Arthur J. Caplan is an associate professor in the Department of Economics in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Oregon in 1996. Since that time, he has taught courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in microeconomics, environmental economics, public policy, and quantitative analysis. Caplan’s research focus includes a variety of interesting topics–from looking at how student procrastination in his courses affects their final grades, to how institutions might adjust their grading policies to induce greater effort on the part of both students and professors, to the creation of user-friendly simulation models that can be used to numerically analyze a variety of resource extraction problems, to developing a bio-economic model of the Great Salt Lake Ecosystem. In addition, he continues to write extensively in the field of contingent valuation.