Published/Accepted Papers

Li, L., Hrozencik, A.R., Rouhi Rad, M., Uz, D., “The Impacts of Depopulation and Climate Change on the Cost of Rural Electric Services.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 135:103255 (2025).

Medina, N., Rouhi Rad, M., Nozari, S., Suter, J.F., Bailey, R.T., Sahoo, D., “Water Scarcity Exacerbates the Negative Effects of Salinity on Irrigated Agriculture.” Water Resources Research, 61(11), e2024WR038504 (2025).

Rouhi Rad, M., Suter, J.F., Manning, D.T., and Goemans, C., “Abatement Subsidies for Groundwater Conservation.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics (2025).

Bahrami, S., Rouhi Rad, M., and Nayga, R.M., “Dollars for Drops: Abatement Cost of Water for Irrigation in the Colorado River Basin.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (2025).

Rouhi Rad, M., Li, L., Woodward, R.T., “Non-Market Valuation of Environmental Resources: An Introduction.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance (2025).

Busari, I., Sloggy, M.R., Rouhi Rad, M., Sahoo, D., Drury, S.A., and Escobedo, F.J., “Modeling Wildfire Effects on Ecosystem Services in two Disparate California Watersheds and Communities.” Environmental Management (2025).

Bahrami, S., Rouhi Rad, M., Nayga, R., “Land Tenure and Conservation in Agriculture: Evidence from United States Farm-level Data.” Land Use Policy, 153, p.107534 (2025).

Nozari, S., Bailey, R.T., Rouhi Rad, M., Smith, G.E., Andales, A.A., Zambreski, Z.T., Tavakoli-Kivi, S., Sharda, V., Kisekka, I., Gowda, P., and Schipanski, M.E., “An Integrated Modeling Approach to Simulate Human-Crop-Groundwater Interactions in Intensively Irrigated Regions.” Environmental Modelling & Software (2024).

Guerrero, V.L., Sahoo, D., Dickes, L., Walker, T., Rouhi Rad, M., and Allen, J., “Adaptive Water Governance in an Interest-Based Stakeholder-Driven Water Resource Planning Institution in South Carolina, US.” Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 150(6) (2024).

Rouhi Rad, M., Mieno, T., & Brozović, N., “The Role of Search Frictions and Trading Ratios in Tradable Permit Markets.” Environmental and Resource Economics, 82(1), 101-132 (2022).

Mieno, T., Rouhi Rad, M., Suter, J.F., Hrozencik, A., “The Importance of Well Yield in Groundwater Demand Specifications.” Land Economics, 97(3), 672-687 (2021).

Sloggy, M., Suter, J.F., Rouhi Rad, M., Manning, D.T., Goemans, C., “Changing climate, changing minds? The effects of natural disasters on public perceptions of climate change.” Climatic Change, 168 (2021).

Rouhi Rad, M., Adamowicz, W., Entem, A., Fenichel, E.P., Lloyd-Smith, P., “Complementarity (Not Substitution) Between Natural and Produced Capital.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 8(6), 1115-1146 (2021).

Rouhi Rad, M., Manning, D.T., Suter, J.F., Goemans, C., “Policy Leakage or Policy Benefit? Spatial Spillovers from Conservation Policies in Common Property Resources.” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 8(5), 923-953 (2021).

Li, L., Long, D., Rouhi Rad, M., Sloggy, M., “Stay-at-home orders and the willingness to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic: A stated-preference discrete choice experiment.” PLOS ONE, 16(7), e0253910 (2021).

Lloyd-Smith, P., Adamowicz, W., Entem, A., Fenichel, E.P., Rouhi Rad, M., “The Decade after Tomorrow: Estimation of Discount Rates from Realistic Temporal Decisions.” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 183, 158-174 (2021).

Araya, A., Gowda, P.H., Rouhi Rad, M., Ariyaratne, C.B., Ciampitti, I.A., Rice, C.W., & Prasad, P.V.V., “Evaluating optimal irrigation for potential yield and economic performance of major crops in southwestern Kansas.” Agricultural Water Management, 244, 106536 (2021).

