Published in Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2010
Recommended citation: Carley, S., Lawrence, S., Brown, A., Nourafshan, A., Benami, E. (2010). "Energy-Based Economic Development." Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. 15(1): 282-295.
Published in Climate Policy Initiative report, 2013
Recommended citation: Pierpont, B., Varadarajan, U., Hobbs, A., Benami, E. (2013). "Improving Solar Policy: Lessons from the Solar Leasing Boom in California." Climate Policy Initiative.
Published in Climate Policy Initiative report, 2013
Recommended citation: Zuckerman, J., Deason, J., Benami, E. (2013). "Targeting Proposition 39 to Help California's Schools Save Energy and Money." Climate Policy Initiative.
Published in Environmental Research Letters, 2018
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Curran, L.M., Cochrane, M., Venturieri, A., Swartos, A., Moraes Franco, R., Kneipp, J. (2018). "Oil Palm Land Conversion in Pará, Brazil, 2006-2014: Evaluating the 2010 Brazilian Sustainable Palm Oil Production Program." Environmental Research Letters. 13(3): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa270
Published in Nature Sustainability, 2018
Recommended citation: Hino, M.*, Benami, E.*, Brooks, N. (2018). "Machine Learning for Environmental Monitoring." Nature Sustainability. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-018-0142-9
Published in Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (Policy Brief), 2020
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Ho, D.E., McDonough, A. (2020). "Innovations for Environmental Compliance: Emerging Evidence and Opportunities." Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Policy Brief. https://siepr.stanford.edu/research/publications/innovations-environmental-compliance-emerging-evidence-and-opportunities
Published in ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2021
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Whitaker, R., Anderson, B., Ho, D.E., La, V., Lin, H. (2021). "The Distributive Effects of Risk Prediction in Environmental Compliance: Algorithmic Design, Environmental Justice, and Public Policy." Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445873
Published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, 2021
Recommended citation: Benami, E.*, Jin, Z.*, Carter, M.R., Kenduiywo, B., Ghosh, A., Hobbs, A.W., Hijmans, R., Lobell, D. (2021). "Uniting Advances in Remote Sensing, Crop Modeling, and Economics for Agricultural Risk Management." Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. *Joint first authors. https://rdcu.be/cdQpO
Published in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2021
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Carter, M.R. (2021). "Can Digital Technologies Reshape Rural Finance? Implications for Credit, Insurance, and Saving." Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13151
Published in Public Comment, 2023
Recommended citation: Rodolfa, K., Ho, D.E., Honigsberg, C., Benami, E. (2023). Public Comment on U.S. EPA's Draft National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives for Fiscal Years 2024-2027. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-HQ-OECA-2022-0981-0010
Published in Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience, 2024
Recommended citation: Fisher, C., Benami, E., Dolk, E., Baldwin, J., Becker-Reshef, I., Cuppari, R.I., Dalhaus, T., Hobbs, A., Leckebusch, G., Lacovara, P., Sobel, A.H., Tellman, B. (2024). "Bridging Science and Practice to En(in)sure Resilience in a Changing Climate." Journal of Catastrophe Risk and Resilience. https://doi.org/10.63024/dpc1-nhv2
Published in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2024
Recommended citation: Lin, C., Zhou, J., Yin, L., Bouabid, R., Mulla, D., Benami, E., Jin, Z. (2024). "Sub-National Scale Mapping of Individual Olive Trees Integrating Earth Observation and Deep Learning." ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2024.08.003
Published in Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 2025
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Ramanujan, R., Cecil, M. (2025). "Rain Check: Examining How Fine-Scale Precipitation Data Affects Payouts in a U.S. Weather Index Insurance Program." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/age.2025.10004
Published in Earth's Future, 2025
Recommended citation: Saunders, A., Tellman, B., Benami, E., Anchukaitis, K., Bennett, A., Hossain, S., Islam, A.K.M.S., Giezendanner, J. (2025). "Sensitivity to Data Choice Across Scales for Index-Based Flood Insurance." Earth's Future. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EF005966
Published in Agricultural Economics, 2025
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Carroll, A., Messer, K.D., Zhang, W., Cecil, M. (2025). "Seeding change: Growing insights from four programs to support climate-resilient soil and water conservation in US agriculture." Agricultural Economics 56(3): 457-473. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.70034
Published in CBEAR (Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Research) Behavioral Insight Brief, 2026
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Messer, K.D. (2026). "Enrollment Isn’t Impact: Designing Conservation Programs to Improve Contract Completion." CBEAR (Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Research) Behavioral Insight Brief.
