De Shazo

Professor DeShazo’s research areas are environmental policy and politics.

He advises the Los Angeles City Council, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the Metropolitan Water District and the Los Angeles Planning Department, among key agencies. His work also supports the California Air Resources Board and the Southern California Association in their effort to implement AB 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act, and its complementary SB 375, transportation and land use bill.

JR DeShazo has previously advised the United Nations, UNEP, the World Bank, the European Union, The Central American Bank for Development and Integration, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Tinker Foundation, the McArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation, National Wildlife Federation, the Nature Conservancy, RARE, Catholic Relief Service, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Interior, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Science Foundation, United States Agency for International Development, and United States Geological Survey.

SELECTED BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS

Tropical countries may be willing to pay more to protect their forests
Description: Tropical forests, especially the primary tropical forests that are globally important for biodiversity conservation and carbon storage, are increasingly concentrated in relatively wealthier developing countries. This creates an opportunity for domestic funding by these countries to play a larger role in (i) closing the funding gap for tropical forest conservation, and (ii) paying for supplementary conservation actions linked to international payments for reduced greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation.
Author: J. Vincent, R. Carson, J. R. DeShazo, K. Schwabe, I. Ahmad, S. Chong, Y. Chang
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Demand for Health Risk Reductions
Author: J.R. DeShazo and T.A. Cameron
Description: A choice model based on utility in a sequence of prospective future health states permits us to generalize the concept of the value of statistical life (VSL). Our representative national survey asks individuals to choose between costly risk-reducing programs and the status quo in randomized stated choice scenarios. Our model allows for separate marginal utilities for discounted net income and avoided illness years, post-illness years, and lost life-years. Our estimates permit calculation of overall willingness to pay to reduce risks for a wide variety of different prospective illness profiles. These can be benchmarked against the standard VSL as a special case.
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Empowering LA’s Solar Workforce: New Policies that Deliver Investments and Jobs
Presented by: LABC Institute, City of Los Angeles, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Global Green USA, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, and USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity.
J.R. DeShazo, Director of the UCLA Luskin Center, and Manuel Pastor and Mirabai Auer of USC’s Program for Environment and Regional Equity, co-authored the report. They presented their findings at UCLA during the Los Angeles Business Council’s annual Mayoral Housing, Transportation and Jobs Summit, which was also attended by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and mayoral hopefuls City Council President Eric Garcetti, City Controller Wendy Greuel and City Councilwoman Jan Perry.
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Referred Articles – Under Revision

1. “A Comprehensive Assessment of Selection in a Major Internet Panel for the Case of Attitudes toward Government Regulation.” T.A. Cameron and J.R. DeShazo. Survey Methodology. (Revise and re-submit)

2. “Willingness to Pay for Health Risk Reductions: Differences by Type of Illness.” T.A. Cameron and J.R. DeShazo. Journal of Health Economics. (Revise and resubmit)

3. “Subjective Choice Difficulty in Stated Preference Surveys.” Eric Duquette, T.A. Cameron, and J.R. DeShazo.  Journal of Choice Modeling. (Revise and resubmit)

In Print or Forthcoming

4. “Creation of Malaysia’s Royal Belum State Park: A Case Study of Conservation in a Developing Country.” K. Schwabe, R. Carson, J.R. DeShazo, M. Potts, A. Reese, and J. Vincent. Journal of Environment & Development (JED). (Forthcoming)

5. “Designing and Implementing Surveys to Value Tropical Forests: A Malaysian Application.” J.R. DeShazo, R. Carson, K. Schwabe, J. Vincent, I. Ahmad, C. Kook, and C. Tan. Journal of Tropical Forest Science. (Forthcoming)

6.“Tropical countries may be willing to pay more to protect their forests.” J. Vincent, R. Carson, J. R. DeShazo, K. Schwabe, I. Ahmad, S. Chong, Y. Chang, and M. Potts. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). (July 2014).

1. “Pricing Workplace Charging: Financial Viability and Fueling Costs.” B. Williams and J.R. DeShazo.Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting, no. 14-1137. (January 2014)

8. “Willingness to Pay for Public Health Policies to Treat Illnesses.” R. Bosworth, T.A. Cameron, and J.R. DeShazo. Journal of Health Economics. (October 2013)

9. “A multi-stakeholder perspective on the use of alternative test strategies for nanomaterial safety assessment.” Nel, Andre E., Elina Nasser, Hilary Godwin, David Avery, Tina Bahadori, Lynn Bergeson, Elizabeth Beryt, J.R. DeShazo, et al. ACS nano 7, no. 8 (2013): 6422-6433. (August 2013)

10. “Critical Review: Regulatory Incentives and Impediments for Onsite Graywater Reuse in the United States.” Zita Yu, Anditya Rahardianto, J.R. DeShazo, Michael Stenstrom, and Yoram Cohen. Water Environment Research, Volume 85, Number 7, pp. 650-662(13) (July 2013)

11. “Demand for Health Risk Reductions.” T.A. Cameron and J.R. DeShazo. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. (August 2012)

