Recent books and papers and other representative works
Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2023.
—American Library Association 2024 Choice selection and winner of 2024 Spengler Prize for best book of the year from the History of Economics Society.
“Capitalization as a Two-Part Tariff,” April 2026 (with K. Mangum).
“Valuing New Product and Policy Characteristics using a Simple Linear Program,” Jan. 2026.
Hell with the Lid Off: Racial Segregation and Environmental Equity in America’s Most Polluted City, NBER Working paper, April 2026 (with W. Mathews and R. Walsh).
Smoke from Factory Chimneys: The Applied Economics of Air Pollution in the Progressive Era, History of Political Economy, 2026 (with R. Walsh).
“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.
“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.
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