We use a variety of well-tested and novel approaches to understanding how to balance economic, social and environmental objectives. From cost-benefit analysis to machine learning, CEOS members use and advance methods to model complex social-environmental systems, estimate impact of interventions and design optimal policy solutions to enable us to build a more sustainable society.
Research Output
| Title | Publication | Authors | Year Published | Category | Method | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identifying the key atmospheric and economic drivers of global carbon monoxide emission transfers | Economic Systems Research | Sandy Dall’erba, Nicole Riemer, Yilan Xu, Ran Xu, Yu Yao | 2024 | EE | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Alternatives to Utility-Scale Solar on agricultural lands: Adoption potential and impacts of utility-scale and agrivoltaic solar on permanent and marginal cropland | Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Paul Mwebaze, James McCall, Katy Waechter, Mengqi Jia, Bin Peng, Ruiqing Miao, Guan Kaiyu, Jordan Macknick | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Social learning about climate risks | Economic Inquiry | Yilan Xu, Sébastien Box-Couillard | 2024 | EE | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Designing Payments to Induce Low Carbon Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production in US Croplands | Fahd Majeed, Madhu Khanna, Ruiqing Miao | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper | |
| High Costs of GHG Abatement with Electrifying the Light-Duty Vehicle Fleet with Heterogeneous Preferences of Vehicle Consumers | Madhu Khanna, Jia Zhong, Kalai Ramea | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper | |
| The Case for Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies | Environments | Gal Hochman, Vijay Appasamy | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Advancing Agrivoltaics through a Systematic Design Framework: Guidelines for Integration and Informed Decision-Making | Nenad Miljkovic, Xuzhi Du, Alexandra Solecki, Vivek S Garimella, Mengqi Jia, Bin Peng, Paul Mwebaze, James McCall, Fahd Majeed, Alson Time, Jinwook Kim, Matthew Sturchio, Kaiyu Guan, Madhu Khanna, Carl J Bernacchi, DoKyoung Lee, Alan Knapp, Greg Barron-Gafford, Bruce Branham | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Strategic innovation and technology adoption under technological uncertainty | Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control | Fanglin Ye, Nicholas Paulson, Madhu Khanna | 2024 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Spatially Varying Costs of GHG Abatement with Alternative Cellulosic Feedstocks for Sustainable Aviation Fuels | Environmental Science & Technology | Xinxin Fan, Madhu Khanna, Yuanyao Lee, Jeffrey Kent, Rui Shi, Jeremy S Guest, DoKyoung Lee | 2024 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Climate vs Energy Security: Quantifying the Trade-offs of BECCS Deployment and Overcoming Opportunity Costs on Set-Aside Land | Environmental Science & Technology | Madhu Khanna, Elena Blanc-Betes, Nuria Gomez-Casanovas, Melannie D Hartman, Tara W Hudiburg, William J Parton, Evan H DeLucia | 2023 | EE | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Factors driving aggregate service sector energy intensities in Asia and Eastern Europe: A LMDI analysis | Energy Policy | Jianda Wanga, Kangyin Dong, Gal Hochman, & Govinda R. Timilsina | 2023 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Knowns, uncertainties, and challenges in agrivoltaics to sustainably intensify energy and food production | Cell Reports Physical Science | Madhu Khanna, Nuria Gomez-Casanovas, Paul Mwebaze, Bruce Branham, Alson Time, Evan H DeLucia, Carl J Bernacchi, Alan K Knapp, Muhammad J Hoque, Xuzhi Du, Elena Blanc-Betes, Greg A Barron-Gafford, Bin Peng, Kaiyu Guan, Jordan Macknick, Ruiqing Miao, Nenad Miljkovic | 2023 | EE | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Land use effects of biofuel production in the US | Environmental Research Communications | Madhu Khanna, Weiwei Wang | 2023 | EE | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Maize farmers acquire early maturity seed across production environments | CGIAR | Hope Michelson, Pieter Rutsaert, Jason A Donovan, Hanna S Willwerth, Colleta Nabwile, John Muthee | 2023 | FA, EE | N/A | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Responsiveness of miscanthus and switchgrass yields to stand age and nitrogen fertilization: A meta-regression analysis | GCB-Energy | Bijay P. Sharma, B.P., Zhang, N., Lee, D., Heaton, E., Delucia, E.H., Sacks, E.J., Kantola, I.B., Boersma, N.N., Long, S.P., Voigt, T.B., & Khanna, M. | 2022 | FA, EE | (OM) Other | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| An agent-based modeling tool supporting bioenergy and bio-product community communication regarding cellulosic bioeconomy development | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | Yang, P., Cai, X., Hu, X., Zhao, Q., Lee, Y., Khanna, M... | 2022 | EE | (PD) Policy Design, (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Does unconventional energy extraction generate more wastewater? A lifetime perspective | Ecological Economics | Xu, M., Xu, Y., Khanna, M. | 2022 | LW, EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Are renewable energy policies effective to promote technological change? The role of induced technological risk | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Ye, F., Paulson, N., & Khanna, M. |
