Faculty/Staff Listing
Dr. Helen R. Neill
Associate Professor
Telephone: 702-895-4892
Office: CDC 726
E-mail: helen.neill@unlv.edu
Education
- BA Trinity University
- M.A. University of New Mexico
- Ph.D. University of New Mexico
My research agenda includes: examining the impact of air quality on single family homes with traditional and spatial hedonic approaches; examining the short term and long term impacts of perchlorate contamination from the PEPCON explosion and Basic Management Incorporated (BMI) complex on single family homes in Henderson, Nevada; examining the potential radionuclide migration problem for communities living near the Nevada Test Site and identifying potential solutions through future well sites; and examining shallow buried transuranic radioactive waste, defense waste that was disposed of before 1970 at the national level and examining whether to exhume or leave in place at Los Alamos National Laboratory. All of these projects relate in one way or another to environmental management, economic valuation, risk, spatial statistics, and key laws and regulations such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Refereed Publications
- Neill, Helen R. and David M. Hassenzahl, and Djeto D. Assane "Estimating the Effect of Air Quality: Spatial versus Traditional Hedonic Price Models, Southern Economic Journal, vol. 73, no. 4, pp. 1088 – 1111, April 2007.
- Neill, Helen R. and Robert H. Neill "Transportation of Transuranic Nuclear Waste to WIPP: A Reconsideration of Truck versus Rail for Two Sites" Natural Resources Journal, pp. 93 - 124, Spring 2000.
- Clauretie, Mike and Helen R. Neill "Year-Round School Schedules and Residential Property Values" Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, vol. 21, pp. 2000.
- Neill, Helen R. "Hypothetical Versus Real Willingness to Pay: Comment," Applied Economics Letters, vol. 6, pp. 267 - 269, June 1999.
- Carroll, Thomas M., Terrence M. Clauretie, and Helen R. Neill, "A Note on Foreclosure Status and Selling Price: Are Residential Markets Efficient?" Journal of Real Estate Research, vol. 13, no. 1, March 1997.
- Neill, Helen R., "The Context for Substitutes in CVM Studies," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 393 - 397, November 1995.
- Carroll, Thomas M., Terrence M. Clauretie, Helen R. Neill, and Cindy Jorgensen, "Impact of HUD Foreclosures on Housing Prices," Journal of Housing Economics, vol. 4, pp. 183-194, 1995.
- Neill, Helen R., Ronald G. Cummings, Philip T. Ganderton, Glenn W. Harrison, and Thomas McGuckin, "Hypothetical Surveys and Real Economic Commitments," Land Economics, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 145-154, May 1994.
- Brookshire, David and Helen R. Neill, "Benefit Transfer Analysis: Conceptual and Empirical Issues," Water Resources Research, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 651 - 655, March 1992.
Other Publications
- NTS CAB UGTA Committee and Helen R. Neill, Technical Summation: Recommendations for Proposed Well Locations in the Pahute Mesa Area at the Nevada Test Site, 2007.
- Reid, Savanna and Helen R. Neill Well Siting recommendation to DOE from the Nevada Test Site Community Advisory Board: A case study on public involvement" International Waste Management Symposium Proceedings, 2006.
- Neill, Helen R. and Robert H. Neill "Converting Low-level Mixed Waste into Transuranic Waste for Geologic Disposal at WIPP: A Cost Analysis" International Waste Management Symposium Proceedings, Tucson, AZ, March 3, 2004.
- Neill, Helen R. "Public Education and Outreach on Radioactive Waste Management Issues at the Nevada Test Site" International Waste Management Symposium Proceedings, Tucson, AZ, March 3, 2004.
- Neill, Helen R., "Book review for Tritium on Ice: The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power" By Kenneth D. Bergeron. Cambridge: The MIT Press. Natural Resources Journal, vol. 43, no.1, 2003.
- Neill, Helen R. and Robert H. Neill "Perspectives on Radioactive Waste Disposal: A Consideration of Economic Efficiency and Intergenerational Equity" International Waste Management Symposium Proceedings, 2003.
- Neill, Helen R. and Robert H. Neill "Perspectives on Economic Analyses for High Level Waste Disposal" International High Level Waste Conference Proceedings, 2003.
