Kyle C. Meng

3.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
32 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Kyle C. Meng is a scholar working on Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Kyle C. Meng has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Economics and Econometrics, 9 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 9 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Kyle C. Meng's work include Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (4 papers). Kyle C. Meng is often cited by papers focused on Climate Change Policy and Economics (9 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (6 papers) and Energy, Environment, Economic Growth (4 papers). Kyle C. Meng collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Monaco. Kyle C. Meng's co-authors include Solomon Hsiang, Mark A. Cane, Olivier Deschênes, Peng Zhang, Junjie Zhang, Thomas Fujiwara, Tom Vogl, Ashwin Rode, Ashley Larsen and Bruce E. Kendall and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kyle C. Meng

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate

2011 508 citations Solomon Hsiang, Kyle C. Meng et al. Nature profile →
Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation: Evidence from a half million chinese manufacturing plants

2017 352 citations Peng Zhang, Olivier Deschênes et al. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kyle C. Meng United States	16	575	453	403	225	180	32	1.7k
E. Somanathan India	18	629 1.1×	395 0.9×	439 1.1×	126 0.6×	146 0.8×	43	1.8k
Tamma Carleton United States	13	500 0.9×	276 0.6×	431 1.1×	349 1.6×	209 1.2×	22	1.8k
Daigee Shaw Taiwan	19	772 1.3×	539 1.2×	421 1.0×	137 0.6×	93 0.5×	50	2.0k
Mook Bangalore United States	14	301 0.5×	659 1.5×	572 1.4×	106 0.5×	344 1.9×	21	1.6k
Thomas K. Maycock United States	5	228 0.4×	252 0.6×	541 1.3×	175 0.8×	60 0.3×	5	1.6k
Ilona M. Otto Germany	18	310 0.5×	856 1.9×	1.1k 2.7×	233 1.0×	82 0.5×	47	2.7k
Harry F. Lee Hong Kong	29	272 0.5×	549 1.2×	975 2.4×	254 1.1×	83 0.5×	120	2.9k
Arabinda Mishra Nepal	21	189 0.3×	383 0.8×	432 1.1×	169 0.8×	91 0.5×	50	1.8k
G.K. Heilig Austria	16	337 0.6×	197 0.4×	928 2.3×	127 0.6×	266 1.5×	34	2.6k
Erika Weinthal United States	29	228 0.4×	907 2.0×	472 1.2×	52 0.2×	85 0.5×	80	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kyle C. Meng

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Carleton, Tamma, et al.. (2025). Quantifying the global climate feedback from energy-based adaptation. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3928–3928. 2 indexed citations

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Paige Weber, Olivier Deschênes, et al.. (2023). Well setbacks limit California’s oil supply with larger health benefits and employment losses than excise and carbon taxes. Nature Energy. 8(6). 562–564. 2 indexed citations

Deshmukh, Ranjit, Paige Weber, Olivier Deschênes, et al.. (2023). Equitable low-carbon transition pathways for California’s oil extraction. Nature Energy. 8(6). 597–609. 11 indexed citations

Meng, Kyle C., et al.. (2023). Decomposing Trends in US Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 4. 91–124. 4 indexed citations

Yang, Haozhe, Kyle C. Meng, & Sangwon Suh. (2023). Spatial distributions of stranded fossil asset costs and benefits from climate change mitigation. Environmental Research Communications. 5(6). 61001–61001.

McDonald, Gavin, Christopher Costello, Jennifer Bone, et al.. (2021). Reply to Swartz et al.: Challenges and opportunities for identifying forced labor using satellite-based fishing vessel monitoring. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(19). 4 indexed citations

Carleton, Tamma, et al.. (2020). Global evidence for ultraviolet radiation decreasing COVID-19 growth rates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(1). 107 indexed citations

McDonald, Gavin, Christopher Costello, Jennifer Bone, et al.. (2020). Satellites can reveal global extent of forced labor in the world’s fishing fleet. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(3). 52 indexed citations

Carleton, Tamma, et al.. (2020). Ultraviolet Radiation Decreases COVID-19 Growth Rates: Global Causal Estimates and Seasonal Implications. SSRN Electronic Journal. 12 indexed citations

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Meng, Kyle C., et al.. (2019). Do Property Rights Alleviate the Problem of the Commons? Evidence from California Groundwater Rights. National Bureau of Economic Research. 2 indexed citations

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Larsen, Ashley, Kyle C. Meng, & Bruce E. Kendall. (2019). Causal analysis in control–impact ecological studies with observational data. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 10(7). 924–934. 83 indexed citations

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Dingel, Jonathan I., Kyle C. Meng, & Solomon Hsiang. (2019). Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate. SSRN Electronic Journal. 7 indexed citations

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Deschênes, Olivier & Kyle C. Meng. (2018). Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics: Opportunities and Challenges. SSRN Electronic Journal. 4 indexed citations

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Meng, Kyle C.. (2017). Using a Free Permit Rule to Forecast the Marginal Abatement Cost of Proposed Climate Policy. American Economic Review. 107(3). 748–784. 49 indexed citations

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Zhang, Peng, Olivier Deschênes, Kyle C. Meng, & Junjie Zhang. (2017). Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation: Evidence from a half million chinese manufacturing plants. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 88. 1–17. 352 indexed citations breakdown →

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Meng, Kyle C., et al.. (2016). New England Cod Collapse and the Climate. PLoS ONE. 11(7). e0158487–e0158487. 19 indexed citations

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Hsiang, Solomon & Kyle C. Meng. (2015). Tropical Economics. American Economic Review. 105(5). 257–261. 44 indexed citations

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Norström, Albert V., Astrid Dannenberg, Manjana Milkoreit, et al.. (2014). Three necessary conditions for establishing effective Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene. Ecology and Society. 19(3). 51 indexed citations

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Hsiang, Solomon, Kyle C. Meng, & Mark A. Cane. (2011). Civil Conflicts are Associated with the Global Climate. RePEc: Research Papers in Economics. 2011. 10 indexed citations

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Hsiang, Solomon, Kyle C. Meng, & Mark A. Cane. (2011). Civil conflicts are associated with the global climate. Nature. 476(7361). 438–441. 508 indexed citations breakdown →

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