Conservation in the path of development: new data to guide road corridor investments
Biodiversity loss poses a direct threat to human well-being, economic development, and planetary health Biodiversity supports food security, clean water, climate stability, and livelihoods —
Navigating the human impact of disasters: Introducing a new climate toolkit
Droughts, floods, storms, and heatwaves are no longer isolated events—they are reshaping how people live, work, and thrive. Beyond damaged roads or lost harvests, disasters
My practical tips for designing and analyzing powerful experiments
I have a new paper coming out in a symposium on power calculations in the journal Fiscal Studies, which puts together my tips for applied researchers on designing
The emergence of a North–South divide in the age-profile of Europeans’ life satisfaction
The traditional U-shape in wellbeing, with people’s life satisfaction lowest in their late 40s or early 50s, appeared to have been replaced around 2013-15 by
Pricing risks in bull and bear markets
Standard models of asset pricing assume that risky (safe) financial assets have higher returns because they have higher (lower) exposures to systematic risk factors. They
