Student Work

Bressler, Danny. "The Mortality Cost of Carbon." Nature Communications, 29, July 2021.

Wong, J. "Aviation Connectivity Impacts on Regional Economies in the United States." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, November 29, 2018.

Gaines, S, Meng, K and Lai-Oremus, Kimberly. "New England Cod Collapse and the Climate." PLOS One, July 27, 2016.

M. Beenstock, D. Felsenstein, E. Frank, Y. Reingewertz. "Tide gauge location and the measurement of global sea level rise." 2015. Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 22(1): 1-28. 

Houser, T., R. Kopp, S. Hsiang, M. Delgado, A. Jina, K. Larsen, M. Mastandrea, S. Mohan, R. Muir-Wood, D. J. Rasmussen, J. Rising, & P. Wilson. "American Climate Prospectus: Economic Risks in the United States." Columbia University Press, 2015.

Oremus, K.L., Suatoni, L., and Sewell, B. (2014). "The requirement to rebuild US fish stocks: Is it working?" Marine Policy 47, 71-75. 

Rising, James. "Creating the Commons: Fisheries and the World Bank." History of Economic Thought and Policy, 2014.

Mulligan, J., Tompsett, A. and Guthrie, P. "Reconciling participation with external expertise: An ‘engineer-client’ framework for participation in community-scale infrastructure development projects Proceedings of the ICE" - Engineering Sustainability 164 (1) pp 35-47 (2011)

Elgie, S., G. McCarney & W. Adamowicz. 2011. "Assessing the implications of a carbon market for boreal forest management." The Forestry Chronicle 87(3):367-381.

Du, Xinming, Papp, Anna and Almond, Doug. "Favourability towards natural gas relates to funding source of university energy centres." Nature Climate Change, October 10, 2022.

Wilson, Andrew J, and Ben Orlove.(2021).“Climate urgency: evidence of its effects on decision making in the laboratory and the field.” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.

Schlenker, W and Taylor, C. “Market Expectations of a Warming Climate.” Journal of Financial Economics, 2021. Coverage in The Economist, WSJ, Bloomberg, VOXeu, Brookings, Reason.

Almond, D., Du, X., Karplus V. J., & Zhang, S. (2021). Ambiguous Air Pollution Effects of China's COVID-19 Lock-Down. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 111: 376-80.

Benshaul-Tolonen A, Aguilar-Gomez S, Heller Batzer N, Cai R, Nyanza EC (2020) Period teasing, stigma and knowledge: A survey of adolescent boys and girls in Northern Tanzania. PLoS ONE 15(10).

Baquie, S., DeFries, R., et al. "Migration, assets, and forest degradation in a tropical deciduous forest of South Asia." Science Direct, September 2020.

Missirian, A., Frank, E. G., Gersony, J. T., Wong, J. C. Y., & Naeem, S. Biodiversity and Thermal Ecological Function: The Influence of Freshwater Algal Diversity on Local Thermal Environments. Ecology and Evolution, May 2019.

 

• Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries, Exploratory Research Grant, Eugene Tan, 2022.
• Washington Center for Equitable Growth, Doctoral Research Grant, Tarikua Erda, 2022.
• Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP), Seed Grant (with PI: Jeff Shrader), Tarikua Erda, 2022.
• National Science Foundation, Dissertation Research Grant in Economics, Tarikua Erda, 2022.
• Winner of the Joseph Stiglitz Essay Prize, Nicolas Longuet Marx, 2021.
• The Global Priorities Fellowship, Awarded by the Global Priorities Institute at the University of Oxford, Danny Bressler, 2019.
• Center for Development Economics Fellow, Alice Tianbo Zhang, 2018.
• Center for Development Economics Student Research Grant Program, Florian Grosset, 2018.
• Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) Award, Alice Tianbo Zhang, 2017.
• International Parliamentary Scholarship (IPS) program of the German Bundestag (Parliament), Jason Wong, 2017/2018.
• Earth Institute Travel Grant, Raimundo Atal, 2017 and 2018; Hyae Ryung Kim, 2019.
• Dr. Clyde Wu Fellowship for commitment to health, well-being and public policy issues, Sandra Aguilar Gomez, 2017; Jesse McDevitt-Irwin, 2019; Anna Papp, 2020; Maya Norman, 2021; Alina Gafanova, 2023.
• CDEP Student Research Grant Program, Jason Wong, 2016.
• Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student, Jason Wong, 2017.
• Lead Teaching Fellow Program, Jason Wong, 2015/2016; Ana Varela, 2016/2017; Joséphine Gantois, 2017/2018; Carolyn Hayek, 2018/2019; Sandra Aguilar 2019/2020; Florian Grosset, 2020/2021; Andrew Wilson 2021/2022; Sujoy Bhattacharyya 2023/2024

