PhD in Sustainable Development, 2018
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Graduate Diploma in Economics, 2013
University of London
Diplôme d'Ingénieur, 2008
Chimie-ParisTech, France
How DOEs Government Funding Fuel Scientists?
with Todd Gerarden (Cornell University),
Kyle Myers (Harvard Business School),
and Jacquelyn Pless (MIT Sloan).
Directed Technological Change and General Purpose Technologies: Can AI Accelerate the Clean Energy Innovation?
with Marion Dumas (LSE) and Pia Andres (LSE).
Working paper:
LSE GRI
The Effects of Air Pollution on Inventor Productivity
with Ina Drouven (LSE)
and Sefi Roth (LSE).
Chapter on “Industrial Climate Policy, Technology, and Innovation”
for Volume 2 of
the Handbook of the Economics of Climate Change for Elsevier’s “Handbook in Economics” series
(co-edited by Lint Barrage and Solomon Hsiang and to be published in Dec 2025), co-authored with
Jacob Moscona (MIT).
"Induced Innovation, Inventors, and the Energy Transition."
Forthcoming at American Economic Review: Insights (2024)
with Todd Gerarden (Cornell University)
PDF here
| Older Working Papers: NBER
| CESifo
| LSE CEP
"Coordination Dynamics Between Fuel Cell and Battery Technologies in the Transition to Clean Cars."
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024)
with Marion Dumas (LSE)
PDF here
"Induced Innovation and International Environmental Agreements: Evidence from the Ozone Regime."
Accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics (2023)
PDF here
| Older Working papers: CESifo (2023)
| LSE CEP (2023)
| LSE GRI (2021)
"Text as Data in Environmental Economics and Policy."
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (2022)
with Marion Dumas (LSE)
and Joelle Noailly (Graduate Institute Geneva)
PDF here
"Learning from Unincentivized and Incentivized Communication: A Randomized Controlled Trial in India."
Economic Development and Cultural Change (2022)
with Yonas Alem (Gothenburg)
PDF here
"Green Product Innovation in Industrial Networks: A Theoretical Model."
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (2021)
with Marion Dumas (LSE)
PDF here
"Support for climate policy researchers."
Science (2022). Link here. with Hanna R, Nuñez-Jimenez A, Nock D, Arcusa S, Castellanos S, Davidson
MR, Edwards MR, Galeazzi C, Gao X, Graff M, Kennedy KM, Kontou E, Lathwal P, Musa M, O'Rear E, Sivaranjani S, Zhang J, Zhu Q.
"Research and Innovation Policies for the Green Transition."
Chapter in the 2022 SRIP Report: Science, Research and Innovation Performance of the EU.
Link to chapter here.
Link to full report here.
"Assessing Reliability of Electricity Grid Services from Space: The Case of Uttar Pradesh, India."
with Ryan Kennedy , Myriam Shiran and Johannes Urpelainen.
Energy for Sustainable Development (2022)
Pdf here
"Satellite Data for the Social Sciences: Measuring Rural Electrification with Night-Time Lights."
with Ryan Kennedy and Johannes Urpelainen.
International Journal of Remote Sensing 39, no. 9 (2018): 2690-2701.
"Geographic and Socio-Economic Barriers to Rural Electrification: New Evidence from Indian Villages."
with Ruinan Liu and Johannes Urpelainen.
Energy Policy 106 (2017): 278-287.
"Relative Deprivation and Energy Poverty: When Does Unequal Access to Electricity Cause Dissatisfaction?"
with Johannes Urpelainen.
International Journal of Energy Research 38, no. 13 (2014): 1727-1740.
At LSE, I teach lectures and seminars on the following courses:
I am also the course coordinator for GY222: Applied Environmental Economics.