CORBETT GRAINGER

Job Market Candidate

Dept of Economics

University of California, Santa Barbara

E-Mail: grainger[at]econ.ucsb.edu

Curriculum Vitae (.pdf)

PRIMARY FIELDS: Environmental and Resource Economics, Public Finance, Political Economy
SECONDARY FIELDS: Labor Economics, Applied Microeconomics

ABOUT ME:

I am a job market candidate in Economics and EES (NSF-IGERT) Fellow at University of California, Santa Barbara.  My research examines the effects of regulations, property rights, and institutions, with a focus on environmental policy and natural resources.  My PhD committee includes Charles Kolstad, Chris Costello, Bob Deacon and Doug Steigerwald.

PAPERS:

Redistricting and Polarization: Who Draws the Lines in California? Forthcoming, The Journal of Law & Economics

Who Pays a Price on Carbon?, with C. Kolstad, NBER Working Paper 15239. Revise and Resubmit, Environmental and Resource Economics

WORKING PAPERS:

The Distributional Effects of Environmental Regulations: Rents and Air Quality Improvements [Job Market Paper]

The Value of Secure Property Rights: Evidence from Fisheries (e-mail me for a copy), with C. Costello

ON CLIMATE POLICY:

When Carbon is Priced, Who Ultimately Pays?, with C. Kolstad. Invited Vox Column, Aug 29, 2009.

Beyond the Market Advisory Committee (on California Cap-and-Trade Policy Design), Stanford Inst. for Economic Policy Research Paper 07-45,
with C. Kolstad, O. Ahoobim, N. Burger, and S. McRae, April 2008

TEACHING: Office Hours for Econ 245A are Wednesdays, 9:00-11:00 in NH 3017.

LINKS:

EES Program
UCSB Economics
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
Sustainable Fisheries Group at UCSB
10^th Occasional California Workshop on Environmental & Resource Economics
California Climate Policy Forum (webcast archive, March 2007) co-organized with Charles Kolstad

LIFE AS A PHD STUDENT:

denali wilderness

allgäuer alps

lake nerka, alaska