We use a variety of well-tested and novel approaches to understanding how to balance economic, social and environmental objectives. From cost-benefit analysis to machine learning, CEOS members use and advance methods to model complex social-environmental systems, estimate impact of interventions and design optimal policy solutions to enable us to build a more sustainable society.
Research Output
| Title | Publication | Authors | Year Published | Category | Method | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plastic Waste Trade & Coastal Litter: Evidence from Citizen Science Data | Rebecca Taylor, Shan Zhang, Hebe Williams | 2024 | LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper | |
| The Dynamic Trajectory of the Effects of Retirement on Health | American Society of Health Economics | Hyeran Chung, Mary Arends-Kuenning | 2024 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper |
| Do Agricultural stakeholder panels enhance post-harvest loss reduction? Evidence from Malawi | Agriculture & Food Security | Festus O Amadu, Paul E McNamara | 2024 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The effect of NAFTA on Mexico's wage gap | The Annals of Regional Science | Mary P. Arends-Kuenning, Kathy Baylis & Rafael Garduño-Rivera | 2024 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Strategic innovation and technology adoption under technological uncertainty | Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control | Fanglin Ye, Nicholas Paulson, Madhu Khanna | 2024 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Known and Unknown: Uncertainty in Estimating Land use Change from Satellite Data | Luoye Chen, Madhu Khanna | 2024 | LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Policy Instruments to Promote the Adoption of Sustainable Nitrogen Management Practices | Menglin Liu, Madhu Khanna, Shadi S Atallah | 2024 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Identifying the Determinants and Availability of Socially Marginal Land | Bijay P Sharma, Madhu Khanna, Tongtong Li, Adam J Daigneault | 2024 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper | |
| The spatiotemporal pattern of surface ozone and its impact on agricultural productivity in China | PNAS Nexus | Madhu Khanna, Xiaoguang Chen, Jing Gao, Luoye Chen, Binlei Gong, Maximilian Auffhammer | 2024 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Relaxing Information and Credit Constraints: Five-Year Experimental Evidence from Tanzanian Agriculture | Economic Development and Cultural Change | Tamim, A., A. Harou, M. Burke, D. Lobell, M. Madajewicz, C. Magomba, H. Michelson, J. Xue | 2024 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Pay it Forward: A Mechanism for Achieving Scale in Anti-Poverty Programs | Janzen, Sarah and Magnan, Nicholas and Sharma, Sudhindra and William, Thompson M. | 2024 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Water Quality and the Conservation Reserve Program: Empirical Evidence from the Mississippi River Basin | Nicole Karwowski, Robert A Hrozencik, Marin Skidmore, Andrew B Rosenberg | 2024 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Household Responsibilities and Career Opportunities: Distance Learning for Rural Women in Nepal | Sarah Janzen, Nicholas Magnan, Conner Mullally, Shruti Sharma, Bhola Shrestha | 2024 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Nature's Kidneys: the role of Wetland Reserve Easements in restoring water quality | Karwowski, N. and Skidmore, M. | 2023 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Extreme heat and livestock production: Costs and adaptation in the US dairy sector | Hutchins, J., Skidmore, M., and Nolan, D. | 2023 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper | |
| Community-Based Health Programs and Child Vaccinations: Evidence from Madagascar | World Development | Herrera-Almanza Catalina, Rosales-Rueda Maria | 2023 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The impact of extreme precipitation on nutrient runoff | Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association | Skidmore, M., Foltz, J., and Andarge, T. | 2023 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| The impacts of temperature on Chinese food processing firms | Agricultural and Resource Economics | Chen, X., Khanna, M., & Lu Yang, L. | 2022 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Does unconventional energy extraction generate more wastewater? A lifetime perspective | Ecological Economics | Xu, M., Xu, Y., Khanna, M. | 2022 | LW, EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Impact of changes in Title II of the 2018 Farm Bill on the acreage and environmental benefits of Conservation Reserve Program | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Cornish, B., Miao, R., & Khanna, M. |
2022 | LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Are renewable energy policies effective to promote technological change? The role of induced technological risk | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Ye, F., Paulson, N., & Khanna, M. |
2022 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Is tech-enhanced bikeshare a substitute or complement for public transit? | Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice | Martin, R., & Xu, Y. | 2022 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Impact of changes in Title II of the 2018 Farm Bill on the acreage and environmental benefits of Conservation Reserve Program | Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy | Cornish, B., Miao, R., & Khanna, M. | 2021 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Distribution of pollution incidence based on community characteristics: evidence from relocating toxic-releasing facilities | SSRN | Wang, X., Deltas, G., Khanna, M., & Bi, X. | 2021 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (WP) Working Paper |
