Research

Publications

  • How to Spend One Trillion Dollars: The US Decarbonization Conundrum (with Peter Christensen, Teevrat Garg, Shanjun Li, Gordon C. McCord, Erich Muehlegger, Erica Myers, Emma Noble Smith, and David S. Rapson, comment in Nature, 2024)
  • Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters: The Case of U.S. Wildfires (with Judson Boomhower, accepted at the Journal of Political Economy)
  • Quantifying Fire-Specific Smoke Severity (with Jeff Wen, Marshall Burke, and Judson Boomhower, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2023)
  • The Economic Incidence of Wildfire Suppression in the United States (with Judson Boomhower, previously titled “Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters,” AEJ: Applied Economics, 2023)
  • Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Wildfire Smoke (with Marshall Burke, Sam Heft-Neal, Jessica Li, Anne Driscoll, Matthieu Stigler, Joakim Weill, Jennifer Burney, Jeff Wen, Marissa Childs, and Carlos Gould, Nature: Human Behavior, 2022)
  • Default Effects, Follow-on Behavior and Welfare in Residential Electricity Pricing Program (with Meredith Fowlie, Catherine Wolfram, C. Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd, and Peter Cappers, The Review of Economic Studies, 2021)
  • The Distribution of COVID-19 Related Risks (with Pierre-Loup Beauregard, Marie Connolly, Nicole Fortin, David A. Green, Pablo Gutierrez Cubillos, Samuel S. Gyetvay, Catherine Haeck, Timea Laura Molnar, Gaëlle Simard-Duplain, Henry E. Siu, Maria teNyenhuis, and Casey Warman, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2021)
  • Job Loss and Behavioral Change: The Unprecedented Effects of the India Lockdown in Delhi (with Kenneth Lee, Harshil Sahai, and Michael Greenstone, COVID Economics, 2021)
  • Temperature and Temperament: Evidence from Twitter (Journal of Public Economics, 2020)
  • Rapidly Declining Remarkability of Temperature Anomalies May Obscure Public Perception of Climate Change (with Frances C. Moore, Nick Obradovich, and Flavio Lehner, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019)
  • Higher Temperatures Increase Suicide Rates in the United States and Mexico (with Marshall Burke, Felipe González, Sam Heft-Neal, Ceren Baysan, Sanjay Basu, and Solomon Hsiang, Nature Climate Change, 2018)
  • Weather Impacts Expressed Sentiment (with Nick Obradovich, Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Lorenzo Coviello, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, and James H. Fowler, PLOS ONE, 2018)
  • Climate Change is Projected to Have Severe Impacts on the Frequency and Intensity of Peak Electricity Demand Across the United States (with Max Auffhammer and Catherine H. Hausman, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017)

Working papers

  • Is the Demand for Clean Air Too Low? Experimental Evidence from Delhi (with Michael Greenstone, Kenneth Lee, and Harshil Sahai)
  • Incentivizing Self-Protection from Wildfires (with Judson Boomhower and Bob Horton)
  • Does Time Shift Behavior? The Clock- vs. Solar-time Tradeoff (with Severin Borenstein and Ed Rubin)
  • Climate and Migration in the United States (with Prashant Bharadwaj, Jamie Mullins, and Nick Obradovich)

Selected work in progress

  • Labor Lock-in in the Fossil Fuel Industry (with Eva Lyubich and Katherine Wagner)
  • The Economic Consequences of Property Destruction (with Judson Boomhower, Jonathan Colmer and John Voorheis)
  • Barriers to Civic Action on Clean Air (with Shweta Bhogale and Teevrat Garg)
  • Adaptation and Insurance in the Agriculture Sector (with Talha Naeem and Guglielmo Zappala)