• The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Doctoral Fellowship, Jesse McDevitt Irwin, 2021.
• Bloomberg Data for Good PhD Fellowship, Matt Harrington, 2019.
• Global Priorities Fellow with the Forethought Foundation, R. Daniel Bressler, 2019.
• J-PAL Research Transparency Fellowship, Florian Grosset, 2018
• Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics, Mellon Interdisciplinary Fellow, Eugenie Dugoua, 2016.
• USDOT Federal Highway Commision Eisenhower Graduate Fellowship, Kayleigh Campbell, 2015
• Columbia Global Policy Initiative Fellowships, Eyal Frank, Anthony D'Agostino, and Eugenie Dugoua, 2015
• Environmental Protection Agency - Science to Achieve Results (STAR)

Vincent Bagilet. “The Environment in the Public Sphere”. Environmental Economics Workshop, Toulouse School of Economics, France, June 2023.

Jesse McDevitt-Irwin. "US Infant Mortality in the 19th Century: New Evidence from Childhood Sex Ratios". Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 2023.

Nicolas Longuet Marx. "Party Lines or Voter Preferences? Explaining Political Cleavages" Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text as Data Workshop, March 2023 . "Party Lines or Voter Preferences? Explaining Political Cleavages" Monash-Warwick-Zurich Text as Data Workshop, March 2023 

Xinming Du. "Symptom or culprit? Social media, air pollution, and violence." Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, Ft Lauderdale, FL, November 2022.

Marguerite Obolensky. "News Media Concentration and Content Diversity", with Pierre Bodéré and Nicolas Longuet Marx.  Cornell Tech Text as Data, October 2022

Eugene Tan. “The economics of last-mile electricity grid distribution: Evidence from Rwandan Electricity Access Rollout Program." The Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Champaign, IL, October, 2022.

Thomas Braun. "Cooling Externality of Large-Scale Irrigation." NBER Summer Institute 2022 - Environmental & Energy Economics. Cambridge, MA. July 2022.

Gabriel Goznalez Sutil. “The economics of last-mile electricity grid distribution: Evidence from Rwandan Electricity Access Rollout Program." Sustainable Energy Transitions Initiative (SETI) Annual Workshop. Durham, NC, June 2022. 

Tristan Du Puy. "Market Dynamics in the Agricultural Sector." Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, Mystic CT, June 2022.

Tristan Du Puy. "Predicting a 130 Years of US Cropland Coverage." Shifting Landscapes, LSE, London UK, June 2022.

Jesse McDevitt-Irwin. "US Infant Mortality 1850-1920: New Evidence from Sex Ratios ." 56th Annual Canadian Economics Association Meetings, Ottawa on June 2022.

Florian Grosset. "The Social Tax: Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply." 1st CEPR WEFIDEV Workshop in Finance and Development, Paris, April 2022.

Xinming Du. "Ambiguous air pollution effects of China’s COVID-19 lockdown" with Douglas Almond, Shuang Zhang, Valerie Karplus. Allied Social Sciences Associations (ASSA) Annual Meeting, January 2021.

Florian Grosset. "Working under Pressure: Improving Labor Productivity through Financial Innovation." TanyVao, Ivory Coast, July 2019.

R Daniel Bressler: " Dynamic Integrated Assessment of Climate and the Economy with an Endogenous Mortality Response." Effective Altruism Global, San Francisco, June 2019.

Xueting Wang: "Switching cost and deregulation in retail electricity market." Georgetown Center for Economic Research Biennial Conference, May 2019.

