Recent books and papers and other representative works
Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Hell with the Lid Off: Racial Segregation and Environmental Equity in America’s Most Polluted City, NBER Working paper, Sept. 2024 (with W. Mathews and R. Walsh).
Smoke from Factory Chimneys: The Applied Economics of Air Pollution in the Progressive Era, NBER Working Paper, April 2024 (with R. Walsh).
“Valuing New Product and Policy Characteristics using a Simple Linear Program,” March 2024.
“Nonparametric Tests of the Tragedy of the Commons,” Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024 (with Y. Liu, F. Asche, and M. Smith).
“Impact of in utero airborne lead exposure on long-run adult socio-economic outcomes: a population analysis using U.S. survey and administrative data,” PLOS ONE, 2023.
“Distribution and Disputation: Net Benefits, Equity, and Public Decision Making,” Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2023.
“The Value of Statistical Life: A Meta-analysis of Meta-analyses,” Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2022.
This paper synthesis US government agencies’ VSL meta-analyses. Please contact me to obtain STATA code that easily allows users to adjust subjective weights, discount rates, and income elasticities.
“Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff,” March 2019 (with K. Mangum). Updated September 2024 (please contact me for a draft).
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