Publications

Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town, with Cassandra Cole, B. Kelsey Jack, Kyle C. Meng, and Martine Visser. (Forthcoming). Journal of the European Economic Association. [Github Repo]

Quantifying the global climate feedback from energy-based adaptation, with Tamma Carleton, Kyle C. Meng, and Olivier Deschênes. Nature Communications 16, 3928, (2025). [Github Repo] [Zenodo]

Subsidies for Close Substitutes: Aggregate Demand for Residential Solar Electricity, with Nick Pretnar. European Economic Review, 170, (2024): 104848. [Github Repo] [Zenodo]

Working Papers

Savings and Migration in a Warming World (JMP)

Climate and Structural Change

Establishment-Level Unionization at Large Firms: Evidence from the 21st Century, with Thomas Fullagar [Thomas’ Job Market Paper].

A comment on "Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land", with Cong Xu and Shuo Yu. (2025). I4R Discussion Paper Series, No. 269, Institute for Replication. [Replication for the Institute for Replication]

Works in Progress

Belief formation and adaptation to climate shocks: evidence from “Day Zero”*

Contributions to Government Publications

Council of Economic Advisers. Economic Report of the President (2019)

Council of Economic Advisers. Economic Report of the President (2018)

*feel free to email me about a preliminary draft