I study how consumers and firms respond to incentives and what this means for energy, environmental, and economic policy. My research examines the tensions in the energy transition between effective government intervention and the costs of poorly-designed policies.

Research Interests: Energy & Environmental Economics, Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics

Working Papers

  1. If You Build It, They May Not Come: Willingness to Participate in Managed EV Charging
    (with Fiona Burlig and James Bushnell)
  2. Clean Cars, Dirty Margins: Portfolio Leakage and Electric Vehicle Subsidies
    (with Teevrat Garg and Sebastian Tebbe)

Journal Publications

  1. Smooth Operator? Managing Electric Vehicle Integration in Constrained Distribution Networks
    (with Blake Shaffer)
    Energy Journal, forthcoming
  2. The Impact of the 2022 Oil Embargo and Price Cap on Russian Oil Prices
    (with Lutz Kilian and Burkhard Schipper)
    Energy Journal, forthcoming
    Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Blog Post
    Catherine Wolfram Critique
    Response to Catherine Wolfram Critique
  3. Energy Prices and Electric Vehicle Adoption
    (with James Bushnell and Erich Muehlegger)
    JPE Microeconomics, forthcoming
  4. Do Bill Shocks Induce Energy Efficiency Investments?
    (with Corey Lang, Kevin Nakolan, and Reid Taylor)
    Energy Journal, forthcoming
  5. How To Spend One Trillion Dollars: the U.S. Decarbonization Conundrum
    (with Peter Christensen, Patrick Baylis, Teevrat Garg, Shanjun Li, Gordon McCord, Erich Muehlegger, Erica Myers, and Emma Smith)
    Nature, 2024
  6. The Electric Ceiling: Limits and Costs of Full Electrification
    (with James Bushnell)
    Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2024
  7. The End of Neutrality? LCFS, Technology Neutrality, and the EV Market
    (with James Bushnell, Erich Muehlegger, and Julie Witcover)
    Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 2024
  8. Global Transportation Decarbonization
    (with Erich Muehlegger)
    Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023
  9. The Economics of Electric Vehicles
    (with Erich Muehlegger)
    Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2023
  10. Correcting Estimates of Electric Vehicle Emissions Abatement
    (with Erich Muehlegger)
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2022
  11. Subsidizing Low- and Middle-Income Adoption of Electric Vehicles
    (with Erich Muehlegger)
    Journal of Public Economics, 2022
  12. Low Energy: Estimating Electric Vehicle Electricity Use
    (with Fiona Burlig, James Bushnell, and Catherine Wolfram)
    AEA Papers & Proceedings, 2021
  13. Future Paths of Electric Vehicle Adoption in the United States
    (with James Archsmith and Erich Muehlegger)
    Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 2021
  14. Estimating the Elasticity to Real Time Pricing
    (with Natalia Fabra, Mar Reguant, and Jingyuan Wang)
    AEA Papers & Proceedings, 2021
  15. Machine Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency
    (with Fiona Burlig, Christopher Knittel, Mar Reguant, and Catherine Wolfram)
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020
  16. Utilities Included: Split Incentives in Commercial Electricity Contracts
    (with Maya Papineau and Katrina Jessoe)
    Energy Journal, 2020
  17. Attribute Substitution in Household Vehicle Portfolios
    (with James Archsmith, Kenneth Gillingham, and Christopher Knittel)
    RAND Journal of Economics, 2020
  18. Does Absolution Promote Sin? A Conservationist's Dilemma
    (with Matthew Harding)
    Environmental and Resource Economics, 2019
  19. Regression Discontinuity in Time: Considerations for Empirical Applications
    (with Catherine Hausman)
    Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2018
  20. Flawed Analysis of U.S. Auto Fuel Economy Standards
    (with A. Bento, K. Gillingham, M. Jacobsen, C. Knittel, B. Leard, J. Linn, V. McConnell, J. Sallee, A. van Benthem and K. Whitefoot)
    Science, 2018
  21. The Rebound Effect and Energy Efficiency Policy
    (with Kenneth Gillingham and Gernot Wagner)
    Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2016
  22. From Cradle to Junkyard: Assessing the Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Benefits of Electric Vehicles
    (with James Archsmith and Alissa Kendall)
    Research in Transportation Economics, 2015
  23. Commercial and Industrial Demand Response Under Mandatory Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing
    (with Katrina Jessoe)
    Journal of Industrial Economics, 2015
  24. Knowledge is (Less) Power: Experimental Evidence from Residential Energy Use
    (with Katrina Jessoe)
    American Economic Review, 2014
  25. Durable Goods and Long-Run Electricity Demand: Evidence from Air Conditioner Purchase Behavior
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2014
  26. Towards Understanding the Role of Price in Residential Energy Choices: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
    (with Katrina Jessoe and Jeremy Smith)
    Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2014
  27. The Rebound Effect is Overplayed
    (with Kenneth Gillingham and Gernot Wagner)
    Nature, 2013
  28. Internet and the Efficiency of Decentralized Markets: Evidence from Automobiles
    (with Pasquale Schiraldi)
    Economics Letters, 2013
  29. Split Incentives in Residential Energy Consumption
    (with Kenneth Gillingham and Matthew Harding)
    Energy Journal, 2012
  30. Does it pay, at the margin, to work and save? Measuring the effective marginal taxes on Americans’ labor supply and savings
    (with Laurence Kotlikoff)
    Tax Policy and the Economy, 2007

Book Chapters

  1. Utilization and Customer Behavior: Smart Choices for the Smart Grid
    (with Katrina Jessoe and Jeremy Smith)
    Smart Grid Handbook, John Wiley & Sons, 2016
  2. Would the Fair Tax raise or lower marginal and average tax rates?
    (with Laurence Kotlikoff in J. Diamond and G. Zodrow, eds.)
    Fundamental Tax Reform: Issues, Choices, and Implications, MIT Press, 2008