Research
Working Papers
How Are Insurance Markets Adapting to Climate Change? Risk Selection and Regulation in the Market for Homeowners Insurance (with Meredith Fowlie, Jacob Gellman, and Andrew Plantinga).
Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters: The Case of U.S. Wildfires (with Patrick Baylis).
Revise and resubmit at Journal of Political Economy.
NBER Working Paper 29621 Supplementary Material
Media and outreach: Marketplace, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vox (Podcast), MarketWatch, NBER Digest
Publications
Quantifying Fire-Specific Smoke Exposure and Health Impacts (with Jeff Wen, Sam Heft-Neal, Marshall Burke, and Patrick Baylis).
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2023).
Paper Earlier Preprint Version
Media and outreach: New York Times
Adapting to Growing Wildfire Property Risk.
Science (2023).
When Do Environmental Externalities Have Electoral Consequences? Evidence from Fracking.
Forthcoming at Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
Paper NBER Working Paper Version
Wildfire Insurance, Information, and Self-Protection (with Meredith Fowlie and Andrew Plantinga).
AEA Papers and Proceedings (2023).
The Economic Incidence of Wildfire Suppression in the United States (with Patrick Baylis; previously titled "Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters").
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2023).
Paper NBER Working Paper Version
Media and outreach: NBER Digest, Politico, ProPublica, RFF Resources Radio, EI at Haas Blog, Marginal Revolution
Do Energy Efficiency Investments Deliver at the Right Time? (with Lucas W. Davis).
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2020).
Paper Supplementary Material NBER Working Paper Version
Media and outreach: Vox, EI at Haas Blog
Drilling Like There's No Tomorrow: Bankruptcy, Insurance, and Environmental Risk.
American Economic Review (2019).
Media and outreach: AEA Chart of the Week, SIEPR Policy Brief, EI at Haas Blog, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's National Observer
Orphan Wells in California: An Initial Assessment of the State’s Potential Liabilities. An Independent Review of Scientific & Technical Information (lead author).
California Council on Science and Technology Study (2018).
Media and outreach: Los Angeles Times (Piece 1), Los Angeles Times (Piece 2), Politico, Bloomberg, E&E News, LAist, KQED, Canada's National Observer
A Credible Approach for Measuring Inframarginal Participation in Energy Efficiency Programs (with Lucas W. Davis).
Journal of Public Economics (2014).
Work in Progress
Wildfire Risk and Self-Protective Investment: Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Patrick Baylis and Bob Horton).
Field experiment in progress in partnership with state and local partners and support from J-PAL North America.
Urban Density and Travel Demand (with Mark Jacobsen and Laura Schewel).
Abstract: The transportation sector accounts for about one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. To reduce externalities from driving, recent policies have sought to increase urban density. This project uses new data to revisit the effects of urban form on travel demand. We take advantage of panel data on individual mobility gathered from mobile devices for a large sample of U.S. households. This new empirical approach complements existing evidence on urban density and driving, which relies on cross-sectional, survey-based approaches.
Earlier Work on Environmental Science & Policy
Costa Rica’s payment for environmental services program: Intention, implementation, and impact (with G. Arturo Sánchez-Azofeifa, Alexander Pfaff, and Juan Andres Robalino).
Conservation Biology (2007).
Assessing catch shares' effects: Evidence from federal United States and associated British Columbian fisheries (with Dietmar Grimm, Ivan Barkhorn, David Festa, Kate Bonzon, Valerie Hovland, and Jason Blau).
Marine Policy (2012).
Prediction and verification of possible reef-fish spawning aggregation sites in Los Roques Archipelago National Park, Venezuela (with Marco Romero, Juan Posada, Shin Kobara, and Will Heyman).
Journal of Fish Biology (2010).
Rhythms of gene expression in a fluctuating intertidal environment (with Andrew Gracey, Maxine Chaney, Will Tyburczy, Kwasi Connor, and George Somero).
Current Biology (2008).
Sharing the catch, conserving the fish (with David Festa and Diane Regas).
Issues in Science and Technology (2008).
Resting Papers
Peer Effects in Energy Efficiency Program Participation.