Matthew Ashenfarb
Ph.D. Candidate
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Group (ENRE)
Yale University
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University, specializing in public economics and environment and energy economics.
My research spans topics in energy and industrial policy, climate change economics, and the conservation and preservation of nature. My methods include causal inference, applied microeconomic theory, and surveys.
I am on the job market for the 2026 - 2027 academic year.
My job market paper is The Effects of US Clean Electricity Subsidies on Infrastructure, Emissions, and Welfare. The US spends hundreds of billions of fiscal dollars on utility-scale clean electricity subsidies. Do they do anything? And does a recent redistributional policy that makes the subsidies place-based pose an efficiency-equity trade-off or win-win? Give it a read to find out.
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
Experience
U.S. Treasury Office of Economic Policy, 2023 - 2024
Resources for the Future, 2018 - 2021
