1. Discussion and Working Paper // 2018

    Women Leaving the Playpen: The Emancipating Role of Female Suffrage

    The role of women in Western societies changed dramatically in the 20th century. We study how political empowerment affected women’s emancipation as reflected in their life choices like marital decisions and…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Differentiated Carbon Prices and the Economic Cost of Decarbonization

    Employing a numerical general equilibrium model with multiple fuels, end-use sectors, heterogeneous households, and transport externalities, this paper examines three motives for differentiated carbon pricing in…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Deep transformations of the energy sector: A model of technology investment choice

    Economy-energy equilibrium models have emerged as a dominant tool to investigate future pathways taking into account technological aspects, economic behavior, markets, and policy. A challenge for any model is to…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2018

    The Intergenerational Incidence of a Green Tax Reform

    We examine the lifetime incidence and intergenerational distributional effects of an economy-wide carbon tax swap using a numerical dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations of the U.S.…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Capturing natural resource heterogeneity in top-down energy-economic equilibrium models

    Top-down energy-economic modeling approaches often use simplified techniques to represent heterogeneous resource inputs to production. We show that for some policies, such as feed-in tariffs for renewable…