Working Papers

Ashenfarb, Matthew. "A Place-Based Clean Electricity Subsidy: Efficiency-Equity Tradeoff or Win-Win?" Working Paper (2024). [SSRN Working Paper]
Presented at NBER Distributional Consequences of New Energy Policies Workshop (Fall 2024), AWEEP (Fall 2025), and 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]