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Education and Appointments

ORISE Research Fellow, US EPA Office of Water 2023-2025
Ph.D. Economics, University of Oregon, 2025
M.S. Economics, University of Oregon, 2021
B.A. Economics, University of Virginia, 2017
B.S. Commerce, University of Virginia, 2017

Publications

Optimal Subsidies for Residential Solar
Mark Colas and Emmett Reynier. Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics. [Paper]

Glyphosate exposure & GM seed rollout unequally reduced perinatal health
Emmett Reynier and Edward Rubin, 2025. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122 (3). [Paper]

Vertical Migration Externalities
Mark Colas and Emmett Reynier. 2023. Regional Science and Urban Economics. 101, 103900. [Paper]

Working papers

The Distributional Impacts of Climate Change across U.S. Local Labor Markets
Emmett Reynier and John Morehouse. Job Market Paper. [Paper]

Means Tested Solar Subsidies
Mark Colas and Emmett Reynier. Submitted. CESifo Working Paper 11378. [Paper]

Research in Progress

Out-of-sight, Out-of-mind? Distance Decay in Use and Non-use Value of Water Quality
Emmett Reynier and Xibo Wan. [Slides]

Teaching

EC 434/534: Environmental Economics, UO Fall 2024, Winter and Spring 2023
Instructor of record for upper level undergraduate/masters environmental economics course
EC 320: Introduction to Econometrics, UO Spring 2022
Instructor of record for first course in undergraduate econometrics sequence

Professional Experience

Research Assistant, Dr. Meredith Fowlie and Dr. Edward Rubin Eugene, OR 2021
Built a machine learning model to predict air pollution using a chemical transport model and weather data.
Senior Business Analyst, CarMax Richmond, Va 2019
Built a machine learning model to inform operational strategy and analyzed experiments to prove its value.
Business Analyst, CarMax Richmond, Va 2017-2019
Worked on a multidisciplinary team of marketing strategists, software engineers, and data analysts to improve carmax.com’s visibility in search engine results.

Presentations

2025 (including scheduled) University of New Hampshire, Duke (Nicholas), ISO New England, NC State (ARE), Indiana (BEPP), University of Georgia, AERE Summer Conference
2024 Cal Poly, US EPA NCEE, US EPA OPP, AERE Summer Conference, Social Cost of Water Pollution Workshop, University of Oregon, Heartland Workshop, Freddy Mac, Macquarie
2023 Freddie Mac, WEAI Annual Conference, Camp Resources XXIX, TWEEDS, AERE@OSWEET
2022 WEAI Annual Conference, SWELL, TWEEDS
2021 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics

Honors and Awards

Kleinsorge Summer Research Fellowship, UO 2022
Dale Underwood Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, UO 2020
Best 1st Year Econometrics Performance, UO 2020
First Year Fellowship, UO 2019-2020

Service

Referee: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, AERE@WEAI
First Year Student Mentor, UO: 2022, 2024

Skills

Computing: R, SQL, Julia, git
Visual: Markdown, LaTeX, Tableau
Languages: English, Spanish (intermediate)

Contact

Email:
Website: https://www.emmettreynier.com
Github: emmettreynier

References

Dr. Mark Colas
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
mcolas@uoregon.edu

Dr. Edward Rubin
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
edwardr@uoregon.edu

Dr. Eric Zou
Assistant Professor
University of Michigan
ericzou@umich.edu