Nikolai Cook

The main focus of my research is applied micro to the field of environmental economics. Specifically, the effects of a changing climate and pollution levels on economic productivity and our available adaptations. My focus is on the effects of the environment in the Canadian context. I am also active in research transparency, which is the study of how academic research is conducted and the implications of researchers’ decisions. My research has been published in leading economics journals including the American Economic Review and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.

I am willing to supervise graduate students in the areas of environmental economics, education economics, research transparency, and experimental economics. Please contact me for more information.

Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?
Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics, 2024
(with Abel Brodeur, Jonathan Hartley, and Anthony Heyes)

Increasing Student Access Through Aid:
Differences in Difference-in-Differences Estimates
Economics Letters, 2024

P-Hacking, Data Type and Data-Sharing Policy
The Economic Journal, 2024
(with Abel Brodeur and Carina Neisser)

Clean Air and Cognitive Productivity: Effect and Adaptation
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2023
(with Anthony Heyes and Nicholas Rivers)

Pollution Pictures: Psychological Exposure to Pollution Impacts Worker Productivity in a Large-scale Field Experiment
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2022
(with Anthony Heyes)

On the Effects of COVID-19 Safer-at-Home Policies on Social Distancing, Car Crashes and Pollution Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021
(with Abel Brodeur and Taylor Wright)

Methods Matter: p-Hacking and Publication Bias in Causal Analysis in Economics
American Economic Review, 2020
(with Abel Brodeur and Anthony Heyes)

Brain Freeze: Outdoor Cold and Indoor Cognitive Productivity
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2020
(with Anthony Heyes)

A Proposed Specification Check for p-Hacking
AEA Papers & Proceedings, 2020
(with Abel Brodeur and Anthony Heyes)