Rate My Professor Ralf Steinhauser

Steinhauser's research specializations are behavioural economics, environmental and resource economics, fiscal policy, applied econometrics, experimental economics, and corporate social responsibility. Renowned for his skills in managing large datasets and designing experiments, he has advanced the understanding of carbon emissions trajectories, voluntary conservation behaviors, green economy collaborations, household consumption under relaxed constraints, policy effects on fertility, and the monetary valuation of road crash costs. His scholarly output includes highly cited papers such as "Forecasting the path of U.S. CO2 emissions using state-level information" with Maximilian Auffhammer (Review of Economics and Statistics, 2012, 78 citations); "International green economy collaborations: Chasing mutual gains in the energy transition" with Emma Aisbett, Wyatt Raynal, and Bruce Jones (Energy Research and Social Science, 2023, 46 citations); "Maintaining the common pool: Voluntary water conservation in response to varying scarcity" with Emma Aisbett (2014); "Impacts of policies on fertility rates" with Edith Gray and colleagues (2022, 21 citations); "A Test of the Permanent Income Hypothesis When Households are Less Constrained" with Emma Aisbett, Markus Brueckner, and Rhett Wilcox (Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2025); and the report "Social Cost of Road Crashes" with Emily Lancsar and team (2022). Steinhauser's work has informed public policy on taxation, environmental management, and safety economics.