Research

     My research covers topics in environmental economics, industrial organization, and applied microeconomics.

Published and Forthcoming Papers:

Acquisitions, Product Variety, and Distribution in the U.S. Craft Beer Industry (with Kyle Wilson), Economic Inquiry, 61(4), October 2023

Natural Gas Flaring, Respiratory Health, and Distributional Effects (with Anatolii Kokoza), Journal of Public Economics, 208, April 2022

Regulating Hazardous Wastes under U.S. Environmental Federalism: The Role of State Resources (with Mary F. Evans and Sarah L. Stafford), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 108, July 2021

Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations (with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Ashley Langer), American Economic Review, Vol. 110(8), August 2020 A problem set built off of this paper is available here

When Threats Become Credible: A Natural Experiment of Environmental Enforcement from Florida, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 101, May 2020 

Working Papers:

-Enforcing Regulation when Violations are Heterogeneous: Evidence from U.S. Emissions Policy (with Almira Salimgarieva), Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

-Households’ Short-run Heterogeneous Use of Electric Vehicles: Implications for Public Policy (with Clifford Winston and Wendan Zhang)

Work in Progress:

-Quantifying the Role of Midstream Congestion and Market Structure in Permian Flaring (with Mark Agerton, Ben Gilbert, and Gregory Upton)

-What Drives Acquisition in the U.S. Craft Beer Industry? (with Kyle Wilson)