Very happy that this new paper "Irrigation infrastructure and satellite-measured land cultivation impacts: Evidence from the Senegal river valley" is now forthcoming at Journal of Development Economics! https://t.co/iWJra8Bk9D

Exciting news from Berkeley ARE! 🎉Abdoulaye Cisse will be joining the @WorldBank as a Research Economist starting in 2026, following an academic year as a Visiting Scholar at @Princeton. Congratulations, Abdoulaye! https://t.co/l1NnvLFSwv #Econwitter

Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond? Last month on VoxDev, @MarshallBBurke, @FergJoel, Solomon Hsiang @stanforddoerr & @tedmiguel @UCBerkeley explored the relationship between conflict and climate change & what this means for policy:

Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond? Last week on VoxDev, @MarshallBBurke, @FergJoel, Solomon Hsiang @stanforddoerr & @tedmiguel @UCBerkeley explored the relationship between conflict and climate change & what this means for policy:

🆕 Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond? Today on VoxDev, @MarshallBBurke, @FergJoel, Solomon Hsiang @stanforddoerr & @tedmiguel @UCBerkeley explore the relationship between conflict and climate change & what this means for policy:

Room ISEC 136:" Innovation, technology, and productivity in Agriculture" chaired by Aysen Tanyeri, Northeastern University @FergJoel Irrigation in Senegal's river valley increased cultivation rate during both dry and rainy season with effects concentrated in the last two decades

The amount of research linking climate + conflict has roughly doubled in the last decade. @tedmiguel, @MarshallBBurke, @FergJoel, & Solomon Hsiang carry out a meta-analysis, confirming that extreme climate is associated with a higher risk of conflict around the world:

Really glad this is out there! If you’re doing a lit review on this topic, or just want to get a feel for what’s out there quickly, take a look at the appendix. We have a huge table summarizing a ton of papers that explore mechanisms linking climate and conflict

AERE@OSWEET returns * this Friday * 10/11 at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific) with 3 terrific talks on agriculture! Presenters: ✨ Joel Ferguson (Stanford, @FergJoel) ✨ Na Zhang (UIUC) ✨ Micah Cameron Harp (Kansas State) Register & learn more: https://t.co/gXmWyGDcrZ

Don’t miss the #SPIAFest pre-conference workshop at @icae2024 with presentations of impact evidence from the 2019-2024 SPIA portfolio 📑 Agenda now available online: https://t.co/9fnggORQsE Join us there! @CGIAR @IAES_CGIAR

my new short paper "Is the World Running Out of Fresh Water?" with Tamma Carleton and @LeviGCrews is out today in AEA P&P. https://t.co/uN3ACbOe4d (ungated version here: https://t.co/rHiYWZPJBu) thanks to @AdrienBilal for a great discussion of it as well.

Does wealth reduce the impact of weather shocks on the likelihood of civil conflict? @MarshallBBurke, Sol Hsiang, @tedmiguel and I find an interesting answer: it depends! National wealth is a much stronger moderator than local wealth. New AEA P&P out today https://t.co/9vTWOCcMIe

So happy to have celebrated the hooding of this year's ARE PhDs! From left to right: Leila Safavi, Qianmiao Chen, Joel Ferguson, Daniel Agness and Jed Silver. Congratulations!!!! @FergJoel @QianmiaoC @danagness @jedediahsilver @AreBerkeley @NatureAtCal

📢Make sure to register for #SPIAFest2024 before early-bird registration closes on 15 May! More info👇 https://t.co/jqOjtGFcUz

Extra Extra! EEE Grad Camp is back! August 19-23. Berkeley. Lineup includes Meredith Fowlie, Joe Shapiro, Marshall Burke…. more TBA. Lectures! Friendly environment! Sunshine! Egg timers! New friends and coauthors! Application form here [Deadline 4/20]:

Thanks @chelseaeharvey for this really great piece on the DOS imagery preservation effort! It’s a ton of fun working with the awesome team profiled in the article and I’m really excited to see what we can do with the newly digitized archive

Applications are open for the 2024 GAIN program! Information sharing, mentoring, and financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics and related fields. ➡️ Apply here: https://t.co/atUJ2TqOvF 🗓️ Deadline: March 11th Please share widely!

Tomorrow I’m giving a webinar with @GAIN_Network_ on using satellite imagery for economics research and per usual I’m making the slides publicly available on my website. I’ll go over satellite imagery basics, workflow, applications, and research examples https://t.co/fiO85FaHl1

🚀JMP alert🚀 My paper w @FergJoel applies machine learning to 1970s-80s satellite imagery to revisit one of the 🇨🇳 Chinese Miracle's first major reforms, the Household Responsibility System—the end of collective socialist agriculture. What we found was quite surprising. 🧵

Today I’m leading a methods workshop @AreBerkeley on shift share designs and the slides are up on my website! I go over three different paths to identification and the implications of each https://t.co/85meuZnIHD