This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity
in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and of the quality …

This study investigates the causal link between electrification and the adoption of modern (and
cleaner) cooking fuels, more specifically Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG). In order to …

Electricity storage represents a solution to curb carbon emissions by enabling more use of
intermittent renewable energy. Our goal is to empirically analyze the determinants of …

The comparative advantage of countries evolves over time, yet firms do not continuously
adapt their production structure to this evolution. This slow adaptation may be due to high …

We study the short-run, dynamic employment effects of natural disasters. We exploit monthly
data for 70 3-digits NAICS industries and 78 Puerto Rican counties over the period 1995–…

This paper examines how exposure to storms over the course of compulsory schooling
affects educational attainments and the type of activity performed by individuals in young …

We study the short-run, dynamic employment effects of natural disasters. We exploit monthly
data for over 90 3-digits NAICS industries and 78 Puerto Rican counties over the period …

I obtain a calibrated estimate of the elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty inputs
in the production of electricity for 21 countries. To perform the calibration, I extend the …

We shed new light on the short-term dynamic effects of cyclones on local economic growth
in India. We proxy local GDP growth with night-time light intensity data and construct a …

We study the impact of air pollution on labor supply in Chile. We use the exogenous incidence
of wildfires between 2010 and 2018 to identify the causal impact of air pollution on labor …