Kent Kovacs Data-verified
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Kent Kovacs' research investigates economic and environmental factors influencing resource management, particularly in agricultural and water systems. He has published work examining the relationship between tree cover and property values in the United States, as well as the cost-effectiveness of afforestation for carbon sequestration in the Lower Mississippi River Basin. His research also delves into hydro-economic modeling, including managed aquifer recharge in the lower Mississippi and the optimization of groundwater augmentation under climate uncertainty.
Further contributing to the understanding of agricultural practices, Kovacs has studied peer irrigators' decision-making regarding field and water control for irrigation in Arkansas. He has also explored the temporal aspects of investment in irrigation, specifically heterogeneity in time preferences. His work also includes estimating groundwater demand through hedonic land price analysis in the Lower Mississippi River Alluvial Plain. Additionally, Kovacs has investigated consumer preferences related to lab-grown meat, focusing on the impact of positive and negative information.
Kovacs' scholarship metrics include an h-index of 21, with 109 total publications and 2,764 total citations. He is noted as recently active.
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- h-index: 21
- Publications: 110
- Citations: 2,785
Selected Publications
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Targeting Investment in On-farm Surface Water Storage for Groundwater Conservation (2026)
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Homeowners’ willingness to pay for changes in urban tree canopy cover in the United States (2025)
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Homeowners’ Willingness to Pay for Changes in Urban Tree Cover in the United States (2025)
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Targeting Investment in On-Farm Surface Water Storage for Groundwater Conservation (2025)
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Lumpy Heterogeneity in Groundwater Service Values and Time Preferences (2024)
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Determinants of Water Source Choice for Irrigation in the Arkansas Delta (2024)
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Positive and negative information effects on consumer preferences for lab grown meat (2023)
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The effect of climate uncertainty on water management for long-run aquifer abundance (2023)
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Peers and the choice of irrigation practices in the Arkansas Delta (2023)
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Peer Irrigators and the Choice of Field Management and Water Control Practices for Irrigation in Arkansas (2021)
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Heterogeneity in Time Preferences for an Investment in Irrigation (2021)
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Climate Uncertainty and Optimal Groundwater Augmentation (2021)
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Afforestation for carbon sequestration in the Lower Mississippi River Basin of Arkansas, USA: Does modeling of land use at fine spatial resolution reveal lower carbon cost? (2021)
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