Research

Publications

• Saving the world from your couch: The heterogeneous medium-run benefits of COVID-19 lockdowns on air pollution (with Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Quentin Gallea, Dimitrija Kalanoski, Rafael Lalive, Frederik Noack, Dominic Rohner, and Tommaso Sonno). Forthcoming, Environmental Research Letters
  • Media: UBC Press Release, The Conversation, National Post, Global TV, Vancouver is awesome, InfoTel, 24heures (French), Radio Canada Internacional (Spanish)

Working Papers

• The Development-Biodiversity Tradeoff: Evidence from India’s Tropical Forests
  • [Submitted]
• Ruling The Roost: Avian Species Reclaim Urban Habitat During India’s COVID-19 Lockdown (with Sumeet Gulati)
  • [R&R, Biological Conservation]

Papers in Progress

• Rural-Urban Migration and Technology Adoption in Agriculture (with Mushfiq Mobarak, Olivier Deschenes, and Frederik Noack)
• Long-term Health Consequences of Coal Power Plants (with Rohini Pande, Anish Sugathan and Kevin Rowe)