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Working Papers

2025

1. Geographic Resolution in Environmental Policy: EPA's Shift from Regions to Counties Under the Clean Air Act
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2023

2. Distributional Weights in Economic Analysis
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
3. The Impact of the Clean Air Act on Particulate Matter in the 1970s
   RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future View citations (1)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022)
   See also Journal Article The impact of the clean air act on particulate matter in the 1970s, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2022

4. War, Influenza, and U.S. Carbon Intensity
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2021

5. Measuring Firm Environmental Performance to Inform ESG Investing
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
6. On the Green Interest Rate
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
7. The Real Effects of Mandatory CSR Disclosure on Emissions: Evidence from the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)

2020

8. Expected Health Effects of Reduced Air Pollution from COVID-19 Social Distancing
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (39)
   Also in Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics (2020) View citations (38)
9. Polluting Public Funds: The Effect of Environmental Regulation on Municipal Bonds
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
10. The Environmental Benefits from Transportation Electrification: Urban Buses
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
11. The Growth of Nations Revisited: Global Environmental Accounting from 1998 to 2018
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2019

12. Hurricane Katrina Floods New Jersey: The Role of Information in the Market Response to Flood Risk
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)
13. Long-Run Environmental Accounting in the U.S. Economy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    See also Chapter Long-Run Environmental Accounting in the US Economy, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019) View citations (1) (2019)
    Journal Article Long-Run Environmental Accounting in the US Economy, Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press (2020) View citations (3) (2020)
14. Recent Increases in Air Pollution: Evidence and Implications for Mortality
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Recent Increases in Air Pollution: Evidence and Implications for Mortality, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, University of Chicago Press (2021) View citations (9) (2021)
15. Time Preference and the Great Depression: Evidence from Firewood Prices in Portland, Oregon
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2018

16. Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (15)
    See also Journal Article Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, American Economic Association (2020) View citations (23) (2020)
17. Heterogeneous Environmental and Grid Benefits from Rooftop Solar and the Costs of Inefficient Siting Decisions
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (6)
18. Livestreaming Pollution: A New Form of Public Disclosure and a Catalyst for Citizen Engagement?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2017

19. Handle with Care: The Local Air Pollution Costs of Coal Storage
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
20. The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail: Evidence From Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)

2016

21. An Input-Output Model of the U.S. Economy with Pollution Externality
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
22. Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
    See also Chapter Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) View citations (2) (2016)
    Journal Article Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press (2019) View citations (38) (2019)
23. The Derivation of Discount Rates with an Augmented Measure of Income
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article The derivation of discount rates with an augmented measure of income, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier (2019) (2019)
24. What Forces Dictate the Design of Pollution Monitoring Networks?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
    Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo (2016) View citations (1)

2015

25. Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (22)
26. The Impact of Trading on the Costs and Benefits of the Acid Rain Program
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (16)
    See also Journal Article The impact of trading on the costs and benefits of the Acid Rain Program, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier (2018) View citations (24) (2018)
27. The Net Benefits of the Acid Rain Program: What Can We Learn from the Grand Policy Experiment?
    RFF Working Paper Series, Resources for the Future

2013

28. Market-based Emissions Regulation When Damages Vary Across Sources: What Are the Gains from Differentiation?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (20)
    See also Journal Article Market-Based Emissions Regulation When Damages Vary across Sources: What Are the Gains from Differentiation?, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Chicago Press (2019) View citations (31) (2019)

2009

29. Characterizing Uncertainty in Air Pollution Damage Estimates
    Middlebury College Working Paper Series, Middlebury College, Department of Economics
30. The Ancillary Benefits from Climate Policy in the United States
    Middlebury College Working Paper Series, Middlebury College, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article The Ancillary Benefits from Climate Policy in the United States, Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer (2011) View citations (28) (2011)

2007

31. Using Hedonic Property Models to Value Public Water Bodies: A Note Regarding Specification Issues
    Middlebury College Working Paper Series, Middlebury College, Department of Economics

