Beyond the Canopy: Sources of Satellite Data and Deforestation Policy Evaluation in Brazil
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 134 (2025): 103219
with Kathryn Baragwanath
The Cold, Hard Truth: Evidence from Heterogeneous Snowpack Insulation Effects on Winter Wheat Yields in China
Environment and Development Economics (2025)
with Zhenyu Yao
The Human Well-Being Potential of Tree Plantations in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Reassessment Using Longitudinal Subnational Data
Forest Policy and Economics, 160 (2024): 103141
with Edouard Mensah, Ange Kakpo, and Ida Djenontin
Collective Property Rights Lead to Secondary Forest Growth in the Brazilian Amazon
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(22): e2221346120 (2023)
with Kathryn Baragwanath and Ella Bayi
Awards: 5th Edition of the MapBiomas Award · Media: Mongabay, World Economic Forum
Incentives for Rural Households to Establish Tree Cover on Agricultural Land in Andhra Pradesh
In Environmental Economics in Developing Countries: Issues and Challenges (2022)
with Stella Schons, Greg Amacher, Kelly Cobourn, and Haripriya Gundimeda
Project Support: NASA Land-Cover and Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Program
Land Registration and Conflict Reduction: Evidence from the Rural Environmental Registry in the Brazilian Amazon
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
with Stella Schons, Alexandre Gori Maia, and Gregory Amacher
Unintended Consequences of a Large Irrigation Project for Groundwater Recharge
Journal of Development Economics
with Prashikdivya Gajbhiye and Matt Woerman
Addressing the Threat of Groundwater Depletion: Does a Command-and-Control Approach Work?
World Development
with Jayash Paudel and Sakshi Upadhyay
Gross External Damages of Water Pollution in the United States
with David A. Keiser, Tihitina T. Andarge, Mohammad M. Hoque, Yongjie Ji, Catherine Kling, Daniel Phaneuf, and Yau-Huo Shyr
Presented at the NBER 2025 Summer Institute in Environmental and Energy Economics
Divide and Deforest: The Perverse Incentives of Land Regularization in the Brazilian Amazon
with Kathryn Baragwanath
Funding: Ronald Coase Institute Research Program (2025)
Improving Environmental Outcomes Through Investments in Local Governance: Evidence from Brazil
with Stella Schons, Kathryn Baragwanath, Alexandre Gori Maia, and Gregory Amacher
Forest Disease, Wildfire Risk, and Recreational Welfare: Evidence from the USA
with Calvin Bryan
Selected for the 2026 JEEM/REE Workshop on Nonmarket Valuation
Thirteenth Month of Drought-Year: Agricultural Shocks and Judicial Outcomes in India
with Sampriti Sarkar
Invited submission for Journal of Development Economics Special Issue (2027)
Are Superfund Sites Associated with Differences in Surrounding Soil Chemistry? Evidence from 80,000 Soil Tests in Tennessee
with Sampriti Sarkar
Drought-Induced Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
with Tengda Gong, Alankrita Goswami, and Mahmoud Osman
Persistence Without Permanence: Compliance Selection and Carbon Permanence in Brazil’s Forest Code
with Stella Schons, Alexandre Gori Maia, and Gregory Amacher
Realization versus Selection: Evidence from Africa’s Land Rush
Economic Shocks, Household Fuel Choice, and Forest Extraction