Danae Hernandez-Cortes

Working papers

“The Distributional Consequences of Incomplete Regulation”. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Link. 

“The Effects of Renewable Energy Projects on Employment: Evidence from Brazil” with Sophie Mathes. Revise and Resubmit, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Link.

“Community engaged research for the clean energy transition” with Beia Spiller, Neha Khanna and Mehri Mohebbi. Revise and Resubmit, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy. Link.

“The Effects of Environmental Distress on Labor Markets: Evidence from Brazil” with Sophie Mathes. Submitted. Link.

Peer-reviewed publications

Abman, R., Edwards, E. & Hernandez-Cortes, D. (2024). Water, dust, and environmental justice: The case of agricultural water diversions. American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

Cain, L., Hernandez-Cortes, D., Timmins, C., & Weber, P. (2024). Recent findings and methodologies in economics research in environmental justice. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 18(1). 

Deshmukh, R., Weber, P., Deschenes, O., Hernandez-Cortes, D., Kordell, T., Mallow, C., Magin, T., Meng, M., Sum, S., Thivierge, V., Uppal, A., Lea, D., & Meng, K. (2023) Well setbacks limit California’s oil supply with larger health benefits and employment losses than excise and carbon taxes. Nature Energy. Policy Brief.

Hernandez-Cortes, D. & Meng, K. (2023). Do health disparities narrow with pollution disparities? Evidence from California. AEA Papers and Proceedings, 113 : 372-76.

Deshmukh, R., Weber, P., Deschenes, O., Hernandez-Cortes, D., Kordell, T., Mallow, C., Magin, T., Meng, M., Sum, S., Thivierge, V., Uppal, A. & Meng, K. (2023) Equitable low-carbon transition pathways for California’s oil extraction. Nature Energy.

Li, R., Chester, M., Middel, A., Vanos, J., Hernandez-Cortes, D., Buo, I., & Hondula, D. (2023). Effectiveness of travel behavior and infrastructure change to mitigate heat exposure. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 5, 1129388.

Hernandez-Cortes, D. & Meng, K. (2023). Do Environmental Markets Cause Environmental Injustice? Evidence from California’s Carbon Market. Journal of Public Economics, 217, 104786.

Hernandez-Cortes, D., Meng, K. & Weber, P. (2022). Decomposing Trends in Air Pollution Disparities from U.S. Electricity. Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Vol. 4.

Hernandez-Cortes, D. & Lopez-Rosas, E. (2022). The Environmental Justice Dimension of the Mexican Emissions Trading System. In Lucatello, S (editor). Towards an Emissions Trading System in Mexico: Rationale, Design and Connections with the Global Climate Agenda Outlook on the first ETS in Latin- America and Exploration of the Way Forward (Chapter 12), Springer Climate, ISSN: 2352-0698

Gracner T, Marquez-Padilla F & Hernandez-Cortes D. (2022) Changes in Weight-Related Outcomes Among Adolescents Following Consumer Price Increases of Taxed Sugar-Sweetened Beverages. JAMA Pediatrics, 176(2), 150-158.

Arceo-Gomez, E., Hernandez-Cortes, D. & Lopez-Feldman, A. (2020) Droughts and rural households’ well- being: evidence from Mexico. Climatic Change. Vol. 162., pp. 1197-1212.

Chakraborti, L., Heres, D. & Hernandez-Cortes, D. (2019) Are Land Values Related to Ambient Air Pollution Levels? Hedonic Evidence from Mexico City. Environment and Development Economics. Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 252-270.

Aburto-Oropeza, O., Johnson, A. F., Agha, M., Allen, E. B., Allen, M. F., Gonzalez, J. A., . . . Hernandez- Cortes, D., . . . & Taylor, J. E. (2018) Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change. Environmental Science & Policy, Vol. 87, pp. 128-132.

Lopez-Feldman, A. & Hernandez-Cortes, D. (2016) “Cambio Climatico y Agricultura: Una Revision de la Literatura con Enfasis en America Latina” [Climate Change and Agriculture: A Literature Review for Latin America] El Trimestre Economico, 332:459-496.

Work in progress

“Subways, Bus Rapid Transit, and Reductions in Vehicle Use: Evidence from Mexico City” with Christopher Severen and Paulina Oliva
 

“Will Cleaning up the Local Environment Narrow or Widen Inequality?” with Kyle Meng, Chris Timmins, and Paige Weber
 

Textbook Chapters

Boone, C. & Hernandez-Cortes, D. (2024). Justice and Sustainability. In Hagen, B. & Pijawka, K. D. (Eds), Sustainability for the 21st Century: Pathways Programs and Policies. (4th ed.). Kendall Hunt Publishing Company.

Policy reports

Enhancing equity while eliminating emissions in California’s supply of transportation fuels with emLab Carbon Neutrality project team.

Carbon Neutrality and California’s Transportation Fossil Fuel Supply with emLab Carbon Neutrality project team.

Mexican Rural Households’ Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change with Alejandro Lopez-Feldman, Antonio Yunez-Naude, J. Edward Taylor and Alan Hernandez. White Paper for the Environmental Working Group of the UC-Mexico Initiative. August 11, 2017.

The link between clean air policy and climate change policy in Mexico: Building an agenda for evaluation and research with Paulina Oliva, Marco Heredia, Victor H. Paramo, Teresita Romero, Jose A. Ortinez, Giovanna Montagner, and Karla J. Lopez. White Paper for the Environmental Working Group of the UC-Mexico Initiative. October 23, 2017.

MRV Blueprint for Road Freight Transport NAMA in Mexico with Georg Schmid and Miriam Frisch. MRV Blueprint, German Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety. 2015.