Recent publications
Department of Economics
2026
College Loans and Human Capital Investment
Chao Fu, Hsuan-Chih (Luke) Lin, and Atsuko Tanaka, International Economic Review
October 2026
Smooth Operator? Managing Electric Vehicle Integration in Constrained Distribution Networks
David Rapson and Blake Shaffer, Energy Journal
Online September 2026
Building a scalable climate coalition for heavy industry
Catherine Wolfram, Joseph Aldy, Candido Bracher, Gregory Casey, Vaibhav Chaturvedi, Kimberly Clausing, Carolyn Fischer, Christian Gollier, Allan Hsiao, Frank Jotzo, Marcelo Medeiros, Kyle Meng, Athiphat Muthitacharoen, Axel Ockenfels, Mari Pangestu, Marilyn Pereboom, Arathi Rao, Ivan Rudik, Daouda Sembene, Naomi Shimberg, E. Somanathan, Dustin Tingley, and Jennifer Winter, Science
September 2026
Heterogeneous (Mis)Perceptions of Energy Costs: Implications for Measurement and Policy Design
Sébastien Houde and Erica Myers, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
August 2026
Scalable Demand and Markups
Enghin Atalay, Erika Frost, Alan Sorensen, Christopher Sullivan, and Wanjia Zhu, Journal of Political Economy
August 2026
Distributed Backup Power and the Changing Economics of Grid Reliability
Sarah Johnston, Energy Journal
Online July 2026
On Measuring the Welfare Cost of Inflation
Apostolos Serletis and Libo Xu, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
June 2026
Is Free Trade Good for Renewable Resources? Brander and Taylor redux
M. Scott Taylor, Canadian Journal of Economics
June 2026
AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not human-only teams in assessing research reproducibility
Abel Brodeur, David Valenta, Alexandru Marcoci, et al. (including Lucija Muehlenbachs and Stefan Staubli), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
June 2026
Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research
Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook, et al. (including Leonard Goff, Lucija Muehlenbachs, and Stefan Staubli), Nature
April 2026
Aggregate productivity effect of labour and capital market distortions in Canada
Yu Chen and Trevor Tombe, Canadian Journal of Economics
February 2026
The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies
Sencer Karademir, Jean-William Laliberté, and Stefan Staubli, Journal of Labor Economics
January 2026
2025
Electric Vehicles and the Energy Transition: Unintended Consequences of Time-of-Use Pricing
Megan R. Bailey, David P. Brown, Erica Myers, Blake Shaffer, and Frank A. Wolak, American Economic Review: Insights
December 2025
Estimating Complementarity With Large Choice Sets: An Application to Mergers
Daniel Ershov, Jean-William Laliberté, Mathieu Marcoux, and Scott Orr, RAND Journal of Economics
December 2025
Moonshot: Public R&D and Growth
Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley, American Economic Review
September 2025
Frames, incentives, and education: Effectiveness of interventions to delay public pension claiming
Franca Glenzer, Pierre-Carl Michaud, and Stefan Staubli, Journal of Public Economics
August 2025
Healthcare utilization and labour market responses to health shocks
Hsuan-Chih (Luke) Lin, Atsuko Tanaka, Heng-Jui Chang, and Chih-Han Hsueh, Canadian Journal of Economics
August 2025
Food Transfers and Child Nutrition: Evidence from India's Public Distribution System
Aditya Shrinivas, Kathy Baylis, and Benjamin Crost, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
July 2025
Targeted policies to break the deadlock on heating bans
Ottmar Edenhofer, Andreas Gerster, Johannes Gessner, Erica Myers, Michael Pahle, and Karen Palmer, Nature Climate Change
June 2025
Show Me the Money! A Field Experiment on Electric Vehicle Charge Timing
Megan R. Bailey, David P. Brown, Blake Shaffer, and Frank A. Wolak, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
May 2025
Labor intensity, market structure, and the effect of economic activities on civil conflict
Benjamin Crost, Joseph H. Felter, and Yoko Yamasaki, Journal of Development Economics
May 2025
Interactions between Family and School Environments
Leonard Goff, Ofer Malamud, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Miguel Urquiola, Journal of Human Resources
May 2025
Regionalism and Tribal Insecurity in India
Sacha Kapoor and Arvind Magesan, Economic Development and Cultural Change
March 2025
Careers and Intergenerational Income Mobility
Catherine Haeck and Jean-William Laliberté, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
January 2025
2024
The value of electricity reliability: Evidence from battery adoption
David P. Brown and Lucija Muehlenbachs, Journal of Public Economics
November 2024
Oil Price Uncertainty and Consumer Sentiment in Advanced Economies
Nahiyan Faisal Azad and Apostolos Serletis, Energy Journal
November 2024
Electric Vehicle Subsidies and Urban Air Pollution Disparities
Irene Jacqz and Sarah Johnston, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
November 2024
Backup Power: Public Implications of Private Substitutes for Electric Grid Reliability
Paul A. Brehm, Sarah Johnston, and Ross Milton, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
November 2024
Economic potential of wind and solar in American Indian communities
Dominic P. Parker, Sarah Johnston, Bryan Leonard, Daniel Stewart, and Justin B. Winikoff, Nature Energy
November 2024
Research across multiple disciplines to respond to health shocks
Amitava Banerjee, Angela Coulter, Shifalika Goenka, Aidan Hollis, and Azeem Majeed, The BMJ
October 2024
How to spend one trillion dollars: the US decarbonization conundrum
Peter Christensen, Patrick Baylis, Teevrat Garg, Shanjun Li, Gordon C. McCord, Erich Muehlegger, Erica Myers, Emma Noble Smith, and David S. Rapson, Nature
October 2024
On the Economics of Extinction and Possible Mass Extinctions
M. Scott Taylor and Rolf Weder, Journal of Economic Perspectives
August 2024
Testing firm conduct
Marco Duarte, Lorenzo Magnolfi, Mikkel Sølvsten, and Christopher Sullivan, Quantitative Economics
July 2024
Energy efficiency can deliver for climate policy: Evidence from machine learning-based targeting
Peter Christensen, Paul Francisco, Erica Myers, Hansen Shao, and Mateus Souza, Journal of Public Economics
June 2024
Product Repositioning by Merging Firms
Enghin Atalay, Alan Sorensen, Christopher Sullivan, and Wanjia Zhu, Journal of Industrial Economics
June 2024
Efficiency and Incidence of Taxation with Free Entry and Love-of-Variety Preferences
Kory Kroft, Jean-William Laliberté, René Leal-Vizcaíno, and Matthew J. Notowidigdo, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
May 2024
The Rise of Urgent Care Centers: Implications for Competition and Access to Health Care
Lorenzo Magnolfi, Corina Mommaerts, Natalia Serna, and Christopher Sullivan, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
May 2024
A vector monotonicity assumption for multiple instruments
Leonard Goff, Journal of Econometrics
April 2024
Monotone equilibrium in matching markets with signaling
Seungjin Han, Alex Sam, and Youngki Shin, Journal of Economic Theory
March 2024
Addressing Environmental Justice through In-Kind Court Settlements
Pamela Campa and Lucija Muehlenbachs, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
February 2024
Designing Disability Insurance Reforms: Tightening Eligibility Rules or Reducing Benefits?