Published in Public Comment (NASA Harvest / Acres), 2026
Recommended citation: Becker-Reshef, I., Whitcraft, A., Justice, C., Benami, E., Humber, M., Rejesus, R. (2026). Public Comment in Response to USDA Request for Information on Opportunities, Challenges, and Emerging Areas in Statistical Data, Analysis, and Research, with NASA Harvest/Acres. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/USDA-2026-0034-0218
Published in Journal of Development Economics, 2026
Recommended citation: Kirchner, E.*, Benami, E.*, Hobbs, A.W., Carter, M.R., Jin, Z. (2026). "Get in the Zone: The Risk-Adjusted Welfare Effects of Using Machine Learning vs. Administrative Borders to Define Agricultural Index Insurance Zones." Journal of Development Economics. *Joint first authors. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103658
Published in Working paper (in prep), 2026
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Becker-Reshef, I., Kirchner, E., Cecil, M.J., Chautems, M. (in prep). "Opportunities for EO to Help Derisk the Transition to Sustainable Agricultural Systems."
Published in Working paper (in prep), 2026
Recommended citation: Poghosyan, A., Benami, E., Brunelin, S., Ng, O. (in prep). "Measures and Mediators of Drought-Related Household Vulnerability to Poverty in Niger."
Published in NASA Harvest, 2026
Recommended citation: Cecil, M., Kirchner, E., Benami, E., Sahajpal, R., Franch, B., Kalecinski, N., Moletto-Lobos, I., Sadeh, Y., Justice, C. (2026). "How to Choose Between NASA Harvest Crop Yield Models." NASA Harvest. https://www.nasaharvest.org/news/how-to-choose-between-nasa-harvest-crop-yield-models
Published in Working paper (in prep), 2026
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Bovay, J., Zhang, W., Ta, C. (in prep). "How and Where Do Financial Incentives Promote Adoption of Conservation (Regenerative) Agricultural Practices? A $54 Million Experiment Among US Producers." [Preanalysis plan in prep for the AEA RCT Registry]
Published in Working paper (in prep), 2026
Recommended citation: Cecil, M.J., Benami, E., Carroll, A., Yu, J., Ifft, J. (in prep). "Rainfall Index Insurance Under Exceptional Drought: Payout Alignment and Producer Response."
Published in Working paper (in prep), 2026
Recommended citation: Carroll, A., Benami, E., Cecil, M.J. (in prep). "Forecasts and Adverse Selection in Index Insurance."
Published in Geospatial Impact Evaluation in Practice (eds. A. BenYishay & K. Singh) — accepted, in copy-editing, 2026
Recommended citation: D'Agostino, A., Usmani, F., Benami, E. (accepted, in copy-editing). "Causal Inference and Counterfactuals in Earth Observation Research." In Geospatial Impact Evaluation in Practice (eds. A. BenYishay & K. Singh).
Published in Geospatial Impact Evaluation in Practice (eds. A. BenYishay & K. Singh) — accepted, in copy-editing, 2026
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Cecil, M., Josephson, A., Maskell, G., Michler, J. (accepted, in copy-editing). "Integrating Weather and Land Cover Data into Geospatial Impact Evaluations." In Geospatial Impact Evaluation in Practice (eds. A. BenYishay & K. Singh).
Published in Geospatial Impact Evaluation in Practice (eds. A. BenYishay & K. Singh) — accepted, in copy-editing, 2026
Recommended citation: Michler, J.D., Josephson, A., Benami, E., Behrer, P., Cecil, M.J., Gourlay, S., Heilmayr, R., Kirchner, E., Maskell, G., Singh, K. (accepted, in copy-editing). "Treatment Geometry: Design Choices for Integrating Earth Observation and Socioeconomic Data." In Geospatial Impact Evaluation in Practice (eds. A. BenYishay & K. Singh).
Published in Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (conditionally accepted), 2026
Recommended citation: Benami, E., Jo, N., Ragnauth, B., Ho, D.E. (conditionally accepted). "Drop a Line, Submit on Time? Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial on the Effect of Pre-Deadline Reminders on Pollution Discharge Reporting." Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4355984