Welcome to my site. I am an Associate Professor in Agricultural and Resource Economics at Colorado State University. My research interests include energy, air pollution, climate change, and environmental economics broadly. I serve on the Editorial Council for JEEM.

Selected Publications: 

The papers below highlight some recent work involving air pollution data and modeling.  

Burkhardt, J., Bayham, J., Wilson, A., Carter, E., Berman, J. D., O'Dell, K., Ford, B., Fischer, E.V., Pierce, J. R., (2019) The Effect of Pollution on Crime: Evidence from Data on Particulate Matter and Ozone. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management

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, K., Ford, B., Burkhardt, J., Magzamen, S., Anenberg, S. C., Bayham, J., ... & Pierce, J. R. (2022). Outside in: the relationship between indoor and outdoor particulate air quality during wildfire smoke events in western US cities. Environmental Research: Health, 1(1), 015003. 

I am also interested in new and interesting ways to value public and private goods: 

Burkhardt, J, and Chan, N.W. "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 (2017): 479-503.

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

I have also published several papers on peer effects. One paper looks at the peer influence on residential outdoor water consumption and another looks at peer effects in the agricultural workforce. 

My email is jesse.burkhardt@colostate.edu