I am an environmental economist at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). I am affiliated with CEEP, the Climate School, and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). From 2023 to 2024, I was a Senior Advisor in the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). I study how forecasts and other types of information affect actions in settings including adaptation to climate change, risk-taking in research, and time use. These days, I am especially fascinated by how people perceive and use weather forecasts—a decades-long information intervention going on every hour of the day, all around the world.

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2021-09-15

The recording of the presentations from UCLA’s Climate Adaptation Symposium are available here. A great event as always!

2021-09-01

The second UCLA Climate Adaptation Research Symposium will take place on September 8th. You can see my new work on the value of routine weather forecasts during the 10:45-12:15 PT session.

2021-06-17

A new version of my paper on estimating damages from weather while accounting for adaptation is available here. Weather forecasts are really cool and they can help us improve our inference about climate damages.

2021-03-15

A new paper evaluating policies to integrate storage into the electricity grid while reducing emissions is now published here. Good policy design really matters here—a popular policy we analyze can actually increase emissions relative to taking no policy action!

2021-02-16

Lots of upcoming presentations this spring, starting with a double header at the AERE sessions at the Eastern Economics Association meeting. You can see my dynamic permits paper on Friday the 26th and a paper on labor adjustment costs and climate damage on the 27th.

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