and they have two children, Danny and Maggie. She spends her time away from CARD attending her children's activities, gardening, and participating in outdoor activities.
ISU Economics Working Papers Series
- Herriges, Joseph A.; Bhattacharjee, Subhra; Kling, Catherine L., Capturing Preferences Under Incomplete Scenarios Using Elicited Choice Probabilities., WP #11003, March 2011
- Jeon, Yongsik; Herriges, Joseph A.; Kling, Catherine L.; Downing, John A., The Role of Water Quality Perceptions in Modeling Lake Recreation Demand, WP #05032, November 2005
Journal Articles
- Kling, Catherine L.; Secchi, Silvia; Jha, Manoj; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Gassman, Philip W., The Water Quality Effects of Corn Expansion in the Midwest, Forthcoming in Ecological Applications
- Kling, Catherine L.; List, John; Zhao, Jinhua, A Dynamic Explanation of the Willingness to Pay and Willingness to Accept Disparity, Forthcoming in Economic Inquiry
- Kling, Catherine L., Economic Incentives to Improve Water Quality in Agricultural Landscapes: Some New Variations on Old Ideas, American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Rabotyagov, Sergey S.; Campbell, Todd; Jha, Manoj; Gassman, Philip W.; Arnold, Jeffrey G.; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Secchi, Silvia; Feng, Hongli; Kling, Catherine L., Least Cost Control of Agricultural Nutrient Contributions to the Gulf of Mexico Hypoxic Zone, Ecological Applications Vol. 20 no. 6 (September 2010): 1452-1555.
- Herriges, Joseph A.; Kling, Catherine L.; Liu, Chih-Chen; Tobias, Justin, What Are the Consequences of Consequentiality?, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 59 no. 1 (2010): 67-81.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Segerson, Kathleen; Shogren, Jason F., Environmental Economics: How Agricultural Economists Helped Advance the Field, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 92 (2010): 487-505.
- Zhao, Jinhua; Kling, Catherine L., Welfare Measures When Agents Can Learn: A Unifying Theory, Economic Journal Vol. 119 (2009): 1560-1585.
- Egan, Kevin J.; Herriges, Joseph A.; Kling, Catherine L.; Downing, John A., Valuing Water Quality As a Functionof Water Quality Measures, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 91 (2009): 106-123.
- Corrigan, Jay R.; Kling, Catherine L.; Zhao, Jinhua, Dynamic Willingness to Pay: An Empirical Specification and Test, Environmental and Resource Economics Vol. 40 no. 2 (June 2008): 285-298.
- Kling, Catherine L., A Tale of Three Watersheds: Non-Point Source Pollution and Conservation Practices Across Iowa, Choices (Summer 2007)
- Kling, Catherine L., Privatizing Ecosystem Services: Water Quality Effects from a Carbon Market, Choices (Summer 2007)
- Kling, Catherine L., Agriculture and Water Quality in the Cornbelt: Overview of Issues and Approaches, Choices (Second Quarter 2007)
- Bhattacharjee, Subhra; Herriges, Joseph A.; Kling, Catherine L., The Status of Women of Environmental Economics, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy Vol. 1 (2007): 212-217.
- Secchi, Silvia; Kling, Catherine L.; Feng, Hongli; Gassman, Philip W.; Jha, Manoj; Campbell, Todd; Kurkalova, Lyubov A., The Cost of Cleaner Water: Assessing Agricultural Pollution Reduction at the Watershed Scale, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation Vol. 62 (2007): 10-20.
- Feng, Hongli; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Kling, Catherine L.; Gassman, Philip W., Transfers and Environmental Co-Benefits of Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils: Retiring Agricultural Land in the Upper Mississippi River Basin, Climatic Change Vol. 80 (January 1 2007): 91-107. (CARD Working Paper #05-WP 384)
- Kling, Catherine L.; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Zhao, Jinhua, Green Subsidies in Agriculture: Estimating the Adoption Costs of Conservation Tillage from Observed Behavior, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 54 (2006): 247-267.
