Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics, University of California, Davis; M.S. in economics, Colorado State University; B.A. in economics, Frostburg State University
Craig Bond is an applied microeconomist at the RAND Corporation who specializes in natural resource and environmental economics, including stochastic dynamic modeling, resource valuation, consumer and producer choice, and applied welfare economics. He is also a professor at Pardee RAND Graduate School.
He has led and participated in RAND projects that span many topics, including risk in acquisitions, unit readiness, tour lengths, and the economic impacts of various events. On the civilian side, he has worked on resilience issues, valuation of ecosystem services, environmental and economic impacts of long-term changes along the Louisiana and Florida coasts, the relationship between economic growth and environmental quality in Australia, and evaluating the technical transition of the U.S. telephone system to more modern technologies, among other projects.
Past research includes a diverse array of applied projects, including the optimal management of high elevation ecosystems in the American West, the economic impacts of invasive species, the economic contributions of aquacultural suppliers of recreational fish, and the economics of genetically modified rice. Behavioral stated-preference studies include OHV recreation, Stellar sea lion habitat, attributes of irrigation technologies, high elevation forests, food attributes, and attributes of programs that pay for ecosystem services.
Methodologically, he has extensive experience with non-market valuation of ecosystem services, as well as panel data and discrete choice econometric methods, and has designed a number of choice-based experiments. His structural modelling work focuses on stochastic dynamic programming approaches to adaptive management planning and assessment and sustainability, as well as dynamic games, agent-based modelling, and economic modelling.
Bair, L.S., C.B.Yackulic, M.R. Springborn, M.N. Reimer, C.A. Bond, and L.G. Coggins, "Identifying Cost-Effective Invasive Species Control to Enhance Endangered Species Populations in the Grand Canyon, USA," Biological Conservation , 220, 2018
C.A. Bond, "Valuing Coastal Natural Capital in a Bioeconomic Framework," Water Economics and Policy, 3(2), 2017
Bond, C.A., A. Strong, N. Burger, S. Weilant, U. Saya and A. Chandra, Resilience Dividend Valuation Model: Framework Development and Initial Case Studies, RAND Corporation (RR-2129-RF), 2017
Barnes, S.R., C. Bond, N. Burger, K. Anania, A. Strong, S. Weilant, and S. Virgets, "Economic Evaluation of Coastal Land Loss in Louisiana," Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics , 4(3), 2017
C.A. Bond, J.L. Lewis, H.A. Leonard, J. Pollak, C. Guo and B.D. Rostker, Tour Lengths, Permanent Changes of Station, and Alternatives for Savings and Improved Stability, RAND Corporation (RR-1034-OSD), 2016
Y.H. Farzin and C.A. Bond, "Does Political Ideology Matter for Environmental Quality Outcomes?" Environmental Economics, 5(2), 2014
J. Meldrum, P. Champ., and C.A. Bond, "Heterogeneous Nonmarket Benefits of Managing White Pine Blister Rust in High Elevation Pine Forests," Journal of Forest Economics, 19, 2013
D. Deisenroth, J. Loomis, and C.A. Bond, "Using Revealed Preference Behavioral Models to Correctly Account for Substitution Effects in Economic Impact Analysis," Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 43(2), 2013