Andreas Haller, Stefan Staubli, Josef Zweimüller, Econometrica
January 2024
Salience and Taxation with Imperfect Competition
Kory Kroft, Jean-William Laliberté, René Leal-Vizcaíno, and Matthew J Notowidigdo, Review of Economic Studies
January 2024
Affirmative Action and Precollege Human Capital
Mitra Akhtari, Natalie Bau, and Jean-William Laliberté, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
January 2024
Wages as signals of worker mobility
Yu Chen, Matthew Doyle, and Francisco M. Gonzalez, Theoretical Economics
January 2024
2023
How Social Security Reform Affects Retirement and Pension Claiming
Rafael Lalive, Arvind Magesan, and Stefan Staubli, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
August 2023
The effects of labor market opportunities on education: The case of a female hiring ceiling in Iran
Safoura Moeeni and Atsuko Tanaka, Journal of Public Economics
August 2023
Decomposing the Wedge between Projected and Realized Returns in Energy Efficiency Programs
Peter Christensen, Paul Francisco, Erica Myers, and Mateus Souza, Review of Economics and Statistics
July 2023
Evaluating the impact of divestitures on competition: Evidence from Alberta’s wholesale electricity market
David P. Brown, Andrew Eckert, and Blake Shaffer, International Journal of Industrial Organization
July 2023
2022
Mandatory Energy Efficiency Disclosure in Housing Markets
Erica Myers, Steven L. Puller, and Jeremy West, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
November 2022
When does centralization undermine adaptation?
Shuo Liu and Dimitri Migrow, Journal of Economic Theory
October 2022
Pipes, Trains and Automobiles: Explaining British Columbia’s High Wholesale Gasoline Prices
G. Kent Fellows, Energy Journal
September 2022
Investment and Information Acquisition
Dimitri Migrow and Sergei Severinov, American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
August 2022
Asset integration and risk-taking in the laboratory
William G. Morrison and Robert J. Oxoby, Canadian Journal of Economics
August 2022
The Demand for Assets: Evidence from the Markov Switching Normalized Quadratic Model
Libo Xu and Apostolos Serletis, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
June 2022
Mechanism design with level-k types: Theory and an application to bilateral trade
Terri Kneeland, Journal of Economic Theory
April 2022
Cheap talk with private signal structures
Maxim Ivanov and Alex Sam, Games and Economic Behavior
March 2022
Sweating the energy bill: Extreme weather, poor households, and the energy spending gap
Jacqueline M. Doremus, Irene Jacqz, and Sarah Johnston, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
March 2022
2021
Designing communication hierarchies
Dimitri Migrow, Journal of Economic Theory
December 2021
Can community service grants foster social and economic integration for youth? A randomized trial in Kazakhstan
Syon P. Bhanot, Benjamin Crost, Jessica Leight, Eric Mvukiyehe, and Bauyrzhan Yedgenov, Journal of Development Economics
November 2021
Make electric vehicles lighter to maximize climate and safety benefits
Blake Shaffer, Maximilian Auffhammer, and Constantine Samaras, Nature
October 2021
Are consumers attentive to local energy costs? Evidence from the appliance market
Sébastien Houde and Erica Myers, Journal of Public Economics
September 2021
An Axiomatic Model of Persuasion
Alexander M. Jakobsen, Econometrica,
September 2021
Model Selection for Treatment Choice: Penalized Welfare Maximization
Eric Mbakop and Max Tabord‐Meehan, Econometrica
March 2021
2020
Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Games
When Players’ Beliefs Are Not in Equilibrium
Victor Aguirregabiria and Arvind Magesan, Review of Economic Studies
March 2020.
A Model of Complex Contracts
Alexander M. Jakobsen, American Economic Review
May 2020
2019
Research Proximity and Productivity
Long-Term Evidence from Agriculture
Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whalley, Journal of Political Economy
April 2019
Trade, Migration, and Productivity:
A Quantitative Analysis of China
Trevor Tombe and Xiaodong Zhu, American Economic Review
May 2019.