Lucas Davis

 
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Peer-Reviewed Publications

Uber and Traffic Fatalities
(with Michael Anderson), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.

What Matters for Electrification? Evidence from 70 Years of U.S. Home Heating Choices
Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming.   Blog

The Economic Determinants of Heat Pump Adoption
NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 2024, 5(1), 162-199, University of Chicago Press.   Data/Code   Blog

Transmission Impossible? Prospects for Decarbonizing the U.S. Grid
(with Catherine Hausman and Nancy Rose), Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2023, 37(4), 155-180.   Data/Code

Electric Vehicles in Multi-Vehicle Households
Applied Economics Letters, 2023, 30(14), 1909-1912.   Data/Code   Blog

Evidence of a Homeowner-Renter Gap for Electric Appliances
Energy Journal, 2023, 44(4), 53-64.   Data/Code   Blog

Who Will Pay for Legacy Utility Costs?
(with Catherine Hausman), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2022, 9(6), 1047-1085.   Data/Code   Blog

Air Conditioning and Global Inequality
(with Paul Gertler, Stephen Jarvis, and Catherine Wolfram), Global Environmental Change, 2021, 69, 102299.   Blog

Estimating the Price Elasticity of Demand for Subways: Evidence from Mexico
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021, 87, 103651.   Data/Code   Blog

Are Energy Executives Rewarded for Luck?
(with Catherine Hausman), Energy Journal, 2020, 41(6), 157-181.   Data/Code   Blog

An Empirical Test of Hypercongestion in Highway Bottlenecks
(with Michael Anderson), Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 187, 104197. Data/Code

How Effective is Energy-Efficient Housing? Evidence from a Field Trial in Mexico
(with Sebastian Martinez and Bibiana Taboada), Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 143, 102390.   Data/Code   Blog

Should Electric Vehicle Drivers Pay a Mileage Tax?
(with James Sallee), NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 2020, 1(1), 65-94, University of Chicago Press.   Data/Code   Blog

Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver at the Right Time?
(with Judson Boomhower), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12(1), 115-139.   Data/Code   Blog

Heat Exposure and Global Air Conditioning
(with Leopold Biardeau, Paul Gertler and Catherine Wolfram), Nature Sustainability, 2020, 3, 25-28.   Data/Code   Blog

An Economic Perspective on Mexico's Nascent Deregulation of Retail Petroleum Markets
(with Shaun McRae and Enrique Seira), Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy, 2019, 8(2), 181-199.   Blog

How Much Are Electric Vehicles Driven?
Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26(18), 1497-1502.   Data/Code   Blog

Evidence of a Homeowner-Renter Gap for Electric Vehicles
Applied Economics Letters, 2019, 26(11), 927-932.   Data/Code   Blog

Are Fuel Economy Standards Regressive?
(with Chris Knittel), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019, 6, 37-63.

The Environmental Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies
Energy Journal, 2017, 38, 7-27. Data/Code   Blog

Evidence of a Decline in Electricity Use by U.S. Households
Economics Bulletin, 2017, 37(2), 1098-1105.   Data/Code   Blog

Anticipation, Tax Avoidance, and the Price Elasticity of Demand for Gasoline
(with John Coglianese, Lutz Kilian, and James Stock), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32(1), 1-15.   Data/Code

Saturday Driving Restrictions Fail to Improve Air Quality in Mexico City
Scientific Reports, February 2017.   Data/Code   Blog

Does Better Information Lead to Better Choices? Evidence from Energy-Efficiency Labels
(with Gilbert Metcalf), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2016, 3(3), 589-625.   Blog

The Distributional Effects of U.S. Clean Energy Tax Credits
(with Severin Borenstein), NBER Tax Policy and the Economy, 2016, 30(1), 191-234.   Blog

Market Impacts of a Nuclear Power Plant Closure
(with Catherine Hausman), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8(2), 92-122.   Data/Code   Blog

Contribution of Air Conditioning Adoption to Future Energy Use under Global Warming
(with Paul Gertler), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015, 112(19), 5962-5967.   Blog

Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1,600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings
(with Janet Currie, Michael Greenstone, and Reed Walker), American Economic Review, 2015, 105(2), 678-709.   Data/Code

Bonding Requirements for Natural Gas Producers
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2015, 9(1), 128-144.   Blog

An Economic Perspective on the EPA's Clean Power Plan
(with Meredith Fowlie, Lawrence Goulder, Matthew Kotchen, James Bushnell, Michael Greenstone, Charles Kolstad, Christopher Knittel,
Robert Stavins, Michael Wara, Frank Wolak, and Catherine Wolfram), Science, 2014, 346(6211), 815-816.

Cash for Coolers: Evaluating a Large-Scale Appliance Replacement Program in Mexico
(with Alan Fuchs and Paul Gertler), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2014, 6(4), 207-238.   Data/Code   Blog

A Credible Approach for Measuring Inframarginal Participation in Energy Efficiency Programs
(with Judson Boomhower), Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 113, 67-79.  

The Economic Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies
American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 2014, 104(5), 581-585.   Data/Code   Blog

The Equity and Efficiency of Two-Part Tariffs in U.S. Natural Gas Markets
(with Severin Borenstein), Journal of Law and Economics, 2012, 55(1), 75-128.  

Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power
(with Catherine Wolfram), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2012, 4(4), 194-225.   Data/Code

Prospects for Nuclear Power
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012, 26(1), 49-66.

Are Renters Less Likely to Have Energy-Efficient Appliances?
in "Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy", edited by D. Fullerton and C. Wolfram, 2012, University of Chicago Press.   Data/Code   Blog

The Effect of Power Plants on Local Housing Prices and Rents
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(4), 1391-1402.

Estimating the Effect of a Gasoline Tax on Carbon Emissions
(with Lutz Kilian), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2011, 26(7), 1187-1214.   Data/Code

The Allocative Cost of Price Ceilings in the U.S. Residential Market for Natural Gas
(with Lutz Kilian), Journal of Political Economy, 2011, 119(2), 212-241.   Data/Code

The Effects of Preferential VAT Rates Near International Borders: Evidence from Mexico
National Tax Journal, 2011, 64(1), 85-104.

Do Americans Consume Too Little Natural Gas?
(with Erich Muehlegger), RAND Journal of Economics, 2010, 41(4), 791-810.

International Trade in Used Vehicles: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA
(with Matt Kahn), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2010, 2(4), 58-82.   Data/Code

The Welfare Costs of Unreliable Water Service
(with Brian Baisa, Stephen Salant, and William Wilcox), Journal of Development Economics, 2010, 92(1), 1-12.

The Effect of Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City
Journal of Political Economy, 2008, 116(1), 38-81.   Data/Code

Durable Goods and Residential Demand for Energy and Water: Evidence from a Field Trial
RAND Journal of Economics, 2008, 39(2), 530-546.

The Effect of Health Risk on Housing Values: Evidence from a Cancer Cluster
American Economic Review, 2004, 94(5), 1693-1704.   Data/Code

 

Working Papers

Political Ideology and U.S. Electric Vehicle Adoption
(with Jing Li and Katalin Springel), October 2023.   Blog

Competitive Effects of Entry in Gasoline Markets
(with Shaun McRae and Enrique Seira), Updated March 2023.  Blog

 

Other Publications

Uber and Alcohol-Related Traffic Fatalities
(with Michael Anderson), CATO Institute Research Briefs, March 2022.

The Environmental Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies
CATO Institute Research Briefs, June 2016.

Power of the Atom
(with Catherine Hausman), Finance & Development, December 2015.

The Cost of Global Fuel Subsidies
Milken Institute Review, Third Quarter, 2014.

Modernizing Bonding Requirements for Natural Gas Producers
Hamilton Project Paper, June 2012.

Cash for Clunkers? The Environmental Impact of Mexico's Demand for Used Vehicles
(with Matt Kahn), Access Magazine, Spring 2011.