Isaac Duah

• Vita

Education

• Ph.D., Economics, Washington State University, 2018 (Expected).
• M.S., Electricity, Natural Gas and Telecommunication Economics, Illinois State University, 2013.
• B.A., Economics, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.

Fields of Interest

• Energy Economics
• Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
• Applied Econometrics

Working Papers

• Isaac Duah, (2017). “The Green Paradox: Evidence from the Clean Power Plan”, (Job Market Paper)
• Isaac Duah, Ana Espinola-Arrendondo, Felix Munoz (2018). “When Does the Green Paradox Fail? The Anticipatory Effects of Taxation.” ( Under Review – Journal of Environmental Economics and Management)

Work in Progress

• Isaac Duah and Alan Love. “Predicting Weather-related System Outages: a Look at Weather Forecast”
• Isaac Duah. ” Expanding the Transmission Network for Renewable Resources: What Has Q Got to Say?”

Presentations

• “The Impact of Environmental Regulation on the US Coal Industry: A Counterfactual Analysis.” 2017. United States Association of Energy Economists Conference. Houston, TX.
• “The Green Paradox: Evidence from the Clean Power Plan.” 2017. School of Economic Sciences Seminar Series, Washington State University.
• “The Green Paradox: Evidence from the Clean Power Plan.” 2016. United States Association of Energy Economists Conference. Tulsa, OK.

Research Experience

Research Assistant, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University

• Dr. Alan Love,  Resilient Interdependent Infrastructure Processes and Systems-NSF Grant
  Spring 2015 – Present.

Research Associate, Department of Energy Sunshot Initiative, Illinois State University

• Dr. David Loomis, 2012-2014

Teaching Experience

Instructor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University

• Managing the Global Environment (Econs 430 Syllabus-Fall 2018), Fall 2017 & Fall 2018
• Money and Banking (ECON 320)-Global Campus (online), Fall 2016 & Spring 2017

Teaching Assistant, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University

• Business Management Economics (ECONS 352), Spring 2016.

Selected Scholarships and Awards

• School of Economic Sciences Travel Grant, Washington State University, 2017.
• Berkeley Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics (Fellowship), UC Berkeley, 2017.
• Graduate and Professional Students Association Research Grant, 2016.

Skills

• Computer: STATA, MATLAB, R, SAS, GAUSS, Python
• Languages: English (fluent), Twi ( Native), French (beginner)

References

• Dr. Alan Love (Advisor), Associate Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, a.love@wsu.edu.
• Dr. Jill McCluskey (Committee Member), Associate Director and Professor of Sustainability, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, mccluskey@wsu.edu.
• Dr. Ana Espinola-Arrendondo (Committee Member), Associate Professor, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, anaespinola@wsu.edu.