Lily Hsueh
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Mail code: 3720Campus: Dtphx
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Dr. Lily Hsueh is an Associate Professor (with tenure) of Public Policy and Economics at the School of Public Affairs at the Arizona State University. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University.
At ASU, she is also a Senior Global Futures Scientist at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, and a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy, Center for Organization Research and Design, and Political Economy Working Group. Dr. Hsueh is a recipient of the 2020-21 AAUW American Fellowship.
Dr. Hsueh’s research centers on how economics and politics interact, and how markets, institutions, governments, businesses and other stakeholders play mediating roles in determining policy effectiveness, shaping the policy process and affecting policy outcomes. Her most recent projects have examined the emergence and efficacy of alternative governance systems (i.e., voluntary governance or market-based governance) across different policy issue areas and types of pollution and natural resources, namely global climate change, toxic chemicals, and ocean and marine resources. Dr. Hsueh's work has also examined the interaction between the private and public provision of public goods and the implications of alternative governance approaches on social equity.
Prior to joining ASU, Dr. Hsueh served as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She earned her bachelor's degree in economics (with honors) from the University of California, Berkeley, a master's degree in economics (with distinctions) from University College London, and a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management from the University of Washington. Prior to Dr. Hsueh’s career in academia, she was a senior analyst in at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Personal website: https://www.lilyhsueh.com/
- Ph.D. Public Policy and Management, University of Washington
- M.S. Economics, University College London
- B.A. Economics (Minor in Environmental Economics & Policy), University of California, Berkeley
Lily Hsueh's areas of expertise are environmental policy and management, natural resource and environmental economics, political economy, governance, firms and public policy, climate change, marine and ocean resources, toxic chemicals, and applied econometrics.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (PEERED REVIEWED)
Yu, Suyang and Lily Hsueh. 2023. “Do Wildfires Exacerbate COVID-19 Infections and Deaths in Vulnerable Communities? Evidence from California.” Journal of Environmental Management 328 (February): 1-8.
Hsueh, Lily. 2022. “Do Businesses that Disclose Climate Change Information Emit Less Carbon? Evidence from S&P 500 Firms.” Climate Change Economics, 13 (2): 1-43.
Chen, Yifan, Stuart Bretschneider, Justin Stritch, Nicole Darnall, and Lily Hsueh. 2022. “E-procurement System Adoption in Local Governments: The Role of Procurement Complexity and Organizational Structure.” Public Management Review 24 (6): 903-925.
No, Won and Lily Hsueh. 2022. “How Participatory Process with Inclusive Structural Design Allocates Resources Toward Poor Neighborhoods: The Case of Participatory Budgeting in Seoul, South Korea.” International Review of Administrative Sciences 88 (3): 663-681.
Hsueh, Lily, Stuart Bretschneider, Justin Stritch, and Nicole Darnall. 2020. “Implementation of Sustainable Public Procurement in Local Governments: A Measurement Approach.” International Journal of Public Sector Management 33 (6/7): 697-712.
Stritch, Justin, Stuart Bretschneider, Nicole Darnall, Lily Hsueh, and Yifan Chen. 2020. “Sustainability Policy Objectives, Centralized Decision Making and Efficiency in Public Procurement Processes.” Sustainability 12 (17), 6934: 1-17.
Hsueh, Lily. “Expanding the Multiple Streams Framework to Explain the Formation of Diverse Voluntary Programs: Evidence from U.S. Toxic Chemical Use Policy.” Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences 10 (2): 111-123.
Hsueh, Lily. 2019. “Corporations at a Crossroads: How Multilevel Governance Interactions Shape Participation and Effort in Private Governance Regimes in the Age of Global Climate Action.” Governance, 32 (4): 715-760.
Hsueh, Lily. 2019. “Opening up the Firm: What Explains Participation and Effort in Voluntary Carbon Disclosure by Businesses? An Analysis of Internal Firm Factors and Dynamics.” Business Strategy and the Environment 28 (7): 1302-1322.
Hsueh, Lily. 2019. “Voluntary Climate Action and Credible Regulatory Threat: Evidence from the Carbon Disclosure Project.” Journal of Regulatory Economics 56 (2-3): 188-225.
Stritch, Justin, Nicole Darnall, Lily Hsueh, Stuart Bretschneider. 2018. “Promoting Public Sector Sustainability through Procurement,” IEEE Engineering Management Review 46 (1): 128-131.
Hsueh, Lily and Stephen Kasperski. 2018. “What Explain the Impact of U.S. West Coast Trawl Rationalization on Multiregional Fishery Participation and Effort,” Marine Policy 95: 123-132.
Hsueh, Lily. 2017. “Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the ‘Rights to Fish’: The Effects of Catch Shares on Fishermen’s Days at Sea,” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 4 (2): 407-445.
Hsueh, Lily. 2017. “Transnational Climate Governance and the Global 500: Examining Private Actor Participation by Firm-Level Factors and Dynamics.” International Interactions 43 (1): 48-75.
