Research
Working papers and work in progress
- Job Loss and Behavioral Change: The Unprecedented Effects of the India Lockdown in Delhi (with Kenneth Lee, Harshil Sahai, and Michael Greenstone)
- 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, R&R at the Review of Economic Studies)
- Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters (with Judson Boomhower, Under review)
- Temperature and Historical U.S. Migration (with Nick Obradovich, draft available upon request)
Publications
- 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)
Other projects
- Along with an amazing group of faculty members and graduate students at the VSE, I helped develop the VSE COVID Risk/Reward Assessment Tool, designed to assist policymakers as they make decisions around when and how to open different sectors of the Canadian economy. The code is available here.
