Professor West specializes in public and environmental economics. In particular, she analyzes optimal tax policy, focusing on estimation of behavioral responses to policies for the control of vehicle pollution and the reduction of gasoline consumption, including taxes on gasoline, subsidies to clean vehicles, and Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. EDUCATION: B.A., Macalester College M.A., M.S., Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin West has been teaching at Macalester since 1999.
Journal Articles
Tax and Subsidy Combinations for the Control of Car Pollution (with Don Fullerton), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2010)
Alcohol-Leisure Complementarity: Empirical Estimates and Implications for Tax Policy (with Ian W.H. Parry), National Tax Journal (2009)
Fiscal and Externality Rationales for Alcohol Policies (with Ian W. Parry and Ramanan Laxminarayan), B E Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2009)
Optimal taxation and cross-price effects on labor supply: Estimates of the optimal gas tax (with Roberton C. Williams), Journal of Public Economics (2007)
Open Space, Residential Property Values, and Spatial Context (with Soren T. Anderson), Regional Science and Urban Economics (2006)
Books
Public Finance Solutions to Vehicle Emissions Problems in California (with Don Fullerton), Don Fullerton (2003)
All urban centers in California violate the Federal standard for ozone. So far, the State...