Wesley Blundell

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Research Interests

• Environmental Economics
• Industrial Organization
• Applied Microeconomics

Employment

Assistant Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, 2020-Present
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics,California State University, East Bay, Aug. 2017 – 2020

Education

Ph.D., Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ – May 2017
M.A., Economics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ – May 2014
B.S., Mathematics and B.A., Economics, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA – July 2012

Published Papers:

“Natural Gas Flaring, Respiratory Health, and Distributional Effects” (with Anatolii Kokoza), Journal of Public Economics, 208, April 2022
“Regulating Hazardous Wastes under U.S. Environmental Federalism: The Role of State Resources” (with Mary F. Evans & Sarah L. Stafford), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 108, July 2021
“Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations” (with Gautam Gowrisankaran & Ashley Langer), American Economic Review, 110(8), August 2020
“When Threats Become Credible: A Natural Experiment of Environmental Enforcement from Florida” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 101, May 2020”