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Wayne B. Gray holds the John T. Croteau Chair in Economics. He's taught at Clark since 1984, when he received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. Professor Gray is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Executive Director of the Boston Federal Statistical Research Data Center. His research focuses on regulatory effectiveness and the economic consequences of government regulation of environmental and workplace hazards. He has studied regulation's impact on employment, productivity, investment and plant location, primarily using plant-level manufacturing data, as well as demonstrating improvements in workplace safety and health, regulatory compliance and pollution emissions. His current projects include one that examines the factors driving differences across states in construction workplace fatalities and another using differences in the distribution of greenhouse gas emissions across plants within an industry to predict the impact of proposed regulations on that industry.
Professor Gray regularly teaches PhD courses in Applied Econometrics (Econ 366) and Environmental Spatial Analysis (Econ 359). He also teaches Labor Economics (Econ 222/322) and runs the Economics honors thesis course (Econ 297).Degrees
- Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 1984
- M.A. in Economics, Harvard University, 1979
- B.A. in Economics and Mathematics, Dartmouth College, 1977
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When do Firms Shift Production Across States to Avoid Environmental Regulation?
Land Economics
March
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2024
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Documenting the 1973 and 1978 Surveys of Water Use in Manufacturing (SWUM)
August
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2023
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Issue #Census Technical Note CES-TN-2023-14
U.S. Census Bureau - Center for Economic Studies
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Preventing Construction Deaths: The Role of Public Policies
Regulation and Governance
July
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2023
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Vol. 17
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Issue #3
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Environmental Regulation and Labor Demand – What Does the Evidence Tell Us?
Annual Review of Resource Economics
Fall
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2023
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How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?
Environmental and Resource Economics
November
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2022
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Issue #83(3)
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Environmental Economics
Chapter: Economics of Environmental Compliance and EnforcementPublished by Oxford University Press
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2022
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The re-occurrence of violations in occupational safety and health administration inspections
Regulation & Governance
October 2021
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2021
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Vol. 15
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Issue #4
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NBER-CES Manufacturing Industry Database
March
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2021
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THE IMPACT OF EPA’S CLUSTER RULE ON PLANT LEVEL PRODUCTIVITY
AERE Virtual Conference
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Virtual
Jun
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2020
Sponsored by Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
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How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?
NBER working paper
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2020
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Issue #WP 26629
NBER
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Cambridge, MA
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Awards & Grants
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Contribution of State Consultations to Preventing Fatalities in Construction
NIOSH - CPWR
Jun. 1, 2023 - May. 31, 2024
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Assessing Public Policy Intervention on Construction Fatality Rates
NIOSH
Aug. 1, 2019 - Feb. 28, 2020
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Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award
Clark University
2017
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Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award
Clark University
2016
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