Current projects:
- Quantifying the implications for human welfare of climate-change effects on natural systems with Xiaoli Dong and Marc Conte
- Funded through the Coupled Natural-Human Systems Program at NSF – read more here
- Incorporating natural capital into a classic climate-economy model
- Understanding people’s experience of climate change through their perception of weather with Nick Obradovich
- Quantifying the economic impacts of climate change effects on agriculture with Thomas Hertel and Uris Baldos
- Including labor productivity impacts to assessments of climate change impacts on agriculture
- Comparing the yield and welfare effects of climate change using process-based vs empirical agricultural models
- Updating damage functions for the agricultural sector to improve the social cost of carbon
- Understanding the drivers of welfare changes from climate change impacts on agriculture
- Improving the scientific foundation of climate change damages in economic models with Delavane Diaz and Danny Bressler
- Mortality damage functions at the country level
- Incorporating econometric estimates of climate change impacts on economic growth into DICE
- Reviewing the scientific basis of IAM damage functions and scope for improvement
- Updating damage functions for the agricultural sector to improve the social cost of carbon
- Determining the rate and effectiveness of adaptation to climate change in agriculture
- Characterizing farmer response to recent drought in California
- Statistically detecting the effect of climate change on social and economic systems