Douglas Wrenn

Assistant Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics


Douglas Wrenn

Most Recent Publications

Housing Prices and Marriage Entry in Urban China

Douglas Wrenn, Junjian Yi, Bo Zhang, Regional Science and Urban Economics on p. 118-130

Some Water Conservation Programs May Get More Value by Targeting Rural Farms

Katie Bohn, Douglas Wrenn, 2025,

Urbanizing Agriculture, Additionality, and the Adoption of Agricultural Conservation Practices

Junyi Hua, H. Allen Klaiber, Douglas H. Wrenn, 2025, Land Economics on p. 141-161

Impacts of Water-Related Building Moratoria on California’s Housing Crisis

Mingzhou Shen, K Fisher-Vanden, Douglas Wrenn, 2025, Land Economics on p. 53-70

The Effect of Natural Disasters and Extreme Weather on Household Location Choice and Economic Welfare

Douglas H. Wrenn, 2024, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists on p. 1101-1134

Pandemic-induced changes in household-level food diversity and diet quality in the U.S.

Daniel P. Simandjuntak, Edward C. Jaenicke, Douglas H. Wrenn, 2024, PLoS One

Economics Propelling Population Shifts in Spite of Climate-Driven Risks

Kevin Sliman, Douglas Wrenn, 2024,

The distributional impact of FEMA's community rating system

Daniel A. Brent, Yongwang Ren, Douglas H. Wrenn, 2024, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review

Potential Benefits in Remapping the Special Flood Hazard Area: Evidence from the U.S. Housing Market

Adam B. Pollack, Douglas H. Wrenn, Christoph Nolte, Ian Sue Wing, 2023, Journal of Housing Economics

Housing wealth, food spending, and diet quality: Evidence from panel data

Bo Zhang, Douglas Wrenn, Janak Joshi, E Jaenicke, Edward Jaenicke, 2022, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review on p. 45

Most-Cited Papers

Invisible water, visible impact: Groundwater use and Indian agriculture under climate change

Esha Zaveri, Danielle S. Grogan, Karen Fisher-Vanden, Steve Frolking, Richard B. Lammers, Douglas H. Wrenn, Alexander Prusevich, Robert E. Nicholas, 2016, Environmental Research Letters

House prices and marriage entry in China

Douglas H. Wrenn, Junjian Yi, Bo Zhang, 2019, Regional Science and Urban Economics on p. 118-130

Resident vs. nonresident employment associated with marcellus shale development

Douglas H. Wrenn, Timothy W. Kelsey, Edward C. Jaenicke, 2015, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review on p. 1-19

Unconventional shale gas development, risk perceptions, and averting behavior: Evidence from bottled water purchases

Douglas H. Wrenn, H. Allen Klaiber, Edward C. Jaenicke, 2016, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists on p. 779-817

Time is money: An empirical examination of the effects of regulatory delay on residential subdivision development

Douglas H. Wrenn, Elena G. Irwin, 2015, Regional Science and Urban Economics on p. 25-36

Spatial heterogeneity, accessibility, and zoning: An empirical investigation of leapfrog development

Wendong Zhang, Douglas H. Wrenn, Elena G. Irwin, 2017, Journal of Economic Geography on p. 547-570

The impact of water access on short-term migration in rural India

Esha D. Zaveri, Douglas H. Wrenn, Karen Fisher-Vanden, 2020, Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics on p. 505-532

Confronting Price Endogeneity in a Duration Model of Residential Subdivision Development

Douglas H. Wrenn, H. Allen Klaiber, David A. Newburn, 2017, Journal of Applied Econometrics on p. 661-682

Not my problem: Growth spillovers from uncoordinated land use policy

Charles A. Towe, H. Allen Klaiber, Douglas H. Wrenn, 2017, Land Use Policy on p. 679-689

Unconventional energy, taxation, and interstate welfare: An analysis of Pennsylvania's severance tax policy

Kyle A. Hoy, Douglas H. Wrenn, 2018, Energy Economics on p. 53-65