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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

Strategic Shutdowns of Air Quality Monitors: Evidence from Jersey City and Across the U.S.
Yingfei Mu, Edward Rubin, and Eric Zou. REStat (Accepted)

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

The strategic local geography of US electricity emissions
John Morehouse and Edward Rubin
Revise and resubmit, JAERE

Customer Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from Online Sales
Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, Edward Rubin, and Matthew Pecenco
Revise and resubmit, JOLE

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

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

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


Research in Progress

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

Perinatal health effects of herbicides: Glyphosate, Roundup, and the rollout of GM crops
Edward Rubin and Emmett Saulnier

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

STAT 380: Statistics and Applications

STAT 218: Introduction to Statistics


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

Perinatal health effects of herbicides: Glyphosate and the U.S. roll-out of GM crops
LEEP (University of Exeter), February 2024

Power Plants, Air Pollution, and Regulatory Rebound
EPIC Junior Workshop (University of Chicago), April 2023

Declining power-plant emissions, co-benefits, and regulatory rebound
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, November 2022

What’s missing in environmental (self-)monitoring? Evidence from strategic shutdowns of pollution monitors
Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, June 2022

Power Plants, Air Pollution, and Regulatory Rebound
Oregon State University, May 2022

Power Plants, Air Pollution, and Regulatory Rebound
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), April 2022

Power Plants, Air Pollution, and Regulatory Rebound
UC Berkeley ARE, April 2022

What’s missing in environmental (self-)monitoring? Evidence from strategic shutdowns of pollution monitors
CU Environmental & Resource Economics Workshop, October 2021

Pollution co-benefits and regulatory rebound
RFF/EPA, October 2021

What’s missing in environmental (self-)monitoring? Evidence from strategic shutdowns of pollution monitors
AERE Remote Conference, June 2021

Downwind and out: The Strategic dispersion of power plants and their pollution
AERE Remote Conference, June 2021

A retrospective analysis of indirect air-quality benefits from power-sector emissions reductions
RFF/EPA (Online), December 2020

Estimating and decomposing “the” elasticity of demand: Empirical and policy insights from 600 million natural gas bills
Duke Energy Data Analytics Symposium, December 2020

Mismeasurement in exposure and access: Insights from cellphone data
AERE Remote Conference, June 2020

Declining power-plant emissions, co-benefits, and regulatory rebound
ASSA Annual Meeting, January 2020

Mismeasurement in exposure and access: Insights from cellphone data
Western Economic Association Internation (WEAI) Annual Conference, June 2019

The economic impact of critical-habitat designation: Evidence from vacant-land transactions
The Occasional Workshop (UCSB), November 2018

Natural gas elasticities and optimal cost recovery under heterogeneity: Evidence from 300 million natural gas bills in California
World Congress of Environmental Economics (WCERE), June 2018

Is “Michelle” less productive than “Michael”? A field experiment on consumer-based gender discrimination in the marketplace
UC Berkeley, Computational Text Analysis Working Group, April 2018

Natural gas elasticities and optimal cost recovery under heterogeneity: Evidence from 300 million natural gas bills in California
University of Oregon, Economics, February 2018

Is “Michelle” less productive than “Michael”? A field experiment on consumer-based gender discrimination in the marketplace
IGC-PEDL Workshop at Oxford, December 2017

Natural gas elasticities and optimal cost recovery under heterogeneity: Evidence from 300 million natural gas bills in California
Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, September 2017

Is “Michelle” less productive than “Michael”? A field experiment on consumer-based gender discrimination in the marketplace
Berkeley Development Economics Lunch, September 2017

Natural gas elasticities and optimal cost recovery under heterogeneity: Evidence from 300 million natural gas bills in California
Camp Resources, August 2017

Natural gas elasticities and optimal cost recovery under heterogeneity: Evidence from 300 million natural gas bills in California
AAEA Annual Meeting, August 2017

Do marijuana stores increase or reduce neighborhood crime? Evidence from Denver, Colorado
UC Berkeley, Summer Research Seminar, July 2017

Natural gas elasticities and optimal cost recovery under heterogeneity: Evidence from 300 million natural gas bills in California
AERE Annual Summer Conference, June 2017

Summertime, and pass-through is easier: Chasing down price elasticities for residential natural gas demand in 275 million bills
22nd Annual POWER Conference on Energy Research and Policy, March 2017

Natural gas elasticities, seasonal heterogeneity, and consumer behavior: Evidence from 300M+ bills
UC Berkeley, Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, November 2016

(Mile-) High Quandaries: Evidence from Denver that Marijuana Legalization May Increase Drug Arrests
UC Berkeley, Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar, April 2015

Irrigation and Climatic Effects on Water Levels in the U.S. High Plains Aquifer Along the 41st Parallel in Nebraska (and Several Questions about Model Complexity)
University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Statistics Departmental Seminar, March 2013

Irrigation and Climatic Effects on Water Levels in the U.S. High Plains Aquifer
International Conference of Agricultural Economists, poster, August 2012


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