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I am an Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, an NBER Faculty Research Fellow, a BREAD affiliate, 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: Long-range forecasts as climate adaptation: Experimental evidence from developing-country agriculture (with Amir Jina, Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, and Harshil Sahai)

working paper: The value of clean water: Experimental evidence from rural India (with Amir Jina and Anant Sudarshan)

working paper: Groundwater and crop choice in the short and long run (with Louis Preonas and Matt Woerman)

working paper: Blackouts: The role of India’s wholesale electricity market (with Akshaya Jha (R) Louis Preonas)

publication: Out of the darkness and into the light? Development effects of rural electrification (with Louis Preonas; Journal of Political Economy)

contact me:

email: burlig@uchicago.edu

office hours: email me for an appointment