Xinming Du (2023): Essays in Environmental Economics

Adviser: Doug Almond

Solomon Gofere (2023): Three Essays on Human Capital

Advisers: Cristian Pop-Eleches and Rodrigo Soares

Matt Harringon (2022): Applications for Machine Learning in Sustainable Hydrology

Adviser: Upmanu Lall

Claire Palandri (2022): Essays on Animal Farming and External Validity for Sustainable Development

Adviser: Doug Almond & Upmanu Lall

Charles Taylor (2022): Essays on Land Use and Agriculture

Adviser: Wolfram Schlenker

Sandra Aguilar (2021): Essays in Health, Development and the Environment

Adviser: Rodrigo Soares

Raimundo Atal (2021): Essays in Environment and Energy Economics

Adviser: Geoff Heal

Sandra Baquié (2021): Human Environment Interactions: Microbes, Forests, & Climate

Adviser: Rodrigo Soares

Zhihan Cui (2021): Behavioral Decision Making for Sustainable Development

Adviser: Geoff Heal

Joséphine Gantois (2021): All Things Plants: An Ecosystem View of Sustainable Development

Adviser: Jeff Shrader

Xueting (Sherry) Wang (2021): Essays in Energy Economics and Industrial Organization

Advisers: Geoff Heal and Igancia Mercadal

Ruiwen Lee (2020): Essays on the Regulation and Remote Sensing of Natural Gas Flaring

Adviser: Geoff Heal

Anouch Missirian (2020): Space matters: Quantifying ecosystem-mediated externalities

Adviser: Wolfram Schlenker

Ana Varela Varela (2020): Floods and Inequality: Implications for Sustainable Development

Adviser: Wolfram Schlenker

Mehdi Benatiya Andaloussi (2019): Clearing the Air: Essays on the Economics of Air Pollution

Adviser: Wolfram Schlenker

Denyse Dookie (2019): Essays on Using Climate Information for Disaster and Climate Risk Management

Adviser: Daniel Osgood

Timothy Foreman (2019): Essays on the Economics of Environmental Change

Adviser: Wolfram Schlenker

Jason Chun Yu Wong (2019): Essays on Aviation and Sustainable Development

Adviser: Scott Barrett

Alice Tianbo Zhang (2019): When Nature Meets Human Nature: Essays on the Social Impacts of Energy Infrastructure and Environmental Policy

Advisers: Wolfram Schlenker and Rodrigo Soares

Francis Anna (2018): Economics of Contracts and Risks

Adviser: Bernard Salanié

Eugenie Dugoua (2018): Essays on the Economics of Technological Change and the Environment

Adviser: Scott Barrett

Jaehyun Jung (2018): Three Essays on Development and Health Economics

Advisers: Cristian Pop-Eleches and Doug Almond

Kayleigh B Campbell (2017): Essays on Sustainable Transportation: Considering Multiple Modes and Land Use

Adviser: Elliot Sclar

Anthony D'Agostino (2017): Essays in Climate and Development Economics

Advisers: Wolfram Schlenker and Supreet Kaur

Eyal Frank (2017): Economic Outcomes and Market Dynamics of Biodiversity Losses, 2017 recipient of the Wallace E. Oates Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

Adviser: Wolfram Schlenker

Lai Oremus, Kimberly (2017): Here's the Catch: Fisheries and Fishery Management under Climate Variability

Advisers: Mark Cane and Wolfram Schlenker

Ruinan Liu (2017): Essays on Environment and Economic Productivity

Adviser: Douglas Almond

Stephanie Lackner (2017): Earthquake Ground Shaking and the Socio-Economic Impacts of Earthquakes

Adviser: John C Mutter

Geoff McCarney (2017): Considering the Interface of Climate and Productive Natural Resource Use

Adviser: Geoff Heal

Steffen Bixby (2017): Essays on the Economics of Climate Change

Advisers: Scott Barrett and Douglas Martinson

Aaron Baum (2016): Essays in Health and Development Economics

Adviser: Emily Breza

Marion Dumas (2016): Three Essays on Political Institutions and Environmental Governance

Adviser: Michael Ting

Egaña del Sol, Pablo (2016): Skills for Sustainable Development: Essays on How to Creativity, Entrepreneurship and Emotions Foster Human Development

Adviser: Miguel Uriquiola

Habtamu Fuje (2016): Essays on Development Economics

Adviser: Wolfram Schlenker

Jan von der Goltz (2016): Essays in Development and Environmental Economics

Advisers: Eric Verhoogen and Doug Almond

Xiaojie Zhang (2016):Essays on Sustainable Development and Agricultural Risk Management

