Brian Prest

@bprest

Economist @rff, via @DukeU, @NERA_Economics, & @USCBO. Opinions my own.

Washington, DC brianprest.com Joined October 2010

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Gasoline prices have been doing something strange recently. When crude prices crashed in June, gas prices didn't follow, and this wasn't just the usual "rockets and feathers" lag. This interactive data tool I built explores up just how unusual this is (bprest.github.io/data-tools/gas…).

Brian Prest @bprest May 6, 2025

The House Natural Resources Committee today is marking up its piece of the reconciliation bill currently making its way through Congress.

Brian Prest @bprest Apr 6, 2023

Wonky paper alert! New @RFF working paper, "The Shadow Price of Capital", with @billypizer and @richardgnewell
rff.org/publications/w…

Brian Prest @bprest Apr 5, 2023

All credit for this brilliant paper title goes to @cjwich

JAERE @JaereAere Apr 4, 2023

📢🏆🥇Announcing the inaugural @JaereAere March Madness Best Article Title Champion:

"RCTs against the Machine: Can Machine Learning Prediction Methods Recover Experimental Treatment Effects?"

by: @bprest, @cjwich & @Klpalmer7

Read the winning paper: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

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Brian Prest @bprest Apr 4, 2023

We did it! @cjwich, @Klpalmer7

JAERE @JaereAere Apr 3, 2023

🚨 JAERE's March Madness FINAL ROUND 🚨

🍸Cournot, Pigou & Ricardo Walk into a Bar: Unilateral Enviro Policy and Leakage w/ Market Power and Firm Heterogeneity

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🎸RCTs against the Machine: Can Machine Learning Prediction Methods Recover Experimental Treatment Effects?
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