Working Papers

(2026). Pricing Protection: Credit Scores, Disaster Risk, and Home Insurance Affordability. NBER Working Paper No. 34848.
(2025). Money and Power. SSRN Working Paper.
(2025). Last Resort Insurance: Wildfires and the Regulation of a Crashing Market. FRB Dallas Working Paper No. 2510.
(2024). Social Security and High-Frequency Labor Supply: Evidence from Uber Drivers. Working Paper.

Publications

(2026). Managing Unpriced Climate Risks in US Housing Markets. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy.

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(2026). Flood Risk Mapping and the Distributional Impacts of Climate Information. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.

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(2026). Prospects and challenges of risk-based insurance pricing for disaster adaptation. Nature Climate Change.

Pre-print

(2025). Hurricanes and Migration: New Evidence from Credit Bureau Microdata. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

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(2025). Researchers' degrees of flexibility: Revisiting COVID-19 policy evaluations. Economic Inquiry.

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(2023). Unpriced climate risk and the potential consequences of overvaluation in US housing markets. Nature Climate Change.

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(2022). Amphibian collapses increased malaria incidence in Central America. Environmental Research Letters.

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(2022). Exposures and behavioural responses to wildfire smoke. Nature Human Behavior.
(2022). Untapped potential: leak reduction is the most cost-effective urban water management tool. Environmental Research Letters.

UC Press

(2020). Social distancing responses to COVID-19 emergency declarations strongly differentiated by income. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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(2018). A Cost–Benefit Approach for Prioritizing Invasive Species. Ecological Economics.

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Work in Progress

“On Zoning” (with Anna Boerst, Samara Beach, Eshna Ghosh, Aleida Baumgartner, and Brian Seok)

“Disaster Assistance: Beliefs and Preferences” (with Fran Moore, Indu Roychowdhury, and Song You)

“Invasive Fire Ants and the Long Term Effects of Ecosystem Disruption” (with Mike Springborn and Paul Mwebaze)

“The Effect of Farm Structure on Economic and Environmental Outcomes” (with Sylvain Chabé-Ferret, Pascale Champalaune, Anouch Missirian, and Emmanuel Paroissien)

“The Value of Public Disaster Insurance” (with Pierre Mérel)

“Wildfire Risk and Defensible Space Compliance” (with a big team)