Maya Papineau
Associate Professor & M.A. Supervisor
- B.A. (Carleton), M.Sc. (UCL), Ph.D. (California at Berkeley)
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Languages spoken other than English: French
Research fields: environmental and energy economics, applied econometrics
Expertise:
• economics of climate change
• energy efficiency policy
• renewable energy
• sustainable development
Refereed Publications in the Last 6 Years:
“Time-inhomogeneous Markov models for residential load synthesis, ” (with Shane Ferreira, Burak Gunay, Luis Rueda, Benoit Delcroix and Mohammed Ouf), Science and Technology for the Built Environment, forthcoming. Accepted March 2026.
“Toward inclusive energy futures: Reflections on the collective authorship of a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and community-engaged equity, diversity, and inclusion terms of reference,” (with Chrsitina Hoicka, Emily McCallum, Ahmad Hameed, Lisa Leung, + 40 authors), Research Ethics, 2026. Published online February 24th 2026. https://doi.org/10.1177/17470161261423564.
“A review of passive design strategies and their effect on thermal resilience in low-income households,” with Tejas Kokatnur, Shane Ferreira, B ̈u ̧sra Karadeniz Akko ̧c, Elin Markarian, Pedram Nojedehi, Seif Qiblawi,
Kala Sewraj, Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Marcel Schweiker, G ̈ulsu Ulukavak Harputlugil, and Elie Azar, Energy and Buildings Volume 348, December 2025, 116508.
“A Method to Develop Residential Archetypes by Associating Thermophysical Building Attributes with Utility Meter Data,” with Pedram Nojedehi, Burak Gunay and William O-Brien. Energy and Buildings, August 2025, 116351.
“Household benefits from energy efficiency retrofits: Implications for net zero housing policy,” (with N. Rivers and K. Yassin). Energy Economics, Volume 143, March 2025, 108245.”Household benefits from energy efficiency retrofits: Implications for net zero housing policy“, with Nicholas Rivers and Kareman Yassin. Accepted, Energy Economics
Examining Disparities in Energy Poverty and Indoor Environmental Quality Satisfaction among Canadian Households,” with Pedram Nojedehi, Burak Gunay, William O’Brien, Elie Azar, Marcel Schweiker, Gülsu Ulukavak Harputlugil, and Nese Ganiç Saglam. Energy Policy Vol 194, November 2024.
“Experimental Evidence on Heat Loss Visualization and Personalized Information to Motivate Energy Savings“, with Nicholas Rivers. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Volume 111, January 2022, 102558.
“Conditional Demand Analysis as a Tool to Evaluate Energy Policy Options on the Path to Grid Decarbonization,” with Kareman Yassin, Guy R. Newsham and Sarah Brice. 2021. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews Vol. 149, October.
“New insights on the energy impacts of telework in Canada,” with Hannah Villeneuve, Ahmed Abdeen, Sharane Simon, Cynthia Cruikshank and William O’Brien. 2021. Canadian Public Policy 47(3): 460-477.
“A Systematic Review of Energy Efficiency Home Retrofit Evaluation Studies“, with Lauren Giandomenico and Nicholas Rivers. Forthcoming, Annual Review of Resource Economics, October 2020.
“Utilities Included: Split Incentives in Commercial Electricity Contracts,” (with Katrina Jessoe and David Rapson), The Energy Journal, Volume 41, Issue 5, 2020, Pages 271-297.
“Carbon Emissions and Business Cycles,” (with H. Khan, C. Knittel and K. Metaxoglou), Journal of Macroeconomics [Lead Article], Volume 60, 2019, Pages 1-19.
Most Significant Career Research Contributions:
“Carbon Emissions and Business Cycles,” (with H. Khan, C. Knittel and K. Metaxoglou), Journal of Macroeconomics [Lead Article], Volume 60, 2019, Pages 1-19.
“An Economic Perspective on Experience Curves and Dynamic Economies in Renewable Energy Technologies”, Energy Policy, Volume 34, Number 4, March 2006, Pages 422–432.