Research

Published Work

(2022) This Is Air: The “Nonhealth” Effects of Air Pollution (with Holt Dwyer, Joshua Graff Zivin, and Matthew Neidell) – Annual Review of Resource Economics
NBER Working Paper
Media coverage: VoxEU
(2022) Biological, material and socio-cultural constraints to effective menstrual hygiene management among secondary school students in Tanzania (with Dani Stoilova, Rebecca Cai, Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Naomi Heller Batzer, Elias Charles Nyanza, Anja Benshaul-Tolonen) – PLOS Global Public Health
(2020) Period teasing, stigma and knowledge: A survey of adolescent boys and girls in Northern Tanzania (with Anja Tolonen, Rebecca Cai, Naomi Heller Batzer, and Elias Charles Nyanza) – PLOS One
(2020) Estimating the Long-run Relationships between State Cigarette Taxes and County Life Expectancy (with Sanjay Basu, Aaron Baum, and Emilie Bruzelius) – Tobacco Control

Working papers

(2022) Norms Formation: The Gold Rush and Women’s Roles (with Anja Benshaul-Tolonen) – Under Review
(2022) Inside the black box of child penalties (with Eva Arceo-Gomez and Elia de la Cruz Toledo) – Under Review. Recipient of the 2020 Victor Urquidi Economic Research Award
(2022) Thermal stress and financial distress: Extreme temperatures and firms’ loan defaults in Mexico (with Emilio Gutierrez, David Heres, David Jaume, and Martín Tobal)- Under Review RedNIE Working Paper
Media coverage: World Bank
(2020) Follow the Leader? Public Health Messaging and Containment of Mobility During a Pandemic (with Eva Arceo-Gomez, Elia de la Cruz-Toledo and Pedro Torres) – Selected for participation in the UNDP LAC COVID-19 Policy Documents Series and the UNDP Regional Human Development Report 2020

Selected work in progress

Adaptation and mitigation of air pollution: Evidence from air quality warnings
Heat waves and hospital overcrowding (with Joshua Graff Zivin and Matthew Neidell)
Environmental justice in Colombia (with Juan Camilo Cárdenas and Ricardo Salas)

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