Nathaly Rivera is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics. She has specialized in environmental and natural resource economics, particularly in extractive economies, energy and environmental pollution.
Her research areas include two main lines: the study of the determinants and consequences of air pollution, including the evaluation of environmental policy and the analysis of the local impacts of extractive industries.
Nathaly has worked as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, is currently a research associate of the research group in Environmental Studies, Natural Resources and Applied Economics (REES) at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia), and a member of the board of directors of the Latin American Association of Environmental Economists (LAERE). He received his PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics from Michigan State University, and a Master’s degree in Regional Economics from Universidad Católica del Norte.
Environmental and natural resources economics.
Publicaciones en Revistas con Comité Editorial
- 2024 / The health benefits of solar power generation: Evidence from Chile / JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT / - No. 102999
- 2023 / Radical Reorganization of Environmental Policy: Contemporaneous Evidence from Brazil / LATIN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES
- 2023 / Association between long-term air pollution exposure and COVID-19 mortality in Latin America / PLoS One / - No. 1
- 2022 / Coal-to-gas fuel switching and its effects on housing prices / ENERGY ECONOMICS
- 2022 / Oil, politics, and “Corrupt Bastards” / JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
- 2021 / Air quality warnings and temporary driving bans: Evidence from air pollution, car trips, and mass-transit ridership in Santiago / JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
- 2020 / Is Mining an Environmental Disamenity? Evidence from Resource Extraction Site Openings / ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS / - No. 3
- 2019 / Spatial aggregation bias in implicit prices of environmental amenities / Economics Bulletin / - No. 2
- 2017 / Mineral taxes and the local public goods provision in mining communities / RESOURCES POLICY
- 2016 / Disaggregation of sectors in social accounting matrices using a customized Wolsky method: a comment on its estimation bias / APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS / - No. 11
Research Monographs
- 2024 / Air Pollution in the Global South: An Overview of Its Sources and Impacts / - No. 561
- 2024 / Wood-Burning Restrictions and Indoor Air Pollution:The Case of Air Quality Warnings in Southern Chile
- 2022 / Digging Deep: Resource Exploitation and Higher Education
- 2022 / The Health Benefits of Solar Power Generation: Evidence from Chile
- 2022 / Cash Transfers and Voter Turnout
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