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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
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
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
- Co-founded/Organized TWEEDS (The Workshop in Environmental Economics and Data Science)
- Co-founded/Organized OSWEET (Online Student Workshop in Environmental, Energy, and Transportation)
- Co-founded/Organized GoSee (Global Open Series in Environmental Economics)
- Co-organize applied microeconometrics workshop at UO
- Referee: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), American Economic Review: Insights (AERI), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (AEJ Policy), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE), Journal of Public Economics (JPubE), Economic Inquiry, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM), Land Economics, Resource and Energy Economics (REE), Energy Policy, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM), Water Economics and Policy (WEP), Nature Communications: Earth & Environment, Economics Letters
- Coordinated Environmental, Energy, and Resource Economics Seminar (UCB)
- Organized biweekly (twice per week) departmental lunches (UCB)
- Organized third-year research workshop (UCB)
- Organized departmental coffee hour (UCB)
- Mentored first-year graduate students (UCB)
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)