Working Papers: 

Targeting Disaster Aid: A Structural Evaluation of a Large Earthquake Reconstruction Program (with Eli Fenichel and Yukiko Hashida). [VoxDev Summary]

Open Dumps and the Global Trade in Garbage (with Anna Papp and Monica Shandal).  

Coase Meets Negishi: Property Rights, Welfare Weights, and Distributional Consequences in Climate Economics (with Simon Lang and Matthew Kotchen).

Remote Control: Debiasing Machine Learning Predictions for Causal Inference (with Luke Sanford, Megan Ayers, and Eliana Stone).

Publications: 

The Environmental Justice Implications of Industry Consolidation: Evidence from U.S. Landfills (with Hui Zhou and Shan Zhang). Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2026). [SSRN]

Debiasing Estimates of Global Forest Cover Loss (with Luke Sanford, Megan Ayers, and Eliana Stone). AEA P&P (2026).

Work in Progress: 

Desertification and Agricultural Productivity: The Effect of Saharan Dust on Nigerian Agriculture (with Amine Jebir). 

Sufficient Statistics for Targeting Cash Transfers (with Jason Abaluck and Mushfiq Mobarak).

Policy and Interdisciplinary: 

Adversarial Debiasing for Unbiased Parameter Recovery (with Luke Sanford, Megan Ayers, and Eliana Stone). AISTATS (2026).

Observational studies generate misleading results about the health effects of air pollution: Evidence from chronic air pollution and COVID-19 outcomes (with Marc Conte, Nicole Smartwood, Rachel Wilwerding and Alex Yu). PLOS One (2024). 

“Waste and Materials Management: From Harm Reduction to Value Creation.” A Better Planet (with Marian Chertow, edited by Daniel Esty). Yale University Press (2019). 

Industrial symbiosis potential and urban infrastructure capacity in Mysuru, India (with Marian Chertow, Peter Hirsch, and Anu Ramaswami). Environmental Research Letters (2019).