Corbett Grainger
· ProfessorUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison · Agricultural and Applied Economics
Active 2004–2023
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About
I am an economist, and I study environmental and resource problems. My research focuses on understanding the distributional effects of regulations, property rights and institutions, as well as the political economy of environmental and natural resource policy. Applications include ambient air pollution, rights-based management of marine fisheries, and climate change.
Research topics
- Geography
- Ecology
- Biology
- Business
- Environmental science
- Environmental health
- Economic growth
- Natural resource economics
- Economics
- Demography
Selected publications
Discrimination in Ambient Air Pollution Monitoring?
AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2019-05-01 · 82 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingIn the United States, ambient air quality is regulated through National Ambient Air Quality standards (NAAQS). Enforcement of these standards is delegated to state and sub-state regulators who are also tasked with designing their own monitoring networks for ambient pollution. Past work has found evidence consistent with strategic behavior: local regulators strategically avoid pollution hotspots when siting monitors. This paper assesses whether income and race have historically played a role in m…
Wolves make roadways safer, generating large economic returns to predator conservation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021 · 81 citations
Recent studies uncover cascading ecological effects resulting from removing and reintroducing predators into a landscape, but little is known about effects on human lives and property. We quantify the effects of restoring wolf populations by evaluating their influence on deer-vehicle collisions (DVCs) in Wisconsin. We show that, for the average county, wolf entry reduced DVCs by 24%, yielding an economic benefit that is 63 times greater than the costs of verified wolf predation on livestock. Mos…
Electricity shortages and manufacturing productivity in Pakistan
Energy Policy · 2019-07-02 · 72 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingDistributional Effects of the Transition to Property Rights for a Common-Pool Resource
Marine Resource Economics · 2015-10-15 · 50 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingThe introduction of property rights to manage common-pool resources is often met with opposition from some incumbent users, despite evidence of large aggregate increases in resource rent. We introduce an analytical model with firm heterogeneity to distinguish between traditional resource rent, which accrues to all owners, and inframarginal rent, which accrues to those with high skill. We show that, in the presence of skill heterogeneity, some current users (namely those with the highest skill) m…
Who Wins from Emissions Trading? Evidence from California
Environmental and Resource Economics · 2017-09-01 · 43 citations
article1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 9 shared
Charles D. Kolstad
University of California, Santa Barbara
- 8 shared
Christopher Costello
University of British Columbia
- 7 shared
Andrew Schreiber
Environmental Protection Agency
- 5 shared
Jean‐Paul Chavas
University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 5 shared
Fan Zhang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 4 shared
Ian Coxhead
- 4 shared
Mingxuan Fan
National University of Singapore
- 3 shared
Fan Zhang
Education
- 2010
PhD, Economics
University of California, Santa Barbara
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