David Rapson

4.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

David Rapson is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Economics and Econometrics and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, David Rapson has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 20 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 18 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in David Rapson's work include Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (23 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (17 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (9 papers). David Rapson is often cited by papers focused on Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies (23 papers), Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure (17 papers) and Energy Efficiency and Management (9 papers). David Rapson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. David Rapson's co-authors include Kenneth Gillingham, Gernot Wagner, Katrina Jessoe, Catherine Hausman, Matthew Harding, Erich Muehlegger, Matthew J. Kotchen, James Archsmith, Alissa Kendall and Mar Reguant and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and American Economic Review.

In The Last Decade

David Rapson

40 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

The Rebound Effect and Energy Efficiency Policy 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 2018 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. The Rebound Effect and Energy Efficiency Policy
    2015 447 citations Kenneth Gillingham, David Rapson et al. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy profile →
  2. Regression Discontinuity in Time: Considerations for Empirical Applications
    2018 295 citations David Rapson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Rapson United States 18 1.4k 867 652 350 322 41 2.4k
Mark Jaccard Canada 30 1.6k 1.1× 1.4k 1.6× 793 1.2× 344 1.0× 725 2.3× 89 3.1k
Erin T. Mansur United States 28 1.5k 1.1× 1.8k 2.0× 1.2k 1.8× 389 1.1× 341 1.1× 60 3.6k
Linus Mattauch Germany 16 902 0.6× 1.1k 1.3× 239 0.4× 222 0.6× 380 1.2× 45 2.2k
Nick Eyre United Kingdom 27 1.0k 0.7× 566 0.7× 784 1.2× 119 0.3× 446 1.4× 65 3.0k
Ray Galvin United Kingdom 29 1.3k 0.9× 414 0.5× 434 0.7× 220 0.6× 559 1.7× 88 3.1k
Manuel Frondel Germany 28 1.2k 0.8× 1.7k 2.0× 398 0.6× 177 0.5× 399 1.2× 179 3.3k
Joyce Dargay United Kingdom 23 1.6k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 304 0.5× 1.2k 3.3× 369 1.1× 59 3.7k
Rachel M. Krause United States 26 768 0.5× 518 0.6× 961 1.5× 526 1.5× 69 0.2× 56 2.9k
Christopher R. Knittel United States 31 1.6k 1.2× 2.0k 2.4× 1.1k 1.6× 430 1.2× 293 0.9× 103 3.9k
Georgina Santos United Kingdom 27 594 0.4× 619 0.7× 436 0.7× 922 2.6× 164 0.5× 64 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by David Rapson

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Rapson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Rapson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Rapson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Rapson based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Rapson. David Rapson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kilian, Lutz, et al.. (2025). The Impact of the 2022 Oil Embargo and Price Cap on Russian Oil Prices. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Working Papers. 2024(2401). 1 indexed citations
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Christensen, Peter, Patrick Baylis, Teevrat Garg, et al.. (2024). How to spend one trillion dollars: the US decarbonization conundrum. Nature. 634(8036). 1050–1052. 1 indexed citations
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Kilian, Lutz, et al.. (2024). The Impact of the 2022 Oil Embargo and Price Cap on Russian Oil Prices. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Working Papers. 2024(2401). 1 indexed citations
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Rapson, David & Erich Muehlegger. (2023). Global Transportation Decarbonization. The Journal of Economic Perspectives. 37(3). 163–188. 14 indexed citations
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Rapson, David, et al.. (2023). Global Transportation Decarbonization. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Working Papers. 2023(2309).
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Rapson, David & Erich Muehlegger. (2023). Global Transportation Decarbonization. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Rapson, David & Erich Muehlegger. (2023). The Economics of Electric Vehicles. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. 17(2). 274–294. 43 indexed citations
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Muehlegger, Erich & David Rapson. (2022). Subsidizing low- and middle-income adoption of electric vehicles: Quasi-experimental evidence from California. Journal of Public Economics. 216. 104752–104752. 50 indexed citations
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Rapson, David, et al.. (2022). The Electric Ceiling: Limits and Costs of Full Electrification. Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Working Papers. 2022(2220). 3 indexed citations
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Fabra, Natalia, et al.. (2021). Estimating the Elasticity to Real-Time Pricing: Evidence from the Spanish Electricity Market. AEA Papers and Proceedings. 111. 425–429. 40 indexed citations
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Burlig, Fiona, James Bushnell, David Rapson, & Catherine Wolfram. (2021). Low Energy: Estimating Electric Vehicle Electricity Use. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Rapson, David & Erich Muehlegger. (2021). The Economics of Electric Vehicles. SSRN Electronic Journal. 3 indexed citations
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Burlig, Fiona, Christopher R. Knittel, David Rapson, Mar Reguant, & Catherine Wolfram. (2020). Machine Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. 7(6). 1181–1217. 44 indexed citations
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Jessoe, Katrina & David Rapson. (2014). Knowledge is (Less) Power: Experimental Evidence from Residential Energy Use. American Economic Review. 104(4). 1417–1438. 395 indexed citations
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Jessoe, Katrina, David Rapson, & Jeremy Smith. (2014). Towards understanding the role of price in residential electricity choices: Evidence from a natural experiment. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 107. 191–208. 21 indexed citations
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Rapson, David & Pasquale Schiraldi. (2013). Internet and the efficiency of decentralized markets: Evidence from automobiles. Economics Letters. 121(2). 232–235. 8 indexed citations
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Gillingham, Kenneth, Matthew J. Kotchen, David Rapson, & Gernot Wagner. (2013). The rebound effect is overplayed. Nature. 493(7433). 475–476. 275 indexed citations
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Gillingham, Kenneth, Matthew Harding, & David Rapson. (2012). Split Incentives in Residential Energy Consumption. The Energy Journal. 33(2). 37–62. 242 indexed citations
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Kotlikoff, Laurence J. & David Rapson. (2006). Does it Pay, at the Margin, to Work and Save? -- Measuring Effective Marginal Taxes on AmericansA Labor Supply and Saving. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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Rapson, David, et al.. (1995). Kiln flame shape optimisation using a gyro-therm gas burner. Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide). 26(7). 61–62. 5 indexed citations

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