- Feng, Hongli; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Kling, Catherine L.; Gassman, Philip W., Environmental Conservation in Agriculture: Land Retirement Versus Changing Practices on Working Land, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 52 (2006): 600-614. (CARD Working Paper #04-WP 365)
- Feng, Hongli; Kling, Catherine L.; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Secchi, Silvia; Gassman, Philip W., Conservation Reserve Program in the Presence of a Working Land Alternative: Implications for Environmental Quality, Program Participation, and Income Transfer, The, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 87 (December 2005): 1231-1238. (CARD Working Paper #05-WP 402)
- Feng, Hongli; Kling, Catherine L., Consequences of Co-Benefits for the Efficient Design of Carbon Sequestration Programs, The, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 53 no. 4 (December 2005): 461-476. (CARD Working Paper #05-WP 390)
- Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Kling, Catherine L.; Zhao, Jinhua, Institutions and the Value of Nonpoint Source Measurement Technology: Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils, Applied Economics Vol. 36 no. 20 (November 20 2004): 2287-2298.
- Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Kling, Catherine L.; Zhao, Jinhua, Multiple Benefits of Carbon-Friendly Agricultural Practices: Empirical Assessment of Conservation Tillage in Iowa, Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 33 no. 4 (August 2004): 519-527.
- Zhao, Jinhua; Kling, Catherine L., Willingness-To-Pay, Compensating Variation, and the Cost of Commitment, Economic Inquiry Vol. 42 no. 3 (July 2004): 503-517.
- Feng, Hongli; Kling, Catherine L.; Gassman, Philip W., Carbon Sequestration, Co-Benefits, and Conservation Programs, Choices (Third Quarter 2004): 19-23.
- Zhao, Jinhua; Kling, Catherine L.; Kurkalova, Lyubov A., Alternative Green Payment Policies Under Heterogeneity When Multiple Benefits Matter, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review Vol. 33 no. 1 (April 1 2004): 148-158.
- Wu, JunJie; Adams, Richard M.; Kling, Catherine L.; Tanaka, Katsuya, From Microlevel Decisions to Landscape Changes: An Assessment of Agricultural Conservation Policies, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 86 (February 2004): 26-41.
- Herriges, Joseph A.; Kling, Catherine L.; Phaneuf, Daniel J., What's the Use? Welfare Estimates from Revealed Preference Models when Weak Complementarity Does Not Hold, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 47 no. 1 (2004): 53-68.
- Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Kling, Catherine L.; Zhao, Jinhua, Value of Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution Measurement Technology: Assessment from a Policy Perspective, Applied Economics Vol. 36 (2004): 2287-2298.
- Wu, JunJie; Adams, Richard M.; Kling, Catherine L.; Tanaka, Katsuya, Assessing the Costs and Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Land Use Changes: A Site-Specific, Policy-Scale Modeling Approach, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 86 (2004): 26-41.
- Zhao, Jinhua; Kling, Catherine L., Environmental Regulation Under Policy Persistence, Resource and Energy Economics Vol. 25 (2003): 255-68.
- Azevedo, Christopher D.; Herriges, Joseph A.; Kling, Catherine L., Combining Revealed and Stated Preferences: Consistency Tests and Their Interpretations, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 85 no. 3 (2003): 525-537.
- Feng, Hongli; Zhao, Jinhua; Kling, Catherine L., Time Path and Implementation of Carbon Sequestration (The), American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 84 no. 1 (February 2002): 134-149.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Zhao, Jinhua, New Explanation for the Wtp/Wta Disparity (A), Economics Letters Vol. 73 (November 2001): 293-300.
- Pautsch, Gregory R.; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Babcock, Bruce A.; Kling, Catherine L., Efficiency of Sequestering Carbon in Agricultural Soils (The), Contemporary Economic Policy Vol. 19 (August 2001): 123-34.
- Feng, Hongli; Zhao, Jinhua; Kling, Catherine L., Towards Implementing Carbon Markets in Agriculture, Choices (Second Quarter 2001): 16-19.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Zhao, Jinhua, On the Long-Run Efficiency of Auctioned vs. Free Permits, Economics Letters Vol. 69 no. 2 (November 2000): 235-38.
