Jeffrey H. Dorfman

Professor, Dept. of Agricultural & Applied Economics

The University of Georgia

312 Conner Hall, Athens, GA 30602-7509

Ph: 706-542-0754 Email: jdorfman@agecon.uga.edu

Work on the Economics of Growth, Development, Sprawl, and Farmland Preservation

• Overview report on Cost of Community Service Studies (17 studies in 3 states)
• Farmland Preservation in Georgia: Three Possible Roads to Success (a long report written on May 10, 2004 with tables and charts)
• Abstract and Executive Summary of Above Report (smaller file)
• Powerpoint Presentation on the Economics of Growth and Land Use
• Report on the Cost of Community Service in Four Georgia Counties
• (This report compares revenues provided by different land uses to the costs of servicing those lands; the categories are residential, commercial/industrial, and farm/forest lands)
• Powerpoint Presentation of Results for up to 11 Georgia counties (small file)
• This file shows graphs with results from cost of community service studies in 11 Georgia counties done over the past few years.  The above report has more details of how to interpret these graphs.
• Protecting Farmland in Developing Communities: A Case Study of the Tax Implications of Conservation Easements (another pretty long report)

Link to Web Page for the UGA Land Use Studies Initiative - a new program on land use decision making and tools.

To be added to an e-mailing list for updates on research and information on the economics of growth and development, please send me an email with the subject line "growth mailing list" and we will put you on the list. Thanks for your interest.

Academic Work and Papers (the stuff for the more pointy-headed types)

• Paper on Farmland Preservation Markets (with Barry Barnett, John Bergstrom, and Bethany Lavigno)
• Paper on the Risk Return Tradeoff in Stock Prices (with Myung Park)
• Paper on Efficiency Measurement with Bad Outputs (with Scott Atkinson),
• Journal of Econometrics vol 126 no 2 (June 2005) 445-468.
• Paper on Allocative Efficiency Measurement (with Scott Atkinson)
• Paper on Multiple Comparisons among Efficiency Measures (with Scott Atkinson)
• Journal of Productivity Analysis vol 23 (2005) 359-382.
• Paper on Generalized Hedge Ratio Estimation with Unknown Model (with Dwight Sanders)