J. Forrest Williams Curriculum Vitae

J. Forrest Williams

Associate Professor, Department of Economics
506 SE Mill Street, PSU URBN Center
Room 450-M
Portland, OR 97201
Phone number: 503-725-6627
Email: forrest.williams@pdx.edu

Education:

Ph.D. in Economics (2009 – 2014), Texas A&M University
Dissertation Title: Using the Experimental Laboratory to Test Open Questions in Public Economics
Committee: Alexander L. Brown and Jonathan Meer (co-chairs), Catherine Eckel, and Jane Sell
M.A. in Accounting (2008 – 2009), Hendrix College
B.A. in Economics (2004 – 2008), Hendrix College

Fields of Specialization

Research Fields: Experimental & Behavioral Economics, Public Economics, Charitable Giving
Teaching Fields: Experimental Economics, Public Economics, Urban Economics, Game Theory

Publications

with Brown Alexander L. and Jonathan Meer. “Social Distance and Quality Ratings in Charity Choice.” Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2017

with Brown Alexander L. and Jonathan Meer. “Why do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations.” Management Science, 2019

with Rojas-Fallas Jose. “Wage Difference Matter: An Experiment in Social Comparison and Effort Provision when Wages Increase or Decrease.” Games, 2020

with Mitch Priestly and Sahan Dissanayake. “Teaching Fisheries Bycatch: Exploring economic and behavioral drivers of bycatch through a classroom game.” Forthcoming, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Book Chapter (Accepted, Not Yet in Print)

with Sahan Dissanayake and Arnab Mitra. “Mitigating Negative Consequences of Unexpected Environmental Shocks: An Experimental Economics Analysis of Climate Shocks, PES, Illegal Harvesting, and Insurance.” Environment, Unexpected Shocks, and Behavioural Consequences. Forthcoming. 

Working Papers

with Sahan Dissanayake and Arnab Mitra. “Toward Understanding Enforcement Mechanisms for PES Programs for Forest Conservations.” 

with Jamie Woods. “Second-Order Gender Discrimination with Noisy Worker Productivity Signals: An Experiment.” 

with Sage Fuentes. “Understanding Altruism and Reciprocity in Kink Subculture”

“Debt and (Future) Taxes: Financing Intergenerational Public Goods.”
 

Works in Progress

“The Costs of Deception in Experiments: An Empirical Investigation” 

University Presentations

“An Experimental Analysis of Donations of Time and Money.” University of California, Irvine, March 2013
“Building for the Future? Debt-Financing Public Goods with Intergenerational Spillovers.” Portland State University, Portland, OR, Spring 2015
“Time as Money: Contribution-Based Assignment Auctions.” Portland State University, Portland OR, Spring 2014

Conference Presentations

“Why do People Volunteer? An Experimental Analysis of Preferences for Time Donations.” North American Economic Science Association Meeting, Tucson, AZ, November 2012.
“Building for the Future? Debt-Financing Public Goods with Intergenerational Spillovers.” World Economic Science Association Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2013.
“Building for the Future? Debt-Financing Public Goods with Intergenerational Spillovers.” Scholarship and a Free Society Symposia, Chapman University, Orange, CA, July 2013.
“Debt and (Future) Taxes --- Financing Intergenerational Public Goods.” North American Economic Science Association Meeting, Santa Cruz, CA, October 2013.
“Debt and (Future) Taxes --- Financing Intergenerational Public Goods.” Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, FL, November 2013.
“Time as Money: Contribution-Based Assignment Auctions.” World Economic Science Association Meeting, Honolulu, HI, June 2014
“Right Price for Good.” Western Economic Association Conference, Portland OR, July 2016
“Designing Optimal REDD+ Contracts.” Western Economics Association Conference, Vancouver, BC, July 2018
“An Investigation into Reference-Dependent Effort Provision” North American Economic Science Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, October 2019
“Designing Optimal REDD+ Contracts.” Environment for Development World Meeting, Bogota, Colombia, November 2019.