Donald Trump’s election and his nomination of Scott Pruitt, a climate skeptic, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency drastically…
The Paris Agreement has achieved one of two key necessary conditions for ultimate success – a broad base of participation among the…
Climate change is real and dangerous. Exactly how bad it will get, however, is uncertain. Uncertainty is particularly relevant for…
Direct experiences, we find, influence environmental risk beliefs more than the indirect experiences derived from outcomes to others. This…
Gasoline taxes can be employed to correct externalities associated with automobile use, to reduce dependency on foreign oil, and to raise…
Economic activity can damage natural systems and reduce the flow of ecosystem services. The harms can be substantial, as our case studies…
Federal, state, and local
governments use a variety of incentives to induce consumer adoption of
hybrid-electric vehicles. We study the…
We study the diffusion of hybrid vehicles among consumers. Using data on sales of 11 different models over seven years, we identify the…