Working Papers
- Internal Migration and the Spatial Reorganization of Agriculture (with R. Madhok, F. Noack, and M. Mobarak)
- Weather and Death in India: Implications for Climate Change (with R. Burgess, D. Donaldson, and M. Greenstone)
Selected Publications
- The Impact of Air Pollution on Petcare Utilization (with S. Jarvis and A. Jha) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2025
- Lockdowns and Innovation: Evidence from the 1918 Flu Pandemic (with E. Berkes et al.) Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025
- Quantifying the Global Climate Feedback From Energy-Based Adaptation (with A. Abajian, T. Carleton, and K. Meng) Nature Communication, 2025
- Equitable Low-Carbon Transition Pathways for California's Oil and Gas Extraction (with R. Deshmukh et al.) Nature Energy, 2023
- The Impact of Climate Change on Mortality in the United States: Benefits and Costs of Adaptation, Canadian Journal of Economics, 2022
- The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out (with S. Jarvis and A. Jha), Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, (Awarded Hicks-Tinbergen Medal for best paper in the previous two years in the journal)
- Social Distancing Responses to COVID-19 Emergency Declarations Strongly Differentiated by Income (with J. Weill, M. Springborn, and M. Stigler), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2020
- The Economic Impacts of Natural Disasters: A Review of Models and Empirical Studies (with W. Botzen and M. Sanders), Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2019
- Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges (with K. Meng), Handbook of Environmental Economics, 2018
- A Forward Looking Ricardian Approach: Do Land Markets Capitalize Climate Change Forecasts? (with C. Severen and C. Costello), Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2018
- Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program and Ozone Reductions (with M. Greenstone and J. Shapiro), American Economic Review, 2017
- Agricultural Pesticide Use and Adverse Birth Outcomes in the San Joaquin Valley of California (with A. Larsen and S. Gaines), Nature Communications, 2017
- Adapting to Climate Change: The Remarkable Decline in the U.S. Temperature-Mortality Relationship Over the 20th Century (with A. Barreca, K. Clay, M. Greenstone, and J. Shapiro), Journal of Political Economy, 2016
- Convergence in Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from High Temperatures and Mortality, 1900-2004 (with A. Barreca, K. Clay, M. Greenstone, and J. Shapiro), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2015
- Temperature, Human Health, and Adaptation: A Review of the Empirical Literature, Energy Economics, 2014
- The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather: Reply (with M. Greenstone), American Economic Review, 2012 (Online Appendix) (Supplementary Appendix) (Data)
- Status and Solutions for the World's Unassessed Fisheries (with C. Costello, D. Ovando, R. Hilborn, S. Gaines and S. Lester), Science, 2012 (Supplementary Online Materials)
- Climate Policy and Labor Markets in The Design and Implementation of U.S. Climate Policy, Edited by Don Fullerton and Catherine Wolfram, University of Chicago Press, 2011
- Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the U.S. (with M. Greenstone), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011
- Extreme Weather Events, Mortality and Migration (with E. Moretti), Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009
- Climate Change and Birth Weight (with M. Greenstone and J. Guryan), American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 2009
- The Economic Impacts of Climate Change: Evidence from Agricultural Output and Random Fluctuations in Weather (with M. Greenstone), American Economic Review, 2007
- The Long-Term Impact of Military Service on Health: Evidence from World War II and Korea Veterans (with K. Bedard), American Economic Review, 2006
- Sex Preferences, Marital Dissolution and the Economic Status of Women (with K. Bedard), Journal of Human Resources, 2005
- Do Unemployment Insurance Claimants Actively Seek Work? Evidence from Randomized Trial in Four U.S. States (with O. Ashenfelter and D. Ashmore), Journal of Econometrics, 2005