Research

Working Papers

Air Pollution, Weather, and Agricultural Worker Productivity (with Ali Hill, Jeff Peirce, Emily Fischer, Bonne Ford, and Jude Bayham) (R&R at AJAE)

How do Residential Consumers Respond to Critical Peak Pricing? Experimental Evidence on the Role of Information and Incentives (with Ken Gillingham (Yale) and Praveen Kopalle (Dartmouth)) (R&R at Management Science)

Willingness to Pay for Wolf Reintroduction in the State of Colorado (with Dana Hoag) 

Distributive Versus Centralized Food Production Systems: Energy and Water Implications (with Becca Jablonski and Jason Quinn, funded through CSU InTERFEWS)

Historical Exposure of US Solar Energy Potential to Smoke-Driven Changes in Shortwave Irradiance (with Kimberley Corwin, Emily Fischer, and Chelsea Corr)

Works in Progress

Estimating the impacts of local air pollution on high wage labor (with Pete Maniloff, Alex Hollingworth, and others)

Wildfire smoke impacts on agricultural workers (with Ali Hill and Jude Bayham)

CAFO contributions to ammonia and methane (with Emily Fischer, Jude Bayham, Jeff Pierce, and others) 

Farmer's Willingness to Accept to Give up Water Rights on the Western Slope of Colorado

The potential short and long-run impacts of liquified natural gas exports on US electricity production (with Zarif Rasul)

Implementation of a Comprehensive Agrivoltaics Policy for the State of Colorado (with many people)

Eliminating the Evidence: Abortion’s influence on the health impact of pollution (with Sammy Zahran and Jude Bayham) 

Select Publications

Corwin, K. A., Corr, C. A., Burkhardt, J., & Fischer, E. V. (2022). Smoke‐Driven Changes in Photosynthetically Active Radiation During the US Agricultural Growing Season. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127(23), e2022JD037446. 

O'Dell, Katelyn, et al. "Outside in: the relationship between indoor and outdoor particulate air quality during wildfire smoke events in western US cities." Environmental Research: Health (2022). 

Manning, Dale T., and Jesse Burkhardt. "The local effects of federal law enforcement policies: Evidence from sanctuary jurisdictions and crime." Contemporary Economic Policy (2022). 

Jennings, K., Wlostowski, A. N., Bash, R. E., Cerling, C., Burkhardt, J., Wobus, C., Aggett, G. (2021) Dry landscapes and parched economies: A review of how drought impacts non-agricultural socioeconomic sectors in the US Intermountain West. Accepted: WIREs Water

Burkhardt, J., Chan, N., Bollinger, B., Gillingham, K. (2021). Conformity and Conservation: Evidence from home landscaping and water conservation. Accepted: American Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 

Hill, A., Burkhardt, J. (2021). The Role of Low Productivity Workers and Gender in Workplace Peer Effects. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Berman, J., Bayham J., Burkhardt, J., (2020). Hot Under the Collar: A 14-Year Association Between Temperature and Violent Behavior across 436 U.S. Counties. Environmental Research. 

Eldali, F., et al., (2020). A Data Decomposition Approach to Design a Dynamic Pricing Mechanism for Residence-based Plug-in Electric Vehicles in Wind Energy-rich Grids. eTransportation. 

Bollinger, B., Burkhardt, J., Gillingham, K. (2020). Peer Effects in Residential Water Conservation: Evidence from Migration. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 

Burkhardt, Jesse, Jude Bayham, Ander Wilson, Ellison Carter, Jesse D. Berman, Katelyn O'Dell, Bonne Ford, Emily V. Fischer, and Jeffrey R. Pierce. (2019). The effect of pollution on crime: Evidence from data on particulate matter and ozone. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 98: 102267.

Burkhardt, J., et al. (2019). The relationship between monthly air pollution and violent crime across the United States. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy: 1-18.

Berman, J., Burkhardt, J., et al. (2019). Acute Air Pollution Exposure and Risk of Violent Behavior in the United States (2000-2013). Epidemiology. (Received award for best environmental epidemiology paper in 2019 from the International Society of Environmental Epidemiologist)

Burkhardt, J. (2019). The Impact of the Renewable Fuel Standard on U.S. Oil Refineries. Energy Policy. 130, 429-437. 

Maas, A., Goemans, C., Manning, D. T., Burkhardt, J., & Arabi, M. (2019). Complements of the house: Estimating demand-side linkages between residential water and electricity. Water Resources and Economics. 100140. 

Flyr, M., Burkhardt, J., Goemans, C., Hans, L., Neel, A., & Maas, A. (2019). Modeling Commercial Demand for Water: Exploring Alternative Prices, Instrumental Variables, and Heterogeneity. Land Economics, 95(2), 211-224. 

Burkhardt, J. and Flyr, M. (2018), The Effect Of Marijuana Dispensary Openings On Housing Prices. Contemporary Economic Policy.  doi:10.1111/coep.12414

Burkhardt, J, and Chan, N.W. (2017). The dollars and sense of ballot propositions: estimating willingness to pay for public goods using aggregate voting data. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 4.2: 479-503.

Burkhardt, J., Wiser, R., Darghouth, N., Dong, C. G., & Huneycutt, J. (2015) Exploring the impact of permitting and local regulatory processes on residential solar prices in the United States. Energy Policy, 78: 102-112.