Working Papers/Work-in-Progress

  1. Designing Nonlinear Electricity Pricing with Misperceptions: Evidence from Free Electricity Policy (with Yuta Toyama)

  2. Impacts of Solar Subsidy:Evidence from Geographic Regression Discontinuity Design in Nepal (with Bishal Bharadwaj, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak and Peta Ashworth). Link

Articles

  1. Shortrun Impact of Electricity on Social Capital: An Evidence from Rural Electricity Program. Empirical Economics, 1-45. (with Dil Rahut and Yayue Xiao) Link

  2. In pursuit of sustainable development goal 7- Evidence of clean cooking fuel usage from 46 developing countries. The Electricity Journal, 2024, 107408. (with Raman Mishra, Dil Bahadur Rahut, Subhasis Bera, Tetsushi Sonobe) Link

  3. Returns to grid electricity on firewood and kerosene: Mechanism. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022, 111. Link

  4. Information leverage: The adoption of clean cooking fuel in Bhutan. Energy Policy, (2019), 125, 181-195. (with Toshihide Arimura). Link

  5. Demand for piped drinking water and a formal sewer system in Bhutan. Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, (2018), 20(3), 681-703. (with Kuenzang Tshering). Link

  6. Climatic changes and their impact on socio-economic sectors in the Bhutan Himalayas: an implementation strategy. Regional Environmental Change,(2016), 16(5),1401-1415. (with Hoy, Andreas, Om Katel, Pankaj Thapa, and Jörg Matschullat). Link

Book Chapters

  1. Community-Based Tourism as a Strategy for Building Climate Resilience in Bhutan. ``In Climate Change and Community Resilience”, (2022), 387-398. Springer, Singapore. (with Kuenzang Tshering and Jamyang Choda). Link

  2. Transboundary water resources management in the context of global environmental change: The case of Bhutan Himalaya. ``In Managing Water Resources under Climate Uncertainty”, (2015), 269-290, Springer Cham (Om Katel, Dietrich Schmidt-Vogt). Link

Policy Paper/Policy Brief/Misc.

  1. Greener Revenue for Greener Asia. This document is prepared for Asian Development Bank’s backgroud paper ``Asian Development Outlook 2022: Mobilizing Taxes for Development”. Link.

  2. Improving piped water and sewage connections makes economic sense in Bhutanese cities. Link