Rate My Professor Ben White

White specializes in environmental economics, with research interests in environmental and agricultural economics, particularly environmental contracts and incentives for farmers to provide environmental public goods. His expertise covers biosecurity economics, environmental policy, household economics, natural resource economics and management, and risk management. He has made substantial contributions to the academic field through over 60 research outputs. Key publications include the co-authored textbook Introduction to Environmental Economics (Oxford University Press, 2013, with Nick Hanley and Jason F. Shogren). Among his highly cited papers are "Farm household efficiency in Bangladesh: a comparison of stochastic frontier and DEA methods" (2000, with A. Wadud, 682 citations), "Efficient contract design for agri-environment policy" (1999, with A. Moxey and A. Ozanne, 231 citations), "Efficient compliance with agricultural nitrate pollution standards" (1994, with A. Moxey, 110 citations), "Selecting permit allocation rules for agricultural pollution control: a bargaining solution" (2003, with A. Kampas, 95 citations), and "Should we pay for ecosystem service outputs, inputs or both?" (2016, with N. Hanley, 70 citations). His work has garnered over 2,800 citations on ResearchGate, influencing discussions on policy instruments for agricultural pollution control, non-point source pollution management, and payments for ecosystem services.