OLIVIER DESCHENES
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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

Unpublished Papers

Unobserved Ability, Comparative Advantage and the Rising Return to Education in the United States 1979-200

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