1. “Scenario Adjustment in Stated Preference Research.” T.A. Cameron, J.R. DeShazo, and E.H. Johnson.Journal of Choice Modelling. (November 2010)

2. “Differential Attention to Attributes in Utility-theoretic Choice Models.” T.A. Cameron and J.R. DeShazo. Journal of Choice Modelling. 3(3) 73-115 (November 2010)

3. “Demand for Health Risk Reductions: A Cross-national Comparison between the U.S. and Canada.” T.A. Cameron, J.R. DeShazo, and P. Stiffler. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty. 41(3) 245-273 (December 2010)

4. “Is An Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure? Comparing Demand for Public Prevention and Treatment Policies.” R. Bosworth, T.A. Cameron, and J.R. DeShazo. Medical Decision Making. 30(4): E40-E56 (2010)

5. “The Effect of Children on Adult Demands for Health-risk Reductions.” T.A. Cameron, J.R. DeShazo, and E.H. Johnson. Journal of Health Economics. 29(3): 364-376 (May 2010)

6. “Demand for Environmental Policies to Improve Health: Evaluating Community-level Policy Scenarios.”R. Bosworth, T.A. Cameron, and J.R. DeShazo. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.57(3): 293-308 (2009)

7. “The Effect of Consumers’ Real-world Choice Sets on Inferences from a Stated Preference Field Experiment.” J.R. DeShazo, T.A. Cameron, and M. Saenz. _Environmental and Resource Economics._42(3):319-343 (2009)

8. “The Environmental Consequences of Decentralizing the Decision to Decentralize.” W.B. Cutter and J.R. DeShazo. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 53 (1): 32-53 (2007)

9. “Activities in Models of Recreational Demand.” W.B. Cutter, L. Pendleton, and J.R. DeShazo. Land Economics. 83(3): 370-381(2007)

10. “Timing and Form of Federal Regulation: The Case of Climate Change.” J.R. DeShazo and J. Freeman.University of Pennsylvania Law Review. 155:1499-1558 (2007)

11. “Evaluation Reforms in the Implementation of Hazardous Waste Policies in California.” W.B. Cutter and J.R. DeShazo. California Policy Options. (2006)

12. “Frontiers in Stated Preferences Methods: An Introduction.” V. Adamowicz and J.R. DeShazo.Environmental and Resource Economics. 34(1): 1-6 (2006)

13. “Congressional Politics.” J.R. DeShazo and J. Freeman. Chapter 6 in “The Endangered Species Act at Thirty: Renewing the Conservation Promise” edited by Dale Goble, J. Michael Scott, Frank W. Davis. Island Press. (2006)

14. “Public Agencies as Lobbyists.” J.R. DeShazo and J. Freeman. Columbia Law Review. 105(8): 2217-2305 (2005)

15. “The Effect of Health Status on Willingness to Pay for Morbidity and Mortality Risk Reductions.” J.R. DeShazo and T.A. Cameron. California Center for Population Research. (2005)

27. “Upgrading Municipal Environmental Services to European Union Levels: A Case Study of Household Willingness to Pay in Lithuania.” R. Bluffstone and J.R. DeShazo. Environment and Development Economics. 8(4): 637-654 (2003)

1. “The Congressional Competition to Control Delegated Power.” J.R. DeShazo and J. Freeman. Texas Law Review. 81(6): 1443-1519 (2003)

29.“Designing Transactions without Framing Effects in Iterative Question Formats.” J.R. DeShazo, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 44(1): 123-143 (2002)

1. “Dissecting the Random Component of Utility.” J. Louvier, R. Carson, A. Anislie, T.A. Cameron, J.R. DeShazo, D. Hensher, R. Kohn, T. Marley, and D. Street. Marketing Letters. 13(3): 177-193 (2002)

2. “Designing Choice Sets for Stated Preference Methods: The Effects of Complexity on Choice Consistency.” J.R. DeShazo and G. Fermo. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 43(3): 360-385 (2002) (Paper identified as one of the three of the most influential articles of the year at the 2002 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics by Ian Bateman, Editor of Environmental and Resource Economics.)

3. “The Effect of Supply and Demand Shocks on the Non-market Valuation of Public Goods.” J.R. DeShazo.  Journal of Environment and Development Economics. 4: 471-492 (1999)

4. “Demand for Solid Waste Management: A Case Study of Gujranwala, Pakistan.” A. Altaf and J.R. DeShazo. World Development. 24(5): 857-868 (1996)

Unpublished Articles

1. “Two Types of Age Effects in the Demand for Reductions in Mortality Risks with Differing Latencies.” J.R. DeShazo and T.A. Cameron.

2. “The Effect of Health Status on Willingness to Pay for Morbidity and Mortality Risk Reductions.” J.R. DeShazo and T.A. Cameron.

