Student Work

Kim, Seung Min, Hwang, Jeongha, and Kim, Kwansoo. "Estimating spring frost risk in apple farms from crop insurance data." Weather and Climate Extremes, Volume 50, December 2025.

McDevitt-Irwin, Jesse, "Child anemia and the 2008 food price crisis in Senegal." Demographic Research, Volume 51 - Article 20 | PAGES 637–668, 11 Sep 2024.

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

Wong, Jason. "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, Frank, Eyal and 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.

Kim, Seung Min and Mendelsohn, Robert. "Climate change and fractional outcomes: A long-run panel study of U.S. crop failure rates and pasture rates." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, March 2025.

Bressler, Danny, Shrader, Jeffrey, Wilson, Andrew, et al. "Heat disproportionately kills young people: Evidence from wet-bulb temperature in Mexico." Science Advances, Dec. 6, 2024.

Hogan, Dylan and Schlenker, Wolfram. "Non-linear relationships between daily temperature extremes and US agricultural yields uncovered by global gridded meteorological datasets." Nature Communications, May 31, 2024.

Obolensky, Marguerite, Tabellini, Marco, and Taylor, Charles. "Homeward bound: How migrants seek out familiar climates." VOX EU CEPR, January 18, 2024.

Kuziemko, Ilyana, Longuet-Marx, Nicolas and Naidu, Suresh "Compensate the Losers?” Economic Policy and Partisan Realignment in the US." NBER, October 2023.

Almond, Doug and Papp, Anna. Bitcoin and carbon dioxide emissions: Evidence from daily production decisions. Journal of Public Economics, November, 2023.

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

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

Almond, Doug, Du, Xinming, 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, Anja and Aguilar-Gomez, Sandra, 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, Sandra, DeFries, Ruth, et al. "Migration, assets, and forest degradation in a tropical deciduous forest of South Asia." Science Direct, September 2020.

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

 

• UChicago Weiss Fund, Max Zahrah (2026).
• Best Student Conference Paper at the Northeastern Agriculture and Resource Economics Association conference for "Time Allocation, Wildfire-induced Air Pollution, and Smartphone Mobility Data." Keith Chen and Clara Berestycki (2025).
• Sustainable Development Dissertation Award, Anna Papp (2025).
• Center for Political Economy Grants, Anna Papp, Eugene Tan, Nicolas Longuet-Marx, and Tristan DuPuy (2024); Tarikua Erda, Clara Berestycki, and Hannah Farkas (2025); Clara Berestycki, Seung Min Kim, and Max Zahrah (2026).
• IPUMS Spatial Research, Nicolas Longuet-Marx (2024).
• Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries, Exploratory Research Grant, Eugene Tan, 2022; Dylan Hogan, 2024.
• 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); Emilio Leguizamo (2024); Fanyu Wang (2025)..
• 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)

Hayeon Jeong. "Does Greater Policy Intensity Improve Policy Effectiveness? Evidence from Seoul, South Korea." London School of Economics, Environment Week. London, England. September 2025. 

Clara Berestycki.  "Time Allocation, Wildfire-induced Air Pollution, and Smartphone Mobility Data." Northeastern Agriculture and Resource Economics Association Conference, Burlington, VT, June 2025.

Hannah Farkas and Seung Min Kim. "Disastrous Data: What newly digitized FEMA records tell us about the political economy of disaster aid." Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Conference, Washington, DC, November 2024.

Danny Bressler (with Andrew Wilson and Jeff Shrader). "Heat disproportionately kills young people: evidence from wet-bulb temperature in Mexico." Midwest Economic Association (MEA) Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2024.

Stephan Thies. "Segregation, Spillovers, and the Locus of Racial Change." Urban Economics Association (UEA) European Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2024.

Anna Papp. "Rain Follows the Forest: Land Use Policy, Climate Change, and Adaptation." NBER Summer Institute, San Antonio, TX, January, 2024.

Junho Choi. "Are LLMs Useful in the Poorest Schools? The Teachers AI in Sierra Leone?" NeurIPS GAIED, New Orleans, LA, December, 2023.

Tarikua Erda. "Sink or Swim: Firm Dynamics and Reallocation after Flood Shocks." Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) Conference, Atlanta, GA, November, 2023.

Andrew Wilson. Simultaneous measurement of health damage from transboundary and domestic air pollution in mixture." The Workshop in Environmental Economics and Data Science (TWEEDS) Conference, Portland, OR, September 2023.

Dylan Hogan. "The Global Water Resource Costs of Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change." The Workshop in Environmental Economics and Data Science (TWEEDS) Conference, Portland, OR, September 2023.

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

Jesse McDevitt-Irwin. "US Infant Mortality in the 19th Century: New Evidence from Childhood Sex Ratios". Population Association of America Annual (PAA) 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.

Danny Bressler (2025): Death, Pigouvian Taxes, and Climate Change
Adviser: Scott Barrett

Tristan Du Puy: Three Essays in Environmental Economics
Adviser: Suresh Naidu

Tarikua Erda (2025): Essays on the Economics of Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Human Capital
Advisers: Sandra Black and Jeff Shrader

Gabriel Gonzalez Sutil: Three Essays on the Twin Problem of Electricity Markets
Adviser: Jeff Shrader

Nicolas Longuet-Marx (2025): Essays in Political Economy
Adviser: Suresh Naidu

Marguerite Obolensky (2025): Essays in Environmental and Climate Economics
Adviser: Pietro Tebaldi

Anna Papp (2025): Essays in Environmental Economics (Sustainable Development Dissertation Award)
Adviser: Doug Almond

Isabella Smythe (2025): Understanding Crop Yields in a Changing Climate with Machine Learning and Satellite Imagery
Adviser: Wolfram Schlenker

Vincent Bagilet (2024): Essays on Design of Applied Economics Studies
Adviser: Jeff Shrader

Thomas Braun (2024): At the Intersection of Socio-Economic and Natural Systems: Three Essays in Environmental Econometrics
Adviser: Wolfram Schlenker

Florian Grosset (2024): Essays in Development and Environmental Economics
Advisers: Eric Verhoogen and Kiki Pop-Eleches

Carolyn Hayek (2024): Sustainable Provision of Water Services in the United States
Adviser: Upmanu Lall

Hyae Ryung Kim (2024): Essays in Environmental Economics and Sustainable Finance
Adviser: Geoff Heal

Jessie McDevitt-Irwin (2024): Essays on Development and Maternal-Infant Health
Adviser: Rodrigo Soares

Andrew Wilson (2024): Essays on Health and the Environment
Adviser: Wolfram Schlenker

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
Advisers: 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

• The Effectiveness of Local Conservation Ballots
• The Hidden Environmental Costs of Market Distortions: Evidence from Electricity Generation in India
• Historical Redlining and Current-day Green Spaces: Effects of Discriminatory Housing Policy on Urban Vegetation Coverage
• Discards, Wealth Transfers, and Informal Wages
• The Carbon Tax Royalty Impact
• 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
• 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
• 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