Paul H. O’Neill
School of Public and Environmental Affairs

Phone:

(317) 531-0982

Email:

zwendlin@indiana.edu

Campus:

IU Bloomington

Education

• Ph.D., School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 2016
• MPA-MSES, Indiana University, 2004
• BS, Biology, Indiana University, 2002

Biography

Courses Taught

• Statistical Techniques
• Environment and People

Selected Publications

• “Estimating State and Sub-State Economic Effects of a Carbon Dioxide Tax Policy: An Application of a New Multi-Region Energy-Economy Econometric Model,” (with D. Warren, J. Bower-Bir, H. Fields, K. Richards, and B. Rubin),  Regional Science Policy and Practice 7 (3): 119–139 (2015)
•  “An Energy-Economy Econometric Model for Conducting State-Level Energy Policy Analysis,” (with D. Warren, B. Rubin, S. Carley, and K. Richards)  Energy Research and Social Science, (submitted December 21, 2015)
• “On the Importance of Strengthening Moderate Beliefs in Climate Science to Foster Support for Immediate Action,” (with S. Attari, S. Carley, R. Krause, D. Warren, J. Rupp, and J. Graham), Sustainability, 5 (12): 5153-5170 (2013)

News Articles

• “Why so many climate doubters in the U.S.?” - News-Decoder, December 9, 2015 (quoted)
• “Saving daylight, not energy” - Indiana Daily Student, March 10, 2015 (quoted)

Research Interests

Energy policy, climate policy, applied econometrics, program evaluation, information economics

Honors & Awards

• Selected participant, Doctoral Student Consortium for the Public and Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 2014
• Selected participant, Graduate Research Workshop on the European Union, Colorado European Union Center for Excellence, Boulder, May 2014.
• Selected participant, International School for Energy Systems, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Kloster Seeon, Bavaria, Germany, October 2012

Presentations

• Wendling, Z., Warren, D., Bower-Bir, J., Rubin, B., Richards, K., and Carley, S. “A New Tool for Sub-State Modeling of Energy and Climate Policy: The Indiana Scalable Energy and Economy Model” Paper presented at the 37th Annual Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Miami, FL, November 2015.
• Wendling, Z. “Mitigating the climate impacts of shale gas development under uncertainty.” Paper presented at the 33rd U.S. Association for Energy Economics / International Association for Energy Economics North American Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2015.
• Wendling, Z. “The Uncertain Impacts of Shale Gas on Climate Change: A Decision-Making Perspective.” Paper presented at the Dupont Summit on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy Issues, Washington, D.C., December 2014.
• Rubin, B., Carley, S., Richards, K., Wendling, Z., Warren, D., Bower-Bir, J., and Fields, H. “The Indiana Scalable Energy-Economy Model: The Substate Effect of Carbon Dioxide Taxes.” Paper presented at the 36th Annual Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Albuquerque, New Mexico, November 2014.
• Wendling, Z., Warren, D., Bower-Bir, J., Fields, H., Richards, K., and Rubin, B. “Estimating State and Sub-State Economic Effects of a Carbon Dioxide Tax Policy: An Application of a New Multi-Region Energy-Economy Econometric Model.” Paper and poster presented at the Association for University Business and Economic Research Fall Conference, Portland, Oregon, October 2014.
• Wendling, Z. “The Assessment of Building Energy Codes in the Commercial Sector." Paper presented at the 14th Annual Association of SPEA Ph.D. Students Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, March 2014.
• Rubin, B., Slaper, T., Warren, D., and Wendling, Z. “Evaluating the Economic Impacts of Unnaturally High Natural Gas Prices: Policy Analysis of Substitute Natural Gas Pricing Subsidies.” Poster presented at the 35^th Annual Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November 2013.
• Rubin, B., Wendling, Z., Warren, D., Carley, S., and Richards, K. “Modeling the Impacts of State Energy Policies.” Paper presented at the 32nd U.S. Association for Energy Economics / International Association for Energy Economics North American Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, July 2013.
• Wendling, Z. “The Effectiveness of Building Energy Codes in the Commercial Sector." Paper presented at the 32nd U.S. Association for Energy Economics / International Association for Energy Economics North American Conference, Anchorage, Alaska, July 2013.
• Rubin, B., Wendling, Z., Warren, D., Carley, S., Richards, K., and Randolph, J. “Evaluating the Impacts of State Energy Efficiency and Demand Side Management Policies.” Paper presented at the 34^th Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2012.
• Wendling, Z., Richards, K., Rubin, B., Carley, S., Warren, D., Allerhand, J., and Batto, S. “Integrated Assessment of State Climate Policy.” Poster presented at the 33rd Annual Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, D.C., November 2011.
• Wendling, Z., Richards, K., Rubin, B., Carley, S., Warren, D., Allerhand, J. “State-level integrated assessment: energy prices and economic responses.” Poster presented at the 30th U.S. Association for Energy Economics / International Association for Energy Economics North American Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2011.
• Wendling, Z. “A Test of Incentive-Based Instruments as Frames Causing Motivational Crowding.” Paper presented at the 10th Annual Association of SPEA Ph.D. Students Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, April 2010.