Ireri Hernandez Carballo
Postdoctoral Researcher
Stanford University
RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment
I am a Postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and an affiliate at the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE).
My research sits at the intersection of international political economy, energy politics, and inequality. I study the political economy of the energy transition: how its costs and benefits are distributed, how people and industries understand and respond to its consequences, and what drives attitutes toward energy and climate policies. I also examine how shocks in global energy markets reshape public support for energy policy and international cooperation. I address these topics empirically using advanced quasi-experimental methods, survey experiments, and large geocoded datasets.
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- Political Economy
- Environmental and Energy Policy
- Climate and Energy Transition
- Health
- Inequality
PhD in Public Policy, 2025
Bocconi University
MSc in Economics, 2018
Mannheim University
BA in Economics, 2015
Stanford University
Publications
Ongoing Research
Working Papers:
The impact of green policies on local economic performance: Evidence from the EU ETS, with Mallarino, G. M., and Percoco, M. Revise and Resubmit at Nature Sustainability.
Climate Content in the News, Social Media, and Interpersonal Discussions Reduces Social Misperceptions About Climate Concern, with Sisco, M. R., and Constantino, S. Revise and Resubmit.
Naturalization and voting behavior as a response to anti-immigrant rhetoric. Evidence from immigrants in the U.S. with Soler Lopez, J. Under submission.
Distributive and Procedural Design of Community Benefit Agreements Shape Stated Support for Large-Scale Solar Siting. With Caggiano, H., De Roche, G., Mildenberger, M., Hoen, B., Nilson, R., Wu, G., and Constantino, S.
Economic hardship weakens European support for hard power, but not humanitarian aid to Ukraine, with Voeten, E., and De Vries, C. E.
Energy costs and the political economy of the energy transition: Evidence from natural gas and electricity prices in the EU.
Workers’ perceptions of the Energy Transition. A survey experiment in the US and Italy, with Bosetti, V., Ladreit, C., and Weber, E. Under preparation.
Work in Progress:
- Energy Justice Gaps in Community Benefit Agreements Across Infrastructure Sectors. With Laura O’Dogherty, Yvonne Liang, Holly Caggiano, Tarun Khanna, and Sara Constantino.
- Cross-Language Variation in Large Language Model Responses on Climate and Energy Policy. Ongoing collaborative project.
- Air pollution and domestic violence in Mexico City with Luis Sarmiento