Published Articles
Heat and Learning
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | 2020 | with Joshua Goodman, Mike Hurwitz, and Jonathan Smith
Hot Temperature and High Stakes Performance
Journal of Human Resources | 2020
Learning is Inhibited by Heat Exposure, Both Internationally and Within the U.S.
Nature Human Behavior | 2020 | with Joshua Goodman and A. Patrick Behrer
The effect of natural disasters on human capital in the United States
Nature Human Behavior | 2023 | with Isaac Opper and Lucas Husted
High temperatures and electricity disconnections for low-income homes in California
Nature Energy | 2022 | with Alan Barreca and Paul Stainier
Workers and the Green-Energy Transition: Evidence from 300 Million Job Transitions
Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy | 2023 | with Mark Curtis and Layla O’Kane
Heat Stress and the Labour Force
Nature Reviews: Earth and Environment | forthcoming | with Shouro Dasgupta, Elizabeth Robinson, Simon Gosling, Soheil Shayegh, and Francesco Bosello,
Heat has Larger Impacts on Labor In Poorer Areas
Environmental Research Communications | 2021 | with A. Patrick Behrer, David Keith, Colleen Golja, and Gernot Wagner
Households and Heat Stress: Estimating the Distributional Consequences of Climate Change
Environment and Development Economics | 2018 | with Mook Bangalore, Stephane Hallegatte, and Evan Sandhoefner
Temperature Stress and the Direct Impact of Climate Change: A Review of an Emerging Literature
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy | 2016 | with Geoffrey Heal
Combining multiple climate policy instruments: how not to do it
Climate Change Economics | 2011 | with Sam Fankhauser and Cameron Hepburn
Working Papers
Temperature, Workplace Safety, and Labor Market Inequality
with Nora Pankratz and A. Patrick Behrer
Inequality in Workplace Climate Exposure
with Paul Stainier
Will We Adapt? Temperature, Labor, and Adaptation to Climate Change (draft available upon request)
with A. Patrick Behrer
In Progress
Outside Options and Working Conditions
with Anna Stansbury
Labor Market Frictions and Adaptation to Climate Change
with A. Patrick Behrer and Mike Dalton
Climate Shocks and Consumer Credit
with Bret Stevens, Alan Barreca, and Nora Pankratz
Books
Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
Princeton University Press | 2024
Other Publications
We Don’t See What Climate Change is Doing to Us
The New York Times Guest Essay | 2024
Impacts of Warming Temperatures on Education and Learning
Econofact | 2020
Air Condition Sweltering Schools to Close Racial Achievement Gaps
USA Today | 2019
Heat Isn’t Just a Nuisance to Students; It’s a Barrier to Learning
The Hill | 2018 | with Joshua Goodman, Mike Hurwitz, and Jonathan Smith
Economic Modeling of Climate Change
Climate Change: Global Risks, Challenges, and Decisions, Cambridge University Press | 2011 | with Cameron Hepburn