Hsueh, Lily. 2015. “Regulatory Effectiveness and the Long-Run Policy Horizon: The Case of U.S. Toxic Chemical Use.” Environmental Science & Policy 52 (October): 6–22.
Hsueh, Lily. 2013. “Beyond Regulations: Industry Voluntary Ban in Arsenic Use.” Journal of Environmental Management 131 (December): 435–46.
Hsueh, Lily, and Aseem Prakash. 2012. “Incentivizing Self-Regulation: Federal vs. State-Level Voluntary Programs in US Climate Change Policies.” Regulation & Governance 6 (4): 455-473.
BOOK CHAPTERS (PEER REVIEWED)
Hsueh, Lily. 2020. “Calling all Volunteers: Industry Self-regulation on the Environment.” In Handbook of U.S. Environmental Policy, edited by David M. Konisky, 243-256. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Hsueh, Lily, and Aseem Prakash. 2012. “Private Voluntary Programs on Climate Change: U.S. Federal Government as the Sponsoring Actor.” In Business and Climate Policy: The Potentials and Pitfalls of Private Voluntary Programs, edited by Karsten Ronit, 77–110. United Nations University Press.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Darnall, Nicole, Lily Hsueh, Justin M. Stritch and Stuart Bretschneider. 2018. “Environmental Purchasing in the City of Phoenix.” In Handbook of Sustainability: Case Studies and Practical Solutions, co-edited by Sandra Garren and Robert Brinkman, 485-502. Palgrave-Macmillan.
Hsueh, Lily, and Nicole Darnall. 2017. Co-editor for Virtual Issue. “Introduction: Alternative and Nonregulatory Approach to Environmental Governance,” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 1-7.
BOOK UNDER CONTRACT (PEER REVIEWED)
Hsueh, Lily. Corporations at the Climate Crossroads: Multilevel Governance, Public Policy, and Global Climate Action. Under Contract with MIT Press.
2022-24 “Multi-level and Alternative Governance Approaches to Distributional (In)Equity in Energy Infrastructure and Climate Adaptation.” President’s Strategic Initiative Fund, Office of the President, Arizona State University. PI: Lily Hsueh. ($355,000)
2017-18 “Modeling Fishery Participation and Effort Allocation across Regional Fisheries.” Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. PI: Lily Hsueh; Co-PI: Stephen Kasperski. ($10,987)
2016-17 “Sustainable Procurement in State and Local Governments.” V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation. PI: Nicole Darnall; Co-PIs: Stuart Bretschneider, Lily Hsueh, and Justin Stritch. ($200,000)
2015-16 “Estimation and Welfare Analysis: An Application of the Kuhn Tucker Model to Examine Fishery Participation and Effort Allocation across Regional Fisheries.” Co-PIs: Lily Hsueh, Stephen Kasperski, Leif Anderson, and Lisa Pfeiffer. Northwest Fisheries Science Center and Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Ocean Atmospheric Administration. ($74,800)
2012-14 “A First Look: How have Catch Shares Impacted Fishermen’s Capitalization Decisions in the Pacific Coast Trawl Fisheries?” PI: Lily Hsueh. Research Associateship Program at National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration. National Research Council, United States National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. ($118,000)
Courses
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 504 | Microecon of Public Policy I |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 620 | PA Prof Development Workshop |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 504 | Microecon of Public Policy I |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 620 | PA Prof Development Workshop |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 504 | Microecon of Public Policy I |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 201 | Economics and Public Policy |
| PAF 504 | Microecon of Public Policy I |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 504 | Microecon of Public Policy I |
| PAF 201 | Economics and Public Policy |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 201 | Economics and Public Policy |
| PAF 504 | Microecon of Public Policy I |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| PAF 504 | Microecon of Public Policy I |
| PAF 201 | Economics and Public Policy |
2023
Professor of Impact (A Student-Initiated Award at ASU)
2022
AZWatts Influencer, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, ASU Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
2021-22
Distinguished Teaching Award, School of Public Affairs, College of Public Service & Community Solutions, Arizona State University
2020-21
American Association of University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship
2019-20
Outstanding Case Study Award for “Environmental Purchasing in the City of Phoenix,” Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council
2016-17
Distinguished Teaching Award, School of Public Affairs, College of Public Service & Community Solutions, Arizona State University
2013
UW Evans School of Public Policy and Governance’s Nominee for Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management Best Dissertation Award
2013
UW Evans School of Public Policy and Governance’s Nominee for University of Washington Distinguished Dissertation Award
2012-2014
National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration
2011-2012
Presidential Dissertation Fellowship, University of Washington
2009-2012
Research Travel Awards and Presentation Grants, Graduate School Fund for Excellence and Innovation and Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington
2009
Graduate Fellow/Participant, Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
2007-2010
Graduate Fellowship, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington
1999
Senior Student Fellowship, University College London
1997
Cal in the Capitol Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
1995-1999
California Alumni Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley
1995-1996
Endowed Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley
Academic Editor, PLOS Climate
American Economic Association
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management
International Studies Association