KYLE MENG : RESEARCH
* denotes equal authorship
WORKING PAPERS
The Climate Adaptation Feedback
Abajian*, Alexander, Tamma Carleton*, Olivier Deschenes*, Kyle C. Meng* (2023)
Revisions requested at Nature Communications
Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
Dingel*, Jonathan I., Kyle C. Meng*, and Solomon M. Hsiang (2023)
Revisions requested at Review of Economics and Statistics
[Video showing ENSO altering the global spatial correlation of temperatures (Fig. 4)]
Estimating Path Dependence in Energy Transitions
Meng, Kyle C. (2022)
Revisions requested at Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics
PUBLICATIONS
Well setbacks limit California's oil supply with larger health benefits and employment losses than excise and carbon taxes
Deshmukh*, Weber*, Deschenes, Lea, Hernandez-Cortes, Kordell, Lee, Malloy, Mangin, Meng, Sum, Thivierge, Uppal, and Kyle C. Meng* (2023)
Nature Energy, 8, 562–564, 2023
Equitable low-carbon transition pathways for California's oil extraction
Deshmukh*, Weber*, Deschenes, Lea, Hernandez-Cortes, Kordell, Lee, Malloy, Mangin, Meng, Sum, Thivierge, Uppal, and Kyle C. Meng* (2023)
Nature Energy, 8, 597–609, 2023
[Paper][Data and code][BibTex]
Media: UCSB press release
Spatial distributions of stranded fossil asset costs and benefits from climate change mitigation
Yang, Haozhe, Kyle C. Meng and Sangwon Suh
Environmental Research Communications, 5(6), 2023
Do health disparities narrow with pollution disparities? Trends from California
Hernandez-Cortes, Danae* and Kyle C. Meng*
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 113(5), 372-376, 2023
[Paper][Data and code][BibTex]
Do Environmental Markets Cause Environmental Injustice? Evidence from California's Carbon Market
Hernandez-Cortes, Danae* and Kyle C. Meng*
Journal of Public Economics, 217, 2023
[Paper] [NBER WP] [Data and code][BibTex][Video showing pollution dispersal][Response to Pastor et al.]
Media: emLab blog, NBER Digest, Grist, Yes!, NYTimes, NPR (from 14:30), The Hill, WSJ, Inside Climate News, Danae's RFF podcast
Decomposing Trends in U.S. Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity
Hernandez-Cortes, Danae*, Kyle C. Meng*, and Paige Weber*
Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 4, 2023
[Paper] [NBER WP] [Data and code][BibTex]
Media: NBER Digest
Do Environmental Markets Improve on Open Access? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights
Ayres*, Andrew B., Kyle C. Meng*, and Andrew J. Plantinga*
Journal of Political Economy, 129(10), 2021
[Paper] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Media: place, emLab blog
Enhancing equity while eliminating emissions in California's supply of transportation fuels
Deschenes*, Olivier, Ranjit Deshmukh*, David Lea*, Kyle Meng*, Paige Weber* et al.
CalEPA report, 2021
[Study page] [Paper] [Synthesis report] [Technical appendix]
Media: CalEPA press release, Bakersfield Californian, SB Independent, emLab blog, NatGeo, NPR, RFF podcast, NYTimes, LATimes
Challenges and opportunities for identifying forced labor using satellite-based fishing vessel monitoring
McDonald, Gavin G., Christopher Costello, Jennifer Bone*, Reniel B. Cabral*, Valerie Farabee*, Timothy Hochberg*, David Kroodsma*, Tracey Mangin*, Kyle C. Meng*, Oliver Zahn*
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 118(19), 2021
Satellites reveal global extent of forced labor in the world's fishing fleet
McDonald, Gavin G., Christopher Costello, Jennifer Bone*, Reniel B. Cabral*, Valerie Farabee*, Timothy Hochberg*, David Kroodsma*, Tracey Mangin*, Kyle C. Meng*, Oliver Zahn*
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 118(3), 2021
Media: TheConversation, Reuters, other outlets
Global evidence for ultraviolet radiation decreasing COVID-19 growth rates
Tamma Carleton*, Jules Cornetet*, Peter Huybers*, Kyle C. Meng*, and Jonathan Proctor*
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 118(1), 2021
[Paper] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Media: Wired, UCSB press release, Harvard press release, NPR, India Times, Atlantic, other outlets
The Social Cost of Lobbying over Climate Policy
Meng*, Kyle C. and Ashwin Rode*
Nature Climate Change, 9, 472-476, 2019
[Paper] [Appendix] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Media: NCC News and Views, NCC editorial, Nature Sustainability research highlight, Nature blog, UCSB, UChicago, Forbes, CarbonBrief, Daily Kos, Ars Technica, Science Daily, WSJ, Futurity, Oregon Public Radio interview, El Diario, Minnesota Public Radio interview
Causal Analysis in Control-Impact Ecological Studies with Observational Data
Larsen, Ashley, Kyle C. Meng and Bruce Kendall
Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(7) 924-934, 2019
[Paper] [Appendix] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Alternate Explanations for the Blue Paradox do not withstand Statistical Scrutiny
McDermott*, Grant R., Kyle C. Meng*, Gavin G. McDonald, and Christopher J. Costello
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 115(52) 12124-12125, 2018
[Paper] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Is Cap-and-Trade Causing More Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Disadvantaged Communities?