Non-peered Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters 

1. “Pricing Plug-in Electric Vehicle Recharging in Multi-Unit Dwellings: Financial Viability and Fueling Costs,” B. Williams and J.R. DeShazo. UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report. (2013)

37. “Profile of Clean Energy Investment Potential – Los Angeles County.” J.R. DeShazo, C. Callahan and N, Wong. UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report for the Environmental Defense Fund. (2013)

1. “South Bay Cities Plug-in Electric Vehicle Readiness Plan.” J.R. DeShazo, A. Ben-Yehuda, N. Wong and A. Turek. UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report for Southern California Association of Governments. (2013)

2. “Western Riverside Plug-in Electric Vehicle Deployment Plan.” J.R. DeShazo, A. Ben-Yehuda, N. Wong and V. Hsu. UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report for Southern California Association of Governments. (2013)

3. “Moving Towards Resiliency: An Assessment of the Costs and Benefits of Energy Investments for the San Pedro Bay Ports.” R. Matulka, J.R. DeShazo and C. Callahan. UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report. (2013)

4. “Achieving Proposition 39’s Clean Energy Promise: Investing in Jobs, Energy Efficiency and Renewal Resources.” J.R. DeShazo, C. Callahan, and E. Beryt. UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report for the Los Angeles Business Council. (2013)

42. “Southern California Plug-in Electric Vehicle Readiness Plan.” J.R. DeShazo and A. Ben-Yehuda. UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report for Southern California Association of Governments. (2012)

43. “Southern California Plug-in Electric Vehicle Atlas.” J.R. DeShazo and A. Ben-Yehuda. UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report for Southern California Association of Governments. (2012)

44. “Climate Action Planning in Southern California: Progress Report.” J.R. DeShazo and J. Matute. UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report.(2012)

45. “Empowering LA’s Solar Workforce: New Policies that Deliver Investments and Jobs.” J.R DeShazo, M. Pastor, and M. Auer. Produced by the LABC Institute, City of Los Angeles, JP Morgan Chase & Co., Global Green USA, UCLA Luskin Center, and USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity. (2011)

1. “Towards Measuring Green House Gases from Local Jurisdictions.” J.R. DeShazo and J. Matute. Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning. (In press, Oxford University Press)

2. “Making a Market: Multifamily Rooftop Solar and Social Equity in Los Angeles.” J.R. DeShazo, M. Pastor, M. Auer, V. Carter, and N. Vartanian. “ UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report.” (April 2011)

3. “Los Angeles Solar Atlas.”  J.R. DeShazo, R. Matulka, and N. Wong. Produced by the UCLA Luskin  Center for Innovation with financial and data support from Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles Business Council, and the UCLA Lewis Center. (2011)

4. “Best Practices for Implementing a Feed-in Tariff Program.” J.R. DeShazo and R. Matulka, “UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report.” (2010)

5. “Bringing Solar Energy to Los Angeles: An Assessment of the Feasibility and Impacts of an In-basin Solar Feed-in Tariff Program.” J.R. DeShazo and R. Matulka, “UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report.” (2010)

6. “Designing an Effective Feed-in Tariff for Greater Los Angeles.” J.R. DeShazo and R. Matulka. “UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report.” (2010)

7. “Early Steps toward Climate Action Planning in Southern California.” J. Matute and J.R. DeShazo. “UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation Report.” (2010)

53.“Economic Analysis of California’s Green Chemistry Regulations for Safer Consumer Products.” M. Kahn and J.R. DeShazo. UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability Report. (2010)

54.  “Persistent Market Failures in the Chemical Sector: Consequences for Health and Product Innovation.”  J.R. DeShazo and M. Cohen. Report prepared for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control. (2007)

1. “Congressional Oversight of the Endangered Species Act: How Politics Influences Policy.” J.R. DeShazo and J. Freeman. In 30 Years After the Endangered Species Act. (2005)

56. “Hazardous Waste.” Southern California Environmental Report Card. W.B. Cutter and J.R. DeShazo.  UCLA Institute of the Environment. (2005)

57. “REACHING THE TIPPING POINT IN LOS ANGELES: An Evaluation of the Safer Cities Initiative in MacArthur Park.” J.R. DeShazo and M. Klieman.  Report prepared for Hanover Associates on behalf of the Los Angeles Police Department.  (2004)

1. “The Congressional Competition to Control Delegated Power.” J.R. DeShazo and J. Freeman. Land Use and Environmental Law Review 35. (2004)

2. “Linking Growth in Tourism with the Conservation of Protected Areas: Toward a National Paradigm in Central America.” J.R. DeShazo. In T. Panayotou, ed. Environment for Growth: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness in Central America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (2001)

3. “Travel Patterns of Domestic and International Tourists in Central America.” J.R. DeShazo. In T. Panayotou, ed. Environment for Growth: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness in Central America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (2001)

4. “The Demand for Types of Recreational Sites in Central America: Comparison of Guatemala and Costa Rica.” J.R. DeShazo. In T. Panayotou, ed. Environment for Growth: Environmental Management for Sustainability and Competitiveness in Central America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (2001)

5. “An Economic Model of Smallholder Deforestation: A Consideration of the Shadow Value of Land on the Frontier.” R. DeShazo and J.R. DeShazo. In International Symposium on Tropical Forest Management in Asia Proceedings, Oslo, Norway. (1994)