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Working Papers

2026

1. Are carbon tariffs climate policy?
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2025

2. Do Environmental Markets Improve Allocative Efficiency? Evidence from U.S. Air Pollution
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
3. Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
4. Quantifying the global climate feedback from energy-based adaptation
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
   See also Journal Article Quantifying the global climate feedback from energy-based adaptation, Nature Communications, Nature (2025) (2025)
5. The Climate Adaptation Feedback
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2022

6. Decomposing Trends in U.S. Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   See also Chapter Decomposing Trends in US Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity, NBER Chapters, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022) View citations (2) (2022)
   Journal Article Decomposing Trends in US Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity, Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, University of Chicago Press (2023) View citations (1) (2023)

2021

7. Global evidence for ultraviolet radiation decreasing COVID-19 growth rates
   Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

2020

8. Do Environmental Markets Cause Environmental Injustice? Evidence from California's Carbon Market
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (13)
   See also Journal Article Do environmental markets cause environmental injustice? Evidence from California’s carbon market, Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier (2023) View citations (33) (2023)

2019

9. Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (2021) View citations (23) (2021)
10. Estimating Path Dependence in Energy Transitions
    2019 Meeting Papers, Society for Economic Dynamics
    Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2016) View citations (9)
11. Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (18)

2018

12. Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (9)
    Also in IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER (2018) View citations (9)

2017

13. Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants
    IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER View citations (14)
    Also in Working Papers, eSocialSciences (2017) View citations (8)
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2017) View citations (9)
    See also Journal Article Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation: Evidence from a half million chinese manufacturing plants, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier (2018) View citations (273) (2018)

2016

14. Opportunities for advances in climate change economics
    ISU General Staff Papers, Iowa State University, Department of Economics
15. Using a Free Permit Rule to Forecast the Marginal Abatement Cost of Proposed Climate Policy
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article Using a Free Permit Rule to Forecast the Marginal Abatement Cost of Proposed Climate Policy, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2017) View citations (12) (2017)

2015

16. Tropical Economics
    University of California at Santa Barbara, Recent Works in Economics, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Tropical Economics, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (2015) View citations (17) (2015)

2014

17. CORRESPONDENCE: Temperature and violence
    University of California at Santa Barbara, Recent Works in Economics, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara View citations (1)
    Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2014) View citations (1)
18. Reconciling disagreement over climate–conflict results in Africa
    University of California at Santa Barbara, Recent Works in Economics, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara View citations (17)
19. Temperature and violence
    University of California at Santa Barbara, Recent Works in Economics, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara View citations (3)
    Also in Department of Economics, Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley (2014) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Temperature and violence, Nature Climate Change, Nature (2014) View citations (3) (2014)

2013

20. Estimating Habit Formation in Voting
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (10)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Quantifying the global climate feedback from energy-based adaptation
   Nature Communications, 2025, 16, (1), 1-15
   See also Working Paper Quantifying the global climate feedback from energy-based adaptation, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series (2025) (2025)

2023

2. Decomposing Trends in US Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity
   Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 2023, 4, (1), 91 - 124 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper Decomposing Trends in U.S. Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity, NBER Working Papers (2022) (2022)
   Chapter Decomposing Trends in US Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity, NBER Chapters, 2022, 91-124 (2022) View citations (2) (2022)
3. Do Health Disparities Narrow with Pollution Disparities? Trends from California
   AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023, 113, 372-76
4. Do environmental markets cause environmental injustice? Evidence from California’s carbon market
   Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 217, (C) View citations (33)
   See also Working Paper Do Environmental Markets Cause Environmental Injustice? Evidence from California's Carbon Market, NBER Working Papers (2020) View citations (13) (2020)
5. Equitable low-carbon transition pathways for California’s oil extraction
   Nature Energy, 2023, 8, (6), 597-609 View citations (2)
6. Well setbacks limit California’s oil supply with larger health benefits and employment losses than excise and carbon taxes
   Nature Energy, 2023, 8, (6), 562-564

2021

7. Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights
   Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129, (10), 2817 - 2860 View citations (23)
   See also Working Paper Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights, NBER Working Papers (2019) View citations (2) (2019)

2019

8. The blue paradox: Preemptive overfishing in marine reserves
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019, 116, (12), 5319-5325 View citations (5)
9. The social cost of lobbying over climate policy
   Nature Climate Change, 2019, 9, (6), 472-476 View citations (31)

2018

10. Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation: Evidence from a half million chinese manufacturing plants
    Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018, 88, (C), 1-17 View citations (273)
    See also Working Paper Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants, IZA Discussion Papers (2017) View citations (14) (2017)

2017

11. Using a Free Permit Rule to Forecast the Marginal Abatement Cost of Proposed Climate Policy
    American Economic Review, 2017, 107, (3), 748-84 View citations (12)
    See also Working Paper Using a Free Permit Rule to Forecast the Marginal Abatement Cost of Proposed Climate Policy, NBER Working Papers (2016) View citations (4) (2016)

2016

12. Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections
    American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2016, 8, (4), 160-88 View citations (81)
13. New England Cod Collapse and the Climate
    PLOS ONE, 2016, 11, (7), 1-10 View citations (1)

2015

14. Tropical Economics
    American Economic Review, 2015, 105, (5), 257-61 View citations (17)
    See also Working Paper Tropical Economics, University of California at Santa Barbara, Recent Works in Economics (2015) View citations (5) (2015)

2014

15. Temperature and violence
    Nature Climate Change, 2014, 4, (4), 234-235 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Temperature and violence, University of California at Santa Barbara, Recent Works in Economics (2014) View citations (3) (2014)

2012

16. General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events
    Sustainability, 2012, 4, (12), 1-12 View citations (48)

2011

17. Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate
    Nature, 2011, 476, (7361), 438-441 View citations (242)

2007

18. Opportunities for low-cost CO2 storage demonstration projects in China
    Energy Policy, 2007, 35, (4), 2368-2378 View citations (6)

Chapters

2022

1. Decomposing Trends in US Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity
   A chapter in Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, volume 4, 2022, pp 91-124 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Decomposing Trends in U.S. Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2022) (2022)
   Journal Article Decomposing Trends in US Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity, University of Chicago Press (2023) View citations (1) (2023)