Environment and Climate Change

Firm Presence, Pollution, and Agglomeration: Evidence from a Randomised Environmental Place-Based Policy

Firm location decisions are a key managerial choice, usually optimised over factors like proximity to customers or suppliers.

Working Paper
15 Apr 2025

Embedding Agroforestry into Supply-Chains: Experimental Evidence with a Large Coffee Buyer in East Africa

Agroforestry, a farming system where trees are grown alongside crops, has the potential to help achieve multiple development objectives. It can help coffee farms combat climate change by acting as carbon sinks. Beyond reducing carbon emissions, agroforestry helps shield coffee plants from heat and heavy rains, increasing resilience to climate change. Further, products of agroforestry can provide important independent income stream to farmers facing extreme poverty.

Research Project
9 Apr 2025

The Economist's Guide to Processing and Analysing Historical and Future Climate Data

High resolution datasets providing accurate measurements of weather around the globe are key inputs into many, if not most, economic analyses of climate change. These data have expanded our understanding of the impacts of climate change on a broad set of highly vulnerable economic and social outcomes.

Research Project
9 Apr 2025

Brine and Burden: How Salinisation Threatens Worker Productivity and Health in Coastal Bangladesh

Little is known about the economic impacts of high salt intake resulting from climate change-induced salinization (CCIS).

Research Note
2 Apr 2025

Worker Productivity Impacts of Climate Change Induced Salinisation

Climate change-induced salinisation (CCIS) has exacerbated the global crisis of safe drinking water, particularly in vulnerable coastal regions of low-income countries.

Working Paper
2 Apr 2025

eCooking for Sustainable Development: Experimental Evidence from Eastern Congo

Can energy-efficient Electric Pressure Cookers (EPCs) accelerate the transition to clean cooking in developing countries, and – by doing so – address important development and environmental challenges?

Research Note
10 Mar 2025

Building Virtual Power Plants: Incentives and Automation for Demand-Side Flexibility

Addressing renewable energy intermittency while meeting net zero emissions targets requires achieving flexibility in electricity demand.

Working Paper
6 Mar 2025

Leveraging automated demand response to accelerate the clean energy transition

Achieving global net zero emissions targets necessitates the rapid deployment and integration of variable renewable energy onto the grid, making the task of balancing the energy system increasingly challenging as patterns of generation and demand are not ali

Research Note
6 Mar 2025

Blackouts and green energy adoption: Evidence from Kenya

Frequent power outages and costly diesel generators hinder operations, emphasising the need for decentralised solutions like solar power. Despite its benefits, solar is under-adopted due to credit constraints and limited willingness-to-pay (WTP).

Research Note
4 Feb 2025

Embedding Agroforestry into Supply-Chains: Experimental Evidence with a Large Coffee Buyer in East Africa

Agroforestry, a farming system where trees are grown alongside crops, has the potential to help achieve multiple development objectives. It can help coffee farms combat climate change by acting as carbon sinks. Beyond reducing carbon emissions, agroforestry helps shield coffee plants from heat and heavy rains, increasing resilience to climate change. Further, products of agroforestry can provide important independent income stream to farmers facing extreme poverty.

Research Project
13 Jan 2025

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