My CV (pdf) contains a comprehensive list of my articles (including links). See also my Google Scholar and SSRN pages.

Books

Aklin, Michaël, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, and Johannes Urpelainen. 2018. Escaping the Energy Poverty Trap: When and How Governments Power the Lives of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [buy] [reviews by Caitlin Robinson and Elizabeth Chatterjee]

Aklin, Michaël and Johannes Urpelainen. 2018. Renewables: The Politics of a Global Energy Transition. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. [buy] [reviews by Foreign Affairs, Varun Sivaram, Josh Busby, and Dustin Mulvaney]

Highlighted articles

Aklin, Michaël and Andreas Kern. 2021. The Side Effects of Central Bank Independence. American Journal of Political Science 65(4): 971-987. [link] [pre-print]

Aklin, Michaël and Matto Mildenberger. 2020. Prisoners of the Wrong Dilemma: Why Distributive Conflict, Not Collective Action, Characterizes the Politics of Climate Change. Global Environmental Politics 20(4): 4-27. [link] [pre-print] [featured in L’Actualité, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Magazine, New York Times]

Bayer, Patrick and Michaël Aklin. 2020. The European Union Emissions Trading System reduced CO2 emissions despite low prices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117(16): 8804-8812. [link (ungated)] [replication package] [featured in Ars Technica]

Rosenberg, Meital, Daniel Armanios, Michaël Aklin, and Paulina Jaramillo. 2019. Evidence of gender inequality in energy use from a mixed-methods study in India. Nature Sustainability 3: 110-118. [link] [replication package] [Winner of the 2021 Research Impact on Practice Award by the Academy of Management and Network for Business Sustainability] [featured in The Hindu, Times of India, Business Standard]

Aklin, Michaël, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, and Johannes Urpelainen. 2017. Does Basic Energy Access Generate Socioeconomic Benefits? A Field Experiment with Off-Grid Solar Power in India. Science Advances 3(5): e1602153. [link] [replication package] [featured in The Economist, Reuters, Economic Times, Business Standard, SciDev, Mashable/Yahoo, New Scientist]

Aklin, Michaël. 2016. Re-Exploring the Trade and Environment Nexus Through the Diffusion of Pollution. Environmental and Resource Economics 64(4): 663-682. [link] [replication package]

Aklin, Michaël, Chao-yo Cheng, Johannes Urpelainen, Karthik Ganesan, and Abishek Jain. 2016. Factors Affecting Household Satisfaction with Electricity Supply in Rural India. Nature Energy 1: 1-6. [link] [replication package]

Aklin, Michaël and Johannes Urpelainen. 2013. Political Competition, Path Dependence, and the Strategy of Sustainable Energy Transitions. American Journal of Political Science 57(3): 643-658. [link] [replication package]

Report highlights

Sharma, Shruti, Tom Moerenhout, Michaël Aklin, and Kavya Bajaj. 2021. How to Target LPG Subsidies in India: Evaluating policy options in Jharkhand. IISD/GSI Report.

Sharma, Shruti, Tom Moerenhout, and Michaël Aklin. 2020. How to Target Residential Electricity Subsidies in India. Winnipeg and Geneva: IISD. [featured in Prabhat Khabar, Amar Ujala, DW]

Aklin, Michaël. 2019. Global Progress in Electrification. ISEP Policy Brief 2019-2.

Aklin, Michaël, Patrick Bayer, S.P. Harish, and Johannes Urpelainen. 2017. Small off-Grid solar systems displace kerosene, but evidence for social and economic impact remain weak. ISEP Policy Brief 2017-1.

Jain, Abishek, Sunila Ray, Karthik Ganesan, Michaël Aklin, Chao-yo Cheng, and Johannes Urpelainen. 2015. Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity. New Delhi: Council on Energy, Environment and Water.

Media

Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien: les bienfaits de la loi sur le CO2 compensent ses carences, Le Temps, October 20, 2020.

Middle-Income Countries Big Winner from Off-Grid Energy. Who’s Next? Power for All, November 22, 2018.

Six Nuclear Reactors Worth of Off-Grid Renewable Energy Deployed in Last 10 Years – But Sub-Saharan Africa Lagging, Power for All, November 20, 2018.

How India’s impressive electrification compares with South Asian nations, The Print, September 13, 2018.

Off-grid power not a silver bullet for rural India, Swissinfo, August 16, 2017.

Off-grid solar power and the future of rural electrification in India, Ideas for India, July 17, 2017.

Can solar micro-grids deliver basic electricity access in Indian villages?, Ideas for India, April 17, 2015.

La Suisse doit reprendre l’initiative en Europe avec une politique énergétique proactive, Le Temps, October 31, 2014.

How (not) to talk about climate change, Washington Post (Monkey Cage), May 22, 2014.