| The impact of management systems on technical change: the adoption of pollution prevention techniques | Economic Change and Restructuring | Deltas, G., Harrington, D.R., & Khanna, M. | 2021 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| How do farmers learn from extension services? Evidence from Malawi | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Maertens, A., Michelson, H., & Nourani, V. | 2021 | FA, LW, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Conservation tillage mitigates drought induced soybean yield losses in the US Corn Belt | Q Open | Chen, B., Gramig, B.M., & Yun, S.D. | 2021 | FA, LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Community pressure and the spatial redistribution of pollution: The relocation of toxic releasing facilities | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Wang, X., Deltas, G., Khanna, M., & Bi, X. | 2021 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Incentives for corporate social responsibility in India: Mandate, peer pressure and crowding-out effects | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Bansal, S., Khanna, M., Sydlowski, J. | 2021 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Adoption of perennial energy crops in the US Midwest: Causal and heterogeneous determinants | Biomass and Bioenergy | Yang, P., Cai, X., Leibensperger, C., & Khanna, M. | 2021 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Redefining marginal land for bioenergy crop production | GCB Bioenergy | Khanna, K., Chen, L., Basso, B., Cai, X., Field, J.L., Guan, K., Jiang, C., Lark, T.J., Richard, T.L., Spawn‐Lee, S.A., Yang, P., & Zipp, K.Y. | 2021 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Reducing the cost of remoteness: Community-based health interventions and fertility choices | Journal of Health Economics | Herrera-Almanza, C., & Rosales, M. | 2020 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Understanding the adoption of climate-smart agriculture: A farm-level typology with empirical evidence from southern Malawi | World Development | Amadu, F.O., McNamara, P.E., & Miller, D.C. | 2020 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Can irrigation infrastructure mitigate the effect of rainfall shocks on conflict? Evidence from Indonesia | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Gatti, N., Baylis, K., & Crost, B. |
2020 | FA, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Mitigation of long-term human capital losses from natural disasters: Evidence from the Philippines | The World Bank Economic Review | Herrera-Almanza, C., & Cas, A. | 2020 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Assessing the role of stakeholder platforms as drivers of resilient communities: the case of Malawi | Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension | Álvarez-Mingote, C., Moore, A.C., & McNamara, P.E. | 2020 | FA, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Assessing the downstream socioeconomic impacts of agroforestry in Kenya | World Development | Hughes, K., Morgan, S., Baylis, K., Oduol, J., Smith-Dumont, E., Vågen, T. G., & Kegode, H. |
2020 | FA, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The effect of farm size and farmland use on agricultural diversification: a spatial analysis of Brazilian municipalities | Agricultural and Food Economics | José Luiz Parré, André Luis Squarize Chagas & Mary Paula Arends-Kuenning | 2020 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Consequences of protected areas for forest extraction and human well-being: Evidence from Nepal | Environmental and Resource Economics | Howlader, A., & Ando, A. W. | 2020 | LW, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Agroforestry as a pathway to agricultural yield impacts in climate-smart agriculture investments: Evidence from southern Malawi | Ecological Economics | Amadu, F.O, Miller, D.C., & McNamara, P.E. | 2020 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Incentives for Corporate Social Responsibility in India: mandate, Peer Pressure and crowding-Out Effects | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Bansal, S. and J. Sydlowski | 2020 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Social comparison nudges without monetary incentives: Evidence from home energy reports | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Myers, E. & Souza, M. |
2020 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The effect of NAFTA on internal migration in Mexico: A regional economic analysis | Applied Economics | Arends-Kuenning, M., Baylis, K., & Garduño-Rivera, R. |
2020 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Do foreign-educated nurses displace native-educated nurses? | IZA Journal of Labor Policy | H. Chung, H. & Arends-Kuenning, M. | 2020 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Unlocking amenities: Complementarity in public good consumption | Journal of Public Economics | Albouy, D., Christensen, P., & Sarmiento, I. |
2020 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Neonicotinoids and decline in bird biodiversity in the United States | Nature Sustainability | Yijia Li, Y., Miao, R., & Khanna, M. |
2020 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Conservation agriculture and climate resilience | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management' | Michler, J. D., Baylis, K., Arends-Kuenning, M., & Mazvimavi, K. |
