Background—Poor lifestyle behaviors, including suboptimal diet, physical inactivity, and
tobacco use, are leading causes of preventable diseases globally. Although even modest …

Projections of energy use and greenhouse gas emissions for industrialized countries
typically show continued growth in vehicle ownership, vehicle use and overall travel …

Although fishing is one of the most widespread activities by which humans harvest natural
resources, its global footprint is poorly understood and has never been directly quantified …

Traditional approaches to structural vector autoregressions (VARs) can be viewed as
special cases of Bayesian inference arising from very strong prior beliefs. These methods …

Price elasticities of energy demand have become increasingly relevant in estimating the
socio-economic and environmental effects of energy policies or other events that influence …

Studies identifying oil shocks using structural vector autoregressions (VARs) reach different
conclusions on the relative importance of supply and demand factors in explaining oil …

What do we know about the size of the rebound effect, the well-known phenomenon that
improving energy efficiency may save less energy than expected due to a rebound of energy …

We develop a structural model of the global market for crude oil that for the first time explicitly
allows for shocks to the speculative demand for oil as well as shocks to flow demand and …

We use a novel retail panel with detailed transaction records to study the effect of the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on household spending. We use …

Illuminants, lubricants, and solvents in the 1850s were obtained from a variety of sources,
such as oil from lard or whales, alcohol from agricultural products, and turpentine from wood …