Chris Barrett

100% agree. As a veteran and the father and uncle of active duty service members I’m horrified. Recruiting is already hard and it’s about to get far more challenging. My career Marine father - decorated combat vet from WWII, Korea and Vietnam, but frequent GOP voter - must be spinning in his grave.

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place.

psantanna.com/did-resources

There, you will find
- 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course
- Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD
- My DiD R/Stata/Python packages
- Some DiD checklists
- DiD materials from my friends

Enjoy!

Future food prices will become less sensitive to agricultural market prices and mitigation costs - Nature Food The future of food prices is uncertain yet key for food security and climate mitigation policies. This study estimates future food prices for 136 countries and 11 distinct food groups, showing that fu...

This is an invited News & Views, teasing out a key implication of Chen et al's nice new analysis, also newly out in @naturefood.bsky.social: 2/2 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Confronting the modern food price dilemma - Nature Food As agrifood systems contribute considerably to global greenhouse gas emissions, policies targeting greenhouse gas reductions must navigate the distributional and dynamic implications of induced food p...

New in @naturefood.bsky.social: Jing Yi discuss the modern food price dilemma arising from the distributional and dynamic implications of policy instruments intended to address agrifood systems' environmental impacts. ... 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

How do economic and social shocks influence child marriage for boys and girls? Abigail Jordan Stocker's JMP analysis reveals that negative income shocks reduce child marriage rates for both boys and girls www.econthatmatters.com/2024/12/how-...
#EconSky #JMP

New in @pnas.org: Molly Doruska et al. link a microeconomic agricultural household model with a dynamic model of schistosomiasis disease ecology all calibrated with field data from northern Senegal. Helps explain poverty-disease traps + a promising method to escape. www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10....

I'm very excited to join the Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social in January. And we're hiring pre-doc fellows in development economics! Great 1–2 year PhD preparation. Please share widely! cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

Come work with us! I’ve been learning so much, the environment is super supportive, and the people are genuinely kind. If you have any questions about the program, feel free to DM me!

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Cornell Collaborative for International Development Economics Research (CIDER), Cornell University CIDER: The Cornell Collaborative for International Development Economics Research (CIDER) is a new cross-campus venture at Cornell University encompassing 23 faculty from multiple units across the Cor...

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CIDER development economics pre-doc fellows program now accepting applications for a July 2025 start date. Come work with me, Jenny Aker, John Hoddinott, Martina Occelli, Heather Schofield, Joanna Upton, @johanneshaushofer.com, and more cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

Shared costs, Shared Gains: Experimental Evidence from Female Export Consortia This is our eighth blog post for our Job Market Paper Series blog for 2024-2025. Florian Anselm Munch is a postdoc at the London School of Economics. His research focuses on technology adoption and…

By studying female-led firms, @florianmuench.bsky.social JMP sheds light on how “small firms in low-and middle-income countries can be incentivized to and benefit from sharing the fixed costs of export” econthatmatters.com/2024/12/shar... #EconSky #JMP #JMPblog

Virtual info session 12/12 9-10 USEST. Register and get more details on eligibility, etc. business.cornell.edu/centers/cide... Great opportunity to join a terrific network of scholars of and in the Global South (business.cornell.edu/centers/cide...). #ECONSKY 2/2

RFP out for 2025 Structural Transformation of Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STARS) Fellowship, Cornell in collaboration with
WorldBank DECRG, @cgdev.org, PEP, and IICA. Research mentorship for early career (PhD not before 2019) economists working on development topics. 1/2

Climate change exacerbates the environmental impacts of agriculture Agriculture’s global environmental impacts are widely expected to continue expanding, driven by population and economic growth and dietary changes. This Review highlights climate change as an addition...

Corrected link to underlying Science paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very pleased to see this @VoxDev piece online. We summarize Yang et al (Science 2024) + related papers. Interplay b/n ag, climate & env't is fundamental to sustainably improving living standards, especially - but not only - in low-income agrarian societies. voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Thanks for doing this! Please add me to the list. Chris Barrett

Great predoc opportunity at Cornell with Chris Barrett, Daniela Scur, Heather Schofield, Joanna Upton, John Hoddinott, Jenny Aker, and others: They are launching a pre-doc program in development economics! (Can petition for visa support if needed.) cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

Awesome to see this project generating results. And wow, what results!👏👍

Congrats! Very well deserved.