• Engineering Economics
• Introductory Economics

• Energy Economics
• Behavioral Economics

Research Interests

• Household Conservation Behavior

Working Papers

• "Imputing Forgotten Responses in a Longitudinal Survey of Conservation Behavior", under review Journal of Economic and Social Measurement
• "Structural change in residential energy consumption under crisis conditions: California 2000-2001" (with Loren Lutzenhiser), under review "Energy - The International Journal"
• "Fiddling with Thermostats", Abstract Accepted for 2006 ACEEE SummerStudy on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
• "Good Times for Residential Peak Prices" (with Sarang Amirtabar), Abstract Accepted for 2006 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
• Measurement of Test/Re-Test Uncertainty in Oregon's Statewide Academic Assessment Program, Working Paperi
• Energy Implications of Heating and Cooling Setpoint Behavior, Working Paper
• "Money" is the Reserves not the Money, Working Paper
• Evolution as Learning Yields Hyperbolic Discounting, Working Paper
• A Heterogeneous Agent, Indivisible Labor Model Solved By Means Of Genetic
  Algorithms Working Paper
  

Publications

• Lutzenhiser, L., R. Kunkle, J. Woods, S. Lutzenhiser, and S. Bender.
  2002. "Lasting Impressions: Conservation and the 2001 California Energy
  Crisis." Proceedings of the ACEEE 2004 Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in
  Buildings.
  
  
• Market Transformation and Multiple Equilibria (With Adrienne Vayssières
  Kandel), 2002 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
  Proceedings, ACEEE, 2002.
  
  
• Multi-Attribute Valuation for Cost Effective Evaluation of Market
  Transformation and Other Hard to Quantify Programs (With Sami Khawaja), 2001
  International Energy Program Evaluation Conference.
  
  
• Equity Finance of Residential Real Estate: A Potential Market Transformation
  Program, 2000 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
  Proceedings, ACEEE, 2000.
  
  
• Toward Marginal Cost Pricing of Accident Risk: The Energy, Travel, and Welfare
  Impacts of Pay-At-The-Pump Auto Insurance (With Chris Kavalek), Energy
  Policy, June 1999.
  
  
• Signaling Quality in a Quality Control Contract, Putting Market Transformation
  Evaluation into Action, California Energy Commission, 1998.
  
  
• A Simple Semi-Bayesian View of the Energy Benefits for the IQ+ Program,
  Putting Market Transformation Evaluation into Action, California Energy
  Commission, 1998.