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Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
66
Citations
18461
World Ranking
570
National Ranking
367

Overview

Subhrendu K. Pattanayak is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a special emphasis on pollution, renewable energy, sustainability, and the economic and social dimensions of energy use and environmental management.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Pollution
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Sociology and Political Science

Key research topics covered in their publications include:

  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
  • Child Nutrition and Water Access
  • Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
  • Water Governance and Infrastructure
  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Water resources management and optimization

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Is energy the golden thread? A systematic review of the impacts of modern and traditional energy use in low- and middle-income countries" (2020), published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • "Do improved cookstoves save time and improve gender outcomes? Evidence from six developing countries" (2021), published in Energy Economics
  • "Critical mineral mining in the energy transition: A systematic review of environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities" (2024), published in Energy Research & Social Science
  • "Improved sanitation increases long-term cognitive test scores" (2020), published in World Development
  • "Frameworks, methods and evidence connecting modern domestic energy services and gender empowerment" (2023), published in Nature Energy

Frequent co-authors they have collaborated with include:

  • Marc Jeuland
  • Priya Shyamsundar
  • Sied Hassen
  • Erin O. Sills
  • Thomas Klug

Their publications frequently appear in venues such as:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • AEA Randomized Controlled Trials
  • Energy Economics
  • World Development
  • Environmental Research Letters

Best Publications

  • Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health

    Sarah Whitmee;Andy Haines;Chris Beyrer;Frederick Boltz

  • Money for nothing? A call for empirical evaluation of biodiversity conservation investments.

    Paul J Ferraro;Subhrendu K Pattanayak

  • Show Me the Money: Do Payments Supply Environmental Services in Developing Countries?

    Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Sven Wunder;Paul J. Ferraro

  • Who adopts improved fuels and cookstoves? A systematic review.

    Jessica J. Lewis;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

  • Taking stock of agroforestry adoption studies

    Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;D. Evan Mercer;Erin Sills;Jui-Chen Yang

  • Do Tropical Forests Provide Natural Insurance? The Microeconomics of Non-Timber Forest Product Collection in the Brazilian Amazon

    Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Erin O. Sills

  • Evaluation of biodiversity policy instruments: what works and what doesn't?

    Daniela A. Miteva;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Paul J. Ferraro

  • Do Payments for Environmental Services Affect Forest Cover?: A Farm-Level Evaluation from Costa Rica

    Rodrigo A. Arriagada;Paul J. Ferraro;Erin O. Sills;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

  • Econometric studies of non-industrial private forest management: a review and synthesis

    Robert H. Beach;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Jui-Chen Yang;Brian C. Murray

  • Biodiversity Loss Affects Global Disease Ecology

    Montira J. Pongsiri;Joe Roman;Vanessa O. Ezenwa;Tony L. Goldberg

  • COMBINING REVEALED AND STATED PREFERENCE DATA TO ESTIMATE THE NONMARKET VALUE OF ECOLOGICAL SERVICES: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE

    John C. Whitehead;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;George L. Van Houtven;Brett R. Gelso

  • Benefits and costs of improved cookstoves: assessing the implications of variability in health, forest and climate impacts.

    Marc A. Jeuland;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

  • Coping with unreliable public water supplies: Averting expenditures by households in Kathmandu, Nepal

    Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Jui Chen Yang;Dale Whittington;K. C. Bal Kumar

  • Shades of Green: Measuring the Value of Urban Forests in the Housing Market

    Carol Mansfield;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;William McDow;Robert McDonald

  • Is Meta-Analysis a Noah's Ark for Non-Market Valuation?

    V. Kerry Smith;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

  • Shame or subsidy revisited: Social mobilization for sanitation in Orissa, India

    Subhrendu K Pattanayak;Jui-Chen Yang;Katherine L Dickinson;Christine Poulos

  • Valuing water quality improvements in the United States using meta-analysis: Is the glass half-full or half-empty for national policy analysis?

    George Van Houtven;John Powers;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

  • Benefit Transfer via Preference Calibration: “Prudential Algebra” for Policy

    V. Kerry Smith;George Van Houtven;Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

  • Valuing watershed services: concepts and empirics from southeast Asia

    Subhrendu K. Pattanayak

  • More strictly protected areas are not necessarily more protective: evidence from Bolivia, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Thailand

    Paul J Ferraro;Merlin M Hanauer;Daniela A Miteva;Gustavo Javier Canavire-Bacarreza

Frequent Co-Authors

Erin O. Sills
Erin O. Sills North Carolina State University
Paul J. Ferraro
Paul J. Ferraro Johns Hopkins University
Randall A. Kramer
Randall A. Kramer Duke University
V. Kerry Smith
V. Kerry Smith Arizona State University
Dale Whittington
Dale Whittington University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Pamela Jagger
Pamela Jagger University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Gunnar Köhlin
Gunnar Köhlin University of Gothenburg
William D. Sunderlin
William D. Sunderlin Center for International Forestry Research
Andy Haines
Andy Haines London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Veerabhadran Ramanathan
Veerabhadran Ramanathan University of California, San Diego

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