Research
Here is my Google Scholar page and you can find work with former graduate students in the USF Master's thesis repository here and (in some cases here ;-) )
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Child Health and Climate
ENSO impacts child undernutrition in the global tropics
Nature Communications 12, 5785 (2021) with Amir Jina, and Gordon McCord
Press: New York Times · Channel News Asia · Physics Today · The Hill · Save the Children · France 24
En español: La Razon · RadioFormula.mx · Gestion
Characterizing the contribution of high temperatures to child undernourishment in Sub-Saharan Africa
Scientific Reports 10, 18796 (2020) with Rachel Baker
Press: MarketScreener · The Conversation
A Malaria Ecology Index Predicted Spatial and Temporal Variation of Malaria Burden and Efficacy of Antimalarial Interventions Based on African Serological Data
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (2017) with Gordon McCord
The Science of Climate Change
Future of Children (2016) with Michael Oppenheimer
Physical Drivers of Economic and Financial Outcomes
Financial Market Response to Extreme Events Indicating Climatic Change
European Physical Journal Special Topics (2016)
Linking Risk Models to Microeconomic Indicators
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. WPS 7359 (2015) with Mohan Sharma
Working Papers
Gender and Culture Shape Prosociality More than Heat Stress in a Five-Country Experiment
forthcoming at PNAS Nexus with Alessandra Cassar, Andrew Hobbs, Francesco Bogliacino, Travis J. Lybbert, Irvin Rojas, Kelvin Mashisia Shikuku, John Chetwynd, Jake Cosgrove, Alexander Courtman, Andrew Hall, Stephanie Hermoso, Scott Klaus, Antonia Sottile, Nikita Tkachenko, and Bruce Wydick
The Varieties of Schelling Model Experience
Under review at Physical Review E with Marlyn Boke, Timothy Sorochkin, and Alan Jamison
Mortality from Nestlé's Marketing of Infant Formula in Low and Middle-Income Countries
NBER Working Paper w24452 — In submission with L. Fernald, P. Gertler, P. Krause, E. Tsai, and B. Wydick
Press: VoxDev
Emergence of the Paris Agreement as a novel phase in global climate cooperation
In submission with Antara Haldar, Michael Nordquist, Jonah Jellesed, Anchal Khandewal, and Scott Klaus
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster
Working paper with S. Hsiang
Press: Bloomberg · WSJ · Slate · New Scientist · The Guardian
Ongoing Research
- Sex of first child and the random origins of preferences — with Amir Jina et al.
- Complexity and inequality in North American cities — with Alan Jamison et al.
- Sweden's Great Escape: Industrialization and the changing productivity costs of winters — with Charlotte Taylor
- Fishery productivity and child growth in the coastal tropics — with Yaniv Stopnitzky, David Saah, Fernanda Lopez Ornelas, et al.
- Information decay and cooperative entry under risk - with Stephen Pitts and Grant Xavier Storer
- Scalable Country-Level Crop Yield Modeling for Food Security and Risk Mitigation - with Andrew Hobbs et al.