Publications

Peer-Reviewed Economics Publications

“Energy Efficiency and Directed Technical Change: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation,”  Review of Economic Studies (2024) 91 (1): 192-228.

• Open-Access Working Paper: CESifo (2022)

"A Generalized Uzawa Growth Theorem," Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics (2024) 2(2): 336-373. (with Ryo Horii) 

• Open-Access Working Paper: ISER (2023)

"Understanding Climate Damages: Consumption versus Investment"  European Economic Review (2024) 167:  104799. (with Stephie Fried and Matthew Gibson) 

• Special issue on Climate Risks and the Economy associated with a conference held at FRBSF in 2023

• co-Recipient of the 2023 "Innovative Research in the Economics of Climate Change" award from IZA

• Non-Technical Summary: FRBSF Economic Letter 2024-14| LSE Business Review

• Media Coverage: Bloomberg | Reuters | Washington Center for Equitable Growth (1, 2)

• Open-Access Working Paper: FRBSF 2024 | CESifo (2023)

"Unemployment and the Direction of Technical Change," European Economic Review (2024) 168: 104802.

• Open-Access Working Paper: CESifo (2024) | Williams (2023)

"Projecting the impacts of temperature change:  The role of macroeconomic dynamics,"  IMF Economic Review (2023) 71: 688-718. (with Stephie Fried and Ethan Goode)

• Special issue on "Transformational Recovery: Seizing Opportunities from the Crisis"

• Non-Technical Summary: FRBSF Economic Letter 2023-15.

• Media Coverage: Interview on Faster, Please!

• Open-Access Working Paper: CESifo (2023)

• Policy Citation: Council of Economic Advisors (2024)

“Historical Instruments and Contemporary Endogenous Regressors,” Journal of Development Economics (2021): 102586. (with Marc Klemp)

• Open-Access Working Paper: Williams (2021) | CESifo (2020)

• Media Coverage: Cherokee Gothic | Econometrics Beat | Broadstreet | Marginal Revolution (link)

• Policy Citation: Nobel Prize Committee (2024)

Peer-Reviewed Interdisciplinary Publications

"The Impact of Climate Change on Fertility" Environmental Research Letters (2019) 14:  054007.  (with Soheil Shayegh, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Martin Bunzl, Oded Galor, and Ken Caldeira)

• Media Coverage:  Vice | Daily Beast (paywall) | Daily Mail | National Affairs (link)

• Policy Citation: Council of Economic Advisors (2023)

"Is faster economic growth compatible with reductions in carbon emissions? The role of diminished population growth" Environmental Research Letters (2017) 12: 014003. (with Oded Galor)

• Non-Technical Summary: VoxEU | MAHB

• Media Coverage: EnvironmentalResearchWeb | Blog Illusio | Grist | National Affairs (link)

• Policy Citation:  UN Global Environmental Outlook 6,  Chapter 2 (2019)

"Inequality and Fractionalization" World Development (2014) 56: 32-50. (with Ann Owen)

"Good News, Bad News and Consumer Confidence" Social Science Quarterly (2013) 94: 292-315. (with Ann Owen)

Other Publications

"Population and Energy Consumption/Carbon Emissions: What We Know, What We Should Focus on Next," International Handbook of Population and Environment (2022),  Hunter, Gray, and Veron Editors: pp. 421-428 (with Brant Liddle)

"Benefits and Costs of the Population and Demography Targets for the Post-2015 Development Agenda" (2014) Perspective paper prepared for the Post-2015 Consensus Project of the Copenhagen Consensus Center. (with Oded Galor)