Antonio M. Bento

About

Antonio M. Bento is a faculty member at USC Price, involved in research and teaching related to public policy, urban planning, and real estate development. His work encompasses a broad range of topics including environmental sustainability, health policy, and social innovation, contributing to the development of policies and strategies that address urban growth, sustainability, and community well-being. Bento's expertise supports the university's mission to advance knowledge and practice in public policy and urban development, fostering innovative solutions to complex societal challenges.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Economics
• Business
• Environmental science
• Bioinformatics
• Ecology
• Medicine
• Engineering
• Econometrics
• Biology

Selected publications

• Disease-economy trade-offs under alternative epidemic control strategies

  Nature Communications · 2022 · 36 citations

  Public policy and academic debates regarding pandemic control strategies note disease-economy trade-offs, often prioritizing one outcome over the other. Using a calibrated, coupled epi-economic model of individual behavior embedded within the broader economy during a novel epidemic, we show that targeted isolation strategies can avert up to 91% of economic losses relative to voluntary isolation strategies. Unlike widely-used blanket lockdowns, economic savings of targeted isolation do not impose…

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• A unifying approach to measuring climate change impacts and adaptation

  Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · 2023 · 30 citations

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  We develop a unifying approach to estimating climate impacts and adaptation, and apply it to study the impact of climate change on local air pollution. Economic agents are usually constrained when responding to daily weather shocks, but may adjust to long-run climatic changes. By simultaneously exploiting variation in weather and climate, we identify both the short- and long-run impacts on economic outcomes, and measure adaptation directly as the difference between those responses. As a result,…

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• Avoiding Traffic Congestion Externalities? The Value of Urgency

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2020 · 24 citations

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• A Unifying Approach to Measuring Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation

  National Bureau of Economic Research · 2020-05-01 · 22 citations

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  We develop a unifying approach to estimating climate impacts and adaptation, and apply it to study the impact of climate change on local air pollution. Economic agents are usually constrained when responding to daily weather shocks, but may adjust to long-run climatic changes. By simultaneously exploiting variation in weather and climate, we identify both the short-and long-run impacts on economic outcomes, and measure adaptation directly as the difference between those responses. As a result, w…

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• Decarbonization and electricity price vulnerability

  Nature Sustainability · 2025-01-07 · 12 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Katja Vinha

  102 shared

• Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

  Yale University

  102 shared

• Maureen Cropper

  Resources For The Future

  102 shared

• Kevin Roth

  The University of Texas at Austin

  56 shared

• Kenneth Gillingham

  31 shared

• Noah Miller

  25 shared

• Ravi Kanbur

  20 shared

• Daniel Kaffine

  University of Colorado Boulder

  19 shared

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