Published Papers

• “Blackouts: The Role of India’s Wholesale Electricity Market”
  Conditionally accepted at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
  (with Fiona Burlig and Akshaya Jha)
  [VoxDev piece] [VoxEU piece] [Ideas for India piece | हिंदी]

• “Market Power in Coal Shipping and Implications for U.S. Climate Policy”
  Review of Economic Studies 91(4): 2508–2537. 2024.
  [ungated PDF] [online appendix] [supplemental appendix] [EI@Haas blog] [Axios]

• “Out of the Darkness and Into the Light? Development Effects of Rural Electrification”
  Journal of Political Economy 132(9): 2937–2971. 2024.
  (with Fiona Burlig)
  [ungated PDF] [online appendix] [VoxDev piece] [Ideas for India piece] [IEEE Spectrum] [video by econimate] [Phys.org] [Indian Express] [Down to Earth] [The Hindu] [The Hindu Business Line]

• “MPAs and Aspatial Policies in Artisanal Fisheries”
  Marine Resource Economics 36(4): 341–367. 2021.
  (with H. Jo Albers, Madison Ashworth, Tabaré Capitán, and Róger Madrigal-Ballestero)
  [ungated PDF] [online appendix]

• “Optimal Siting, Sizing, and Enforcement of Marine Protected Areas”
  Environmental and Resource Economics 77(1): 229–269. 2020.
  (with H. Jo Albers, Tabaré Capitán, Elizabeth Robinson, and Róger Madrigal-Ballestero)

• “Panel Data and Experimental Design”
  Journal of Development Economics 144: 102548. 2020.
  (with Fiona Burlig and Matt Woerman)
  [ungated PDF] [online appendix] [Stata package: type ssc describe pcpanel in Stata console]

• “Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector: Are We Deploying Too Many?”
  Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 4(4): 959–984. 2017.
  (with Carolyn Fischer and Richard Newell)
  [ungated PDF] [online appendix]

• “Combining Policies for Renewable Energy: Is the Whole Less Than the Sum of Its Parts?”
  International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 4(1): 51–92. 2010.
  (with Carolyn Fischer)

Working Papers

• “Groundwater and Crop Choice in the Short and Long Run” [updated February 2026!]
  Revise and resubmit, Review of Economic Studies
  (with Fiona Burlig and Matt Woerman)
  [Forbes piece] [Forecast Direct podcast] [Barron’s piece] [EI@Haas Blog] [The Hill]

Selected Works in Progress

• “The Market and Environmental Impacts of India’s Renewable Energy Expansion”
  (with Fiona Burlig and Akshaya Jha)

• “Groundwater in a Changing Climate”
  (with Fiona Burlig, Aaron Hrozencik, and Matt Woerman)

• “Supplier Market Power in the Energy Transition: An Empirical Study of Coal Mines, Railroads, and Power Plants”
  (with Andrew Sweeting and Joshua Blonz)

• “Growing Risk? The Distortionary Effects of the Federal Crop Insurance Program”
  (with Fiona Burlig, Aaron Hrozencik, and Matt Woerman)

• “Pricing the Pump: Demand Response to Two-Part Electricity Tariffs”
  (with Fiona Burlig and Matt Woerman)

• “Exporting Carbon: U.S. Coal Demand, International Leakage, and Implications for Climate Policy”
  (with Joshua Blonz)

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