Jaren Pope Assistant Professor Environmental, Public and Urban Economics Ph.D. 2006, North Carolina State University Office: 313 Hutcheson Hall Phone: (540) 231-4730 FAX: (540) 231-7417 E-mail: jcpope@vt.edu

Jaren Pope joined the faculty in the fall of 2006.  Prior to arriving at Virginia Tech, Jaren received a Ph.D. in Economics from North Carolina State University.  His dissertation entitled “Limited Attention, Asymmetric Information, and the Hedonic Model,” received an American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA) Dissertation award in 2007.

Jaren’s primary research area is in environmental and urban economics.  Much of his work has focused on using property value information and the hedonic method to understand how households value environmental and urban amenities.  For example, Jaren has analyzed how environmental real estate disclosures influence property values.  He has also looked at the effect that sex offender location decisions have on housing prices.  Currently Jaren is working on projects that assess the efficacy of combining quasi-experiments with hedonic methods.

His outside interests include playing basketball, reading and spending time with his wife and three daughters.

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Recent Publications:

Devin G. Pope and Jaren C. Pope, “The Impact of Sports Success on the Quantity and Quality of Student Applications.” Southern Economic Journal (2009) 75(3), 750-780.

Jaren C. Pope, “Fear of Crime and Housing Prices:  Household Reactions to Sex Offender Registries.” Journal of Urban Economics (2008) 64(3), 601-614.

Jaren C. Pope, “Do Seller Disclosures Affect Property Values?  Buyer Information and the Hedonic Model.” Land Economics (2008) 84(4), 551-572.

Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Darrell J. Bosch, Dan Kauffman, Jaren C. Pope, and Kurt Stephenson, “The Growing Supply of Ecolabeled Seafood: An Economic Perspective,” Sustainable Development Law and Policy (2008) IX(1), 25-28.

Jaren C. Pope, “A Review of ‘Environmental Valuation: Interregional and Intraregional Perspectives’,” Journal of Regional Science (2008) 48(5), 1029-1032.

Daniel J. Phaneuf, V. Kerry Smith, Raymond B. Palmquist, and Jaren C. Pope, “Integrating Property Value and Local Recreation Models to Value Ecosystem Services in Urban Watersheds.” Land Economics (2008) 84(3), 361-381.

Jaren C. Pope, “Buyer Information and the Hedonic:  The Impact of a Seller Disclosure on the Implicit Price for Airport Noise.” Journal of Urban Economics (2008) 63, 498-516.

Jaren C. Pope, “Information Disclosure and Housing Prices,” Horizons (2008) 20(1).

V. Kerry Smith, Jared C. Carbone, Jaren C. Pope, Daniel G. Hallstrom and Michael E. Darden, “Adjusting to Natural Disasters.” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2006) 33, 37-54.

Teaching:

AAEC 5026:  Applied Microeconomic Theory (spring semester)