Research

Peer-Reviewed Publications

"Conserving wildlife through demand reduction and supply alternatives: Two experiments in restaurants in Kinshasa" with Abdoulaye Cisse and Daniel J. Ingram. People and Nature (2025). Link to paper. Replication files.  

"Input Subsidies and the Depletion of Natural Capital: Chinese Distant Water Fishing" with Jihua Zhang, Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez, Qutu Jiang, Mingzhao Hu, Olivier Deschenes and Christopher Costello. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 131, 103127 (2025). Link to paper (ungated).

"Private management of African protected areas improves wildlife and tourism outcomes but with security concerns in conflict regions" with Sean Denny and Patrick Hunnicutt. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(29), e2401814121 (2024). Link to paper. Replication files.  

"Global expansion of marine protected areas and the redistribution of fishing effort" with Gavin McDonald, Jennifer Bone, Christopher Costello, and Jennifer Raynor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(29), e2400592121 (2024). Link to paper. Replication files.  

"A fish cartel for Africa" with Christopher Costello. Nature Communications, 14, 7124 (2023). Link to paper. Replication files.  

"Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru's Anchoveta Fishery". American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 15(4), 390-427 (2023). Link to paper (ungated). Replication files.

"Recycling Policies, Behavior and Convenience: Survey Evidence from the CalRecycle Program" with Peter Berck, Marshall Blundell, Samantha Gold, Shelley He, Janet Horsager, Scott Kaplan, Molly Sears, Andrew Stevens, Carly Trachtman, Rebecca Taylor, and Sofia B. Villas-Boas. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 43(2), 641-658 (2021). Link to paper.

"Property rights and the protection of global marine resources". Nature Sustainability, 2(10), 981–987 (2019). Link to paper. Replication files. 

"Carbon allowances and the demand for offsets: a comprehensive assessment of imperfect substitutes" with Noah C. Dormady. Journal of Public Policy, 36(1), 139-167 (2016). Link to paper. 

Working Papers

"Deterring Industrial Vessels from African Coastal Fisheries" with Aishwarya Agarwal. 2025.  World Bank Policy Research Working Paper WPS11222. Link to paper.

"The value of information in a congested fishery" with Larry Karp and Leo Simon. 2025. Accepted at Review of Economic Studies. Link to paper. 

Book Chapters

"Armed Conflict Increases Elephant Poaching". In David Zilberman, Jeffrey M. Perloff, and Cyndi Spindell Berck (Eds.), Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century: Essays in Memory of Peter Berck, pp. 167-177 (2023). Springer. Link.

"The Impact of Ecolabels and Green Taxes on Market Outcomes" with Andrew W. Stevens, Rebecca L. C. Taylor, and Sofia B. Villas-Boas. In Maria da Glória Garcia and António Cortês (Eds.), Blue Planet Law: The Ecology of our Economic and Technological World, pp. 159-171 (2023). Springer. Link.

"Recycling Behavior and Convenience" with Peter Berck, Marshall Blundell, Samantha Gold, Yulei (Shelley) He, Janet Horsager, Scott Kaplan, Molly Van Dop Sears, Andrew Stevens, Carly Trachtman, Rebecca Taylor, Sofia B. Villas-Boas, and Cyndi Spindell Berck. In David Zilberman, Jeffrey M. Perloff, and Cyndi Spindell Berck (Eds.), Sustainable Resource Development in the 21st Century: Essays in Memory of Peter Berck, pp. 213-230 (2023). Springer. Link.