Karen Clay
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Heinz College, and by Courtesy, Tepper School of Business
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- Stanford University - Ph D (Economics) - 1994
- University of Virginia - BA - 1988
Publications
- Adapting to Climate Change: Evidence from Long-Run Changes in the Temperature-Mortality Relationship in the 20th Century United States
(author(s): Alan Barreca, Karen Clay, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone, Joseph Shapiro)
Journal of Political Economy 124(1), 2016; 105-159 - Convergence in Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from High Temperatures and Mortality, 1900-2004
(author(s): Alan Barreca, Olivier Deschenes, Michael Greenstone, Joseph Shapiro)
American Economic Review, Paper and Proceedings 105(5), 2015; 247-251 - Boom and Bust in Pittsburgh Natural Gas History: Development, Policy, and Environmental Effects, 1878–1920
(author(s): Joel Tarr , Karen Clay)
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 139(3), 2015; 323-342 - Lead and Mortality
(author(s): Karen Clay, Werner Troesken, Michael Haines)
Review of Economics and Statistics 96(3), 2014; 458-470 - Tariff Choice with Consumer Learning and Switching Costs
(author(s): Daniel Berkowitz, Karen Clay)
Journal of Marketing Research 48(4), 2011; 633–652 - Pittsburgh as an Energy Capital: A Life-Cycle Perspective on Coal and the Transition to Natural Gas
Energy Capitals: Local Impact, Global Influence, pp. 5-29 (Martin Melosi and Joseph Pratt, eds.)(author(s): Karen Clay, Joel Tarr)
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press; 2014 - Gold Rush Legacy: American Minerals and the Knowledge Economy
The Evolution of Property Rights Related to Land and Natural Resources, pp. 67-95 (Daniel Cole and Elinor Ostrom, eds.)(author(s): Karen Clay, Gavin Wright)
Cambridge: Lincoln Land Institute Press; 2012 - Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World’s First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog
The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and Present, pp. 281-210 (Gary Libecap and Richard H. Steckel, eds.)(author(s): Karen Clay, Werner Troesken)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 2011 - The Evolution of a Nation: How Geography and Law Shaped the American States
(author(s): Karen Clay, Joel Tarr)
Princeton University Press; 2011 - Natural Resources and Economic Outcomes
Economic Evolution and Revolution in Historical Time (Paul Rhode, Joshua Rosenbloom and David Weiman, eds.)(author(s): Karen Clay)
Stanford: Stanford University Press; 2011 - Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush
(author(s): Karen Clay, Randall Jones)
Journal of Economic History 68(04), 2008; 997–1027 - The Effect of Judicial Independence on Courts: Evidence from the American States
(author(s): Daniel Berkowitz, Karen Clay)
The Journal of Legal Studies 35(2), 2006; 399–440 - Ranchos and the Politics of Land Claims
Land of Sunshine: Toward an Environmental History of Los Angeles (Bill Deverell and Greg Hise, eds.)(author(s): Karen Clay, Werner Troesken)
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press; 2006 - American Civil Law Origins: Implications for State Constitutions
(author(s): Daniel Berkowitz, Karen Clay)
American Law and Economics Review 7(1), 2005; 62–84 - Order Without Law? Property Rights During the California Gold Rush
(author(s): Karen Clay, Gavin Wright)
Explorations in Economic History 42(2), 2005; 155–183 - An Empirical Analysis of Network Externalities in Peer-to-Peer Music-Sharing Networks
(author(s): Atip Asvanund, Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael Smith)
Information Systems Research 15(2), 2004; 155-174 - Designing a Better Shopbot
(author(s): Alan Montgomery, K. Hosanagar, R. Krishnan, Karen Clay)
Management Science 50(2), 2004; 189-206 - Further Tests of Static Oligopoly Models: Whiskey, 1882
(author(s): Karen Clay, Werner Troesken)
The Journal of Industrial Economics 51(2), 2003; 151–166 - Strategic Behavior in Whiskey Distilling, 1887-1895
(author(s): Karen Clay, Werner Troesken)
The Journal of Economic History 62(04), 2002; 999–1023 - Institutional Barriers to Electronic Commerce: An Historical Perspective
