The Unassuming Economist

On climate change

• Expect Above Average Temperatures: Identifying the Economic Impacts of Climate Change – Paper
• The Impact of Weather on Local Employment: Using Big Data on Small Places – AEA
• Winter is Coming: The Long-run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict, 1400-1900 – Paper
• Regulating Mismeasured Pollution: Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy – Paper
• Climate Change and Civil Unrest: Evidence From the El Niño Southern Oscillation – Paper – AEA
• Military Planning in a Context of Complex Systems and Climate Change – AEA
• Who Joined the Pigou Club? A Postmortem Analysis of Washington State’s Carbon Tax Initiative I-732 – Paper
• Decoupling Agricultural and Malarial Channels of Climate-driven Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa – AEA
• How Large is the Potential Economic Benefit of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change? – Paper and Presentation
• Firm and Household Responses to Climate Change Risks – AEA
• ACE – Analytic Climate Economy (with Temperature and Uncertainty) – Paper
• Expect Above Average Temperatures: Identifying the Economic Impacts of Climate Change – Paper
• Same Storm, Different Disasters: Consumer Credit Access, Income Inequality, and Natural Disaster Recovery – Paper
• Heterogeneous firms under regional temperature shocks: exit and reallocation, with evidence from Indonesia – Paper
• The Costs of Inefficient Regulation: Evidence from the Bakken – Paper
• Clean Energy Investments for New York State: An Economic Framework for Promoting Climate Stabilization and Expanding Good Job Opportunities – AEA
• Spatial Effects of Nitrogen Pollution on Drinking Water Production – Paper
• Regulating Mismeasured Pollution: Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy – Paper
• Assessing the External Net Benefits of Wind Energy: The Case of Iowa’s Wind Farms – Paper
• Do HOV Lanes Save Energy? Evidence from a General Equilibrium Model of the City – Paper

On oil market

• Informing SPR Drawdown Policy through Oil Futures and Inventory Dynamics – Paper
• Measuring Leakage Risk – AEA
• How Trade-sensitive are Energy-intensive Sectors? – AEA
• Gasoline Savings From Clean Vehicle Adoption – Paper
• Response of Consumer Debt to Income Shocks: The Case of Energy Booms and Busts – Paper and Presentations
• Granger Causality of Real Oil Prices After the Great Recession – Paper and Presentation
• Did the Renewable Fuel Standard Shift Market Expectations of the Price of Ethanol? – Paper
• Evaluating a Discretionary Safety Valve: The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Waiving Fuel Content Regulations in Response to Supply Shocks – Paper

On shale gas

• Local Economic Shocks and Entrepreneurship: New Business Formation During the Shale Oil and Gas Boom – Paper
• Collateral Damage: The Impact of Shale Gas on Mortgage Lending – Paper
• The Local Effects of the Texas Shale Boom on Schools, Students, and Teachers – Paper
• Analyzing the Risk of Transporting Crude Oil by Rail – Paper
• Local Labor Market Shocks and Wage Differentials: Evidence From Shale Oil and Gas Booms – Paper

On carbon market

• Lessons From China’s Seven Regional Carbon Market Pilots – AEA
• China’s Rate-Based Approach to Reducing CO2 Emissions: Strengths, Limitations, and Alternatives – Paper
• Design Issues in China’s National Carbon Market – Paper
• Who Joined the Pigou Club? A Postmortem Analysis of Washington State’s Carbon Tax Initiative I-732 – Paper
• Do Carbon Taxes Kill Jobs? New Heterogeneous Evidence from British Columbia – Paper
• Emissions Containment in Response to Carbon Market Prices – Paper and Presentation
• Pigou Creates Losers: On the Impossibility of Pareto Improvements From Pigouvian Taxes – AEA

On solar energy

• Pass-Through as a Test for Market Power: An Application to Solar Subsidies – Paper
• What Drives Social Contagion in the Adoption of Solar Photovoltaic Technology? – Paper
• What Drives Social Contagion in the Adoption of Solar Photovoltaic Technology? – Paper
• Siting Solar PV Capacity to Maximize Environmental Benefits – Paper

On electricity

• What’s killing nuclear power in U.S. electricity markets? Drivers of wholesale price declines at nuclear generators in the PJM Interconnection – Paper and Presentation
• Who Pays In Deregulated Electricity Markets? – Paper
• Determinants of the Cost of Electricity Supply in India – AEA

On vehicle market

• Self-Driving Cars and the City: Long-Run Effects on Land Use, Welfare, and the Environment – Paper
• Attribute Substitution in Household Vehicle Portfolios – Paper
• Mind the Gap! Tax Incentives and Incentives for Manipulating Fuel Efficiency in the Automobile Industry – AEA
• Does an Energy Efficiency Gap Exist in the Light-duty Vehicle Market? Evidence From Fuel-saving Technology Adoption – Paper