Danae Hernández-Cortés
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Danae Hernandez-Cortes is an Assistant Professor at the School of Sustainability and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society in Arizona State University. Her research studies the distributional consequences of environmental policy and environmental justice. Her work uses applied causal inference methods with remote sensing techniques and atmospheric transport models to analyze the outcomes of different environmental policies in Latin America and the United States. Professor Hernandez-Cortes is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at emLab in the University of California, Santa Barbara. Before joining ASU, she obtained her Ph.D. in Economics with an emphasis on environmental science at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a B.A. in Economics from CIDE, Mexico City.
Recent work by Danae Hernández-Cortés
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How developing the renewable energy sector increased employment in Brazil
The development of the wind energy sector in Brazil improved employment in recipient municipalities—with workers under the age of 40 and those without high school degrees benefitting the most.
Published 30.07.25