Development, environmental, and behavioral economics.
A menu of nonlinear prices can induce customer self-selection for a green consumption good, enabling more efficient subsidy targeting without requiring direct information on consumer types.
The anticipation of imminent income reduces workers’ productivity and lowers decision quality in manual but not in mental tasks.
Intra-household coordination matters for utility pricing policy.
Household energy transitions take multiple steps, each associated with different socioeconomic characteristics.
Micro-entrepreneurs jointly maximize profits at their shop and utility at home: electricity is one good they use in both locations and gives us a window into their decision processes.
Commercial and residential electricity consumption in central Ghana are low, stagnant, and have different price sensitivities across their distribution.
A partnership with Ghana’s National Petroleum Authority allows us to study how top-down price deregulation in oil products affected consumer welfare.
We measure the effect of social and psychological interventions on beneficiaries of a large national cash transfer program.