ProfilE
PhD, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Imelda is the André Hoffmann Assistant Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics, a research affiliate at the Centre for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), and part of the Center for International Environmental Studies (CIES). She is an applied microeconomist and received her PhD in Economics from the University of Hawaii in 2018. She did her postdoctoral research at the Department of Economics, Carlos III University in Madrid, where she investigated policies to achieve the clean energy transition. Her research explores the intersections of health, energy, gender, and environmental economics, looking at how the clean energy transition and policies can improve welfare and market outcomes.
Selected publications
- Real Time Pricing and the Cost of Clean Power, co-authored with Michael J. Roberts and Matthias Fripp, forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20220506
- Market Power and Price Discrimination: Learning from Changes in Renewable Energy Regulation, co-authored with Natalia Fabra, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2023, https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20210221
- Clean Energy Access: Gender Disparity, Health, and Labor Supply, co-authored with Anjali P. Verma, Economic Journal, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueac057
- Cooking That Kills: Cleaner Energy, Indoor Air Pollution, and Health, Journal of Development Economics, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2020.102548
- Indoor Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: A New Approach, American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1257/pandp.20181119
