Publications
Journal Articles
Becker, Randy A. “Water Use and Conservation in Manufacturing: Evidence from U.S. Microdata,” Water Resources Management, 30(12), 4185-4200, September 2016.
Becker, Randy A., Carl Pasurka Jr., and Ronald J. Shadbegian, “Do Environmental Regulations Disproportionately Affect Small Businesses? Evidence from the Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures Survey,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 66(3), 523-538, November 2013.
Becker, Randy A. “Local Environmental Regulation and Plant-level Productivity,” Ecological Economics, 70(12), 2516-2522, October 2011.
Becker, Randy A. “On Spatial Heterogeneity in Environmental Compliance Costs,” Land Economics, 87(1), 28-44, February 2011.
Becker, Randy A. and Ronald J. Shadbegian, “Environmental Products Manufacturing: A Look Inside the Green Industry,” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 9(1), Topics, Article 7, March 2009.
Becker, Randy A. and Ronald J. Shadbegian, “A Change of PACE: Comparing the 1994 and 1999 Pollution Abatement Costs and Expenditures Surveys,” Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 30(1), 63-95, December 2005.
Becker, Randy A. “Air Pollution Abatement Costs under the Clean Air Act: Evidence from the PACE Survey,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 50(1), 144-169, July 2005.
Becker, Randy A. “Pollution Abatement Expenditure by U.S. Manufacturing Plants: Do Community Characteristics Matter?” Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy, 3(2), Article 6, December 2004.
Reprinted in The Economics of Pollution Havens, Don Fullerton (ed.), New Horizons in Environmental Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006.
Henderson, Vernon, and Randy Becker, “Political Economy of City Sizes and Formation,” Journal of Urban Economics, 48(3), 453-484, November 2000.
Reprinted in Recent Developments in Urban and Regional Economics, Paul C. Cheshire and Gilles Duranton (eds.), The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.
Reprinted in New Economic Geography, J. Vernon Henderson (ed.), The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005.
Becker, Randy, and Vernon Henderson, “Effects of Air Quality Regulations on Polluting Industries,” Journal of Political Economy, 108(2), 379-421, April 2000.
Reprinted in Recent Developments in Trade and the Environment, Brian R. Copeland (ed.), The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2014.
Reprinted in Economic Costs and Consequences of Environmental Regulation, Wayne B. Gray (ed.), The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy, Ashgate Publishing, 2002.
Book Chapters
Becker, Randy A. “Measuring Pollution Abatement Expenditures: The U.S. Experience” (translated into Spanish), in La Estadística Ambiental en México [Environmental Statistics in Mexico], Alfonso Mercado García and Carlos Roberto López Pérez (eds.), El Colegio de México, 2014.
Becker, Randy A., John Haltiwanger, Ron S. Jarmin, Shawn D. Klimek, and Daniel J. Wilson, “Micro and Macro Data Integration: The Case of Capital,” in A New Architecture for the U.S. National Accounts, Dale W. Jorgenson, J. Steven Landefeld, and William D. Nordhaus (eds.), National Bureau of Economic Research and The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Becker, Randy A. and J. Vernon Henderson, “Costs of Air Quality Regulation,” in Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy, Carlo Carraro and Gilbert E. Metcalf (eds.), National Bureau of Economic Research and The University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Becker, Randy, and Vernon Henderson, “Intra-Industry Specialization and Urban Development,” in Economics of Cities: Theoretical Perspectives, Jean-Marie Huriot and Jacques-François Thisse (eds.), Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Other Publications
Becker, Randy A. Comment on Sequence A009994, The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, December 2017. Available at: oeis.org/A009994
Becker, Randy A. “Researching Water Use in U.S. Manufacturing and Mining,” Global Water Forum, October 2016.
Becker, Randy A. and Ronald J. Shadbegian, “Issues and Challenges in Measuring Environmental Expenditures by U.S. Manufacturing: The Redevelopment of the PACE Survey,” in Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Establishment Surveys (ICES-III), pp. 1361-1372, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 2007.
Becker, Randy, Joel Elvery, Lucia Foster, C.J. Krizan, Sang Nguyen, and Dave Talan, “A Comparison of the Business Registers Used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Bureau of the Census,” in 2005 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Business and Economic Statistics Section, pp. 781-787, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association, 2006.
Becker, Randy A. “Comments on Enforcement Issues,” in Proceedings of Conference on Corporate Environmental Behavior and the Effectiveness of Government Interventions, Section I, pp. 114-126, Washington, DC: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2004.
Becker, Randy A. The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Firm Behavior. Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Economics, Brown University, 1998. (UMI/Proquest #9830407)
Becker, Randy, and Vernon Henderson, “Births, Survival, and Investment in the Chemical Industry under Air Quality Regulation,” in 1996 Proceedings of the Eighty-Ninth Annual Conference on Taxation, pp. 182-189, Washington, DC: National Tax Association, 1997.
Selected Working Papers
Basker, Emek, Randy A. Becker, Lucia Foster, T. Kirk White, and Alice Zawacki. “Addressing Data Gaps: Four New Lines of Inquiry in the 2017 Economic Census,” Center for Economic Studies Discussion Paper, 19-28, September 2019.
Becker, Randy A. and Cheryl A. Grim, “Newly Recovered Microdata on U.S. Manufacturing Plants from the 1950s and 1960s: Some Early Glimpses,” Center for Economic Studies Discussion Paper, 11-29, September 2011.
Becker, Randy A. “County Coding in the Annual Survey of Manufactures of the 1950s,” Center for Economic Studies Technical Note, 09-01, August 2009.