Selected Working Papers
|23| "Barriers to Civic Action for Air Pollution (Registered Report)"
with Patrick Baylis and Shweta Bhogale.
Accepted based on pre-results review, Journal of Development Economics.
[Eventual publication venue TBD.]
|22| "A Comparison of Contests and Contracts to Deliver Cost-Effective Energy Conservation"
with Jorge Lemus, Guillermo Marshall and Chi Ta.
[Pre-analysis plan] [J-PAL Summary]
[Submitted]
|21| "Heat and Team Production: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh"
with Maulik Jagnani and Liz Lyons.
[UC San Diego Today]
[Revisions requested at Review of Economics and Statistics]
|20| “Adoption and Use of Air Purifiers in Households (Registered Report)”
with Ashfaqul Chowdhury, Maulik Jagnani and Martin Mattsson
Accepted based on pre-results review, Journal of Development Economics.
[Eventual publication venue TBD.]
[Media: VoxDev, Business Standard] [Funding: J-PAL, IGC]
|19|"Electric Vehicle Charging in the Workplace: Experimental Evidence on Incentives and Environmental Nudges"
with Ryan Hanna, Jeff Myers, Sebastian Tebbe and David Victor.
[Submitted]
|18|"Fostering Cooperation: The Conflict Reducing Effects of Inter-village Competition"
with Caterina Gennaioli, Stefania Lovo and Gregor Singer.
[Revisions requested at American Economic Journal: Applied Economics]
|17| "Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation"
with Ryan Abman, Yao Pan and Saurabh Singhal.
[Submitted]
|16| "The Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India"
with Geoff Barrows + Akshaya Jha.
Primary Publications
|15| "Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages?"
Garg, Teevrat, Gordon McCord and Aleister Montfort.
[Accepted at Journal of Environmental Economics and Management]
|14| “How To Spend One Trillion Dollars: the U.S. Decarbonization Conundrum”
Christensen, Peter, Patrick Baylis, Teevrat Garg, Shanjun Li, Gordon McCord, Erich Muehlegger, Erica Myers, Emma Smith and David Rapson
Nature Vol 634 pp. 1050-1052, 31 October 2024.
|13| "Going Viral: Public Attention and Environmental Action in the Amazon"
Araujo, Rafael, Francisco Costa and Teevrat Garg.
Journal of Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 11(6) pp. 1605-1627 November 2024.
[Media: Nature Climate Change, UC San Diego Today] [Data & Code] [Ungated]
|12| "Rural Roads, Farm Labor Exits, and Crop Fires"
Garg, Teevrat, Maulik Jagnani and Hemant K. Pullabhotla.
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 16(3) pp 420-450 August 2024.
[Media: VoxDev, World Bank Development Impact, Ideas for India] [Ungated]
|11| "The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies"
Garg, Teevrat and Ajay Shenoy.
American Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol 103(4) pp. 1239-1250 August 2021.
[Ungated]
|10| "Warming from Tropical Deforestation Reduces Worker Productivity in Rural Communities"
Masuda, Yuta J.*, Teevrat Garg*, Ike Aggraeni, Kristie Ebi, Jennifer Krenz, Edward T. Game, Nicolas H. Wolff, and June T. Spector
[*indicates equal lead authorship]
Nature Communications 12, 1601. March 2021.
[Media: World Bank, Envirobites, UC San Diego Today]
|9| "Heat Exposure from Tropical Deforestation Decreases Cognitive Performance of Rural Workers: An Experimental Study"
Masuda, Yuta J.*, Teevrat Garg*, Ike Aggraeni, Nicolas H. Wolff, Kristie Ebi, Edward T. Game, Jennifer Krenz, and June T. Spector
[*indicates equal lead authorship]
Environmental Research Letters, Vol. 15, December 2020, 124015.
[Media: Science Magazine]
|8| "Extreme Temperatures and Time-Use in China"
Garg, Teevrat, Matthew Gibson and Fanglin Sun
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 180, December 2020, pp. 309-324.
[Ungated]
|7| "Temperature and Human Capital in India"
Garg, Teevrat, Maulik Jagnani and Vis Taraz
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vol. 7(6), November 2020, pp. 1113-1150.
[Data and Code] [Ungated] [Media: IGC – Ideas For India, UC San Diego Today]
|6| "The Ecological Impact of Transportation Infrastructure"
Asher, Sam, Teevrat Garg and Paul Novosad
Economic Journal, Vol. 130, Issue 629, July 2020, pp. 1173-1199.
[Data | Code] [Ungated]
|5| "Ecosystems and Human Health: The Local Benefits of Forest Cover in Indonesia"
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 98, November 2019.
[Ungated] [Geographical Magazine]
|4| "(Not So) Gently Down the Stream: River Pollution and Health in Indonesia"
Garg, Teevrat, Stuart Hamilton, Jacob Hochard, Evan, Kresch and John Talbot
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 92, November 2018, pp. 35-53.
[Data and Code] [Open Access]
|3| "Green Booms or Emissions Reductions? The General Equilibrium Effects of Renewable Portfolio Standards"
Bento, Antonio, Teevrat Garg, and Daniel Kaffine
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 90, July 2018, pp. 78-100.
[Ungated]
|2| "Well-Being Dynamics and Poverty Traps"
Barrett, Christopher B., Teevrat Garg, and Linden McBride
Annual Reviews of Resource Economics, 8(1) Oct. 2016, pp. 303-327.
|1| "Market Prices and Food Aid Local and Regional Procurement and Distribution: A Multi-Country Analysis"
Garg, Teevrat, Christopher B. Barrett, Miguel I. Gomez, Erin C. Lentz, and William Violette
World Development, Vol. 49, Sep. 2013, pp. 19-29.
Other Publications
|7| "Design of workplace and destination-based EV charging networks considering driver behavior, habits, and preferences”
Myers, J., et al. Renewable Energy, 122441, April 01 2025.
|6| "A global evidence map of human well-being and biodiversity co-benefits and trade-offs of natural climate solutions”
Chang, C.H., et al. Nature Sustainability, December 02, 2024.
|5| “Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture”
Yang Y., et al. Science Vol 385 (6713) September 2024
[Media: VoxDev]
|4| “Impacts of warming on outdoor worker well-being in the tropics and adaptation options”
Masuda, Y.J., et al. One Earth Vol. 7(3) pp. 382-400 March 2024.
|3| “Assessing the defecation practices of unsheltered individuals and their contributions to microbial water quality in an arid, urban watershed”
Hinds, J.B., et al. Science of Total Environment February 2024, 170708.
|2| "How are healthy, working populations affected by increasing temperatures in the tropics? Implications for climate change adaptation policies"
Masuda, Y.J., et al. Global Environmental Change, Vol. 56, 2019, pp. 29-40.
|1| "Economic and Social Implications of Regulating Alcohol Availability in Grocery Stores"
Rickard, B.J., Applied Economic Policy and Perspectives, 35(4) 2013, pp. 613-633.
Selected Works in Progress
"Willingness to Pay for Defensive Investments in High Air Pollution Cities"
with Maulik Jagnani, Nancy Lozano Garcia and Maria Edisa Soppelsa.
[PEDL Description] [Let’s Talk Development (World Bank)]
"Do Energy Audit Mandates Work?"
with Chi Ta, Kien Duong, and Minh Nguyen.
[PEDL Description]
“Housing Microfinance and Climate Resilience”
with Ricardo Dahis and Russell Toth
[J-PAL Description] [Media: IPA]
“Barriers to Public Action for Clean Air”
with Patrick Baylis and Shweta Bhogale
[J-PAL Description]