Matthew Ashenfarb

Matthew Ashenfarb

Matthew Ashenfarb
Ph.D. Candidate
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Group (ENRE)
Yale University

Bio
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, specializing in public economics and environment and energy economics (EEE). My research spans topics in industrial policy, climate economics, and the conservation and preservation of nature. My methods include causal inference, applied economic theory, and surveys.

I previously served the US Treasury Office of Economic Policy. Before my Ph.D., I was a research assistant at Resources for the Future.

I will be on the job market in the 2026 - 2027 academic year. My job market paper is on utility-scale renewable electricity subsidies in the US.

Education
Ph.D. Yale School of the Environment (expected 2027)
Advisors: Matthew Kotchen (chair), Kenneth Gillingham, Arik Levinson
B.S. Environmental Economics, UC Berkeley, 2017

matthew.ashenfarb@yale.edu | CV | Google Scholar | LinkedIn

Working Papers

Ashenfarb, Matthew. "The Marginal Effects of a Place-based Clean Electricity Subsidy" Working Paper. (Check back for a revamped working paper this summer. In the meantime, feel free to email me for presentation slides.) [Old Conference Paper]
Presented at NBER Distributional Consequences of New Energy Policies Workshop (Fall 2024), AWEEP (Fall 2025), and the World Congress of Environment and Resource Economics (Summer 2026). Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation via Resources for the Future.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Ashenfarb, Matthew, and Matthew J. Kotchen. "A Method for Deriving Stated Preference Estimates of the Average Social Cost of Carbon." Environmental and Resource Economics, (2025): 1-25. [Published Version] [NBER Working Paper]

Ashenfarb, Matthew, Carrie Dale Shaffer-Morrison, Robyn Wilson, Sandra Marquart-Pyatt, and Rebecca Epanchin-Niell. "Social targeting conservation subsidies in the Western Lake Erie Basin." Journal of Environmental Management, 371 (2024): 123103. [Published Version]

Walls, Margaret, and Matthew Ashenfarb. "Efficiency and equity of an outdoor recreation equipment tax to fund public lands." Land Economics, 98, no. 3 (2022): 520-536. [Published Version]

Epanchin-Niell, Rebecca S., Douglas B. Jackson-Smith, Robyn S. Wilson, Matthew Ashenfarb, Ashley A. Dayer, Vicken Hillis, Gwenllian D. Iacona, Ezra M. Markowitz, Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, and Tyler Treakle. "Private land conservation decision-making: An integrative social science model." Journal of Environmental Management, 302 (2022): 113961. [Published Version]

Walls, Margaret, Patrick Lee, and Matthew Ashenfarb. "National monuments and economic growth in the American West." Science Advances, 6, no. 12 (2020): eaay8523. [Published Version]

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