casey j. wichman

research

publications

Lang, Corey, Casey J. Wichman, Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, and Michael Weir, “Cost misperception and voting for public goods,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Accepted. [accepted pdf] [replication package]

Blonz, Joshua, Karen Palmer, Casey J. Wichman, Derek C. Wietelman, “Automation, smart thermostats, and time-varying pricing.” American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Forthcoming. [Working paper version: RFF Working Paper 21-20, April 2023]

Wichman, Casey J. “Social media influences National Park visitation,” Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, 2024. [replication package]

Wichman, Casey J. and Nathan W. Chan, “Preheating prosocial behaviour,” Economic Journal, 2023. [replication package]

Prest, Brian, Casey J. Wichman, and Karen Palmer, “RCTs against the machine: Can ML prediction methods recover experimental treatment effects?” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2023. [replication package]

Wichman, Casey J. and Brandon Cunningham, “Notching for free: Do cyclists reveal the opportunity cost of time?” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2023.

Cardoso, Diego S. and Casey J. Wichman, “Water affordability in the United States,” Water Resources Research, 2022. [replication package]

Chan, Nathan W. and Casey J. Wichman, “Valuing nonmarket impacts of climate change on recreation: From reduced form to welfare,” Environmental and Resource Economics, 2022.

Lewis, Lynne and Casey J. Wichman, “What should we be teaching students about the economics of climate change: Is there a consensus?” International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, 2021.

Cunningham, Brandon, Jacob LaRiviere, and Casey J. Wichman, “Clustered into control: Heterogeneous causal impacts of water infrastructure failure,” Economic Inquiry, 2021.

Chan, Nathan W.  and Casey J. Wichman, “Climate change and recreation: Evidence from North American cycling,” Environmental and Resource Economics, 2020. [working paper] [blog] [podcast]

Bellemare, Marc F. and Casey J. Wichman, “Elasticities and the inverse hyperbolic sine transformation,” Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2020. [Replication data and code]

Wichman, Casey J., “Interpreting nonlinear semi-elasticities in reduced-form climate damage estimation,” Climatic Change, 2018.

Eyer, Jonathan and Casey J. Wichman, “Does water scarcity shift the electricity generation mix toward fossil fuels? Empirical evidence from the United States,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018. [pdf] [blog]

Hamilton, Timothy L. and Casey J. Wichman, “Bicycle infrastructure and traffic congestion: Evidence from DC’s Capital Bikeshare,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018. [pdf] [blog]

Wichman, Casey J., “Information provision and consumer behavior: A natural experiment in billing frequency,” Journal of Public Economics, 2017. [pdf] [blog]

Wichman, Casey J. and Paul J. Ferraro, “A cautionary tale on using panel data estimators to measure program impacts,” Economics Letters, 2017. [pdf] [blog] [Replication data and code]

Wichman, Casey J., “Incentives, green preferences, and private provision of impure public goods,” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016. [pdf] [blog]

Wichman, Casey J., Laura O. Taylor, and Roger H. von Haefen, “Conservation policies: Who responds to price and who responds to prescription?” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2016. [pdf] [blog]

Wichman, Casey J., “Perceived price in residential water demand: Evidence from a natural experiment,” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2014. [pdf]

working papers

“Do behavioral nudges interact with prevailing economic incentives? Pairing experimental and quasi-experimental evidence from water consumption,” (with Danny Brent)

“Conservation and distributional consequences of pricing scarce water during droughts,” (with Derek Wietelman and Danny Brent)

“Efficiency, equity, and cost-recovery tradeoffs in municipal water pricing”

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research in progress

“Winters of discontent”

“Complementary conservation: Estimating energy benefits from water conservation,” (with Derek Wietelman)

“Behavioral responses to two-part tariffs: Evidence from the introduction of volumetric water pricing,” (with Danny Brent and Praharsh M. Patel)

“Groundwater scarcity and maternal health: Evidence from India,” (with Vikrant Kamble)

“Decomposing racial gaps in energy burdens,” (with Bobby Harris & Akif Aglar)

“Ride or die: Did ridesharing services kill active and public transit?” (with Emtiaz Hritan Hossain)

“The economics of decarbonizing transportation through active transit” 

A bunch of other stuff about water, climate, energy, transportation, and people.

other writing & publications

Chan, Nathan W. and Casey J. Wichman, “Donors who feel upbeat are more likely to give to charity – new research”, The Conversation, July 14, 2023.

Wichman, Casey J., “The unequal burdens of water scarcity,” Nature Water, Issue 1, 2023.

Wietelman, Derek, Karen Palmer, and Casey J. Wichman, “Using Prices, Automation, and Data to Shape Electricity Demand and Integrate Renewables into the Grid,” Resources for the Future Report, March 2022.

“A history of water resources research at Resources for the Future,” Resources, No. 201, May 2018. (with Derek C. Wietelman)

“Overcrowding in national parks: Seeing the forest for the trees with better data,”  Resources, No. 199, Fall 2018. (with Margaret Walls and Kevin Ankney)

“Nature-based recreation: Understanding campsite reservations in National Parks,” Resources for the Future Report, November 2018 (with Margaret Walls and Kevin Ankney)

“California’s Water: Water for Cities,” (with Ellen Hanak, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Henry McCann, Newsha Ajami, Ken Baerenklau, David Jassby, Jay Lund, David Mitchell, Kurt Schwabe, and David Sedlak), Public Policy Institute of California, November 2018.

“The strategic costs of carbon emissions: Global versus domestic policy considerations,” Resources, No. 195, Fall 2017.

Wichman, Casey J., “Information and environmental policy,” (dissertation abstract), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 4, no. 1, 2017.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Valuing Climate Damages: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2017. (Contributing author).

Wichman, Casey J., “Book Review: Thirst for Power: Energy, Water, and Human Survival,” Water Economics and Policy, 1680007, 2016.

“California’s Water: Water for Cities,” (with Ellen Hanak, Ken Baerenklau, Alvar Escriva-Bou, Jay Lund, Kurt Schwabe, Newsha Ajami, J. R. DeShazo, David Mitchell, Jean-Daniel Saphores, and David Sedlak), Public Policy Institute of California, October 2016.

“Water conservation policies: Prices versus restrictions.” Resources, No. 193, pp. 18-19, Fall 2016.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Assessment of Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon: Phase 1 Report on a Near-Term Update. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2016. (Contributing author).

“Commentary: Does bicycle infrastructure reduce traffic congestion?” Resources, No. 191, pp. 6-7, Winter 2016.

Williams III, Roberton C. and Casey J. Wichman, 2015, “Macroeconomic effects of carbon taxes,” in I. Parry, A. Morris, and R. Williams (eds.), Implementing a US Carbon Tax: Challenges and Debates, Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics.

“Technical assistance for sustainable urban water use,” (with Jeff Hughes , Mary Tiger, Shadi Eskaf, and Christine Boyle), Water Resources Research Institute of the University of North Carolina, 2012.

“An assessment of U.S. air quality policy: Past, present, and future,” Proceedings of the New York State Economics Association (2008), vol. 1, pp. 124-133.