Published Work
Economics and Policy
Rationing the commons. 2021. Accepted. Journal of Political Economy. (With Nicholas Ryan)
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)
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)
Engineering
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.).
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).
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).
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.).
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).
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 (on request)
Economics and Policy
The Demand for Electricity on the Global Electrification Frontier. 2021. (With Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone, Nicholas Ryan).
Quantifying the effect of domestic travel bans on COVID-19 infections. 2020. Under Review. (With Fiona Burlig and Garrison Schlauch)
The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India. (With Eyal Frank)
Quantifying the effect of domestic travel bans on COVID-19 infections. 2020. Under Review. (With Fiona Burlig and Garrison Schlauch)
The Social Costs of Keystone Species Collapse: Evidence From The Decline of Vultures in India. (With Eyal Frank)
Engineering
Localized Pollution Hotspots: Inferences from a fine-grained air quality monitoring study in Delhi
Shiva Iyer, Ananth Balashankar (New York University), William H. Aeberhard (Swiss Data Science Center) Ulzee An (University of California Los Angeles), Sameeksha Jain (Evidence for Policy Design India at IFMR Lead), 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)
Shiva Iyer, Ananth Balashankar (New York University), William H. Aeberhard (Swiss Data Science Center) Ulzee An (University of California Los Angeles), Sameeksha Jain (Evidence for Policy Design India at IFMR Lead), 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)
Selected Ongoing Projects
The Efficiency Costs of Distorted Electricity Tariffs: Evidence from Agricultural Power in Rajasthan (with Nicholas Ryan)
Lighting up Bihar: Electricity Rationing and the Public Good Nature of Electricity Supply (with Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone and Nicholas Ryan)
Experimental Evidence on Market-Based Instruments for Environmental Regulation (with Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande and Nicholas Ryan)
Strategic Enforcement: Evidence from Electricity Utilities in India (with Fiona Burlig)
Smart Metering and Utility Payments (with Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone and Nicholas Ryan)
Lighting up Bihar: Electricity Rationing and the Public Good Nature of Electricity Supply (with Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone and Nicholas Ryan)
Experimental Evidence on Market-Based Instruments for Environmental Regulation (with Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande and Nicholas Ryan)
Strategic Enforcement: Evidence from Electricity Utilities in India (with Fiona Burlig)
Smart Metering and Utility Payments (with Robin Burgess, Michael Greenstone and Nicholas Ryan)