Biography
In July, 2017 I joined the Department of Engineering and Public Policy and the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University as the Lester and Judith Lave Associate Professor of Economics, Engineering, and Public Policy. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, I was on the faculty at
Middlebury College since the fall of 2007. I am a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Environment and Energy Economics program and the Conference on Research in Income and Wealth. I teach
microeconomics, environmental and natural resource economics, and energy policy.
Broadly, my research focuses on measuring air pollution damage and
market-based policy design. My current work focuses on: renewable energy systems, estimating air pollution and greenhouse gas damage from economic activity, the relationship between financial performance of companies and their measurable environmental performance, air pollution policy and municipal finance systems, and the use of distributional weights in benefit-cost analysis. I
have published papers in general interest and field journals in economics as well as general interest and applied natural science journals.