Work in Progress
- Shallow Buried Transuranic Waste: A Comparison of Remediation Alternatives at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Estimating the Impact of Air Quality with a Spatial Hedonic Model: Geostatistical versus Weight-Matrix Approaches
- Valuing a Brownfield Cleanup Project
Recent Presentations
- Anna Lukemeyer presented Neill and Lukemeyer, Do Federally-Mandated School Performance Measures Affect Housing Values: Evidence from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area at the Western Social Science Association Conference in Denver, CO April 2008.
- Presented co-authored paper Tandon, Neill, and Assane "Estimating the Impact of Air Quality with a Spatial Hedonic Model: Geostatistical versus Weight-Matrix Approaches at the American Real Estate Society Meeting in Captiva Island, FL April 2008.
- Presented co-authored paper Neill, Assane and Hassenzahl "Stigmatized Property Values: A Tale of two Neighborhood" at American Real Estate Society Meeting in San Francisco, CA April 2007.
- Presented co-authored paper Tandon, Neill, Assane and Hassenzahl "Estimating the Impact of Air Quality with a Spatial Hedonic: Geostatistical versus Weight Matrix Approaches" at the North American Regional Science Meeting in Savannah, GA November 2007.
- Presented co-authored paper Neill and Assane "Valuing the impact of environmental contamination with an hedonic property model: a comparison of distance estimates" at the Society for Risk Analysis Meeting in San Antonio, TX December 2007.
- Co-author Anna Lukemeyer presented a co-authored paper Lukemeyer and Neill "The Impact of No Child Left Behind on Residential Property Values: The Las Vegas Metropolitan Area" in Washington, D. C. October 2007.
- Co-author Djeto Assane presented co-authored paper Neill, Assane and Hassenzahl "Stigmatized Property Values: A Tale of two Neighborhood" at International Western Economic Association July 2007.
Recent Courses Taught
- Environmental Economics ENV 377
- Environmental Seminar ENV 490
- Quantitative Research Methods ENV 725
- Senior Thesis I ENV 499A
- Senior Thesis II ENV 499B
- Honors Seminar Global Change HON 400
Grants
- 2003 Community Advisory Board Support for the Nevada Test Site, submitted August 2003 to U.S. Department of Energy ($60,000)
- 2002 Las Vegas Valley Sunwise-EMPACT, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency ($106,500)
- 1997 Planning Initiative Award, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ($6,000)
- 1996 Wells Fargo Bank Grant, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ($1,250)
- 1994 First Interstate Bank Grant, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ($1,000)
- 1992 First Interstate Bank Grant, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ($1,000)
Awards & Recognition
- Fall 2006 – Spring 2007 Faculty Development Award.
- Nominated by colleagues for the Outstanding Chair Award, in 2005 and 2006.
- March 3 - 4, 2003 Distinguished Alumna, Department of Economics, Trinity University. Selected by Chair Jorge Gonzalez and faculty to present papers and lectures to faculty and students.
- July 28 - August 3, 1996 Economic Science Laboratory Summer Workshop, University of Arizona. Selected by Director of Research and Education Laboratory, Dr. Vernon Smith, University of Arizona.
- Spring 1996 Teaching Award, Department of Economics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
- 1990 - 1991 Graduate Tuition Fellowship, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Selection by Dean of Graduate Studies, University of New Mexico.
- Fall 1991 J. Raymond Stuart Award, University of New Mexico. Selected by Economics Department Chair, Dr. Ronald Cummings for academic achievement.
- Spring 1991 Phi Kappa Phi, University of New Mexico. Selected by graduate school as a member of an international honor society.
- 1989 - 1990 Omicron Delta Epsilon, University of New Mexico. Elected President by graduate students in the Department of Economics.
- 1988 Omicron Delta Epsilon, Trinity University. Selected by faculty, Department of Economics.
Service
- Fall 2006 – present Greenspun College Promotion and Tenure Committee.
- Department Chair 1999 – 2006 Department of Environmental Studies.
- January 1999 - 2006 Greenspun College Executive Committee, Selected by faculty and Dean Martha Watson to represent Department of Environmental Studies.
- Spring 2000 - 2006 Greenspun College Teaching Committee, Selected by faculty to represent Department of Environmental Studies.
- Spring 2002 Minimum Standards Committee, Chaired Executive Subcommittee to create a draft and represented the college on the university committee.
- Fall 1995 - Spring 2002 State Air Quality Compliance Advisory Panel, State of Nevada. Selected by Governor Bob Miller to represent small businesses within the state for new Environmental Protection Agency air regulations.
Dr. Helen R. Neill