Research
Vita
Teaching and Advising
Research
My research focuses on the effects of taxes and environmental
policy. It is mostly applied theory, with some empirical and
computational work. I have a definite
preference for normative topics (for non-economists, this means
that I'm more interested in what government policy ought to be than in
what its effects are, though obviously one needs to know the answer to
that second question in order to answer the first).
I'm also a co-editor of the Journal
of Environmental Economics and Management, an associate editor of
the Journal
of Public Economics, and a member of the editorial board of the Berkeley Journals in Economic
Analysis and Policy.
During fall 2008, I'm teaching graduate public economics and
an undergraduate "signature course" titled "Environmental Economics for
Non-Economists." For spring 2009, I'm scheduled to teach graduate
natural resource economics and to supervise a graduate writing seminar
in public and
environmental
economics.
In the
past, I have also taught undergrad public economics and
intermediate microeconomics (undergrad).
I am the faculty advisor for the Texas
Economics Association.
In Fall 2007, I did a talk for UT's Odyssey Program
on the economics of global climate change. Click here for a copy of my
PowerPoint slides from that talk.
I'm the dissertation supervisor or co-supervisor for four Ph.D.
students who are on the job market this year: R. J. Briggs, Jason Debacker, Sanghyun Hwang, and Kadir Nagac.