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Nicholas Ryan
Associate Professor of Economics, Yale University
Nicholas Ryan studies energy markets and environmental regulation in developing countries. He is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at Yale University. He received a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He worked as a Research Associate in the Capital Markets group at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington, D.C. He was previously a Prize Fellow in Economics at Harvard University from and a Cowles Foundation Fellow.
Recent work by Nicholas Ryan
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Regulating pollution in low- and middle-income countries
How can governments use environmental regulation to reduce pollution in low- and middle-income countries?
Published 08.11.23
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Should electricity be a right? Evidence from India
A social norm in which people deserve access to electricity regardless of payment may actually be undermining efforts for universal access
Published 18.11.20
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Do India’s farmers use too much water?
Rationing electricity supply limits farmers’ water use to a nearly efficient level on average, but also lowers agricultural productivity
Published 24.07.20
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Let them buy light in rural Bihar
Solar micro-grid product can bridge the gaps in access to electricity, with potentially large economic and welfare gains to households
Published 21.06.17