Publications
“Resource Revenue Sharing Agreements,” with Abena Boafoa Darkwah and Laurel Wheeler—accepted, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de politiques
“Reproducibility and Robustness of Economics and Political Science Research,” 2026, (with A. Brodeur, D. Mikola, N. Cook, and many others), Nature, 652: 151–156.
AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility in quantitative social science (with A. Brodeur, D. Valenta, A. Marcoci, J.P. Aparicio, D. Mikola, B. Barbarioli, R. Alexander, L. Deer, T. Stafford, L. Villhuber, G. Bensch, et al.), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 123, no. 22 (2026)
Brown, D., and L. Muehlenbachs, "The Value of Electricity Reliability: Evidence from Battery Adoption" Journal of Public Economics, 2024.
Bakkensen, L., L. Ma, L. Muehlenbachs, and L. Benitez, “Cumulative Impacts in Environmental Justice: Insights from Economics and Policy,” Regional Science and Urban Economics, Special Issue on Urban Economics and the Environment, 2024.
Campa, P., and L. Muehlenbachs, "Addressing Environmental Justice through In-Kind Court Settlements," American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2024.
Muehlenbachs, L., S. Staubli and, Z. Chu, 2021. "The Accident Externality from Trucking: Evidence from Shale Gas Development," Regional Science and Urban Economics.
Swiedler, E., L. Muehlenbachs, Z. Chu, J. Shih, A. Krupnick, 2019, "Should Solid Waste from Shale Gas Development be Regulated as Hazardous Waste?" Energy Policy, 129:1020-1033
Hausman, C. and L. Muehlenbachs, 2019, “Price Regulation and Environmental Externalities: Evidence from Methane Leaks,” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 6(1): 73-109.
Linn, J. and L. Muehlenbachs, 2018, "The Heterogeneous Impacts of Low Natural Gas Prices on Consumers and the Environment," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 89: 1-28.
Ho, J, A., Krupnick, L. Muehlenbachs, C. Munnings, and J. Shih, 2018, "Managing Environmental Liability: An Evaluation of Bonding Requirements for Oil and Gas Wells in the United States," Environmental Science & Technology, 52(7): 3908-3916.
Muehlenbachs, L., Staubli, S., and M.A. Cohen. 2016. “The Impact of Team Inspections on Enforcement and Deterrence,” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 3(1): 159-204.
Muehlenbachs, L., E. Spiller, and C. Timmins. 2015. “The Housing Market Impacts of Shale Gas Development,” American Economic Review, 105(12): 3633-59.
Shih, J., Saiers, J.E., Anisfeld, S.C., Chu, Z., Muehlenbachs, L., and Olmstead, S. 2015. "Characterization and analysis of liquid waste from Marcellus Shale gas development," Environmental Science & Technology, 49(16): 9557–9565.
Muehlenbachs, L. 2015. “A Dynamic Model of Cleanup: Estimating Sunk Costs in Oil and Gas Production,” International Economic Review, 56(1): 155-185.
Mason, C., L. Muehlenbachs, and Olmstead, S. 2015. "The Economics of Shale Gas Development," Annual Review of Resource Economics, 7(1).
Graham, J., X. Tang, J. Irving, S. Sellers, J. Crisp, D. Horwitz, D. Carey, L. Muehlenbachs, A. Krupnick. 2015. "Increased Traffic Accident Rates Associated with Shale Gas Drilling in Pennsylvania," Accident Analysis & Prevention, 74: 203-209.
Olmstead, S., L. Muehlenbachs, J. Shih, J. Chu, and A. Krupnick. 2013. “Shale Gas Development Impacts on Surface Water Quality in Pennsylvania.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110 (13):4962−4967.
Muehlenbachs, L. M.A., Cohen, and T. Gerarden. 2013. “The Impact of Water Depth on Safety and Environmental Performance in Offshore Oil and Gas Production.” Energy Policy, 55: 699-705.
Alberini, A., A. Chiabai, and L. Muehlenbachs. 2006. “Using Expert Judgement to Assess Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change: Evidence from a Conjoint Choice Survey.” Global Environmental Change, 16: 123–144.
Work in Progress
“Draining Across Borders: How Common Pools Fuel Inequality,” with Laurel Wheeler
“Cleaning up the legacy of oil and gas on First Nations lands,” with Ipek Tastan and Laurel Wheeler
“Are ‘Killer Trees’ Helpful for Understanding the Effects of the NOx Budget Program?” with Isaiah Bryant-Sheth, Sagbo Anicet Hounton, and Lala Ma, revise and resubmit, Journal of Public Economics
Permanent Working Papers
Muehlenbachs, L., E. Spiller, and C. Timmins, “Shale Gas Development and Property Values: Differences across Drinking Water Sources,” NBER Working Paper No. 18390.
Muehlenbachs, L., E. Newcomb-Sinha and N. Sinha, “Politics and the Strategic Release of News at the EPA,” RFF Discussion Paper 11-45.
Other Publications
Hallak, A., Jensen, A., Lybbert, G. and Muehlenbachs, L., 2021. "The Oil Production Response to Alberta’s Government-Mandated Quota." University of Calgary, School of Public Policy Publications.
Muehlenbachs, L. "80,000 Inactive Oil Wells: A Blessing or a Curse?" University of Calgary School of Public Policy SPP Briefing Paper, 10(3), 2017.
Muehlenbachs, L. and S. Olmstead, "Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Resources," 2014, Choices