Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...

Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...

Climate data for the year 2013 implies global warming and climate change is happening and will lead to food scarcity, water scarcity, health related problems and rise in sea water level in coastal areas globally. It is imperative to adopt eco-friendly practices in marketing and business to evade...

A series of five field and laboratory studies reveal a temperature-premium effect: warm temperatures increase individuals' valuation of products. We demonstrate the effect across a variety of products using different approaches to measure or manipulate physical warmth and different assessments...

Global warming has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme climate change events. We study the impact of a severe climate change event, particularly wildfire smoke, on consumer purchases of sustainable products by combining retail scanner and air quality data. Exploiting the random...

The latest IPCC report forcefully states that immediate, decisive, and large-scale actions are needed to avert climate catastrophe. This essay presumes that democratic governments are best and most desirably positioned to take these actions. Yet in the countries most pivotal to global climate...