Research
Publications
Valuing the Global Mortality Consequences of Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation Costs and Benefits (with T. Carleton, A. Jina, M. Delgado, M. Greenstone, T. Houser, S. Hsiang, A. Hultgren, R.E. Kopp, K.E. McCusker, I. Nath, J. Rising, H.K. Seo, A. Viaene, J. Yuan, A. Zhang) Quarterly Journal of Economics 137(4), 2022
Media Coverage: Bloomberg, The Guardian, Irish Mirror, MIT Technology Review, Reuters, The Arizona Republic, Futurity, Time, Fortune, The Hill, National Geographic
Estimating a Social Cost of Carbon for Global Energy Consumption (lead author, with T. Carleton, M. Delgado, M. Greenstone, T. Houser, S. Hsiang, A. Hultgren, A. Jina, R.E. Kopp, K.E. McCusker, I. Nath, J. Rising, J. Yuan) Nature (598), 2021
Media Coverage: Nature News & Views, Bloomberg, Forbes, Gizmodo, UC Santa Barbara emLab Blog
Rent-Seeking over Tradable Emission Permits Environmental and Resource Economics (78), 2021
The Social Cost of Lobbying over Climate Policy (with Kyle C. Meng) Nature Climate Change 9(6), 2019
Supplementary Information; Replication
Media Coverage: Nature Climate Change News & Views, Nature Climate Change editorial, Nature blog, UC Santa Barbara, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, Forbes, Carbon Brief, Daily Kos, Ars Technica, Science Daily, Wall Street Journal, Futurity, El Diario
Prejudicial Attitudes and Labor Market Outcomes (with Anand J. Shukla) Labour 32(3), 2018
The Opportunities and Limitations of Neutral Carbon Tariffs (with Juscelino F. Colares) American Law and Economics Review 19(2), 2017
Rent Seeking and the Resource Curse (with Robert T. Deacon) in Companion to the Political Economy of Rent Seeking (eds. Roger Congleton and Arye Hillman), 2015
Working Papers
Is Workplace Temperature a Valuable Job Amenity? Implications for Climate Change (lead author, with R.E. Baker, T. Carleton, A.L. D'Agostino, M. Delgado, T. Foreman, D.R. Gergel, M. Greenstone, T. Houser, S. Hsiang, A. Hultgren, A. Jina, R.E. Kopp, S.B. Malevich, K.E. McCusker, I. Nath, M. Pecenco, J. Rising, J. Yuan)
Estimating Global Impacts to Agriculture from Climate Change Accounting for Adaptation (with A. Hultgren, T. Carleton, M. Delgado, D.R. Gergel, M. Greenstone, T. Houser, S. Hsiang, A. Jina, R.E. Kopp, S.B. Malevich, T. Mayer, K.E. McCusker, I. Nath, J. Rising, J. Yuan)
Mortality, Rainfall, and Urban Flooding in a Developing Megacity (with T. Bearpark, A. Patankar - Draft Available Upon Request)
Institutions and the Resource Curse within the United States
Estimating Treatment Effects with Interference (with Douglas G. Steigerwald)
Work in Progress (selected)
The Welfare Economics of a Data-Driven Social Cost of Carbon (with I. Nath, K.E. McCusker, I. Bolliger, T. Carleton, M. Delgado, M. Greenstone, T. Houser, S. Hsiang, A. Hultgren, A. Jina, R.E. Kopp, J. Rising)
The Global Inequality Implications of Climate Change: Evidence from High Resolution Impacts Estimates (with A. Jina, T. Carleton, A. Hultgren, and the Climate Impact Lab)
An Empirical Framework for Estimating Tropical Cyclone Vulnerability Curves: Climate Risk Applications (with I. Bolliger, S. Hsiang, R.E. Kopp, J. Lee, and the Climate Impact Lab)