2020 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Incentives for corporate social responsibility in India: Mandate, peer pressure and crowding-out effects | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Sangeeta Bansal, S., Khanna, M., & J. Sydlowski | 2020 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Market structure and the effect of ethanol expansion on Land allocation: A spatially explicit analysis | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Wang, Y., Delgado, M. S., Sesmero, J. P., Gramig, B. M. |
2020 | FA, LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (SM) System Modeling | |
| Can experiential games and improved risk coverage raise demand for index insurance? Evidence from Kenya | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Janzen, S. A., Magnan, N., Mullally, C., Shin, S., Palmer, I., Oduol, J., & Hughes, K. | 2020 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Do unconventional oil and gas wells generate more wastewater? A lifespan perspective | SSRN Working Paper | Xu, M., Xu, Y., & Khanna, M. | 2020 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Decomposing the wedge between projected and realized savings in energy efficiency programs | E2e Working Paper | Christensen, P., Francisco, P., Myers, E., & Souza, M. | 2020 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Fraccidents: The impact of fracking on road traffic deaths | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Xu, M., & Xu, Y. | 2020 | EE, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Decomposing the wedge between projected and realized savings in energy efficiency programs | E2e Working Paper | Christensen, P., Francisco, P., Myers, E., & Souza, M. (2020). | 2020 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The Impact of Management Systems on technical change: The adoption of pollution prevention techniques | Economic Change and Restructuring | Deltas, G., Khanna, M., & Ramirez-Harrington, D. |
2020 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Yield effects of climate-smart agriculture aid investment in southern Malawi | Food Policy | Amadu, F.O., McNamara, P.E., & Miller, D.C. (2020). | 2020 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design | |
| Should congested cities reduce their speed limits? Evidence from São Paulo, Brazil | Journal of Public Economics | Ang, A., Christensen, P., & Schwambach-Vieira, R. | 2020 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Sorting or steering: Experimental evidence on the economic effects of housing discrimination | NBER Working Paper | Christensen, P., & Timmins, C. |
2019 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Effects of mandatory energy efficiency disclosure in housing markets | National Bureau of Economic Research | Myers, E., Puller, S. L., & West, J. D. |
2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Economic effects of environmental crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan | Working Paper | Christensen, P., Keiser, D., & Lade, G. |
2019 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Effects of mandatory energy efficiency disclosure in housing markets | National Bureau of Economic Research | 2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | ||
| After the drought: The impact of microinsurance on consumption smoothing and asset protection | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Janzen, S. A., & Carter, M. R. | 2019 | FA, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Housing discrimination and the pollution exposure gap in the United States | Working Paper | Christensen, P., Timmins, C., & Sarmiento, I. | 2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The distributional effects of building energy codes | Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Bruegge, C., Deryugina, T., & Myers, E. |
2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Smallholder food storage dynamics and resilience | Food Security | Waldman, K. B., Giroux, S., Blekking, J. P., Baylis, K., & Evans, T. P. |
2019 | FA, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (OM) Other | |
| The owner-renter incidence gap of gentrification - A perspective from downward mobility | Journal of Housing Economics | Zhang, Y., Christensen, P., Greenlee, A., & Hewings, G. |
2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Are home buyers inattentive? Evidence from capitalization of energy costs | American Economic Journal: Economic Policy | Myers, E. |
2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The social lives of married women: Peer effects in female autonomy and children’s food consumption | Journal of Development Economics | Kandpal, E., & Baylis, K. |
2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Suburbs or skyscrapers: The effect of China's land leasing market on housing decentralization | Land Economics | Christensen, P. |
2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Conservation agriculture and climate resilience | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | Michler, J., Baylis, K., Arends-Kuenning, M., & Mazvimavi, K. | 2019 | FA, LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Bridging versus bonding social capital and the management of the firewood commons | Land Economics | Baylis, K, Gong, Y., & Wang, S. |
2019 | SC, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Effect of wind turbines on bird abundance: A national scale analysis based on fixed effects models | Energy Policy | Miao, R., Ghosh, P. N., Khanna, M., Wang, W., & Rong, J. |
2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The effect of NAFTA on internal migration in Mexico: A regional economic analysis | Applied Economics | Arends-Kuenning, M., K. Baylis, K., & Garduno-Rafael, R. | 2019 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | (PR) Peer Reviewed |