Suter, J.F., Rouhi Rad, M., Manning, D.T., Goemans, C., “Groundwater depletion, climate, and the value of groundwater conservation.” Resource and Energy Economics, 63, 101143 (2021).

Manning, D.T., Rouhi Rad, M., Suter, J.F., Goemans, C., “Non-market valuation in integrated modeling: The benefits of water right retirement.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 103, 102341 (2020).

Rouhi Rad, M., Araya, A., Zambreski, Z.T., “Downside Risk of Aquifer Depletion.” Irrigation Science, 38(5), 577-591 (2020).

Rouhi Rad, M., Haacker, E.M.K., Sharda, V., Nozari, S., Xiang, Z., Araya, A., Uddameri, V., Suter, J.F., Gowda, P., “MOD$$AT: A hydro-economic model for aquifer management in agriculture.” Agricultural Water Management, 238, 106194 (2020).

Rouhi Rad, M., Brozović, N., Foster, T., and Mieno, T., “Effects of instantaneous groundwater availability on irrigated agriculture and implications for aquifer management.” Resource and Energy Economics, 59, 101129 (2020).

Adamowicz, W., Calderon-Etter, L., Entem, A., Fenichel, E.P., Hall, J.S., Lloyd-Smith, P., Ogden, F.L., Regina, J.A., Rouhi Rad, M., and Stallard, R.F., “Assessing Ecological Infrastructure Investments.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(12), 5254-5261 (2019).

Rouhi Rad, M., Book review: “The Water Problem: Climate Change and Water Policy in the United States.”. Water Economics and Policy, (2018).

Hurd, B., & Rouhi Rad, M., “Estimating Economic Effects of Changes in Climate and Water Availability.” Climatic Change, 117(3), 575-584 (2013).


Under Review/Revise and Resubmit

Bahrami, S., Rouhi Rad, M., Hrozencik, R.A., Perez Quesada, G., Nayga, R.M., “The Value of Water Access Security in Agriculture.” Revisions requested at Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

Kang, N., Rouhi Rad, M., Nayga, R., Hrozencik, A.R., Perez-Quesada, G., “Impact of the Reclamation Act on Agricultural Development and Population Dynamics in the Western United States.” Revisions requested at American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Nozari, S., Bailey, R.T., Rouhi Rad, M., et al., “Groundwater Management Amidst a Changing Climate: A More Severe Climate Can Decrease the Value of Groundwater Conservation.” Revisions submitted at Water Resources Research.

Bahrami, S., Rouhi Rad, M., Hrozencik, R.A., Perez Quesada, G., Nayga, R.M., “Well Worth It: Well Capacity and the Cost of Aquifer Depletion for Irrigated Agriculture.” Under review.

Manning, D.T., Rouhi Rad, M., Ogle, S., “Greenhouse Gas Abatement Supply on Agricultural Land.” Under review.

Judd, R., Rouhi Rad, M., “Regulating Non-Point Source Pollution: Evidence from the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Policy.” Under review.

Donahue, H., Perez Quesada, G., Rouhi Rad, M., Hrozencik, R.A., Nayga, R.M., “Irrigation Organizations in the Western US: Adapting to Water Scarcity.” Under review.

Uz, D., Hrozencik, A.R., Rouhi Rad, M., Li, L., “Wired for Water: Climate Change and Electricity Use for Irrigation.” Reject and Resubmit.

Anand, H., Rouhi Rad, M., Shafiee-Jood, M., Alemazkoor, N., “Detecting the Signal: Causal Evidence on the Effectiveness of Hurricane Evacuation Orders.” Reject and Resubmit.


Working Papers

Yang, W., Rouhi Rad, M., Bahrami, S., Hrozencik, A., Nayga, R., “The Value of Improving Canal Conveyance Efficiency.”

Rouhi Rad, M., Abella-Gutierrez, J., Bahrami, S., Banner, J., Cook, M., Dessler, A., et al., “Economic Costs of the Summer 2023 Heat Wave and Drought on Texas.”