Electricity grids form the backbone of modern economies, but the utilities responsible for maintaining them face new energy management challenges associated with both aging …
This paper studies the effects of extreme temperatures on labor supply and performance in the heavy-duty trucking industry, a pivotal sector with broad productivity spillovers and …
Climate-driven shifts in fish stocks, featuring many species across management boundaries, challenge fisheries sustainability. We examine the risk of regional stock extinction due …
We study the effects of a technical intervention in Karachi, Pakistan -- converting bare distribution wires to aerial bundled cables (ABCs) -- that was intended to prevent illegal …
Firms in developing countries often identify electricity as a major constraint to operations. Decentralized renewable energy sources, which are often promoted as a tool to achieve …
Reliable electricity access is vital to economic growth, though financial challenges can undermine service quality. In Karachi, Pakistan, the local utility intervened to reduce …
We study the effect of information provision on defensive expenditures, using China's roll-out of air pollution information as a quasi-natural experiment. With a unique dataset of …
Hundreds of millions of households depend on electricity grid connections providing low quality and unreliable services. Understanding the impacts of and consumer response to …
Geographical distance constitutes friction of searching research collaborators. Taking advantage of a quasi‐natural experiment featured by High‐Speed Railway (HSR) lines in China, …
Under the Kyoto Protocol, the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) expects to facilitate the North-South knowledge spillovers for climate-friendly technologies. This paper examines …