Publications
(Selected publications; please see CV for the full list)
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Renewable energy development: Technology acceptance and policy support
"Rural exploitation" in solar energy development? A field survey experiment in South Korea on solar energy support in rural areas. Energy Research & Social Science, 2025, 119: 103837. (Pre-Study) (Replication)
Rural opposition to landscape change from solar energy: Explaining the diffusion of setback restrictions on solar farms across South Korean counties. Energy Research & Social Science, 2023, 99: 103073. (Replication) (Featured in Forbes and Energy Daily News)
Wind turbines as new smokestacks: Preserving ruralness and restrictive land-use ordinances across U.S. counties. PLOS ONE, 2023, 18(12): e0294563. (Replication)
Causal effects of place, people, and process on rooftop solar adoption through Bayesian Inference. Energy, 2023, 285: 129510.
Renewable energy & climate change nexus
Same policy, different dreams: Explaining the variation in Local Net-zero Policy Stringency in South Korea. Forthcoming in Climate Policy. (Replication)
Who supports climate mitigation through increasing renewable energy surcharge? Evidence from an online survey in South Korea. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2025, Forthcoming. (Pre-study) (Replication)
Have renewable energy leaders announced aggressive emission reduction goals? Examining the variations in the stringency of country-level net-zero emission pledges. PLOS Climate, 2022, 1(11): e0000094. (Replication) (Featured in Forbes, The Regulatory Review, Skeptical Science, and Reputation)
Climate change politics & policy
Stock markets, corporate climate pledges, and the Science-Based Target Initiative. npj Climate Action, 2024, 3: 69. (Replication) (Featured in The Regulatory Review)
Signaling climate resilience to municipal bond markets: Does membership in adaptation-focused voluntary clubs affect bond rating? Climatic Change, 2022, 171(9): 1-19. (Replication) (Featured in Skeptical Science)
Carbon pricing and decoupling between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth: A panel study of 29 European Countries, 1996-2014. Review of Policy Research, 2022, 39(5): 654-673. (Replication)
Working Papers
"My club runneth over: Congestion, embedded clubs, and the UN Global Compact" with Christian Elliott
"Translocal climate club as a wall of fame? A panel study on the US cities' membership in Global Covenant of Mayors, 2014-2024" with Yoonsoo Kim
"Rural-urban divide in renewable energy preferences: Evidence from Nevada's Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard Ballot Initiative in 2020" with Nicolas Wittstock and Dawson Frost
"Does size and surrounding landscape influence rural support for wind energy projects?" with Asli Cansunar, Nives Dolšak, and Aseem Prakash
"A game-theoretic model of the renewable energy conflict between community and developer"