Joseph S. Shapiro

Joseph S. Shapiro
Associate Professor
University of California Berkeley #3310
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 859-4551
joseph.shapiro@berkeley.edu

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Working Papers

The Carbon Footprint of Multinational Production. With Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman, Natalia Ramondo, and Andres Rodriguez-Clare.

Institutions, Comparative Advantage, and the Environment: Why Are Developing Countries Polluted?  

Is Air Pollution Regulation Too Stringent?  (Online Appendix)
With Reed Walker.

Published and Forthcoming Papers

Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?  (Online Appendix) Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming. With Mark Jacobsen, James Sallee, and Arthur van Benthem.

Globalization and the Environment  (Online Appendix) [journal version]
Handbook of International Economics, 2022, Volume V, pp. 61-146. With Brian R. Copeland and M. Scott Taylor. Editors, Gita Gopinath, Elhanan Helpman, and Kenneth Rogoff. Elsevier.

Pollution Trends and US Environmental Policy: Lessons from the Last Half Century  [journal version]
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2022, 16(1): 42-61.

The Evolution of the “Waters of the United States” and the Role of Economics [journal version]
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2022, 16(1): 146-152. With Dave Keiser, Sheila Olmstead, Kevin Boyle, Victor Flatt, Bonnie Keeler, Dan Phaneuf, and Jay Shimshack.

Where is Pollution Moving? Environmental Markets and Environmental Justice [journal version]
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2021, 111: 410-14. With Reed Walker.

A water rule that turns a blind eye to transboundary pollution [journal version]
Science, 2021, 372(6539): 241-243. With Dave Keiser, Sheila Olmstead, Kevin Boyle, Victor Flatt, Bonnie Keeler, Catherine Kling, Daniel Phaneuf, and Jay Shimshack.

The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy  (Online Appendix) [journal version]
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021, 136(2): 831-886.

Energy Cost Pass-Through in U.S. Manufacturing: Estimates and Implications for Carbon Taxes (Slides) [journal version]
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12(2): 303-42. With Sharat Ganapati and Reed Walker.

US Water Pollution Regulation over the Last Half Century: Burning Waters to Crystal Springs? [journal version]
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019, 33(4): 51-75. With Dave Keiser.

The Low but Uncertain Measured Benefits of US Water Quality Policy [journal version]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019, 116(12): 5262-5269. With Dave Keiser and Cathy Kling.

Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality (Slides) [journal version]
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019, 134(1): 349-396. With Dave Keiser.

Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade (Slides) [journal version]
American Economic Review, 2018, 108(12): 3814-54. With Reed Walker.

Regulating Mismeasured Pollution: Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy (Slides) [journal version]
AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2018, 108: 136-42. With Eva Lyubich and Reed Walker.

Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program [journal version]
American Economic Review, 2017, 107(10): 2958-89. With Olivier Deschenes and Michael Greenstone.

Trade Costs, CO2, and the Environment [journal version]
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2016, 8(4): 220-54

Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century [journal version]
Journal of Political Economy, 2016, 124(1): 105-159. With Alan Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, and Michael Greenstone.

Convergence in Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from High Temperatures and Mortality, 1900-2004 [journal version]
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2015, 105(5): 247-51. With Alan Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, and Michael Greenstone

Globalization and the Role of Public Transfers in Redistributing Income in Latin America and the Caribbean [journal version]
World Development, 2010, 38(6): 895-907. With Emmanuel Skoufias and Kathy Lindert

The Benefits of Delayed Primary School Enrollment: Discontinuity Estimates using Exact Birthdates [journal version]
Journal of Human Resources, 2008, 43(1): 1-29. With Patrick J. McEwan.

Community-Based Production of Open-Source Software: What do we Know About the Developers who Participate?
Information Economics and Policy, 2008, 20(4): 364-398. With Paul A. David.