- Kling, Catherine L., Nonparametric Bounds on Welfare Measures: A New Tool for Nonmarket Valuation, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 39 (2000): 145-61.
- Phaneuf, Daniel J.; Kling, Catherine L.; Herriges, Joseph A., Estimation and Welfare Calculations in a Generalized Corner Solution Model with an Application to Recreation Demand, Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 82 no. 1 (January/February 2000): 83-92.
- Herriges, Joseph A.; Kling, Catherine L., Nonlinear Income Effects in Random Utility Models, Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 81 (1999): 62-72.
- Phaneuf, Daniel J.; Kling, Catherine L.; Herriges, Joseph A., Valuing Water Quality Improvements Using Revealed Preference Methods When Corner Solutions Are Present, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 80 no. 5 (January 1998): 1025-1031.
- Herriges, Joseph A.; Kling, Catherine L., Performance of Nested Logit Models when Welfare Estimation Is the Goal (The), American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 79 no. 3 (August 1997): 792-802.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Rubin, Jonathan, Bankable Permits for the Control of Environmental Pollution, Journal of Public Economics Vol. 64 (1997): 101-15.
- Kling, Catherine L., Evaluation of the Gains from Combining Travel Cost and Contingent Valuation Data to Value Nonmarket Goods (An), Land Economics Vol. 73 (1997): 428-437.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Herriges, Joseph A., Model Performance of Nested Logit Models when Welfare Estimation is the Goal, The, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 79 no. 3 (January 1997): 792-802.
- Weinberg, Marca; Kling, Catherine L., Uncoordinated Agricultural and Environmental Policy-Making: An Application to Irrigated Agriculture in the West, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 78 no. 1 (February 1996): 65-78.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Thomson, Cynthia J., Implications of Model Specification for Welfare Estimation in Nested Logit Models (The), American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 78 no. 1 (January 1996): 103-14.
- Herriges, Joseph A.; Kling, Catherine L., Testing the Consistency of Nested Logit Models with Utility Maximization, Economics Letters Vol. 50 (1996): 33-39.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Herriges, Joseph A., Empirical Investigation of the Consistency of Nested Logit Models with Utility Maximization (An), American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 77 no. 4 (January 1995): 875-884.
- Kling, Catherine L., Emission Trading vs. Rigid Regulations in the Control of Vehicle Emissions, Land Economics Vol. 70 (1994): 174-88.
- Kling, Catherine L., Environmental Benefits from Marketable Discharge Permits or an Ecological vs. An Economical View of Marketable Permits, Ecological Economics Vol. 11 (1994): 57-64.
- Kling, Catherine L., Assessment of the Empirical Magnitude of Option Values for Environmental Goods (An), Environmental and Resource Economics Vol. 3 (1993): 471-85.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Rubin, Jonathan, Emission Saved is an Emission Earned: An Empirical Study of Emission Banking (An), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 25 (1993): 257-76.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Weinberg, Marca; Wilen, James, Water Markets and Water Quality, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 75 no. 2 (January 1993): 278-91.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Wang, Quanlu; Sperling, Daniel, Light-Duty Vehicle Exhaust Emission Control Cost Estimates Using a Part-Pricing Approach, Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association Vol. 43 (1993): 1461-71.
- Kling, Catherine L., Some Results on the Variance of Consumer Welfare Estimates from Recreation Demand Models, Land Economics Vol. 68 (1992): 318-328.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Innes, Robert; Rubin, Jonathan, Emission Permits Under Monopoly, Natural Resource Modeling Vol. 5 (1992): 321-43.
- Kling, Catherine L., Welfare Effects of Omitting Substitute Prices and Qualities from Travel Cost Models: Reply (The), Land Economics Vol. 67 (1991): 132-33.