(author(s): Karen Clay, Robert Strauss)
Advances in Strategic Management 19, 2002; 247-273 - Retail Strategies on the Web: Price and Non-Price Competition in the Online Book Industry
(author(s): Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Eric Wolff, Danny Fernandes)
Journal of Industrial Economics 50(3), 2002; 351-67 - The Great Experiment: Pricing on the Internet
The E-Business Handbook (Paul B. Lowry, J. Owen Cherrington, and Ronald R. Watson, eds.)(author(s): Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Michael D. Smith)
New York: CRC Press; 2002 - Prices and Price Dispersion on the Web: Evidence from the Online Book Industry
(author(s): Karen Clay, Ramayya Krishnan, Eric Wolff)
The Journal of Industrial Economics 49(4), 2001; 521–539 - Trust, Risk and Electronic Commerce: Nineteenth Century Lessons for the Twenty-First Century
(author(s): Karen Clay, Robert Strauss)
Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Taxation and Minutes of the Annual Meeting of the National Tax Association 93, 2000; 53–63 - The Choice-Within-Constraints New Institutionalism and Implications for Sociology
(author(s): Paul Ingram, Karen Clay)
Annual Review of Sociology 26, 2000; 525–546 - Squatting and the Settlement of the United States: New Evidence from Post-Gold Rush California
(author(s): Werner Troesken, Karen Clay)
Advances in Agricultural Economic History 1, 2000; 207-33 - Property Rights and Institutions: Congress and the California Land Act 1851
(author(s): Karen Clay)
The Journal of Economic History 59(01), 1999; 122–142 - Trade, Institutions, and Law: The Experience of Mexican California
Studies in the Economic History of the Pacific Rim (Sally M. Miller, A. J. H. Latham, and Dennis O. Flynn, eds.)(author(s): Karen Clay)
New York: Routledge; 1998 - Trade, Institutions, and Credit: Contract Enforcement on the California Coast, 1830-1846
(author(s): Karen Clay)
Explorations in Economic History 34(4), 1997; 495-521 - Trade Without Law: Private-Order Institutions in Mexican California
(author(s): Karen Clay)
Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 13(1), 1997; 202–231 - A Coasean General Equilibrium Model of Regulation
(author(s): Karen Clay)
Journal of Public Economics 53(3), 1994; 459–475 - Ex Post vs. Ex Ante Pricing: Optional Calling Plans and Tapered Tariffs
(author(s): Karen Clay, David Sibley, Padmanabhan Srinagesh)
Journal of Regulatory Economics 4(2), 1992; 115–138
Working Paper
- Pollution, Infectious Disease, and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the 1918-1919 Spanish Influenza Pandemic/a>
(author(s): Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini)
NBER Working Paper #21635 and IZA Working Paper #9399 - The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South
(author(s): Karen Clay, Ethan Schmick, Werner Troesken)
NBER Working Paper #23730 - The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Resources on Economic Outcomes: Evidence From the United States 1936-2015
(author(s): Karen Clay, Margarita Portnykh)
NBER Working Paper #24695 - Toxic Truth: Lead and Fertility
(author(s): Karen Clay, Margarita Portnykh, Edson Severnini)
NBER Working Paper #24607 and IZA Working Paper #11541 - The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail: Evidence From Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota
(author(s): Karen Clay, Akshaya Jha, Nick Muller, Randy Walsh)
NBER Working Paper #23852 - Canary in a Coal Mine: Impact of Mid-20th Century Air Pollution on Infant Mortality and Property Values
(author(s): Karen Clay, Joshua Lewis, Edson Severnini)
NBER Working Paper #22155 and IZA Working Paper #9484 - Laws, Educational Outcomes, and Returns to Schooling: Evidence from the Full Count 1940 Census
(author(s): Karen Clay, Jeff Lingwall, Mel Stephens)
NBER Working Paper #22855 - Controlling Tuberculosis? Evidence from the Mother of all Community-Wide Health Experiments
(author(s): Karen Clay, Peter Juul Egedeso, Casper Worm Hansen, Peter Sandholt Jensen)
University of Copenhagen Working Paper, No. 18-03 - Coal, Smoke, and Death: Bituminous Coal and American Home Heating
(author(s): Karen Clay, Alan Barreca, Joel Tarr)
NBER Working Paper #19881 and IZA Working Paper #7987