research
publications:
Out of the darkness and into the light? Development effects of rural electrification (with Louis Preonas)
Forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy
[Journal link] [Appendix] [Replication package]
[Policy brief] [VoxDev]
Media coverage: IEEE Spectrum; Blog coverage: World Bank
Burlig, Fiona and Andrew W. Stevens. 2024. “Social networks and technology adoption: Evidence from church mergers in the U.S. Midwest,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 106(3): 1141—1166.
[Journal link] [Appendix]
Burlig, Fiona, James Bushnell, David Rapson, and Catherine Wolfram. 2021. “Low energy: Estimating electric vehicle electricity use,” AEA Papers and Proceedings 2021, 111: 430—435.
[EPIC policy brief] [Forbes post] [EI@Haas blog]
Media coverage: Axios, Car and Driver, Clean Energy Trust, E&E News, Gizmodo, Green Car Congress, Green Car Reports, The Hill, Jalopnik, Politico, SciTechDaily, Utility Dive
Burlig, Fiona, Christopher Knittel, David Rapson, Mar Reguant, and Catherine Wolfram. 2020. “Machine learning from schools about energy efficiency,” Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 7(6): 1181—1217.
[Journal link] [Appendix] [Replication code]
[EPIC news release] [Forbes post] [EI@Haas blog]
Media coverage: Wall Street Journal, EducationDive, Newswise, Off the Charts
Burlig, Fiona, Louis Preonas, and Matt Woerman. 2020. “Panel data and experimental design,” Journal of Development Economics, 144, 102458.
[Journal link] [Appendix] [Replication code] [Stata package]
[blog post] [OSF project page]
Blog coverage: Development Impact weekly links, IPA weekly links
Burlig, Fiona. 2018. "Improving transparency in observational social science research: A pre-analysis plan approach," Economics Letters, 168: 56--60.
[Journal link] [OSF project page]
Blog coverage: Development Impact weekly links
working papers:
Blackouts: The role of India’s wholesale electricity market (with Akshaya Jha (R) Louis Preonas; updated 2024)
[NBER WP]
[VoxDev] [Ideas for India] [VoxEU]
Long-range forecasts as climate adaptation: Experimental evidence from developing-country agriculture [with appendix] (with Amir Jina, Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, and Harshil Sahai; updated 2024)
Pre-analysis plan accepted via pre-results review, Journal of Development Economics
[Policy brief] [Media coverage]
Energy, groundwater, and crop choice (with Louis Preonas and Matt Woerman; new version coming soon)
[Forbes post] [Barron’s op-ed] [Forecast Direct podcast]
selected work in progress:
Paying for power (with Anant Sudarshan) [AEA RCT registry]
Liquid markets: Allocating clean water to the rural poor (with Amir Jina and Anant Sudarshan) [AEA RCT registry]
The role of experience and complementarity in technology adoption: Evidence from long-range monsoon forecasts (with Amir Jina, Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, and Harshil Sahai) [AEA RCT Registry]
What drives electric vehicle usage? (with Jim Bushnell and Dave Rapson)
Groundwater in a changing climate (with R. Aaron Hrozencik, Louis Preonas, and Matt Woerman)