Patrick Baylis
YOU?
Author Swipe
View article: Quantifying fire-specific smoke exposure and health impacts
Quantifying fire-specific smoke exposure and health impacts Open
Rapidly changing wildfire regimes across the Western United States have driven more frequent and severe wildfires, resulting in wide-ranging societal threats from wildfires and wildfire-generated smoke. However, common measures of fire sev…
View article: When we change the clock, does the clock change us?
When we change the clock, does the clock change us? Open
The practice of standardizing the designation of time is a central device for coordinating activities and economic behaviors across individuals.However, there is nearly always conflict between an individual's goals of coordinating activiti…
View article: Quantifying fire-specific smoke severity
Quantifying fire-specific smoke severity Open
Rapidly changing wildfire regimes across the Western US has driven more frequent and severe wildfires, resulting in wide-ranging societal threats from the wildfires themselves and the smoke that they generate. However, common measures of f…
View article: Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters: The Case of U.S. Wildfires
Mandated vs. Voluntary Adaptation to Natural Disasters: The Case of U.S. Wildfires Open
Despite escalating disaster losses and predicted increases in weather-related catastrophes, takeup of protective technologies and behaviors appears limited by myopia, externalities, and other factors.One response to such frictions is to ma…
View article: Exposures and behavioral responses to wildfire smoke
Exposures and behavioral responses to wildfire smoke Open
The impacts of environmental change on human outcomes often depend on local exposures and behavioral responses that are challenging to observe with traditional administrative or sensor data. We show how data from private pollution sensors,…
View article: Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Wildfire Smoke
Exposures and Behavioral Responses to Wildfire Smoke Open
The impacts of environmental change on human outcomes often depend on local exposures and behavioral responses that are challenging to observe with traditional administrative or sensor data.We show how data from private pollution sensors, …
View article: The distribution of COVID‐19–related risks
The distribution of COVID‐19–related risks Open
We document two COVID‐19–related risks, viral risk and employment risk, and their distributions across the Canadian population. The measurement of viral risk is based on the VSE COVID‐19 Risk/Reward Assessment Tool, created to assist polic…
View article: Data Storage for Baylis and Boomhower (2022): Fire Characteristics, Expenditures, and Other Miscellaneous Datasets
Data Storage for Baylis and Boomhower (2022): Fire Characteristics, Expenditures, and Other Miscellaneous Datasets Open
# Description Zenodo data storage for large, non-proprietary data used in "The Economic Incidence of Wildfire Suppression in the United States", by Patrick Baylis and Judson Boomhower. Main OpenICPSR repository (contains code and main READ…
View article: Data Storage for Baylis and Boomhower (2022): LANDFIRE Aspect, Elevation, Slope, and Anderson 13 Fuel Models
Data Storage for Baylis and Boomhower (2022): LANDFIRE Aspect, Elevation, Slope, and Anderson 13 Fuel Models Open
# Description Zenodo data storage for large, non-proprietary data used in "The Economic Incidence of Wildfire Suppression in the United States", by Patrick Baylis and Judson Boomhower. Main OpenICPSR repository (contains code and main READ…
View article: Data Storage for Baylis and Boomhower (2022): Fire Characteristics, Expenditures, and Other Miscellaneous Datasets
Data Storage for Baylis and Boomhower (2022): Fire Characteristics, Expenditures, and Other Miscellaneous Datasets Open
# Description Zenodo data storage for large, non-proprietary data used in "The Economic Incidence of Wildfire Suppression in the United States", by Patrick Baylis and Judson Boomhower. Main OpenICPSR repository (contains code and main READ…
View article: Data Storage for Baylis and Boomhower (2022): LANDFIRE Aspect, Elevation, Slope, and Anderson 13 Fuel Models
Data Storage for Baylis and Boomhower (2022): LANDFIRE Aspect, Elevation, Slope, and Anderson 13 Fuel Models Open
# Description Zenodo data storage for large, non-proprietary data used in "The Economic Incidence of Wildfire Suppression in the United States", by Patrick Baylis and Judson Boomhower. Main OpenICPSR repository (contains code and main READ…
View article: Default Effects And Follow-On Behaviour: Evidence From An Electricity Pricing Program
Default Effects And Follow-On Behaviour: Evidence From An Electricity Pricing Program Open
We study default effects in the context of a residential electricity-pricing program. In the large-scale randomized controlled trial we analyse, one treatment group was given the option to opt-in to time-varying pricing while another was d…
View article: Job Loss and Behavioral Change: The Unprecedented Effects of the India Lockdown in Delhi
Job Loss and Behavioral Change: The Unprecedented Effects of the India Lockdown in Delhi Open
On March 24, 2020, the Prime Minister of India announced the world's largest COVID-19 lockdown. We summarize the initial impacts of the lockdown for a representative sample of mostly poor and non-migrant workers in Delhi. Using Facebook mo…
View article: Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters
Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters Open
This study measures the degree to which large public expenditures on wildfire protection subsidize development in harm's way.Using administrative firefighting data, we calculate geographically-differentiated implicit subsidies to homeowner…
View article: Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters
Moral Hazard, Wildfires, and the Economic Incidence of Natural Disasters Open
This study measures the degree to which large public expenditures on wildfire protection subsidize development in harm's way. Using administrative firefighting data, we calculate geographically-differentiated implicit subsidies to homeowne…
View article: Rapidly declining remarkability of temperature anomalies may obscure public perception of climate change
Rapidly declining remarkability of temperature anomalies may obscure public perception of climate change Open
Significance Climate change exposes people to conditions that are historically unusual but that will become increasingly common over time. What kind of weather do people think of as normal or unusual under these changing conditions? We use…
View article: Weather impacts expressed sentiment
Weather impacts expressed sentiment Open
We conduct the largest ever investigation into the relationship between meteorological conditions and the sentiment of human expressions. To do this, we employ over three and a half billion social media posts from tens of millions of indiv…
View article: Default Effects and Follow-On Behavior: Evidence from an Electricity Pricing Program
Default Effects and Follow-On Behavior: Evidence from an Electricity Pricing Program Open
We study default effects in the context of a residential electricity pricing program.We implement a large-scale randomized controlled trial in which one treatment group is given the option to optin to time-based pricing while another is de…
View article: Default Effects and Follow-On Behavior: Evidence from an Electricity Pricing Program
Default Effects and Follow-On Behavior: Evidence from an Electricity Pricing Program Open
We study default effects in the context of a residential electricity pricing program. We implement a large-scale randomized controlled trial in which one treatment group is given the option to opt-in to time-based pricing while another is …
View article: Climate change is projected to have severe impacts on the frequency and intensity of peak electricity demand across the United States
Climate change is projected to have severe impacts on the frequency and intensity of peak electricity demand across the United States Open
Significance The existing empirical literature on the impacts of climate change on the electricity sector has focused on changing electricity consumption patterns. In this paper, we show that incorporating impacts on the frequency and inte…
View article: Understanding the Human Effects of Climate Change
Understanding the Human Effects of Climate Change Open
Climate change has already begun to profoundly alter the relationship betweenhumans and their environment for the vast majority of the world’s population. How-ever, history has demonstrated that human are nothing if not responsive: as thec…