Economic Valuation of Environmental Change

“AAEC 6534” (first taught as SS 6984 in spring 2022)

This site provides administrative instructions and sample lecture materials for “Economic Valuation of Environmental Change,” offered as upper-level PhD course for students across disciplines at Virginia Tech.

Syllabus and General Announcements

1. Syllabus (pdf)
2. LaTeX material for syllabus
   • main tex file (tex)
   • bibliography (bib)
   • pdf with schedule called by the main script (tex)
   • excel file for table (xl)

Software Instructions

We will be using Jupyter Notebook as our main operating platform (= online document that contains text, code, tables, graphs, etc, all in one environment) and Python as our statistical software package. Python is run within Jupyter.

For a smooth start, please follow these instructions for downloading and customizing these software components exactly.

Folder environment

1. Instructions (pdf)
2. Instructions (tex)

Installing and customizing Anaconda and Jupyter

1. Instructions (pdf)
2. Instructions (tex)

Sample Course Content

Module 5: Choice Experiments

1. CE Modeling
   • (pdf)
   • (jupyter)
2. CE Design
   • (pdf)
   • (jupyter)
3. CE Simulation
   • (pdf)
   • (jupyter)
4. CE Application
   • (pdf)
   • (jupyter)
5. functions
   • (gs_clogit)
   • (Clogit_lhf)
   • (Clogit_grad)
   • (Clogit_hess)
   • (kdiagnostics)
   • (khpdi)
   • (kmvt_pdf)
   • (ktnormrnd)
   • (mvt_rand)