Research
Working papers
- Quantifying Fire-Specific Smoke Severity (with Jeff Wen, Marshall Burke, and Judson Boomhower)
- When We Change the Clock, Does the Clock Change Us? (with Severin Borenstein and Ed Rubin)
- NBER Working Paper \(\cdot\) Blog post
- Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters: The Case of U.S. Wildfires (with Judson Boomhower)
- NBER Working Paper
- Selected media: Headwaters Economics Blog Post \(\cdot\) New York Times \(\cdot\) Marketplace \(\cdot\)The Weeds \(\cdot\) Marketwatch \(\cdot\) LA Times
Pollution Masks and The Demand for Clean Air: Experimental Evidence from Delhi (with Michael Greenstone, Kenneth Lee, and Harshil Sahai)
Can Migration Mitigate Weather Damages? (with Bianca Cecato and Frederik Noack)
Publications
- 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,” forthcoming at AEJ: Applied Economics, 2022)
- Paper \(\cdot\) NBER Working Paper
- 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, forthcoming at Nature: Human Behavior, 2022)
- Paper \(\cdot\) NBER Working Paper (October 2021)
- 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)
- Paper \(\cdot\) NBER Working Paper
- 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)
- Paper \(\cdot\) NBER Working Paper \(\cdot\) CIRANO Working Paper \(\cdot\) VSE COVID Risk/Reward Assessment Tool \(\cdot\) Repo
- 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)
- Paper \(\cdot\) SSRN Working Paper
- Temperature and Temperament: Evidence from Twitter (Journal of Public Economics, 2020)
- Paper \(\cdot\) Pre-print
- Selected media: Popular Science, Washington Post, Time, Weather Channel, UC Newsroom, Energy Institute, G-FEED, Marginal Revolution
- 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)
- Paper
- Selected media: New York Times, Washington Post (op-ed by Moore and Obradovich)
- 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)
- Paper \(\cdot\) Comment \(\cdot\) Response
- Selected media: The Atlantic, The Guardian, Reuters
- Weather Impacts Expressed Sentiment (with Nick Obradovich, Yury Kryvasheyeu, Haohui Chen, Lorenzo Coviello, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, and James H. Fowler, PLoS One, 2018)
- Paper
- Selected media: MIT Technology Review
- 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)
- Paper
- Selected media: New York Times, ARS Technica