Steinhardt Lecture in Economics

"Putting a Value on Life for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Regulations"

Trudy Ann Cameron

Raymond F. Mikesell Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, University of Oregon

Thursday, February 20, 7:30 p.m.

Templeton Student Center, Council Chamber

Free and open to the general public

Trudy Ann Cameron holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University '82, and was a member of the faculty in Economics at UCLA for seventeen years before moving to the University of Oregon in January 2002. She has served as board member and vice-president of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, and as an associate editor for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. With the Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board, she has served on the Environmental Economics Advisory Committee and the Economics and Assessment Working Group of the Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee, and she now chairs the Advisory Council for Clean Air Compliance Analysis.

Dr. Cameron's recent projects have include a study of popular support (i.e. willingness to pay) for climate change mitigation programs and the benefit-cost analysis of many environmental, health, and safety regulations to identify more clearly how the context for such choices influences the public's willingness to incur the costs of environmental policies that protect human life and health.