Job Market Candidates

Fatiq Nadeem

Research focus: environmental regulation in the Global South, with a focus on fires and air pollution

Job market paper: Religious Institutions and Environmental Regulation

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Pratyush Tripathy

Research focus: floods, protected forests, and smallholder agriculture, usually in data-scarce settings where the evidence a policy question needs does not yet exist. Much of his work builds that evidence from satellite images and machine learning, so that policy choices can rest on quantitative estimates. 

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Katie McMahon

Research focus: how extreme heat, humidity, and air pollution shape human health, with a focus on outcomes for women, children, and outdoor workers. Her work leverages satellite-derived weather data, large household surveys, individual-level clinic records, and quasi-experimental methods to isolate the causal effects of environmental exposures. 

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Anna Pede

Research focus: the economics of forest conservation and policy, with a focus on how enforcement and land-use governance shape deforestation in the Amazon and elsewhere in Latin America

Job market paper: Fire and Punishment: Enforcement incentives and strategic fire use in the Brazilian Amazon

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