2006

32. Sinusoidal Modeling Applied to Spatially Variant Tropospheric Ozone Air Pollution
    Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University

Journal Articles

2023

1. The impact of the clean air act on particulate matter in the 1970s
   Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023, 121, (C) View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper The Impact of the Clean Air Act on Particulate Matter in the 1970s, RFF Working Paper Series (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2021

2. Heterogeneous Solar Capacity Benefits, Appropriability, and the Costs of Suboptimal Siting
   Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2021, 8, (6), 1209 - 1244 View citations (6)
3. Recent Increases in Air Pollution: Evidence and Implications for Mortality
   Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2021, 15, (1), 154 - 162 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper Recent Increases in Air Pollution: Evidence and Implications for Mortality, NBER Working Papers (2019) View citations (1) (2019)
4. The environmental benefits of transportation electrification: Urban buses
   Energy Policy, 2021, 148, (PA) View citations (18)

2020

5. Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation
   American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2020, 12, (4), 244-74 View citations (23)
   See also Working Paper Decompositions and Policy Consequences of an Extraordinary Decline in Air Pollution from Electricity Generation, NBER Working Papers (2018) View citations (15) (2018)
6. Long-Run Environmental Accounting in the US Economy
   Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 2020, 1, (1), 158 - 191 View citations (3)
   See also Chapter Long-Run Environmental Accounting in the US Economy, NBER Chapters, 2019, 158-191 (2019) View citations (1) (2019)
   Working Paper Long-Run Environmental Accounting in the U.S. Economy, NBER Working Papers (2019) View citations (1) (2019)

2019

7. Cumulative environmental and employment impacts of the shale gas boom
   Nature Sustainability, 2019, 2, (12), 1122-1131 View citations (3)
8. Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption
   Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019, 6, (S1), S65 - S94 View citations (38)
   See also Working Paper Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption, NBER Working Papers (2016) View citations (5) (2016)
   Chapter Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption, NBER Chapters, 2016 (2016) View citations (2) (2016)
9. Does Environmental Policy Affect Income Inequality? Evidence from the Clean Air Act
   AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2019, 109, 271-76 View citations (9)
10. External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products: Evidence from Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota by Pipelines and Rail
    The Energy Journal, 2019, 40, (1), 55-72 View citations (2)
    Also in The Energy Journal, 2019, Volume 40, (Number 1) (2019) View citations (10)
11. Fine particulate matter damages and value added in the US economy
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019, 116, (40), 19857-19862 View citations (31)
12. Market-Based Emissions Regulation When Damages Vary across Sources: What Are the Gains from Differentiation?
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019, 6, (3), 593 - 632 View citations (31)
    See also Working Paper Market-based Emissions Regulation When Damages Vary Across Sources: What Are the Gains from Differentiation?, NBER Working Papers (2013) View citations (20) (2013)
13. The derivation of discount rates with an augmented measure of income
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2019, 95, (C), 87-101
    See also Working Paper The Derivation of Discount Rates with an Augmented Measure of Income, NBER Working Papers (2016) (2016)

2018

14. Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis and the National Accounts
    Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2018, 9, (1), 27-66 View citations (4)
15. The distribution of income is worse than you think: Including pollution impacts into measures of income inequality
    PLOS ONE, 2018, 13, (3), 1-15
16. The impact of trading on the costs and benefits of the Acid Rain Program
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 88, (C), 180-209 View citations (24)
    See also Working Paper The Impact of Trading on the Costs and Benefits of the Acid Rain Program, NBER Working Papers (2015) View citations (16) (2015)
17. The local air pollution cost of coal storage and handling: Evidence from U.S. power plants
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 92, (C), 360-396 View citations (14)

2017

18. Air and Water: Integrated Assessment Models for Multiple Media
    Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2017, 9, (1), 165-184 View citations (5)
19. Does environmental policy affect scaling laws between population and pollution? Evidence from American metropolitan areas
    PLOS ONE, 2017, 12, (8), 1-15 View citations (9)

