Research
Journal articles
Gus Greenstein. 2025. Staff (Mis)allocation in Public Agencies: Evidence from Protected Area Management in Brazil. Public Management Review.
- ISA Environmental Studies Section Graduate Student Paper Award, 2023
Gus Greenstein. 2024. How Personnel Allocation Affects Performance: Evidence from Brazil’s Federal Protected Areas Agency. Public Administration 102(3): 860-896.
Gus Greenstein. 2022. The Influence of Alternative Development Finance on the World Bank's Safeguards Regime. Global Environmental Politics 22(3): 171–93.
Ryan Hledik and Gus Greenstein. 2016. The Distributional Impacts of Residential Demand Charges. The Electricity Journal 29(6): 33–41.
Book chapters
Gus Greenstein and Dan Honig. 2024. Managing Aid Personnel. The Elgar Handbook of Aid and Development. Eds: Raj Desai, Shanta Devarajan, and Jennifer Tobin.
Working papers
Gus Greenstein and Mirko Heinzel. Bureaucratic Politics and Aid Allocation: Evidence from USAID. (Revise & resubmit at Regulation & Governance) [Available on request]
Gus Greenstein. Bureaucratic Autonomy in Environmental Governance.
In progress
Design Foundations of Environmental Policy Durability: Evidence From Forest Regulations in Australia, Brazil, British Columbia, Indonesia, and New Zealand. With Ben Cashore, Virgínia Totti Guimarães, Peter Kanowski, Paula Máximo, Harry Nelson, Levi Robson, Depi Susilawati, and Zou Yutong. [Very early draft available on request]
Bureaucratic Quality and Environmental Outcomes: A Global Analysis. With Diego Salazar Morales.
Selected policy reports and other writing
Gus Greenstein. 2025. Reallocating staff can help reduce Amazon deforestation in Brazil. LSE Business Review.
Austin Meyer and Gus Greenstein. 2017. Fork in the River. Roads and Kingdoms and Slate.
World Bank. 2022. Enhancing the Effectiveness of the World Bank’s Global Footprint. Independent Evaluation Group. Washington, DC: World Bank.