Meng, Kyle C.
In Distributional Effects of Environmental Market Design, ed. C. Costello, PERC, 2018
The Blue Paradox: Preemptive Overfishing in Marine Reserves
McDermott*, Grant R., Kyle C. Meng*, Gavin G. McDonald, and Christopher J. Costello
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 116(12), 5319-5325, 2018
[Paper] [Appendix] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Media: Atlantic, NPR interview, Science Daily, Eurasia Review, Oceana, ENN, Phys, UCSB, PNAS blog, GFW blog, emLab blog, European Commission
Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges
Deschenes*, Olivier and Kyle C. Meng*
Handbook of Environmental Economics, 4, 2018
[Paper] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants
Zhang, Peng, Olivier Deschenes*, Kyle C. Meng*, and Junjie Zhang*
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 88(3), 1-17, 2018
Media: IBTimes, HuffPost, UCSB, KCSB interview
Using a Free Permit Rule to Forecast the Marginal Abatement Cost of Proposed Climate Policy
Meng, Kyle C.
American Economic Review, 107(3), 748-84, 2017
[Paper] [Appendix] [Data and code] [BibTex]
New England Cod Collapse and the Climate
Meng, Kyle C., Kimberly L. Oremus and Steve Gaines
PLOS ONE, 11(7), 2016
[Paper] [Appendix] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Media: KCSB interview, UCSB press release, Columbia press release, Business Insider, Science Daily, Newswise, Eurasia Review
Habit Formation in Voting: Evidence from Rainy Elections
Fujiwara*, Thomas, Kyle C. Meng*, and Tom Vogl*
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 8(4), 160-88, 2016
[Paper] [Appendix] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Media: WashPost, AEA, Boston Globe, NBER digest, NPR interview
Opportunities for Advances in Climate Change Economics
Burke, M., M. Craxton, C. D. Kolstad, C. Onda, H. Allcott, E. Baker, L. Barrage, R. Carson, K. Gillingham, J. Graf-Zivin, M. Greenstone, S. Hallegatte, W.M. Hanemann, G. Heal, S. Hsiang, B. Jones, D. L. Kelly, R. Kopp, M. Kotchen, R. Mendelsohn, K. C. Meng, G. Metcalf, J. Moreno-Cruz, R. Pindyck, S. Rose, I. Rudik, J. Stock, R. S. J. Tol
Science, 352(6283), 292-293, 2016
Tropical Economics
Hsiang*, Solomon M., and Kyle C. Meng*
American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 105(5), 257–61, 2015
[Paper] [Appendix] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Temperature and Violence
Cane, Mark A., Edward Miguel, Marshall Burke, Solomon M. Hsiang, David B. Lobell, Kyle C. Meng, and Shanker Satyanath
Nature Climate Change, 4, 234–235, 2014
Reconciling Disagreement over Climate–Conflict Results in Africa
Hsiang*, Solomon M. and Kyle C. Meng*
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 111(6), 2100-3, 2014
[Paper] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Media: Washington Post
General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events
Stephen Carpenter, Kenneth Arrow, Scott Barrett, Reinette Biggs, William Brock, Anne-Sophie Crepin, Gustav Engstrom, Carl Folke, Terry Hughes, Nils Kautsky, Chuan-Zhong Li, Geoffrey McCarney, Karl-Goran Maler, Kyle C. Meng, Stephen Polasky, Marten Scheffer, Jason Shogren, Thomas Sterner, Scott Taylor, Jeffrey Vincent, Brian Walker, Anastasios Xepapadeas, Aart de Zeeuw
Sustainability, 4(12), 3248-3259, 2012
Civil Conflicts are Associated with the Global Climate
Hsiang, Solomon M., Kyle C. Meng, and Mark A. Cane
Nature, 476(7361), 438–441, 2011
[Paper] [Appendix] [Data and code] [BibTex]
Media: Nature News and Views, Nature Editorial TV interview with CBC News, Xinhua News (starts at 6:08), NPR, The Economist, BBC (World Service, print, BBC4), Washington Post,Financial Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, TIME, CBC (print, radio), Reuters,AFP, The Independent, Voice of America, The World, Slate, Scientific American, The Australian,Guangming Daily, L'Express, La Stampa, Spiegel, Época, ABC, Science, Nature Climate Change,Significance Magazine, other coverage (press release)
Opportunities for Low-Cost CO2 Storage Demonstration Projects in China
Meng, Kyle C., Robert H. Williams, and Michael A. Celia
Energy Policy, 35, 2368-2378, 2007