My research is on the economics of climate policy and air quality regulation, with a special emphasis on equity.
I am Assistant Professor at ESSEC Business School, visiting fellow at the London School of Economics Grantham Research Institute and research affiliate of the CESifo Network.
Working Papers
Global Air Quality Inequality over 2000-2020.CESifo WP 11210, July 2024. (earlier version: arXiv preprint 2307.15669, 2023) R&R, JEEMWorking Papers
The Economics of Inequality and the Environment with Moritz Drupp, Ulrike Kornek, Jasper Meya.CESifo WP 11036, April 2024. R&R, Journal of Economic Literature
Clean Identification? The Effects of the Clean Air Act on Air Pollution, Exposure Disparities and House Prices. with Gregor Singer.LSE GRI WP 376, May 2022. Forthcoming, American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyMedia: EarthBeat
Journal Articles
Air Pollution and Respiratory Infectious Diseases. with Sandro Provenzano, Sefi Roth.Environmental and Resource Economics, 87, 1127-1139, 2024. [IZA WP]Journal Articles
The Global Consumer Incidence of Carbon Pricing: Evidence from Trade.Energy Economics, 127, 107101, 2023. [preprint]
Who Values Future Energy Savings? Evidence from American Drivers. with Arik LevinsonJournal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 10(3), 2023. [NBER WP] [preprint] [Dataverse]
Inequality and the Environment: An Introduction to the Special Issue. with Moritz Drupp, Jasper Meya, Martin Quaas
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 119, 102812, 2023. (guest editorial)
How trade policy can support the climate agenda. with Michael Jakob et al.
Science, 376(6600), 1401-1403, 2022.
Highly unequal carbon footprints.
Nature Sustainability, 5, 912-913, 2022. (invited comment) [free read] Media: Deutschlandfunk, Dlf Forschung Aktuell
Crime is in the Air: The Contemporaneous Relationship between Air Pollution and Crime. with Malvina Bondy, Sefi Roth
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 7(3), 2020. [IZA DP] [preprint] [Dataverse]Media: Washington Post, The Independent, iNews, Economic Times, WSJ Real Time Economics, Bloomberg, WEF, BBC, Probable Causation.
Estimating the Effect of Air Pollution on Road Safety using Atmospheric Temperature Inversions.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 98, 2019. [preprint] Media: Financial Times, The Times, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Economic Times, The Hindu, BBC Radio 4.
Inequality and Carbon Consumption: Evidence from Environmental Engel Curves.
Energy Economics, 84, 2019. [preprint] [Data Appendix]Media: BusinessGreen
Residential Segregation and Socioeconomic Neighbourhood Sorting: Evidence at the Micro-neighbourhood Level for Migrant Groups in Germany.
Urban Studies, 49(12), 2617-2632, 2012.
Book Chapters, Reports
Distributional Effects of Environmental Trade Measures. Book Chapters, Reports
Handbook on Trade Policy and Climate Change, (ed. Jakob, M.), Edward Elgar, 2022. [preprint]
Antworten auf zentrale Fragen zur Einführung von CO2-Preisen. with Linus Mattauch et al.
Scientists for Future, Diskussionsbeiträge 3: 1–41, 2020.
Opinion Pieces, Commentary
The benefits of Clean Air Act regulations need to be measured carefully. with Gregor SingerOpinion Pieces, Commentary
VoxEU, May 2022
Umweltpolitik muss Verteilungsfragen berücksichtigen, ohne das eigentliche Ziel aus den Augen zu verlieren. with M. Drupp, U. Kornek, J. Meya
Ökonomenstimme.org, April 2022
The Growing Role of Inequality in Environmental Policy.
EAERE Magazine, no.11 Winter 2021
Drivers who spend too much on fuel efficiency. with Arik Levinson
VoxEU, January 2021
Why Germany should introduce an ambitious carbon price. with Simon Dietz, Tobias Kruse, Isabella Neuweg
LSE Grantham Research Institute, Commentary, 2019