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Working Papers

Does When You Die Depend On Where You Live? Evidence From Hurricane Katrina

With David Molitor

Revision requested, American Economic Review. NBER Working Paper 24822

Firm-Level Financial Resources and Environmental Spills

With Jonathan Cohn

NBER Working Paper 24516

The Marginal Product of Climate

With Solomon Hsiang

NBER Working Paper 24072

Accepted and published articles

The Long-Run Dynamics Of Electricity Demand: Evidence From Municipal Aggregation

With Alex MacKay and Julian Reif

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2020, 12(1)

The Mortality And Medical Costs Of Air Pollution: Evidence From Changes In Wind Direction

With Garth Heutel, Nolan Miller, David Molitor, and Julian Reif

American Economic Review, 2019, 109(12)

The Distributional Consequences of Building Energy Codes

With Chris Bruegge and Erica Myers

Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019, 6(S1)

The Economic Impact Of Hurricane Katrina On Its Victims: Evidence From Individual Tax Returns

With Laura Kawano and Steven Levitt

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018, 10(2)

Does The Samaritan’s Dilemma Matter? Evidence From U.S. Agriculture

With Barrett Kirwan

Economic Inquiry, 2018, 56(2)

Impacts of Crop Insurance on Water Withdrawals for Irrigation

With Megan Konar

Advances in Water Resources (top-ranked journal in water resources), 2017, 110.

The Fiscal Cost Of Hurricanes: Disaster Aid Versus Social Insurance

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2017, 9(3)

The Effect of Information Provision on Public Consensus About Climate Change

With Olga Shurchkov

PLoS ONE, 2016, April.

Now You See It, Now You Don’t: the Vanishing Beauty Premium

With Olga Shurchkov

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2015, 116: 331-345.

Does Beauty Matter in Undergraduate Education?

With Olga Shurchkov

Economic Inquiry, 2015, 53(2): 940-961

How Do People Update? The Effects of Local Weather Fluctuations on Beliefs about Global Warming

Climatic Change, 2013, 118(2): 397-416