Research

Publications

  1. “Cash Crops and The Development-Environment Tradeoff: Evidence from Benin.”
    (with Zhenong Jin and Leikun Yin). Land Economics, 2026
    [pdf][appendix]

  2. “Infrastructure, Institutions, and the Conservation of Biodiversity in India.”
    Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2025
    [pdf][appendix][podcast][commentary]

  3. “Ruling The Roost: Avian Species Reclaim Urban Habitat During India’s COVID-19 Lockdown.”
    (with Sumeet Gulati). Biological Conservation, 2022

  4. “Saving the world from your couch: The heterogeneous benefits of COVID-19 lockdowns on air pollution.”
    (with J.P. Bonardi, Q. Gallea, D. Kalanoski, R. Lalive, F. Noack, D. Rohner, and T. Sonno)
    Environmental Research Letters, 2021

Working Papers

  1. “Urban Growth and the Spatial Reorganization of Agriculture.” [NBER WP][commentary]
    (with Frederik Noack, Mushfiq Mobarak, and Olivier Deschenes)
    Revision Requested, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

  2. Does Women’s Autonomy Improve Forest Restoration? Experimental Evidence from the Himalayas.”
    (with P. Choksi, E. Coleman, H. Fischer, F. Fleischman, M. Khanyari, P. Rana, E. Sills).
    Accepted (pre-results review), Journal of Development Economics

  3. “Off-Target Impacts of Targeted Policy: Evidence from Colombia.” Submitted.
    (with Tatiana Zarate-Barrera)

  4. “Ethnic Favouritism in Environmental Disaster Payouts.” Submitted.
    (with Sumeet Gulati and Pushpendra Rana)

  5. “Tribal Forest Rights and Firm Behaviour.” (with Sabyasachi Das)

Selected Works in Progress

  1. “Willingness to Pay for Biodiversity: Evidence from Recreation Demand. ”
    (with Matt Braaksma, Ryan Mcway, and Jovin Lasway)

  2. “Gross Ecosystem Product.” (with NatCap TEEMS)

  3. “The Ecological Costs of Aerial Coca Eradication.”
    (with Colleen Miller and Tatiana Zarate-Barrera)

Resting Papers

  1. “The Long Run Effects of Coal Power Plants on Health.”
    (with Rohini Pande, Kevin Rowe, and Anish Sugathan)