Working Papers
“Induced Innovation, Inventors, and the Energy Transition” with Eugenie Dugoua [NBER working paper] [online appendix]
Conditionally accepted at American Economic Review: Insights
Selected Work in Progress
“Strategic Avoidance and Welfare Impacts of Solar Panel Tariffs” with Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth Gillingham, Drew Vollmer, and Daniel Xu
“How DOEs Government Funding Fuel Scientists?” with Eugenie Dugoua, Kyle Myers, and Jacquelyn Pless
Published and Accepted Work
Demanding Innovation: The Impact of Consumer Subsidies on Solar Panel Production Costs. Management Science 69(12): 7799-7820. [ungated version] [ungated online appendix] [code]
Investment versus Output Subsidies: Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Energy, with Joseph E. Aldy and Richard L. Sweeney. 2023. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 10(4): 981-1018. [ungated version] [code]
Using Targeting to Optimize Program Design: Evidence from an Energy Conservation Experiment, with Muxi Yang. 2023. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 10(3): 687-716. [ungated version] [code]
Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies, with W. Spencer Reeder and James H. Stock. 2020. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 12(1): 167-99. [code]
The Effects of Fuel Prices, Environmental Regulations, and Other Factors on U.S. Coal Production, 2008-2016, with John Coglianese and James H. Stock. 2020. The Energy Journal 41(1): 55-81.
Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap, with Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins. 2017. Journal of Economic Literature 55(4): 1486-525.
Is Energy Efficiency Capitalized into Home Prices? Evidence from Three U.S. Cities, with Margaret Walls, Karen L. Palmer, and Xian Fang Bak. 2017. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 82: 104-124.
Deconstructing the Energy-Efficiency Gap: Conceptual Frameworks and Evidence, with Richard G. Newell and Robert N. Stavins. 2015. American Economic Review: Papers & Proceedings 105(5): 183-86.
Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Information Gap: Results from a Survey of Home Energy Auditors, with Karen L. Palmer, Margaret Walls, and Hal Gordon. 2013. Energy Efficiency 6(2): 271-92.
The Impact of Water Depth on Safety and Environmental Performance in Offshore Oil and Gas Production, with Lucija Muehlenbachs and Mark A. Cohen. 2013. Energy Policy 55: 699-705.