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Sarah E. West Associate Professor Department of Economics Macalester College 1600 Grand Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105 Phone: 651-696-6482 Fax:     651-696-6746 E-mail: wests@macalester.edu Office: Carnegie 310-G Office Hours: Will resume in the fall

Courses Curriculum Vitae Selected Publications: "Fiscal and Externality Rationales for Alcohol Taxes," with Ian W. H. Parry and Ramanan Laxminarayan, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 9 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 29 (2009). "Optimal Taxation and Cross-Price Effects on Labor Supply: Estimates of the Optimal Gas Tax," with Roberton C. Williams III, Journal of Public Economics 91(April 2007): 593-617. "Open Space, Residential Property Values, and Spatial Context," with Soren T. Anderson, Regional Science and Urban Economics 36 (2006) 773-789. Environmental Issues in Latin America and the Caribbean (co-edited with Aldemaro Romero) (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer Press, 2005). "The Cost of Reducing Gasoline Consumption," with Roberton C. Williams III, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, May 2005. "Equity Implications of Vehicle Emissions Taxes," Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 39 (1) (January 2005) 1-24. "Estimates from a Consumer Demand System: Implications for the Incidence of Environmental Taxes," with Roberton C. Williams III, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 47 (2004) 535-558. "Distributional Effects of Alternative Vehicle Pollution Control Policies," Journal of Public Economics 88 (2004) 735-757.  Public Finance Solutions to Vehicle Emissions Problems in California, with Don Fullerton. (Berkeley, CA: The Berkeley Electronic Press, 2003). "Can Taxes on Cars and on Gasoline Mimic an Unavailable Tax on Emissions?" with Don Fullerton. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 42 (January 2002): pp. 135-157. Working Papers: "Alcohol/Leisure Complementarity: Empirical Estimates and Implications for Tax Policy," with Ian W. H. Parry, RFF Discussion Paper No. 09-09 (April 2009). "Market-based Policies for Pollution Control in Latin America" with Ann Wolverton. Working Paper 2003-01, National Center for Environmental Economics, Environmental Protection Agency. Working paper version of Journal of Public Economics publication "Distributional Effects of Alternative Vehicle Pollution Control Policies" (September 2002). "Tax and Subsidy Combinations for the Control of Car Pollution," with Don Fullerton. NBER Working Paper #7774 (July 2000). Work in Progress: “Testing for Consumer Myopia: The Effect of Gasoline Price Changes on the Demand for Fuel Economy in Used Vehicles,” with Jim Sallee. “The Effect of Gasoline Prices on Sport-Utility Vehicle Purchases”