Research

Publications

Impact of Droughts on Served Drinking Water Disparities in California, 2007-2020

Sandy Sum, American Journal of Public Health (September 2024)

Well setbacks limit California’s oil supply with larger health benefits and employment losses than excise and carbon taxes

Policy Brief, Nature Energy, with emLab (June 2023)

Equitable low-carbon transition pathways for California’s oil extraction

Nature Energy, with emLab (May 2023)

Working papers

Trading Water and Work: Labor and Production Shifts under California’s Groundwater Markets

Sandy Sum (Job Market Paper, 2024)

Parameter recovery with remotely sensed variables

Jonathan Proctor^R, Tamma Carleton^R, and Sandy Sum^R (Revisions requested at Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists)

(^R indicates equal authorship; authors’ order randomized)

The Unequal Economic Risks and Opportunities of Global Atmospheric Moisture Recycling (In prep with Tamma Carleton and Ram Fishman)

Selected Works in Progress

Parched Lands, Polluted Air: Respiratory Health Impacts of Agricultural Water Savings (with Katrina Jessoe and Anna Boser)

Risk-Return Tradeoffs of Small Farms under Increased Climate Variability (with Olivier Deschênes and Bryan Leonard)

The 2006 Final Arsenic Rule and Infant Health Outcomes (with Shan Zhang)

Tracking Agricultural Return Flows: Implications for Satellite-Based Water Monitoring (with Anna Boser)

Policy reports

Enhancing equity while eliminating emissions in California’s supply of transportation fuels

CalEPA report with emLab (2021)

The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good

with the Global Commission on the Economics of Water (2024)