Just posted updated version of our DID textbook! We now have drafts of all chapters, including the one on general designs! Now you can tell your friends still on X that they are DID-outdated :-) Happy easter for those of you that celebrate it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Hey BSKY friends! We will be heading out to conduct on-farm interviews with farmers this summer. Any recommendations on tablets/software for fieldwork you've used lately? Bonus points if they can log GPS coordinates!
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Open call for papers, Risk and Risk Management in the Agricultural Economy. Conference to be held in Cambridge, MA on November 21, 2025. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on August 12, 2025. More information: https://www.nber.org/calls-papers-and-proposals/risk-and-risk-management-agricultural-economy
The US Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) website is now offline. Since 1985, FEWS NET has provided assessments of the location and severity of food crises. These assessments are used by gov and non-government humanitarian organizations across the world to allocate aid.
static.fews.net
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Hello AERE members, please help us make our org better by filling out the survey and have the possibility to win some swag. Also let us know if you’d like to be involved in strategic planning. #EconSky
🔗 Want the full details? Check out the paper here ⬇️
doi.org/10.1111/ajae... 10/10
⚠️ Policy takeaway: While fertilizer subsidies are essential, high temperatures can undermine their effectiveness, shifting input priorities. Future policies should support broader adaptation strategies, including pest management. 9/10
🧑🌾 The findings indicate that both current and prior heat events influence how farmers allocate resources and adapt. This points to a need for policy approaches that support these adjustments. 8/10
For individual crops, heat impacts vary. Millet production, for example, declines under heat, while cowpea seems more resilient. Such varied responses suggest room for climate-focused crop choices. 7/10
A major adaptation response: mixed cropping. 🌾High temps lead farmers to diversify crops, adding resilience to their systems, though it might reduce potential yields. 6/10
🌱 Extreme heat shifts farmers' input use. Facing high temps, farmers move from yield-enhancing inputs, like fertilizers, to protective measures, like pesticides. They also rely more on hired labor after high-temp seasons.
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🔍 Key finding: high temps reduce crop yields but don’t lower the overall value of agricultural output. Why? Farmers adapt by expanding the cultivated area, compensating for yield losses. 4/10
📊 Here’s a figure showing the mean temperatures during the growing season in Nigeria from 1983 to 2015 and present an upward trend from 1990 onwards. 3/10
Using data from the Nigeria LSMS-ISA (2010-2015), we investigate how current and past heat exposure impacts TFP, crop yields, cultivated areas, and input use. We combine farm data with high-res satellite temperature records. 2/10
Excited to share our work that just got published in
the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. We examine how extreme heat affects farm-level #agricultural productivity and #adaptation strategies in Nigeria. Here’s a look at what we found ⬇️ (A short thread) 1/10
Long-overdue on 2024 recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter #econsky My favorite part of social media + it's exciting to highlight a year's worth of exciting researchers. (Given cross-platform posting, won't link to the original 🧵s but direct to researcher sites)
The 22nd Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC) will be held at UIUC March 28–29, 2025. Co-hosted by Ag Econ and Econ. Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social keynote. Always one of my favorite conferences.
Deadline for submissions Jan 8, 2025.
Another edition of "All new work is elaborating on the old": an article in the latest QJE generates TFP estimates for England over six centuries & confirms the Nef Thesis of 1934. Before Crafts, before Wrigley, Nef had said most of it 90 years ago
So excited that the BREAD Asia Conference on Development Economics at NUS Singapore is starting in a few minutes! Please follow the livestream at breadasia2024.com! Program is below, times are in Singapore standard time.
Shout out to @tradecosts.bsky.social and co-authors for their fascinating work on ‘How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today’ via @voxdev.bsky.social
voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Excited to share with you all the National Food Museum 🥗🏛️ — a visionary project that will explore food in all its dimensions. Honored to serve on the museum's Advisory Council.
Check out the museums' website for additional information!
www.nationalfoodmuseum.org
This year we posted 26 #econjmp posts by PhD students on the market. Here is the list of all of them in case you missed any, plus a link to the @econthatmatters.bsky.social series which has some more - great to see all the exciting work in development blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Recently accepted in #JEEM:
'Money versus procedures – Evidence from an energy efficiency assistance program' by Bettina Chlond, Timo Goeschl, Martin Kesternich. #econsky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I shared some insights on chocolate markets and consumption amid the skyrocketing prices of cacao on @npr.org @marketplaceapm.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #EconSky
You can listen here ⬇️
www.marketplace.org/2024/12/17/c...
🏫When the school year competes with farm work, it becomes a barrier to educating rural children. 🧑🌾 But changing the school calendar can help!
A summary of research thus far, including my new collaboration in #Madagascar, on the @ifpri.org blog: on.cgiar.org/3P5HNjn
@cgiar.org #FCMinitiative
