PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (BY TOPIC)
Climate Change Economics
Bressler, R. D. (2021). The mortality cost of carbon. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1-12. Coverage in 219 news outlets, including New York Times, NPR, Scientific American, Vox.
Bressler, R. D., Moore, F. C., Rennert, K., & Anthoff, D. (2021). Estimates of country level temperature-related mortality damage functions. Scientific Reports-Nature, 11(1), 1-10. Coverage in MIT Technology Review, The Conversation.
Sharma, S., Bressler, R. D., Bhopal, A., & Norheim, O. F. (2022). The global temperature-related mortality impact of earlier decarbonization for the Australian health sector and economy: A modelling study. PloS one, 17(8), e0271550.
Bressler, R. D. (2023). The Science and Challenges of Sustainability. In Sustainability: Investment and Business Implications, edited by Alexander Preker and Diane-Charlotte Simon, World Scientific Publishing.
International Governance
Bressler, R. D., Alstott, J. (2023). The Intergovernmental Panel on Global Catastrophic Risks: A Proposal for a New International Organization. Proceedings of the Stanford Existential Risks Conference.
Bressler, R.D. (2021). Statistically Identifying the NPT’s Effect on Nuclear Proliferation: Is it a Fundamentally Unidentified Question?. CSIS Next Generation Nuclear Network.
Bressler, R.D. (2021). Has the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Limited The Spread of Nuclear Weapons? Evaluating the Arguments. CSIS Next Generation Nuclear Network.
WORKING PAPERS
Climate Change Economics
Bryant, A., Lewy, J., Bressler, R.D., Chopra, Z., Gyori, D., Bazzell, G., Moeller, J., Jacobson, S.,A. Fendrick, A.M., Kerr, E., Ramnath, N., Green, M., Hofer, T., & Strohbehn, G. (2023). Socialized health harms due to excessive dosing of pembrolizumab in a national health system: Alternative dosing strategies reduce treatment-related harms from greenhouse gases. Revise and Resubmit at The Lancet Oncology.
Bressler, R. D., & Heal, G. (2022). Valuing Excess Deaths Caused by Climate Change (No. w30648). National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Coverage in Vox.
Bressler, R.D., Shimberg, N., & Gillingham, K. (2023). The Phantom Dismal Theorem: How Discounting and Mortality Valuation Interaction Can Cause Infinite Valuation of Future Lives.
Wilson, A.*, Bressler, R.D.*, Ivanovich, C., Tuholske., Raymond, C., Horton, R., Sobel, A., Kinney, P., Cavazos, T., & Shrader, J. (2023). Heat Disproportionally Kills Young People: Evidence from Wet-Bulb Temperature Exposure. (*equal contribution).
Bressler, R.D., Shimberg, N., Rennels, L., Errickson, F., Parthum, B., Smith, D., & Anthoff, D. (2023). Large Mortality Impacts on the Poor Drive a Higher Equity Weighted Social Cost of CO2.
International Governance
Bressler, R. D., Trager, R. F., & Dafoe, A. (2021). The Offense-Defense Balance and The Costs of Anarchy: When Welfare Improves Under Offensive Advantage. American Political Science Association Preprint.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Climate Change Economics
Limits to Adaption: Evidence from Wet-Bulb Temperature Exposure with Jeff Shrader and Andrew Wilson.
Workplace Temperature Exposure is a Principal Driver of Heat-Related Mortality with Jeff Shrader and Andrew Wilson
Quantifying Temperature-Related Climate Deaths Caused by Countries Failing to Meet Nationally Determined Contributions with Yann Robiou du Pont.
How Many Lives Did the Inflation Reduction Act Save Through Emissions Reductions?
Benefit Cost Analysis
Population Ethics: An Unavoidable New Frontier for Benefit-Cost Analysis with Andrew Stawasz.
Equity Weighting Disentangled: The Distribution Index
International Governance
A Multilateral Game-Theoretical Analysis of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty with Scott Barrett
Other
Maintaining the domestic food supply chain in future pandemics with Naomi Shimberg and Laura Tiehen.
Does Creating Shared Value Lead to Higher Profitability? — An Empirical Analysis.
Non-Peer Reviewed Writing
“Public Comment on U.S. Office of Management and Budget Modernizing Benefit-Cost Analysis.” June 6, 2023.
“Public Comment on the EPA External Review Draft of Report on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: Estimates Incorporating Recent Scientific Advances” with Geoffrey Heal. February 13th, 2023.
“Designer bugs: how the next pandemic might come from a lab” with Chris Bakerlee. Vox. December 6, 2018.
“Escaping the Malthusian Trap.” Sense and Sustainability. November 8, 2016.
“The Problem with Brexit: 21st Century Challenges Require International Cooperation.” The Future of Life Institute. July 1, 2016.
Non-Authored Papers I supported with Research Assistance
Porter, Michael E., and James E. Heppelmann. “A manager’s guide to augmented reality.” Harvard Business Review 95.6 (2017): 45-57.
Porter, Michael E., and James E. Heppelmann. “How smart, connected products are transforming companies.” Harvard Business Review 93.10 (2015): 96-114.