Jim Casey
Associate Professor
Economics
Washington & Lee University
United States of America
Biography
Professor Blunch joined the Williams School faculty in 2006 after working as a consultant with the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC. Professor Blunch teaches Statistics, Econometrics, Health: A Social Science Exploration, African Economic Development (Ghana Spring Term Abroad), Health Economics in Developing Countries, and Health and Education in Economic Development (Senior Research Seminar/Pre-Capstone).
Research Interest
nter-linkages of health, education and labor market outcomes in developing and transition economies; population & household economics; applied econometrics; program evaluation.
Publications
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Willingness to Pay to Avoid High Encounter Levels at Dive Sites in the Caribbean. with Schuhmann, P.W. Cazabon-Mannette, M., Gill, D., and Hailey, A. Tourism in Marine Environments 9(1-2): 81-94.
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Economic Valuation of Natural Resources. Training Module developed for Socioeconomic Monitoring for Caribbean Coastal Management (SocMon Caribbean), (with Peter W. Schuhmann) Summer 2008.
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Visitor preferences and willingness to pay for coastal attributes in Barbados, (with Schuhmann, Bass, and Gill), Ocean and Coastal Management. 2016 pp.1-11.
