Published Papers
“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 Effect 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 of Evidence Using Longitudinal Subnational‑Year Data”
Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 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 Coverage: 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): 154
With Stella Schons, Greg Amacher, Kelly Cobourn, and Haripriya Gundimeda
Project Information: NASA Land‑Cover and Land‑Use Change (LCLUC) Program
Working Papers
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 Shr
Working paper: SI 2025 Environmental & Energy Economics
Improving Environmental Outcomes Through Investments in Local Governance: Evidence from Brazil
With Stella Schons, Kathryn Baragwanath, Alexandre Gori Maia, and Gregory Amacher
Land Registration and Conflict Reduction: Evidence from the Rural Environmental Registry in the Brazilian Amazon
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
With Stella Schons, Alexandre Gori Maia, and Gregory Amacher
Revise and Resubmit, Journal of Development Economics
With Prashikdivya Gajbhiye and Matt Woerman
Forest Disease, Wildfire Risk, and Recreational Welfare: Evidence from the USA
With Calvin Bryan
Work in Progress
Divide and Deforest: The Perverse Incentives of Land Regularization in the Brazilian Amazon
With Kathryn Baragwanath
Funding: The Ronald Coase Institute Research program - 2025
The Drought-induced Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
With Tengda Gong, Alankrita Goswami, and Mahmoud Osman.
Social Welfare Tradeoffs of Road Salt
with Sampriti Sarkar