Readings and Publications

This site includes readings that can be assigned to students. Click on each category to find relevant papers associated with that topic.

General

The Economics of Inequality and the Environment

Journal of Economic Literature, 2025.
Moritz A. Drupp, Ulrike Kornek, Jasper N. Meya, and Lutz Sager

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Systemic Racism

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2023.
Amy Ando, Titus Awokuse, Nathan Chan, Jimena-González-Ramírez, Sumeet Gulati, Matthew Interis, Sarah Jacobson, Dale Manning, and Samuel Stolper

Benefit/Cost Analysis

The Use of Distributional Weights in Benefit–Cost Analysis: Insights from Welfare Economics

Review of Environmnental Economics and Policy, 2016.
Marc Fleurbaey and Rossi Abi-Rafeh

Climate Change

Inequality Aversion for Climate Policy

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2024.
Stellio Del Campo, David Anthoff, and Ulrike Kornek

Economists and the climate

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2024.
Thomas Sterner, Jens Ewald, and Erik Sterner

Efficiency, Market Failure, and Market Solutions

California’s GHG Cap-and-Trade Program and the Equity of Air Toxic Releases

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2024.
Glenn Sheriff

Do environmental markets cause environmental injustice? Evidence from California’s carbon market

Journal of Public Economics, 2023.
Danae Hernandez-Cortes and Kyle C. Meng

Alternatives to the scarcity principle

The Journal of Economic Education, 2022.
William Darity

The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons

Scientific American, 2019.
Matto Mildenberger; edited by Michael D. Lemonick

Who Wins from Emissions Trading? Evidence from California

Environmental and Resource Economics , 2017.
Corbett Grainger and Thanicha Ruangmas

The ethics of carbon offsetting

WIREs Climate Change , 2013.
Keith Hyams and Tina Fawcett

What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California’s NOx Trading Program

American Economic Review, 2012.
Meredith Fowlie, Stephen P. Holland, and Erin T. Mansur

The Equity-Efficiency Trade-off in Environmental Policy: Evidence from Stated Preferences

Land Economics, 2010.
Simon Dietz and Giles Atkinson

Energy

Climate Change and Energy Insecurity: A Growing Need for Policy Intervention

Environmental Justice, 2024.
Michelle Graff, David M. Konisky, Sanya Carley, and Trevor Memmott

Who Will Pay for Legacy Utility Costs?

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2022.
Lucas W. Davis and Catherine Hausman

Targeting energy justice: Exploring spatial, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in urban residential heating energy efficiency

Energy Policy, 2016.
Tony Gerard Reames

Environmental Justice

Environmental justice beyond race: Skin tone and exposure to air pollution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025.
Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Juan Camilo Cardenas, and Ricardo Salas Diaz

Recent Findings and Methodologies in Economics Research in Environmental Justice

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2024.
Lucas Cain, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Christopher Timmins, and Paige Weber

Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019.
Spencer Banzhaf, Lala Ma, and Christopher Timmins

Growth and/or Development

Climate Fairness and Growth: Allocating the Remaining Carbon Budget

NBER Working Paper, 2026.
Galina Hale, Michael Halling, Nora Alice. Paulus, and Han H.G. Pham

Restoring Nature, Creating Wealth: Evidence from Rural Households in Africa

NBER Working Paper, 2026.
Moritz A. Drupp, Ulrike Kornek, Jasper N. Meya, and Lutz Sager

Income, inequality, and pollution: a reassessment of the environmental Kuznets Curve

Ecological Economics, 1998.
Mariano Torras and James K. Boyce

Natural Resources

Retrospectives: Tragedy of the Commons after 50 Years

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019.
Brett M. Frischmann, Alain Marciano, and Giovanni Battista Ramello

Institutions and the Environment

Economic Affairs, 2008.
Elinor Ostrom

Non-market Solutions

Community-Engaged Economics Research for the Clean Energy Transition

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2025.
Elisheba Spiller, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Neha Khanna, and Mehri Mohebbi

Valuation

Equity and Cost-Effectiveness in Valuation and Action Planning to Preserve Biodiversity

Environmental and Resource Economics , 2024.
Amy Ando

Water

Community–academic partnerships helped Flint through its water crisis

Nature, 2021.
E. Yvonne Lewis and Richard Sadler