Job Market Paper

Ashenfarb, Matthew. "The Effects of US Clean Electricity Subsidies on Infrastructure, Emissions, and Welfare" [Job Market 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]