- Kling, Catherine L., Estimating the Precision of Welfare Measures, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 21 (1991): 244-59.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Sexton, Richard; Carman, Hoy, Market Integration, Efficiency of Arbitrage, and Imperfect Competition: Methodology and Application to U.S. Celery, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 70 (January 1991): 568-80.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Sexton, Richard, Bootstrapping in Applied Welfare Analysis, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 72 no. 2 (1990): 406-418.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Dorfman, Jeffrey; Sexton, Richard, Confidence Intervals for Elasticities and Flexibilities: Re-Evaluating the Ratios of Normals Case, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 72 no. 4 (January 1990): 1006-17.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Sexton, Richard; Sexton, Theresa; Wann, Joyce, Conservation and Welfare Effects of Information in a Time-Of-Day Pricing Experiment (The), Land Economics Vol. 65 no. 3 (August 1989): 272-79.
- Kling, Catherine L., Note on the Welfare Effects of Omitting Substitute Prices and Qualities from Travel Cost Models (A), Land Economics Vol. 65 (1989): 290-96.
- Kling, Catherine L., Importance of Functional Form in the Estimation of Welfare (The), Western Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 14 (1989): 168-74.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Bockstael, Nancy, Valuing Environmental Quality Changes when Quality is a Weak Complement to a Set of Goods, American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 70 no. 3 (November 1988): 654-662.
- Kling, Catherine L., Reliability of Estimates of Environmental Benefits from Recreation Demand Models (The), American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol. 70 no. 4 (November 1988): 892-901.
- Kling, Catherine L., Comparing Welfare Estimates of Environmental Quality Changes from Recreation Demand Models, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 15 (1988): 331-40.
- Kling, Catherine L., Simulation Approach to Comparing Multiple Site Recreation Demand Models Using Chesapeake Bay Survey Data (A), Marine Resource Economics Vol. 4 (1987): 95-109.
- Kling, Catherine L.; Bockstael, Nancy; Hanemann, W. Michael, Estimating the Value of Water Quality Improvements in a Recreational Demand Framework, Water Resources Research Vol. 23 (1987): 951-960.
CARD Publications
October 2012
Economics of Dead Zones: Linking Externalities from the Land to their Consequences in the Sea, The
Sergey Rabotyagov, Catherine L. Kling, Philip W. Gassman, Nancy N. Rabalais, R. Eugene Turner
[12-WP 534]
September 2012
Reversing the Property Rights: Practice-Based Approaches for Controlling Agricultural Nonpoint-Source Water Pollution When Emissions Aggregate Nonlinearly
Sergey Rabotyagov, Adriana Valcu, Catherine L. Kling
[12-WP 533]
October 2008
Sny Magill Watershed Modeling Project: Final Report
Ali Saleh, Philip W. Gassman, Catherine L. Kling
[01-SR 95]
(Revised)
August 2006
Optimal Design of Permit Markets with an Ex Ante Pollution Target
Sergey Rabotyagov, Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling
[06-WP 430]
August 2005
Conservation Reserve Program in the Presence of a Working Land Alternative: Implications for Environmental Quality, Program Participation, and Income Transfer, The
Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Silvia Secchi, Philip W. Gassman
[05-WP 402]
March 2005
Consequences of Co-benefits for the Efficient Design of Carbon Sequestration Programs, The
Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling
[05-WP 390]
Designation of Co-benefits and Its Implication for Policy: Water Quality versus Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils, The
Silvia Secchi, Manoj Jha, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Hongli Feng, Philip W. Gassman, Catherine L. Kling
[05-WP 389]
February 2005
Economic and Environmental Co-benefits of Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils: Retiring Agricultural Land in the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Hongli Feng, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Catherine L. Kling, Philip W. Gassman
[05-WP 384]
November 2004
Carbon Sequestration, Co-Benefits, and Conservation Programs
Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling, Philip W. Gassman
[04-WP 379]
October 2004
Recreation Demand Using Physical Measures of Water Quality
Kevin J. Egan, Joseph A. Herriges, Catherine L. Kling, John A. Downing
[04-WP 372]
June 2004
Environmental Conservation in Agriculture: Land Retirement versus Changing Practices on Working Land
Hongli Feng, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Catherine L. Kling, Philip W. Gassman
[04-WP 365]
October 2003
Subsidies! The Other Incentive-Based Instrument: The Case of the Conservation Reserve Program
Hongli Feng, Catherine L. Kling, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Silvia Secchi
[03-WP 345]
July 2003
Alternative Green Payment Policies under Heterogeneity When Multiple Benefits Matter
Jinhua Zhao, Catherine L. Kling, Lyubov A. Kurkalova
[03-WP 341]
Institutions and the Value of Nonpoint Source Measurement Technology: Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils
Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Catherine L. Kling, Jinhua Zhao
[03-WP 338]
May 2003
WTP/WTA Disparity: Have We Been Observing Dynamic Values but Interpreting Them as Static?, The
Catherine L. Kling, John A. List, Jinhua Zhao
[03-WP 333]
Assessing the Costs and Environmental Consequences of Agricultural Land Use Changes: A Site-Specific, Policy-Scale Modeling Approach.