| Agricultural market liberalization and household food security in rural China | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Baylis, K., Fan, L., & Nogueira, L. |
2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Temperature and production efficiency growth: Empirical evidence | Climatic Changes | Kumar, S., & Khanna, M. |
2019 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Site-specific treatment responses in on-farm precision experimentation | Preprints | Trevisan, R. G., Bullock, D. S. & Martín, N. F. |
2019 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Are consumers attentive to local energy costs? Evidence from the appliance market | National Bureau of Economic Research | Houde, S., & Myers, E. |
2019 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The Millennium Villages project and local land values: Using hedonic pricing methods to evaluate development projects | World Development | Michelson, H., & Tully, K. | 2018 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (VA) Valuation | |
| Short-term impacts of a pay-it-forward livestock transfer and training program in rural Nepal | American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings | A., Magnan, N. P., Sharma, S, & Thompson, W. M. | 2018 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Effects of ethanol plant proximity and crop prices on land-use change in the United States | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Li, Y., Miao, R., & Khanna, M. |
2018 | FA, EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Geographic determinants of China's urbanization | Regional Science and Urban Economics | Christensen, P., & McCord, G.C. |
2018 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Does a nutritious diet cost more in food deserts? | Agricultural Economics | Fan, L., Baylis, K., Gundersen, C., & Ploeg, M. V. |
2018 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Asymmetric information is residential rental markets: Implications for the energy efficiency gap | E2e Working Paper | Myers, E. | 2018 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Crop yield response function and ex post economic thresholds: The impacts of crop growth stage-specific weather conditions on crop yield | Working Paper | Yun, S. D., & Gramig, B. | 2017 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Inducing pollution prevention: Effectiveness of the 33/50 voluntary environmental program | Journal of Environmental Planning and Management | Bi, X., & Khanna, M. |
2017 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Environmental hazards and mortgage credit risk: Evidence from Texas pipeline incidents | Real Estate Economics | Xu, M., & Xu, Y. | 2017 | EE, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Finding the right value: Framing effects on domain experts | Political Psychology | Andrews, A. C., Clawson, R. A. & Gramig, B. M. | 2017 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Responsiveness of yield and acreage to climate and prices | American Journal of Agricultural Economics | Miao, R., Khanna, M., & Huang, H. |
2016 | FA | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Can peers improve agricultural revenue? | World Development | Songsermsawas, T., Baylis, K., Chhatre, A., & Michelson, H. | 2016 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (SM) System Modeling | |
| Putting the organic label in context: Examining the interactions between the organic label, product type, and retail outlet | Food Quality and Preference | Ellison, B., Duff, B., Wang, Z., & White, T.B. |
2016 | O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| The influence of retail outlet and FSMA information on consumer perceptions of and willingness to pay for organic grape tomatoes | Journal of Economic Psychology | Ellison, B., Bernard, J., Paukett, M., & Toensmeyer, U.C. |
2016 | FA, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (VA) Valuation | |
| Goldilocks and the raster grid: Choosing a unit of analysis for evaluating conservation programs | PlosOne | Avelino, A. F. T., Baylis, K., & Honey-Rosés, J. |
2016 | LW, O | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Trade-facilitated technology spillovers in energy productivity convergence processes across EU countries | Energy Economics | Wan, J., Baylis, K., & Mulder, P. |
2015 | EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Evaluating heterogeneous conservation effects of forest protection in Indonesia | PlosOne | Shah, P., & Baylis, K. |
2015 | LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| How effective are biodiversity conservation payments in Mexico? | PlosOne | Costedoat, S., Corbera, E., Ezzine de Blas, D., Honey-Roses, J., Baylis, K., & Castillo-Santiago, M. A. |
2015 | LW | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Milk in the data: food security impacts of livestock in Zambia | World Development | Jodlowski, M., Winter-Nelson, A. Baylis, K., & Goldsmith, P.D. | 2015 | SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Impacts of management practices on bioenergy feedstock yield and economic feasibility on Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands | GCB Bioenergy | Anderson, E.K., Aberle, E., Chen, C., Egenolf, J., Harmonmey, K., Kakani, G., Kallenbach, R.L., Khanna, M., Wang, W., & Lee, D.K. |
2015 | LW, EE | (IE) Impact Evaluation | |
| Effectiveness of financial and fiscal instruments for promoting sustainable renewable energy technologies | Economic and Business Review | 2015 | EE, SC | (IE) Impact Evaluation, (PD) Policy Design |