Research

Publications

• Frances C. Moore, Nick Obradovich, Flavio Lehner, and Patrick Baylis. “Rapidly Adjusting Perceptions of Temperature May Obscure Climate Change Signal.” 2019. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, ().
  • Paper
  • Selected media: New York Times, Washington Post (op-ed by Moore and Obradovich)
• Marshall Burke, Felipe González, Patrick Baylis, Sam Heft-Neal, Ceren Baysan, Sanjay Basu and Solomon Hsiang. “Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico.” 2018. Nature Climate Change, 8(8).
  • Paper
  • Selected media: The Atlantic, The Guardian, Reuters
• Patrick Baylis, Nick Obradovich, Yury Kryvasheyeu, Caron Chen, Lorenzo Coviello, Esteban Moro, Manuel Cebrian, and James Fowler. “Weather impacts expressed sentiment.” 2018. PloS One, 13(4).
  • Paper
  • Selected media: MIT Technology Review
• Max Auffhammer, Patrick Baylis, and Catherine Hausman.. “Climate change is projected to have severe impacts on the frequency and intensity of peak electricity demand across the United States.” 2017. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(8).
  • Paper
  • Selected media: New York Times, ARS Technica

Works in progress

• Patrick Baylis and Judson Boomhower. “Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters.”
  • SIEPR Working Paper
• Patrick Baylis. “Temperature and Temperament: Evidence from Twitter.” Submitted.
  • Working paper
  • Selected media: Popular Science, Washington Post, Time, Weather Channel, UC Newsroom, Energy Institute Blog, G-FEED Blog, Marginal Revolution Blog
• Meredith Fowlie, Catherine Wolfram, C Anna Spurlock, Annika Todd, Patrick Baylis, and Peter Cappers. “Default Effects, Follow-on Behavior and Welfare in Residential Electricity Pricing Programs.” Revise and resubmit.
  • NBER Working paper