Research
Working papers
Attribute Production and Biased Technical Change in Automobiles (with Asa Watten), June 2025 (submitted)
Work in progress
Bribing Voters to Support a State Carbon Tax (with Ioana Marinescu and Boris Shor)
Motor Fuel Taxes and the Labor Market (with Michael Bates)
Re-Lighting Detroit’s Streets: Impacts on Crime and Traffic Accidents (with Prabhat Barnwal, Elise Breshears, Dylan Brewer, Alex Tybl, and Anna Wood)
Refereed articles
Distributional Consequences of Policies for Electric Heat Conversion (with Justin Kirkpatrick), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 11(S1): S9-S40, November 2024
Can Pigou at the Polls Stop Us Melting the Poles? (with Ioana Marinescu and Boris Shor), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 10 (4): 903-945, July 2023 (earlier version: NBER Working Paper 26146)
Hotelling Under Pressure (with Ryan Kellogg and Stephen Salant), Journal of Political Economy 126 (3): 984-1026, June 2018
Hedonic Prices and Equilibrium Sorting in Housing Markets: A Classroom Simulation (with Michael Bates), National Tax Journal 70 (1): 171-184, March 2017 (supplemental implementation materials)
Designing Policies to Make Cars Greener (with James Sallee), Annual Review of Resource Economics 8: 157-180, October 2016
The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences: Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy (with Ryan Kellogg, Ashley Langer, and James Sallee), Journal of Industrial Economics 64 (4): 763-793, December 2015
A Ban on One is a Boon for the Other: Strict Gasoline Content Rules and Implicit Ethanol Blending Mandates (with Andrew Elzinga), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 67 (3): 258-273, May 2014
What Do Consumers Believe About Future Gasoline Prices? (with Ryan Kellogg and James Sallee), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 66 (3): 383-403, November 2013
Diversify or Focus? Spending to Combat Infectious Diseases When Budgets Are Tight, (with Ramanan Laxminarayan and Stephen Salant), Journal of Health Economics 31 (4): 658-675, July 2012
The Demand for Ethanol as a Gasoline Substitute, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 63 (2): 151-168, March 2012
Using Loopholes to Reveal the Marginal Cost of Regulation: The Case of Fuel-Economy Standards, (with James Sallee), American Economic Review 101 (4): 1375-1409, June 2011
Forecasting Gasoline Prices Using Consumer Surveys (with Ryan Kellogg, James Sallee, and Richard Curtin), American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings 101 (3): 110-114, May 2011
Automobile Fuel Economy Standards: Impacts, Efficiency, and Alternatives (with Ian Parry, James Sallee, and Carolyn Fischer), Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 5 (1): 89-108, May 2011
Open Space, Residential Property Values, and Spatial Context (with Sarah West), Regional Science and Urban Economics 36 (6): 773-789, November 2006 (reprinted in Cheshire and Hilber, eds., The Economics of Land Markets and their Regulation, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics (331), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017)
Private Markets, Contracts, and Government Provision: What Explains the Organization of Local Waste and Recycling Markets? (with Margaret Walls and Molly Macauley), Urban Affairs Review 40 (5): 590-613, May 2005
Prospects for Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies (with Richard Newell), Annual Review of Environment and Resources 29: 109-142, November 2004
Information Programs for Technology Adoption: The Case of Energy-Efficiency Audits (with Richard Newell), Resource and Energy Economics 26 (1): 27-50, March 2004
Simplified Marginal Effects in Discrete Choice Models (with Richard Newell), Economics Letters 81 (3): 321-326, December 2003 [correction]
Resting papers
Overlapping Strategies for Reducing Carbon Emissions from the Personal Transportation Sector (with Carolyn Fischer and Alex Egorenkov), November 2016
Let Them Eat Switchgrass? Modeling the Displacement of Existing Food Crops by New Bioenergy Feedstocks (with Chenguang Wang and Jinhua Zhao), November 2012 (appendix)
Other finished papers
Restoring Great Lakes Ecosystems: Worth the Cost? (with Jennifer Read and Donald Scavia), RFF Weekly Policy Commentary, March 2009
Emerging Markets for Biofuels, Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, August 2008
Healthy Waters, Strong Economy: The Benefits of Restoring the Great Lakes Ecosystem, (with John C. Austin, Paul N. Courant, and Robert E. Litan), The Brookings Institution, September 2007, (Summary of detailed report titled, America’s North Coast: A Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Program to Protect and Restore the Great Lakes)
The Design and Use of Limited Access Privilege Programs, Lee G. Anderson and Mark C. Holliday (Editors), NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-86, November 2007, (I contributed extensively to Part 2.2: Initial Allocation and Appendix 2: Types and Uses of Auctions)
Economic Report of the President 2006, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, February 2006, (I contributed extensively to Chapter 11: Recent Developments in Energy)
The Effect of Open Space on Residential Property Values in St. Paul, MN, Undergraduate honors thesis, Macalester College, May 2001
The Effect of Open Space on Single Family, Residential Home Property Values, Macalester Journal of Economics, 2000