Publications

"Electric heating and the effects of temperature on household electricity consumption in South Africa"
The Energy Journal. 2020. Vol 41, No. 4: 209-230 
[Paper available here] [Executive summary] ​[IAEE] 

Working Papers

"Credit, attention, and externalities in the adoption of energy efficient technologies by low-income households," with J. T. Dean. 
Revise & Resubmit at the American Economic Review
​[Latest version] [Online Appendix] [World Bank coverage]
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"Disbursing emergency relief through utilities: Evidence from Ghana," with P. Biscaye, S. Puller, and C. Wolfram.
Submitted.
[Latest version] ​[NBER WP #28818] [Online Appendix]

"Money or Power? Financial infrastructure and optimal policy," with P. Biscaye, E. Hsu, O. Kim, K. Lee, E. Miguel, and C. Wolfram.
Submitted.
​[Latest version] [NBER WP #29086] 

"Decomposing political favoritism in Kenyan mass electrification," with C. Wolfram, F. Vial, E. Hsu, O. Kim, and E. Miguel.
Available upon request. 

"Promoting accountability in public projects: Donors, audits, and rural electrification," with C. Wolfram, E. Miguel, and E. Hsu.
​[Latest version] ​[EDI WP]

Research in Progress

"Echo chambers: Political affiliation drives biases in reported experience," with J. Adkins, N. Klugman, S. Puller, and C. Wolfram.

​​"The economics of long-term grid reliability," with C. Wolfram and S. Puller [3ie RIDIE Registration ID 928]
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"Dis-aggregating policy indices reveals reliability and voltage inequality in urban Africa," with J. Adkins, R. Warren, I. Ferrall, and N. Klugman

​"The health consequences of reduced charcoal usage," with J. T. Dean
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"Mitigating climate risk through parametric insurance," with J. T. Dean

Other work

Hardware, apps, and surveys at scale: Insights from measuring grid reliability in Accra, Ghana"
N. Klugman, J. Adkins, S. Berkouwer, K. Abrokwah, I. Bobashev, P. Pannuto, M. Podolsky, A. Suseno, R. Thatte, C. Wolfram, J. Taneja, and P. Dutta. ​July 2019. The second annual ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS '19)
[Paper available here]