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Research Highlights·Apr 13, 2026

Zero Energy Day: How Nationwide Blackouts Affect the Economy

What are the effects of power outages on economic activity?
Research Highlights·Dec 4, 2025

The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India

Could home delivery of locally-treated water increase access to clean drinking water?
Research Highlights·Nov 12, 2025

Rain, Tide, and Lives: The Hidden Mortality Cost of Mumbai’s Monsoon

How do rainfall and rising sea levels together shape mortality risks in coastal megacities like Mumbai?
Research Highlights·Aug 4, 2025

Campaigning for Extinction: Eradication of Sparrows and the Great Famine in China

Did the eradication of the sparrow in China contribute to the greatest famine in history?
Research Highlights·Jul 4, 2025

Adaptation Only Partially Offsets Dairy Losses from Extreme Heat

How does extreme heat affect dairy productivity, and can farmers adapt?
Research Highlights·Jun 18, 2025

Impacts of Climate Change on Global Agriculture Accounting for Adaptation

What impact will climate change have on crops, and to what extent do adaptation measures help?
Research Highlights·Apr 15, 2025

Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India

By Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, and Anant Sudarshan Context Air pollution is one of India’s foremost public-health concerns, with the average person in India losing about 3.5 years of life expectancy. Policymakers have struggled to reduce industrial pollution,...
Research Highlights·Jan 13, 2025

The Cost of Species Protection: The Land Market Impacts of the Endangered Species Act

Do habitat protections decrease home value or delay development?
Research Highlights·Dec 2, 2024

The End of Oil

If oil producers were to anticipate a long-run decline in demand for oil, how would they respond?
Research Highlights·Sep 10, 2024

Out of the Darkness and into the Light? Development Effects of Rural Electrification

Does electricity access bring small villages out of poverty?