CV

Appointments

• Professor, Department of Economics · University of Warwick
  2025–present
• Associate Professor, Department of Economics · University of Warwick
  2023–2025
• Assistant Professor, Department of Economics · University of Warwick
  2022–2023
• South Asia Director, Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) · University of Chicago
  2017–2022
• India Director, Energy Policy Institute (EPIC) · University of Chicago
  2014–2017
• Sustainability Science Fellow, Kennedy School · Harvard University
  2011–2014
• Research Scientist, Energy Initiative · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  2013–2014

Education

• PhD, Management Science & Engineering · Stanford University
  2011
• MS, Mechanical Engineering · Stanford University
  2006
• B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering · Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
  2004

Publications

1. The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India

   with Fiona Burlig and Amir Jina · American Economic Review, 116(3), 1148–1187 (2026)

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

   with Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande and Nicholas Ryan · Quarterly Journal of Economics, 140(2), 1003–1060 (2025)

3. The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence from the Decline of Vultures in India

   with Eyal Frank · American Economic Review, 114(10), 3007–3040 · Lead Article (2024)

4. Modeling Fine-Grained Spatio-Temporal Pollution Maps with Low-Cost Sensors

   with Shiva Iyer, Ananth Balashankar, Rohini Pande and others · npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 5, 76 (2022)

5. Rationing the Commons

   with Nicholas Ryan · Journal of Political Economy, 130(1), 210–257 (2022)

6. The Impact of Temperature on Productivity and Labor Supply: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing

   with E. Somanathan, Rohini Somanathan and Meenu Tewari · Journal of Political Economy, 129(6), 1797–1827 (2021)

7. The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right

   with Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone and Nicholas Ryan · Journal of Economic Perspectives, 34(1), 145–169 (2020)

8. Nudges in the Marketplace: The Response of Household Electricity Consumption to Information and Monetary Incentives

   sole author · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 134, 320–335 (2017)

9. The Solvable Challenge of Air Pollution in India

   with Michael Greenstone, Santosh Harish and Rohini Pande · India Policy Forum (2017)

10. Lower Pollution, Longer Lives: Life Expectancy Gains if India Reduced Particulate Matter Pollution

    with Michael Greenstone, Janhavi Nilekani, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan and Anish Sugathan · Economic and Political Weekly, L(8), 40–46 (2015)

11. Deconstructing the 'Rosenfeld Curve': Making Sense of California's Low Electricity Intensity

    sole author · Energy Economics, 39, 197–207 (2013)

12. Real-time Feedback and Electricity Consumption: A Field Experiment Assessing the Potential for Savings and Persistence

    with Sebastien Houde, Annika Todd, June A. Flora and K. Carrie Armel · The Energy Journal, 34(1) (2013)

13. Psychohistory Revisited: Fundamental Issues in Forecasting Climate Futures

    with Danny Cullenward, Lee Schipper and Richard Howarth · Climatic Change, 104(3–4), 457–472 (2011)

14. Transport and Carbon Emissions in the United States: The Long View

    with Lee Schipper and Calanit Saenger · Energies, 4(4), 563–581 (2011)

15. How Can Economic Schemes Curtail the Increasing Sex Ratio at Birth in China?

    with Debarun Bhattacharjya, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Ross Shachter and Marcus Feldman · Demographic Research, 19, 1831–1850 (2008)

16. Weather Data Mining Using Independent Component Analysis

    with Jayanta Basak, Deepak Trivedi and M. S. Santhanam · Journal of Machine Learning Research, 5, 239–253 (2004)

Working papers

1. The Demand for Electricity on the Global Electrification Frontier

   with Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone and Nicholas Ryan · Revise & resubmit, Journal of Political Economy

2. Paying for Power

   with Fiona Burlig · Working paper

3. Buying out Distortions: Using Cash Transfers to Induce Farmers in India to Pay for Power and Conserve Water

   with Nicholas Ryan · In preparation

Books & chapters

1. India's Energy Security

   edited, with Ligia Noronha · Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series, New York: Routledge (2009)

2. Monitoring Industrial Pollution in India

   in T. Madon and A. J. Gadgil (eds), Introduction to Development Engineering · Springer Nature, pp. 161–182 (2023)

3. Reforming Energy Subsidies

   with Fiona Burlig · in R. Hanna and B. Olken (eds), Handbook of Social Protection in the Developing World · MIT Press (forthcoming)

4. Coal Supply: The Fallacy of Abundance

   in S. K. Chand (ed.), The Coal Dilemma · New Delhi: TERI Press (2008)