Reed Walker

About

Reed Walker is the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy and a Professor of Economics at the University of California Berkeley, Haas School of Business. He is affiliated with the Department of Economics and is involved in research related to business strategy and public policy. His contact information includes a phone number (510) 965-3298 and an email address rwalker@berkeley.edu. Additional details about his research focus, background, and key contributions are not provided in the page text.

Research topics

• Market economy
• Economics
• Political Science
• Geography
• Public economics
• Natural resource economics
• Microeconomics
• Environmental health
• Medicine

Selected publications

• Energy Cost Pass-Through in US Manufacturing: Estimates and Implications for Carbon Taxes

  American Economic Journal Applied Economics · 2020 · 117 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  We study how changes in energy input costs for US manufacturers affect the relative welfare of manufacturing producers and consumers (i.e., incidence). We also develop a methodology to estimate the incidence of input taxes that accounts for incomplete pass-through, imperfect competition, and substitution among inputs. For the several industries we study, 70 percent of energy price-driven changes in input costs get passed through to consumers in the short to medium run. The share of the welfare c…

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• Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2020-04-01 · 101 citations

  reportOpen accessSenior author

  We use novel, large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001 to 2013 American Communities Survey linked to the Social Security Administration's NUMIDENT to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources for families affects children's longterm outcomes. Using variation from the county-level roll-out of the Food Stamps program between 1961 and 1975, we find that children with access to greater economic resources before age five experience an increase of 6 per…

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• Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence From the Food Stamps Program

  The Review of Economic Studies · 2023 · 78 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  We use novel, large-scale data on 17.5 million Americans to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources affects children's long-term outcomes. Using the 2000 Census and 2001-13 American Community Survey linked to the Social Security Administration's NUMIDENT, we leverage the county-level rollout of the Food Stamps program between 1961 and 1975. We find that children with access to greater economic resources before age five have better outcomes as adults. The treatment-on-the-treated…

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• What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2020-01-01 · 71 citations

  reportSenior author

  Racial differences in exposure to ambient air pollution have declined significantly in the United States over the past 20 years.This project links administrative Census microdata to newly available, spatially continuous high resolution measures of ambient particulate pollution (PM2.5) to examine the underlying causes and consequences of differences in Black-White pollution exposures.We begin by decomposing differences in pollution exposure into components explained by observable population chara…

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• Where Is Pollution Moving? Environmental Markets and Environmental Justice

  AEA Papers and Proceedings · 2021-05-01 · 20 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Do US air pollution offset markets disproportionately relocate pollution to or from low-income or minority communities? Concerns about an equal distribution of environmental quality across communities--environmental justice--have growing policy influence. We relate prices and quantities of offset transactions to the demographics of the communities surrounding polluting plants. We find little association of offset prices or offset-induced movements in pollution with the share of a community that…

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Recent grants

• Early Childhood Environment and Adult Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from U.S. Administrative Data

  NSF · $453k · 2015–2021

Frequent coauthors

• Joseph Shapiro

  University of California, Berkeley

  116 shared

• Janet Currie

  Princeton University

  94 shared

• Emilia Simeonova

  70 shared

• Peter Nilsson

  68 shared

• Sharat Ganapati

  Georgetown University

  40 shared

• Maya Rossin‐Slater

  Stanford University

  13 shared

• Lucas W. Davis

  University of California, Berkeley

  10 shared

• Michael Greenstone

  University of Chicago

  10 shared

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