JunJie Wu, Richard M. Adams, Catherine L. Kling, Katsuya Tanaka
[03-WP 330]
April 2003
Green Subsidies in Agriculture: Estimating the Adoption Costs of Conservation Tillage from Observed Behavior (Revised)
Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Catherine L. Kling, Jinhua Zhao
[01-WP 286]
(Revised)
March 2003
Dynamic Formation of Willingness to Pay: An Empirical Specification and Test , The
Jay Corrigan, Catherine L. Kling, Jinhua Zhao
[03-WP 327]
February 2003
Multiple Benefits of Carbon-Friendly Agricultural Practices: Empirical Assessment of Conservation Tillage
Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Catherine L. Kling, Jinhua Zhao
[03-WP 326]
January 2002
Environmental Valuation under Dynamic
Jinhua Zhao, Catherine L. Kling
[02-WP 292]
June 2001
Conservation Payments: Challenges in Design and Implementation
Bruce A. Babcock, John C. Beghin, Michael D. Duffy, Hongli Feng, Brent Hueth, Catherine L. Kling, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Uwe A. Schneider, Silvia Secchi, Quinn Weninger, Jinhua Zhao
[01-BP 34]
March 2001
Valuing Preservation and Improvements of Water Quality in Clear Lake
Christopher D. Azevedo, Joseph A. Herriges, Catherine L. Kling
[01-SR 94]
December 2000
Towards Implementing Carbon Markets in Agriculture
Hongli Feng, Jinhua Zhao, Catherine L. Kling
[00-WP 261]
Ask a Hypothetical Question, Get a Valuable Answer?
Christopher D. Azevedo, Joseph A. Herriges, Catherine L. Kling
[00-WP 260]
November 2000
What's the Use? Welfare Estimates from Revealed Preference Models When Weak Complementarity Does Not Hold
Joseph A. Herriges, Catherine L. Kling, Daniel J. Phaneuf
[00-WP 258]
September 2000
Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture: Value and Implementation
Hongli Feng, Jinhua Zhao, Catherine L. Kling
[00-WP 256]
August 2000
Policy Persistence in Environmental Regulation
Jinhua Zhao, Catherine L. Kling
[00-WP 257]
Willingness-to-Pay, Compensating Variation, and the Cost of Commitment
Jinhua Zhao, Catherine L. Kling
[00-WP 251]
Efficiency of Sequestering Carbon in Agricultural Soils, The
Gregory R. Pautsch, Lyubov A. Kurkalova, Bruce A. Babcock, Catherine L. Kling
[00-WP 246]
March 2000
Iowa Wetlands: Perceptions and Values
Christopher D. Azevedo, Joseph A. Herriges, Catherine L. Kling
[00-SR 91]
May 1999
Linking Revealed and Stated Preferences to Test External Validity
Joseph A. Herriges, Catherine L. Kling, Christopher D. Azevedo
[99-WP 222]
November 1998
Nonparametric Bounds on Welfare Measures: A New Tool for Nonmarket Valuation
John Crooker, Catherine L. Kling
[99-WP 208]
Real Options and the WTP/WTA Disparity
Jinhua Zhao, Catherine L. Kling
[99-WP 206]
July 1998
Estimation and Welfare Calculations in a Generalized Corner Solution Model with an Application to Recreation Demand
Daniel J. Phaneuf, Catherine L. Kling, Joseph A. Herriges
[99-WP 207]
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