2022 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| WTP for post-flood buyout commitment | Land Economcis | Ando, A.W., & Reeser, C. | 2022 | EE | (VA) Valuation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Repeal of the clean power plan: Social cost and distributional implications | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Khanna, M., Chen, X., Wang, W., & Oliver, A. | 2021 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Assessing the returns to land and greenhouse gas savings from producing energy crops on conservation reserve program land | Environmental Science & Technology | Chen, L., Blanc-Betes, E., Hudiburg, T.W., Hellerstein, D., Wallander, S., DeLucia, E.H., & Khanna, M. | 2021 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Reduced river discharge under climate change impairs electricity generation and the economic feasibility of future Amazon hydropower | Global Environmental Change | Rafael M. Almeida, Ayan S. Fleischmann, João P.F. Brêda, Diego S. Cardoso, Hector Angarita, Walter Collischonn, Bruce Forsberg, Roosevelt García-Villacorta, Stephen K. Hamilton, Phillip M. Hannam, Rodrigo Paiva, N. LeRoy Poff, Suresh A. Sethi, Qinru Shi, Carla P. Gomes, Alexander S. Flecker | 2021 | EE | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Lessons learned from US experience with biofuels: Comparing the hype with the evidence | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy | Khanna, M., Rajagopal, D., & Zilberman, D. | 2021 | EE | (OM) Other | |
| The demand for mobility: Evidence from an experiment with Uber riders | IZA Discussion Paper | Christensen, P., & Osman, A. | 2021 | EE, SC | (FE) Field Experiment | |
| Optimal environmental taxation in response to an environmentally-unfriendly political challenger | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Hochman, Gal & David Zilberman | 2021 | EE | (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Economic viability and carbon footprint of switchgrass for cellulosic biofuels: Insights from a spatial multi‐feedstock procurement landscape analysis | GCB Bioenergy | Sesmero, J.P., Trull, N.U, & Gramig, B.M | 2021 | EE | (SM) System Modeling, (OM) Other | |
| Adoption of perennial energy crops in the US Midwest: Causal and heterogeneous determinants | Biomass and Bioenergy | Yang, P., Cai, X., Leibensperger, C., & Khanna, M. | 2021 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Redefining marginal land for bioenergy crop production | GCB Bioenergy | Khanna, K., Chen, L., Basso, B., Cai, X., Field, J.L., Guan, K., Jiang, C., Lark, T.J., Richard, T.L., Spawn‐Lee, S.A., Yang, P., & Zipp, K.Y. | 2021 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The economic and environmental costs and benefits of the renewable fuel standard | Environmental Research Letters | Chen, L., Debnath, D., Zhong, J., Ferin, K., VanLoocke, A., & Khanna, M. | 2021 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Fraccidents: The impact of fracking on road traffic deaths | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Xu, M., & Xu, Y. | 2020 | EE, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Social comparison nudges without monetary incentives: Evidence from home energy reports | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Myers, E. & Souza, M. |
2020 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Assessing the additional carbon savings with biofuel | Bioenergy Research | Khanna, M., Wang, W. & Wang, M. | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Decomposing the wedge between projected and realized savings in energy efficiency programs | E2e Working Paper | Christensen, P., Francisco, P., Myers, E., & Souza, M. | 2020 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| COVID‐19: A cloud with a silver lining for renewable energy? | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Khanna, M. | 2020 | EE | (OM) Other | |
| Decomposing the wedge between projected and realized savings in energy efficiency programs | E2e Working Paper | Christensen, P., Francisco, P., Myers, E., & Souza, M. (2020). | 2020 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Repeal of the Clean Power Plan: Social Cost And Distributional Implications | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | X. chen, W. Wang and A. Oliver | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Biofuels and Their Potential in South Korea | Sustainability | Hochman, Gal & Tabakis, Chrysostomos | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The Potential Implications of the Introduction of Bioelectricity in South Korea | Sustainability | Hochman, Gal & Tabakis, Chrysostomos | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Housing discrimination and the toxics exposure gap in the United States: Evidence from the rental market | Review of Economics and Statistics | Christensen, P., Sarmiento-Barbieri, I., & Timmins, C. | 2020 | EE, SC | (OM) Other | |
