Edward A. Rubin, CV

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Academic positions

Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, Department of Economics, 2018–present

Education

B.S. Mathematics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2007
M.S. Agricultural Economics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2013
M.S. Statistics, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 2013
M.S. Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, 2015
Ph.D. Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, 2018
Committee: Maximilian Auffhammer, Meredith Fowlie, Reed Walker

Primary interests: Environmental & Energy Economics, Applied Econometrics & Data Science, Inequality & Public Policy
Secondary interests: Health Economics, Development Economics, Criminal Justice

Publications

The strategic local geography of US electricity emissions
John Morehouse and Edward Rubin
Conditionally accepted, JAERE

Customer Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from Online Sales
Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, Edward Rubin, and Matthew Pecenco. 2026 (Forthcoming). Journal of Labor Economics.

Strategic Shutdowns of Air Quality Monitors: Evidence from Jersey City and Across the U.S.
Yingfei Mu, Edward Rubin, and Eric Zou. (Forthcoming). The Review of Economics and Statistics.

Quantifying heterogeneity in the price elasticity of residential natural gas
Edward Rubin and Maximilian Auffhammer. 2024 (Forthcoming). Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

The Economic Impact of Critical Habitat Designation: Evidence from Vacant-Land Transactions
Maximilian Auffhammer, Maya Duru, Edward Rubin, and David L. Sunding. 2020. Land Economics, 96(2), 188–206.

Bringing Satellite-Based Air-Quality Estimates Down to Earth
Meredith Fowlie, Edward Rubin, and Reed Walker. 2019. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109: 283-88.

(Book) Data Science for Public Policy
Jeffrey Chen, Edward Rubin, and Gary Cornwall. 2021. Springer

Working papers

Glyphosate exposure and GM seed rollout unequally reduced perinatal health
Edward Rubin and Emmett Saulnier
Revise and resubmit (resubmitted), PNAS

When we change the clock, does the clock change us?
Patrick Baylis, Severin Borenstein, and Edward Rubin

Unequal avoidance: Disparities in smoke-induced out-migration
M. Steven Holloway and Edward Rubin

What can we machine learn (too much of) in 2SLS? Insights from a bias decomposition
Connor Lennon, Edward Rubin, and Glen Waddell

Research in progress

Declining power-plant emissions, co-benefits, and regulatory rebound
Meredith Fowlie, Edward Rubin, and Catherine Wright

Environmental prediction for diverse policy contexts
Andrew Dickinson and Edward Rubin

Are our hopes too high? Testing cannabis legalization’s potential to reduce criminalization
Edward Rubin

Do aerially applied pesticides affect local air quality? Empirical evidence from California’s San Joaquin Valley
Edward Rubin

The paradoxical demand for guns
Katie Bollman, Benjamin Hansen, Edward Rubin, and Garrett Stanford

Correlated exposures
Pilar Mullican and Edward Rubin

Mismeasurement in exposure and access: Insights from cellphone data
Edward Rubin

Interactions between measurement error and policy
Edward Rubin

How salient are environmental risks? The short- and long-run effects of lead exposure in piped water
Edward Rubin

Teaching

EC607: Econometrics (III): Causal inference

EC524: Econometrics (II): Prediction and machine learning

EC421: Introduction to Econometrics (II)

ARE 212: Econometrics - Multiple Equation Estimation

  • University of California, Berkeley: Spring 2017, Spring 2018
  • Doctoral level: taught recitation section and built section website/notes

STAT 380: Statistics and Applications

  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln: Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013
  • Undergraduate level: sole instructor for the course

STAT 218: Introduction to Statistics

  • University of Nebraska–Lincoln: Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2011
  • Undergraduate level: sole instructor for the course

Honors, awards, and fellowships

EPA: A Retrospective Analysis of Indirect Air Quality Benefits from Power-Sector Emissions Reductions, 2021

Sloan Foundation (for TWEEDS), 2020–2022

University of Oregon Data-Science Initiative Seed Funding, 2019–2020

University of Oregon Program Grant, Fall 2019

EPA EmPOWER Air Data Challenge Winner, 2019–2020
with Meredith Fowlie

Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Exploratory Research Grant, 2018–2019
with Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, and Matthew Pecenco

Outstanding Graduate-Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, 2018

Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) Exploratory Research Grant, 2017–2018
with Erin Kelley and Matthew Pecenco

Giannini Foundation Mini-Grant, 2017–2018
with Maximilian Auffhammer

UC Berkeley ARE Summer Grant, 2016

GAANN Fellowship 2013–2015

Presentations

2024: LEEP (University of Exeter), UCSB Bren, AERE Annual Summer Conference, OSU Policy, EAERE Summer School, Toulouse School of Economics, Paris School of Economics

2023: EPIC Junior Workshop (UChicago)

2022: UC Berkeley ARE, GRIPS, Oregon State, EAERE Annual Conference, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

2021: AERE Remote Conference, RFF/EPA, CU Environmental & Resource Economics Workshop

2020: ASSA Annual Meeting, AERE Remote Conference, Duke Energy Data Analytics Symposium, RFF/EPA

2019: Western Economic Association Internation (WEAI) Annual Conference

2018: The Occasional Workshop; World Congress of Environmental Economics (WCERE); UC Berkeley, Computational Text Analysis Working Group; University of Oregon, Economics

2017: IGC-PEDL Workshop at Oxford; Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop; Berkeley Development Economics Lunch; Camp Resources; AAEA Annual Meeting; UC Berkeley, Summer Econ. Research Seminar; AERE Annual Summer Conference; 22nd Annual POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy

2016: UC Berkeley, Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar

2015: UC Berkeley, Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar

2013: University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Statistics Departmental Seminar

2012: International Conference of Agricultural Economists (poster)

Academic service

Advising

  • PhD committee chair Andrew Dickinson (co-chair; in-progress) Mary Kopriva (Wade) (co-chair); Connor Lennon (co-chair); Emmett (Reynier; in-progress); Garrett Stanford (chair)
  • PhD dissertation committee Claire Lepault (Paris School of Economics); Steven (Marcus) Holloway; Sichao Jiang; Woocheol Kim (Marketing); Robert McDonough; Max Mindock; John Morehouse; Jenni Putz; Meysam Rabiee (Operations and Analytics); Steven Walton (Computer Science; in-progress); Kyle Wilson; Micaela Wood (in-progress)
  • Masters Pilar Mullican
  • Undergraduate Joseph Andersen (department; advisor), Zoë Arnaut (honors; reader); Eleanor Franks (honors; reader); Kara Krnacik (honors; chair); Aidan Pott (honors; chair)

Additional

Skills

Computation

  • Computing: R, Python, Stata, Julia, QGIS, MATLAB, Mathematica, SAS
  • Design: LaTeX, Markdown, Adobe Suite Design Suite, Microsoft Suite

Linguistic

  • English (fluent)
  • Spanish (conversational)

Contact



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