Welcome. My name is Dean, I am a fourth-year PhD student in Applied Economics at Cornell University. I am an applied micro-economist particularly interested in policy relevant research that addresses big questions about climate change. Currently, I study if carbon and energy policies actually work and for whom. I am working with a state agency on an experiment to study the effectiveness of subsidies for heat pump adoption. I also use causal inference tools in another project to study the effects of local carbon policies on emissions and energy use. 

Current projects

• "Local Carbon Policies Reduce Emissions: Evidence from New York City"

  • Presented: AERE Summer 2024, Harvard Climate Economics Pipeline Workshop 2024

• "What is the Willingness-to-Pay for Air Source Heat Pumps? Evidence from a randomized-experiment" 

with Michael Greenstone, Chris Knittel, Casey Wichman 

• "Meta-Analysis of Climate Change Impacts on Education, Health, and Social Protection" 

with Patrick Behrer, Teevrat Garg, Alaka Holla, Adriana Molina, Trinh Pham

Past work

• World Bank consultant

• UChicago pre-doc

• UChicago EPIC summer fellow 

• AmeriCorps GIS specialist

Education

• Cornell, PhD (in progress)

• UChicago, MPP

• ASU, BS

Teaching 

• Environmental Economics and Policy, Nick Sanders (Cornell)

• Econometrics, Christopher Roark (UChicago)