Publications

Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town, with Cassandra Cole, B. Kelsey Jack, Kyle C. Meng, and Martine Visser. Journal of the European Economic Association (2026). [Github Repo]

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].

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

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

Working Papers

Natural Capital and the Measurement of Productivity, with Eli Fenichel and Marc Conte [submitted]

Climate and Structural Change,[submitted]

Savings and Migration in a Warming World [previous JMP]

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

Works in Progress*

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

Valuing Natural Capital under Technical Change*, with Eli Fenichel

Liberalization, Market Structure, and (Re)-Regulation in Ghana’s Fuel Market, with Yang Gao and Flavio Malaguti

Contributions to Government Publications

Council of Economic Advisers. Economic Report of the President (2019), Economic Report of the President (2018)

*feel free to email me about a preliminary draft