| Non-Constant Elasticity of Substitution and Intermittent Renewable Energy | ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering | Aleti, S. & G. Hochman | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Potential for large-scale CO2 removal via enhanced rock weathering with croplands | Nature | Beerling, D.J., Kantzas, E.P., Lomas, M.R., Wade, P., Eufrasio, R.M., Renforth, P., Sarkar, B., Andrews, M.G., James, R.H., Pearce, C.R., Mercure, J.F., Pollitt, H., Holden, P.B., Edwards, N.R., Khanna, M., Koh, L., Quegan, S., Pidgeon, N.F., Janssens, I.A., Hansen, J., & Banwart, S.A. | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Total cost of carbon capture and storage implemented at a regional scale: northeastern and midwestern United States | Interface Focus | William J. Schmelz, Gal Hochman, & Kenneth G. Miller | 2020 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Do unconventional oil and gas wells generate more wastewater? A lifespan perspective | SSRN Working Paper | Xu, M., Xu, Y., & Khanna, M. | 2020 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Are home buyers inattentive? Evidence from capitalization of energy costs | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | Myers, E. |
2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Effect of wind turbines on bird abundance: A national scale analysis based on fixed effects models | Energy Policy | Miao, R., Ghosh, P. N., Khanna, M., Wang, W., & Rong, J. |
2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Multi-objective optimization for sustainable renewable jet fuel production: A case study of corn stover based supply chain system in Midwestern U.S. | Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews | Huang, E., Zhang, X., Rodriguez, L., Khanna, M., de jong, S., Ting, K.C., Ying, Y. |
2019 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Adopting energy crops: Does farmers' attitude toward loss matter? | Agricultural Economics | Anand, M., Miao, R. & Khanna, M. | 2019 | FA, EE | (PD) Policy Design, (SM) System Modeling | |
| Are consumers attentive to local energy costs? Evidence from the appliance market | National Bureau of Economic Research | Houde, S., & Myers, E. |
2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Harnessing advances in agricultural technologies to optimize resource utilization in the food-energy-water nexus | Annual Review of Resource Economics | Miao, R. and M. Khanna | 2019 | FA, EE | (OM) Other | |
| Effects of mandatory energy efficiency disclosure in housing markets | National Bureau of Economic Research | Myers, E., Puller, S. L., & West, J. D. |
2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Is wood pellet-based electricity less carbon-intensive than coal-based electricity? It depends on perspectives, baselines, feedstocks, and forest management practices | Environmental Research Letters | Dwivedi, P., M. Khanna and M. Fuller | 2019 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Effects of mandatory energy efficiency disclosure in housing markets | National Bureau of Economic Research | 2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | ||
| Heterogeneous (mis-) perceptions of energy costs: Implications for measurement and policy design | National Bureau of Economic Research | Houde, S., & Myers, E. |
2019 | EE | (PD) Policy Design, (VA) Valuation | |
| The distributional effects of building energy codes | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Bruegge, C., Deryugina, T., & Myers, E. |
2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Effect of corn ethanol production on conservation reserve program acres in the US | Applied Energy | Chen, X., & Khanna, M. |
2018 | LW, EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Effects of ethanol plant proximity and crop prices on land-use change in the United States | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Li, Y., Miao, R., & Khanna, M. |
2018 | FA, EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Multicriterion optimal electric drive vehicle selection based on lifecycle emission and lifecycle cost | Energy Economics | Ahmadi, P., Cai, X.M., & Khanna, M. |
2018 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Spatial distribution of welfare costs of renewable portfolio standards in the United States electricity sector | Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences | Oliver, A.C. , & Khanna, M. |
2018 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Asymmetric information is residential rental markets: Implications for the energy efficiency gap | E2e Working Paper | Myers, E. | 2018 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Bioenergy economics and policy in US and Brazil: Effects on land use and greenhouse gas emissions | Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy (Volume II) | Khanna, M., & Zilberman, D. |
