Economists have long noted that improving energy efficiency could lead to a rebound effect,
reducing or possibly even eliminating the energy savings from the efficiency improvement. …

This study documents how the changing legal status of marijuana has impacted mortality in
the United States over the past two decades. We use a difference‐in‐difference approach to …

There is extensive research documenting the economic consequences of climate change,
yet our understanding of climate impacts on nonmarket activities remains incomplete. Here, …

Cap-and-trade programs are designed to minimize the overall cost of pollution control by
effectively allowing firms with low abatement costs to reduce emissions on behalf of those with …

Environmental policies often regulate energy-using durable goods rather than targeting
externalities directly. How should such indirect policies be set? In this paper, we model the …

Credibly estimating social-ecological relationships requires data with broad coverage and
fine geographic resolutions that are not typically available from standard ecological surveys. …

This article highlights some ways in which scholarly work in environmental and natural
resource economics may be affected by, and may unintentionally further, racial inequity. We …

This paper provides a general framework for understanding consumer behavior related to
goods and services that may be considered environmentally friendly, ethically produced, fairly …

How do consumers value conformity, and what are the implications for conservation policy?
In this article, we study conformity in homeowners’ landscaping choices—which have …

This paper develops a new approach for estimating willingness to pay (WTP) for public goods
using referendum voting data, and we demonstrate the approach by applying it to a series …