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I am an Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Deputy Faculty Director of EPIC-India. I am an applied microeconomist with research interests in and at the intersection of energy, environmental, and resource economics and development economics. Prior to joining Harris, I was a postdoc in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. I hold a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in economics, political science, and German from Williams College.
recent-ish stuff:
working paper (new!): Blackouts: The role of India’s wholesale electricity market (with Akshaya Jha (R) Louis Preonas)
working paper (new!): Long-range forecasts as climate adaptation: Experimental evidence from developing-country agriculture (with Amir Jina, Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, and Harshil Sahai)
publication: Social networks and technology adoption: Evidence from church mergers in the U.S. Midwest (with Andrew Stevens; American Journal of Agricultural Economics)
publication: Out of the darkness and into the light? Development effects of rural electrification (with Louis Preonas; forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy)
contact me:
email: burlig@uchicago.edu
office hours: email me for an appointment