E. Mark Curtis

Associate and Reynolds Professor of Economics Wake Forest University

Research in Progress

Capital Investment and Labor Demand: Evidence from 21st Century Stimulus Policy, Revised and Resubmited: American Economic Review with Dan Garrett , Eric Ohrn, Kevin Roberts and Juan Carlos Suarez-Serrato
Unintended Environmental Consequences of Investment Stimulus Policy, with Dana Andersen and Eric Ohrn
The Spillover Effects of Environmental Regulation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act, with Weiting Ma, Felix Samy Soliman, Juan Carlos Suarez-Serrato and Daniel Xu

Workers and the Green-Energy Transition: Evidence from 300 million Job Transitions, with Layla O’Kane and Jisung Park.
Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy 5 No. 1, (2024).
Green Energy Jobs in the US: What Are They, and Where Are They?, with Ioana Marinescu: Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy 4 No. 1, (2023).
Reevaluating the Ozone Nonattainment Standards: Evidence from the 2004 Expansion Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 99, No. 1 (January 2020).
When do Environmental Regulations Backfire? Onsite Industrial Electricity Generation, Energy Efficiency and Policy Instruments, with Jonathan M. Lee Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 96, No. 3 (July 2019).
The Reallocative and the Heterogeneous Effects of Cap-and-Trade, with Jonathan M. Lee Economics Letters Vol. 172 (November 2018).
Who Loses Under Cap-and-Trade Programs? The Labor Market Effects of the NOx Budget Trading Program Review of Economics and Statistics Vol. 100, No. 1 (March 2018).
Evaluating Workplace Mandates with Flows versus Stocks: An Application to California Paid Family Leave; with Barry T. Hirsch and Mary C. Schroeder Southern Economic Journal Vol. 83, No. 2 (October 2016).
Evidence of an Energy Management Gap: in U.S. Manufacturing: Spillovers from Firm Management Practices to Energy Efficiency; with Gale Boyd Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 68, No. 3 (November 2014).