Papers
Economics and Policy
The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence from the Decline of Vultures in India. 2023. The American Economic Review. 114:10. pp. 3007-40 (With Eyal Frank) [Lead Article]
Rationing the commons. 2022. Journal of Political Economy. 130:1. pp. 210 – 257 (With Nicholas Ryan) [Appendix]
The Impact of Temperature on Productivity and Labor Supply: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing. 2021. Journal of Political Economy. 129:6, 1797-1827 . (with E. Somanathan, Rohini Somanathan, and Meenu Tewari)
The Consequences of Treating Electricity as a Right. 2020. Journal of Economic Perspectives. Vol 34 (1), pp 145-169 (with Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, and Nicholas Ryan).
Nudges in the marketplace: The response of household electricity consumption to information and monetary incentives. 2017. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 134, pp. 320-335
The Solvable Challenge of Air Pollution in India. India Policy Forum 2017. (with Michael Greenstone, Santosh Harish, Rohini Pande).
Lower Pollution, Longer Lives: Life Expectancy Gains if India Reduced Particulate Matter Pollution’. 2015. Economic and Political Weekly., L(8), pp. 40-46. (with Michael Greenstone, Janhavi Nilekani, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, Anish Sugathan}
Deconstructing the Rosenfeld Curve: Making sense of California's low electricity intensity. 2013. Energy Economics, Vol. 39, 197-207.
Noronha, Ligia and Anant Sudarshan (eds). 2009. India’s Energy Security. Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series. New York: Routledge (Edited volume)
How can economic schemes curtail the increasing sex ratio at birth in China?’. 2008. Demographic Research. Vol 19. pp. 1831-1850. (with Bhattacharjya, D., Tuljapurkar, S., Shachter, R. and Marcus Feldman).
Other
Modeling fine-grained spatio-temporal pollution maps with low-cost sensors. Nov 2022. npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 5, 76 (2022).
Shiva Iyer, Ananth Balashankar (New York University), William H. Aeberhard (Swiss Data Science Center) Ulzee An (University of California Los Angeles), Sujoy Bhattacharya (Columbia University), Giuditta Rusconi (Evidence for Policy Design India at IFMR Lead), Anant Sudarshan (University of Chicago), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Lakshminarayan Subramanian (New York University).
Real-time Feedback and Electricity Consumption: A Field Experiment Assessing the Potential for Savings and Persistence’. 2013. The Energy Journal, Vol. 34(1). (with Sebastien Houde, Annika Todd, June A. Flora and Carrie Armel)
Psychohistory Revisited: Fundamental issues in forecasting climate futures. 2011. Climatic Change, Vol. 104(3-4), pp 457-472. (with Cullenward, D., Schipper, L., and Howarth, R).
Transport and carbon emissions in the United States: The long view’. 2011. Energies (Special Issue on Energy-Friendly Transportation), Vol. 4(4). pp 563-581. (with Schipper, L. and Saenger, C.).
Coal Supply: The Fallacy of Abundance. 2008. In The Coal Dilemma. New Delhi: TERI Press. S.K.Chand (editor)
Weather data mining using independent component analysis. 2004. Journal of Machine Learning Research. Vol 5. pp. 239-253. (with Basak, J., Trivedi, D. and M. S. Santhanam).
Shiva Iyer, Ananth Balashankar (New York University), William H. Aeberhard (Swiss Data Science Center) Ulzee An (University of California Los Angeles), Sujoy Bhattacharya (Columbia University), Giuditta Rusconi (Evidence for Policy Design India at IFMR Lead), Anant Sudarshan (University of Chicago), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Lakshminarayan Subramanian (New York University).
Real-time Feedback and Electricity Consumption: A Field Experiment Assessing the Potential for Savings and Persistence’. 2013. The Energy Journal, Vol. 34(1). (with Sebastien Houde, Annika Todd, June A. Flora and Carrie Armel)
Psychohistory Revisited: Fundamental issues in forecasting climate futures. 2011. Climatic Change, Vol. 104(3-4), pp 457-472. (with Cullenward, D., Schipper, L., and Howarth, R).
Transport and carbon emissions in the United States: The long view’. 2011. Energies (Special Issue on Energy-Friendly Transportation), Vol. 4(4). pp 563-581. (with Schipper, L. and Saenger, C.).
Coal Supply: The Fallacy of Abundance. 2008. In The Coal Dilemma. New Delhi: TERI Press. S.K.Chand (editor)
Weather data mining using independent component analysis. 2004. Journal of Machine Learning Research. Vol 5. pp. 239-253. (with Basak, J., Trivedi, D. and M. S. Santhanam).
Working Papers
The Demand for Electricity on the Global Electrification Frontier (With Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan).
Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India. Revise and Resubmit. Quarterly Journal of Economics
The value of clean water: Experimental evidence from rural India (with Fiona Burlig and Amir Jina) [Preliminary]
Paying for Power (With Fiona Burlig). Preliminary and available on request.
The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans is Non-linear in Duration. (With Fiona Burlig and Garrison Schlauch)
Buying out Distortions: Using cash transfers to induce farmers in India to pay for power and conserve water (With Nicholas Ryan). Preliminary and available on request.
Localized Pollution Hotspots: Inferences from a fine-grained air quality monitoring study in Delhi
Shiva Iyer, Ananth Balashankar (New York University), Anant Sudarshan (University of Chicago), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Lakshminarayan Subramanianj
(New York University)
Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India. Revise and Resubmit. Quarterly Journal of Economics
The value of clean water: Experimental evidence from rural India (with Fiona Burlig and Amir Jina) [Preliminary]
Paying for Power (With Fiona Burlig). Preliminary and available on request.
The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans is Non-linear in Duration. (With Fiona Burlig and Garrison Schlauch)
Buying out Distortions: Using cash transfers to induce farmers in India to pay for power and conserve water (With Nicholas Ryan). Preliminary and available on request.
Localized Pollution Hotspots: Inferences from a fine-grained air quality monitoring study in Delhi
Shiva Iyer, Ananth Balashankar (New York University), Anant Sudarshan (University of Chicago), Rohini Pande (Yale University), Lakshminarayan Subramanianj
(New York University)
Selected Ongoing Projects