Fiona Burlig is an Assistant Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is an applied microeconomist with research interests in and at the intersection of energy/environmental economics and development economics. Prior to joining Harris, she was a postdoc in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. She holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in economics, political science, and German from Williams College.
Recent work by Fiona Burlig
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Does rural electrification cause economic development?
The economic benefits of expanding electricity access likely do not outweigh the costs in small rural villages, but likely do in larger communities.
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Reducing electricity blackouts in developing countries: Evidence from India
Wholesale electricity market inefficiencies contribute to blackouts in developing countries