2016

20. Air pollution emissions and damages from energy production in the U.S.: 2002–2011
    Energy Policy, 2016, 90, (C), 202-211 View citations (28)
21. Are There Environmental Benefits from Driving Electric Vehicles? The Importance of Local Factors
    American Economic Review, 2016, 106, (12), 3700-3729 View citations (182)
22. On the divergence between fuel and service prices: The importance of technological change and diffusion in an American frontier economy
    Explorations in Economic History, 2016, 60, (C), 93-111 View citations (2)

2014

23. Air Pollution Damages from Offshore Energy Production
    The Energy Journal, 2014, Volume 35, (Number 4)
    Also in The Energy Journal, 2014, 35, (4), 39-60 (2014)
24. Using index numbers for deflation in environmental accounting
    Environment and Development Economics, 2014, 19, (4), 466-486 View citations (7)

2013

25. PM 2.5 co-benefits of climate change legislation part 1: California’s AB 32
    Climatic Change, 2013, 117, (1), 377-397 View citations (3)

2012

26. Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Corrigendum (Mortality Rate Update)
    American Economic Review, 2012, 102, (1), 613-16 View citations (10)
27. Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right: Reply
    American Economic Review, 2012, 102, (1), 608-12 View citations (10)
28. The design of optimal climate policy with air pollution co-benefits
    Resource and Energy Economics, 2012, 34, (4), 696-722 View citations (17)

2011

29. Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy
    American Economic Review, 2011, 101, (5), 1649-75 View citations (148)
30. Linking Policy to Statistical Uncertainty in Air Pollution Damages
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2011, 11, (1), 29 View citations (17)
31. The Ancillary Benefits from Climate Policy in the United States
    Environmental & Resource Economics, 2011, 50, (4), 585-603 View citations (28)
    See also Working Paper The Ancillary Benefits from Climate Policy in the United States, Middlebury College Working Paper Series (2009) View citations (1) (2009)
32. The social cost of trading: Measuring the increased damages from sulfur dioxide trading in the United States
    Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2011, 30, (3), 598-612 View citations (18)

2009

33. Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right
    American Economic Review, 2009, 99, (5), 1714-39 View citations (199)
34. Regulating NOx and SO2 Emissions in Atlanta
    The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2009, 9, (2), 32 View citations (6)

2007

35. Measuring the damages of air pollution in the United States
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2007, 54, (1), 1-14 View citations (111)

Books

2025

1. Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods: A National Accounts Perspective
   NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2013

2. Using Marginal Damages in Environmental Policy: A Study of Air Pollution in the United States
   Books, American Enterprise Institute View citations (2)

Edited books

2025

1. Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods
   National Bureau of Economic Research Books, University of Chicago Press

Chapters

2024

1. Comment on "Measuring for the Future, not the Past"
   A chapter in Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods: A National Accounts Perspective, 2024, pp 59-61
2. Introduction, "Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods: Building Expanded National Accounts"
   A chapter in Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods: A National Accounts Perspective, 2024, pp 1-13

2019

3. Long-Run Environmental Accounting in the US Economy
   A chapter in Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, volume 1, 2019, pp 158-191 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Long-Run Environmental Accounting in the U.S. Economy, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2019) View citations (1) (2019)
   Journal Article Long-Run Environmental Accounting in the US Economy, University of Chicago Press (2020) View citations (3) (2020)

2016

4. Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption
   A chapter in Energy Policy Tradeoffs between Economic Efficiency and Distributional Equity, 2016 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) View citations (5) (2016)
   Journal Article Distributional Effects of Air Pollution from Electric Vehicle Adoption, University of Chicago Press (2019) View citations (38) (2019)

2014

5. Toward the Measurement of Net Economic Welfare: Air Pollution Damage in the US National Accounts–2002, 2005, 2008
   A chapter in Measuring Economic Sustainability and Progress, 2014, pp 429-459 View citations (2)