2017 | LW, EE | (OM) Other | |
| Costs of Meeting a Cellulosic biofuel mandate with perennial energy crops: Implications for policy | Energy Economics | Miao, R., & Khanna, M. |
2017 | FA, EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Demand for Biomass to meet renewable energy targets in the US: Implications for land use | Global Change Biology Bioenergy | Oliver, A.C., & Khanna, M. |
2017 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Effectiveness of the biomass crop assistance program: Roles of behavioral factors, credit constraint, and program design | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Miao, R., & Khanna, M. |
2017 | FA, EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy | Handbook of Bioenergy Economics and Policy (Volume II) | Khanna, M., & Zilberman, D. |
2017 | EE | (OM) Other | |
| Is forest bioenergy carbon neutral or worse than coal? Implications of carbon accounting methods | International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics | Khanna, M., Dwivedi, P., & Abt, R. |
2017 | EE | (OM) Other | |
| Motivations to grow energy crops: The role of crop and contract attributes | Agricultural Economics | Khanna, M., Louviere, J. J, & Yang, X. |
2017 | EE | (VA) Valuation | |
| Nexus between food, energy and ecosystem services in the Mississippi River basin: Policy implications and challenges | Choices | Khanna, M. |
2017 | FA, EE | (OM) Other | |
| The social inefficiency of regulating indirect land use change due to biofuels | Nature Communications | Khanna, M., Wang, W., Hudiburg, T., & DeLucia, E. |
2017 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Environmental hazards and mortgage credit risk: Evidence from Texas pipeline incidents | Real Estate Economics | Xu, M., & Xu, Y. | 2017 | EE, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| What is the cost of a renewable energy-based approach to greenhouse gas mitigation? | Land Economics | Oliver, A.C., & Khanna, M. |
2017 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Who pays and who gains from fuel policies in Brazil? | Energy Economics | Khanna, M., Nunez, H., & Zilberman, D. |
2016 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Efficacy of carbon and bioenergy markets in mitigating carbon emissions on reforested lands: A case study from southern United States | Forest Policy and Economics | Dwivedi, P., Khanna, M., Sharma, A., & Susaeta, A. |
2016 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Impacts of a 32 billion gallon bioenergy landscape on land and fossil fuel use in the US | Nature Energy | Hudiburg, T.W., Wang, W., Khanna, M., Long, S. P., Dwivedi, P., Parton, W. J., Hartmann, M., & DeLucia, E.H. |
2016 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Trade-facilitated technology spillovers in energy productivity convergence processes across EU countries | Energy Economics | Wan, J., Baylis, K., & Mulder, P. |
2015 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Carbon savings with transatlantic trade in pellets: Accounting for market-driven effects | Environmental Research Letters | Wang, W., Dwivedi, P. Abt, R., & Khanna, M. |
2015 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Cost of abating greenhouse gas emissions with cellulosic ethanol | Environmental Science and Technology | Dwividi, P., Wang, W., Hudiburg, T., Jaiswal, D., Parton, W., Long, S., DeLucia, E., & Khanna, M. |
2015 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Impacts of management practices on bioenergy feedstock yield and economic feasibility on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands | GCB Bioenergy | Anderson, E.K., Aberle, E., Chen, C., Egenolf, J., Harmonmey, K., Kakani, G., Kallenbach, R.L., Khanna, M., Wang, W., & Lee, D.K. |
2015 | LW, EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Managing multiple mandates: A system of systems model to analyze strategies for producing cellulosic ethanol and reducing riverine nitrate loads in the upper Mississippi River basin | Environmental Science and Technology | Housh, M., Yaeger, M., Cai, X., McIsaac, G., Khanna, M., Sivapalan, M., Ouyang, Y., Al-Qadi, I., & Jain, A. | 2015 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Mix of first and second generation biofuels to meet multiple environmental objectives: Implications for policy at a watershed scale | Water Policy Economics | Housh, M., Khanna, M., & Cai, X. |
2015 | EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Renewable energy policies for eco-innovation | Managing Emerging Technologies for Socio-Economic Impact | Dombrovski, R. (eds) Assimakopoulos, D., Oshri, I., & Pandza, K. | 2015 | EE, SC | (PD) Policy Design | |
| Optimal mix of vertical integration and contracting for energy crops effect of risk preferences and land quality | Applied Economic Policy and Perspectives | Yang, X., Paulson, N. D., & Khanna, M. |
2015 | FA, EE | (SM) System Modeling | |
| Effectiveness of financial and fiscal instruments for promoting sustainable renewable energy technologies | Economic and Business Review | 2015 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design |