Adviser: Geoff Heal

Belinda Archibong (2015): Essays on the Impacts of Geography and Institutions on Access to Energy and Public Infrastructure Services

Adviser: Vijay Modi

Prabhat Barnwal (2015): Three Essays in Development and Environment

Adviser: Cristian Pop-Eleches

James Rising (2015): Scales for Scales: An Open Look at the Open Sea

Adviser: Upmanu Lall

Tse-Ling Teh (2015): Governing Uncertainty: Financial Policies for Risk, 2015 Ernst-Meyer Prize winner

Adviser: Geoff Heal

Semee Yoon (2015): Essays on Development Economics and Energy Access

Adviser: Doug Almond

Nan Zhong (2015): Essays in Transportation Policies and Their Effects in Bejing

Adviser: Geoff Heal

AmirJina (2014): Economic Development in Extreme Environments

Adviser: Doug Almond

Booyuel Kim (2014): Essays on Education and Health in Developing Countries

Adviser: Cristian Pop-Eleches

Mark Orrs (2014): Visual Impairment and Sustainable Development: Demands for and Impacts of Surgical Cataract Extraction in Sub-Saharan Africa

Adviser: Cristian Pop-Eleches

Anna Tompsett (2014): Essays on Infrastructure and Development

Adviser: Eric Verhoogen

Xiaojia Bao (2013): Three Papers on Environment-Related Decision-Making and Development in China

Adviser: Vijay Modi

Kyle Meng (2013): Essays in the Economics and Political Economy of Climate Change

Adviser: Bernard Salanié

Ngo, Nicole (2013): Three Essays on the Environment and Health in Urban Areas

Adviser: Doug Almond

Jesse Anttila-Hughes (2012): Essays on Climate Impacts and Human Capital

Adviser: Doug Almond

Geoff Chi-Johnston (2012): Mathematical Modeling of Malaria: Theories of Malaria Elimination

Adviser: David Fidock

Aly Sanoh (2012): Essays on Infrastructure Development and Public Finance

Adviser: Vijay Modi

Saifedean H. Ammous (2011): Alternative Energy Science and Policy: Biofuels as a Case Study

Adviser: John C. Mutter

Ram Fishman (2011): Theoretical and Applied Dimensions of Natural Resource Management

Adviser: Jeffrey Sachs

Solomon Hsiang (2011): Essays on the Social Impacts of Climate

Advisers: Bentley MacLeod & Mark Cane

Chandra Krishnamurthy (2011): Essays on Climatic Extremes, Agriculture and Natural Resource Management

Adviser: Geoff Heal

Gordon McCord (2011): Essays on Malaria, Environment and Society

Adviser: Jeffry Sachs

Anisa Khadem Nwachuku (2011): Critiquing Economic Frameworks in Sustainable Development: Health Equity, Resource Management and Materialism

Adviser: Robert Fullilove

Marta Vicarelli (2011): Essays on Climatic Risks and Vulnerability-Reduction Strategies

Adviser: Geoff Heal

Jessica Barnes (2010): Governing Flow: The Politics of Water Distribution and Use in Egypt

Adviser: Paige West

• New Media Consolidation & Ideological Positioning
• Where We Go One We Go All? Rational and irrational drivers of belief in conspiracy theories
• Integrating Inter-Annual Climate Variability Forecasts into Weather-Indexed Crop Insurance
• Measuring the capacity of irrigation in India to buffer against inter-annual rainfall fluctuations
• Surface temperature and economic growth in the Caribbean
• Political Dimensions of Health Equity in Mozambique
• Scaling Up Malaria Control in Africa: An Economic and Epidemiological Assessment
• Effects of a Sanitary Towel Distribution Campaign on Girls' Attendance in Coast Province, Kenya
• Agricultural Development in the United Arab Emirates: A Case Study in the Context of Sustainable Development
• The Impact of Agricultural Shocks on Education Expenditure: Gender-Differentiated Response in Ghana
• Economic Diversity and Coastal Communities
• Nonlinear Impact of Temperatures on Mortality: Evidence from Monthly Weather Variations in France
• How Does the US Market Value Greenhouse Gas Emissions?: Evidence from the Electricity Sector
• Creative Destruction from Physical Destruction? The Impact of Natural Disasters on Entrepreneurship