Research Interests

My primary research uses economic methods to examine challenges in environmental policy, with a particular focus on nonmarket valuation techniques. I apply this research in a variety of settings, including production and consumption of agricultural products and contamination of municipal drinking water systems.

A secondary strand of research takes an experimental approach to better understand effective teaching methods, broadly falling into the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (‘SoTL’) literature. Some examples of this work include (1) the development of student writing abilities in large sections of principles of economics courses and (2) techniques that can be used to mitigate problems associated with students' over-confidence in their abilities on both writing- and math-related assessments in business and economics courses.

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Published Works

  • Rogers, S., Catherine Ashcraft, Jayson Seamen, Scott Lemos, Laura Krans, and Jennifer Marsh (2024). “A Community Based Approach to the Nature Economy-Insights at the Intersection of Outdoor Recreation, Conservation, and Economic Development.” Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 16(3).

  • Lemos, S., Tristan Price, and John Halstead (2024). “An Economic Valuation of PFAS Remediation in New Hampshire Municipal Water Systems: A Contingent Valuation Approach.” Journal of Water Resources Management and Policy, 150(8).

     - Selected Media: NHPR, NHBR, Phys.Org

  • Lemos, S., John Halstead, and Ju-Chin Huang (2022). "The effects of information about anchoring: Evidence from a choice experiment." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 51(2): 240-265.

  • Lemos, S., John Halstead, Robert Mohr, and Robert Woodward (2020). “Valuing the Cancer Mortality Risk Reduction from Lowering the Arsenic Maximum Contaminant Level in New Hampshire Municipal Water Supplies.” Environmental Management, 65: 725-736.

  • Werner, S., Scott Lemos, Amanda McCleod, Wei Shi, Lily Harris, John Halstead, Ju-Chin Huang, Maria Pyburn, James McConnon, Todd Gabe and Kathleen Liang (2019). “Prospects for New England Agriculture: Farm to Fork.” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 48(3): 473-504.

  • Furnagiev, S., Scott Lemos, Neil Niman, and Robert Fischer, (2018). "Developing the journey process: A novel approach to teaching undergraduate economics", Journal of Economics and Finance Education, 17(2): 96-113.

Unpublished Works

  • Lemos, S., Stephanie Brockmann, Catherine Taylor, and John Halstead, “A Hedonic Analysis of the Effects of PFAS Contamination on Housing Markets: The Case of Private Wells in New Hampshire”

  • Strater, J., John Halstead and Scott Lemos, “Factors Affecting Purchase of Locally Grown Produce: Just What is a “Local” Buyer?”

  • Lemos, S. and John Halstead. “The effects of experience on attribute non-attendance in choice experiments: A comparison of stated and inferred approaches.”

  • Lemos, S., Neil Niman, and Shannon Rogers. “Developing self-evaluation skills through repetition: Evidence from writing in an undergraduate environmental economics course.”

  • Niman, N. and Scott Lemos. “The Effectiveness of Interactive Homework Platforms.”

  • Lemos, S. "Methodological Tensions: Shifting Paradigms in Natural Resource Economics."

Published Technical Reports