Research

*** Publications***

“How Heterogeneity in Perceived External Benefits Differently Affects Federal and State Efforts to Address Climate Change." 2025. Energy Economics, 146 (May) 108422: 1-19. Supplementary Appendix. October 2024 Draft. 

“Designing Retirement Strategies for Coal-fired Power Plants to Mitigate Air Pollution and Health Impacts." (with Carla Campos, Emily L. Pakhtigian, Hannah Wiseman, An T. Pham, and Wei Peng). 2024. Environmental Science & Technology, 58(35): 15371–15380. Supplementary Appendix. August 2024 Draft. December 11, 2024 story by Ashley WennersHerron.

“Marginal Emissions Pathways: Drivers and Implications." (with Richard Klotz and Antonio M. Bento). 2023. Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 12(2): 1-16. Supplementary Appendix. January 2023 Draft. 

“The Political Allocation of Green Pork and Its Implications for Federal Climate Policy." 2021. Journal of Public Economics, 201 (September) 104483: 1-21. Supplementary Appendix. July 2021 Draft.

“Emissions and Health Implications of Pennsylvania’s Entry into the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative." (with Wei Peng, Hui Yang, An T. Pham, and Seth A. Blumsack). 2021. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(18): 12153-12161. Supplementary Appendix. September 2021 Draft. 

“Think Globally, Cap Locally, and Trade Widely: Efficient Decentralized Policymaking in the Presence of Spillovers." 2021. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 8(1): 91-124. Supplementary Appendix. August 2020 Draft. 

“Modeling the Impact of RGGI on Pennsylvania’s Power Grid: Costs, Emissions, and Leakage." 2020. Chapter 3 in Prospects for Pennsylvania in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a report prepared on behalf of the Pennsylvania State University’s Center for Energy Law and Policy (with Seth A. Blumsack, Andrew Bell, Mingsong Chen, Seamus Gibbons, Daniel Mallinson, Wei Peng, An T. Pham, Daniel Walters, and Hui Wang) and submitted as a public comment to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's Proposed Rulemaking for Pennsylvania's “CO2 Budget Trading Program." Supplementary Appendix. Last updated December 2020.  June 25, 2021 story by Rachel McDevitt for StateImpact Pennsylvania.

“On the Trade-Offs of Regulating Multiple Unpriced Externalities with a Single Instrument: Evidence from Biofuel Policies." (with Antonio M. Bento). 2020. Energy Economics, 85 (January) 104557: 1-13. Supplementary Appendix. October 2019 Draft.

“Does Titling Matter? Evidence from Housing Markets in India." (with Antonio M. Bento and Somik Lall). 2018. Review of Regional Studies, 48(3): 377-400. Supplementary Appendix. June 2018 Draft.

“Are there Carbon Savings from US Biofuel Policies? The Critical Importance of Accounting for Leakage in Land and Fuel Markets." (with Antonio M. Bento and Richard Klotz). 2015. Energy Journal, 36(3): 75-109. Supplementary Appendix. Executive Summary. July 2014 Draft.

*** Papers Under Review***

“Strategic Interconnections Between Means and Ends for Climate Change Mitigation." Supplementary Appendix. Last updated March 2025.

“Understanding the Direct and Strategic Effects of Voluntary Entry into Existing Cap and Trade Systems." (with An T. Pham, and Seth A. Blumsack). Supplementary Appendix. Last updated June 2025.

“The Use of Target and Trade Systems to Achieve Vaccination Goals." Supplementary Appendix. Last updated June 2024. 

*** Working Papers***

“How do Federal Bureaucracies Balance Efficiency, Distributional, and Political Considerations When Creating New Regulations?" (with Joseph M. Perla). Last updated January 2024.

“Who’s Ready to Trade? Voluntary Allowance Market Linking Under a National Cap and Trade System Given Overlapping Regional Allowance and Electricity Markets." (with An T. Pham). Last updated March 2022.

“The Feasibility of Carbon Pricing within Regional Electricity Markets." (with An T. Pham and Mingsong Chen). 

“Should We Tax or Subsidize E-Cigarettes? Identifying the Optimal Price Instrument In the Presence of Dynamic Health Trade-offs." (with Kyle Rozema).

*** Works in Progress***

“Linking Housing and Automobile Purchase Decisions: Do Housing Supply Regulations Promote Green Cities?" (with Antonio M. Bento, Sanket Roy, and Edson Severnini).

“The Unintended Congestion Cost and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impacts of Solar Policies in California." (with Andrew R. Waxman and An T. Pham)

“Decentralized Policymaking when States can form Coalitions: How Does California’s Waiver Authority Affect Environmental Outcomes?" (with Antonio M. Bento and Daniel T. Kaffine).