Anna Papp

PhD Candidate, Columbia University


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About

Welcome! I am a PhD student in the Sustainable Development program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

I am an environmental economist with interests in labor economics. I work on applied microeconomic and interdisciplinary research related to climate change, climate adaptation, and plastic pollution. I use remote sensing and non-traditional data in a lot of my projects.

I graduated from Harvard University, where I studied Environmental Engineering and Computer Science. Before starting my PhD, I worked as a research assistant at Yale School of Management and as an equity research associate at AB Bernstein.

I am on the 2024-2025 academic job market.

CV (Updated November 2024)


Contact

Email: ap3907@columbia.edu
Twitter: @annapappp

Backstone Bay Vista


Job Market Paper

Who bears climate change damages? Evidence from the gig economy

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Job Market Paper


Working Papers

Are plastic bag regulations effective in reducing plastic litter? Evidence from shoreline cleanups

(with Kimberly L. Oremus; Papp first author)

R&R at Science

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Rain follows the forest: Land use policy, climate change, and adaptation

(with Florian Grosset, Charles Taylor)

Working Paper, August 2024 (Submitted)

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Available on SSRN

Selected Coverage: World Resources Institute

Methane spikes when US LNG unloaded abroad

(with Xinming Du, Douglas Almond, Maya Norman)

Submitted

Selected Coverage: The New Yorker


Publications

Bitcoin and carbon dioxide emissions: Evidence from daily production decisions

(with Douglas Almond, Shuang Zhang; Papp first author)

Journal of Public Economics (2023)

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Selected Coverage: Berkeley Energy Institute Blog, The Washington Examiner

Favourability towards natural gas relates to funding source of university energy centers

(with Douglas Almond, Xinming Du)

Nature Climate Change (2022)

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Selected Coverage: The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Times Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed


Work in Progress

Pollution, plastics, and the global trade in garbage

(with Matthew Gordon)

Funding: STEG Initiative at CEPR, Minderoo Foundation

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The origin and fate of marine plastic pollution

(with Amir Jina, Kimberly L. Oremus, Nandini Ramesh)


Academic Presentations

2024: AERE@ASSA Annual Meeting, AERE@WEAI, NBER Summer Institute (Development of the American Economy), CU Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, NEUDC, SEA Annual Meeting

2023: World Bank-GWU-UVA Economics of Sustainable Development Conference, CEEP-Federal Reserve Bank of New York Environmental Economics and Policy Conference, LSE Environment Week, AERE@AAEA Annual Conference, Harvard Climate Economics Pipeline Workshop, Interdisciplinary PhD Workshop in Sustainable Development

2022: American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, The Workshop in Environmental Economics and Data Science (TWEEDS), Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics, AERE Summer Conference

View from Mat Peak


Teaching

Causal Inference Workshop
I taught the Causal Inference Workshop for PhD Students in Sustainable Development in Spring 2024. You can find materials for it here.

Other Teaching at SIPA
Instructor (Master’s), Analytics in Env. Science Policy [Summer 2020,2021]
Teaching Fellow (Master’s), Microeconomics & Public Policy II [Spring 2021]
Teaching Fellow (Master’s), Economic Development [Fall 2020]

Denali


Miscellaneous

Code: To work through (some of) the new two-way fixed effects/dynamic diff-in-diff methods, my grad school colleague Vincent Bagilet and I have put together set of simulations, example datasets, and code (as part of Jeffrey Shrader’s lab), which you can find here.

Non-academic interests: I grew up in Budapest, Hungary. In my free time I enjoy hiking, camping, packrafting (check out my trip reports here), vegan food, and my favorite boardgame.

Website: This website design is based on Gautam Rao’s GitHub repository. Thank you Gautam for making it public! Images: Blackstone Bay from Vista Hike; View from Matanuska Peak; Denali from Kesugi Ridge (on a very clear day!); Teton Park Road in the winter.

Grand Tetons!