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New article American Journal of Agricultural Economics Farm-level agricultural productivity and adaptation to extreme heat onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Diffusion of New Technologies,” by Kalyani (aakash kalyani), Bloom (Nick Bloom), Carvalho (Marcela Carvalho), Hassan (Tarek Hassan), Lerner, and Tahoun (Tahoun) doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

Dr. Alexis Villacis received a Fulbright Fellowship from the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and U.S. Dept of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. He will spend a month this summer at the Universidad de Especialidades Espiritu Santo.

Come work with us and our great undergraduates! AEDE at Ohio State is hiring a full-time lecturer in agribusiness. Minimum requirement is earned Master’s degree in related fields. Review of applicants begins on March 17. See details and apply here: osujoblinks.com/od5k

Hey Twitter 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! Help me RT!

1/ We have a paper out in PNASNews with Yurou He, Bob Chambers (Maryland) & David Lobell (Stanford FSE) where we quantify the public R&D investment required to offset the emerging climate-induced slowdown of US agricultural productivity. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Beast & Duflo, Forthcoming 2026 in QJE!

New paper out with Michelangelo Landgrave and Robert Anstett (who is on the job market!) We fielded an experiment where we manipulated whether young adults watched either conservative or liberal TikTok influencers for a week. sph.uth.edu/news/story/new…

#LatePost: An interview for NPR where I shared some insights on chocolate prices and consumption during the 2025 Easter season.

Congratulations to Alexis Vllacis on being named to the inaugural cohort of the Engaged Scholars Academy engage.osu.edu/2025-2026-enga…

#Fulbright Alexis H. Villacis, assistant professor AEDE at Ohio State Ohio State - CFAES, has been awarded a 2025-2026 Fulbright U.S. Specialist Award to research “The Economics of Cacao Production in Ecuador” based at Universidad Espíritu Santo. The Fulbright Program #FulbrightEcuador Ohio State oia.osu.edu/news/2025/05/2…

The State of Development Journals 2025: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, Open Access, and What’s New blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

1/ 🚀Big Update‼️ Last year we published Nature Cities, a systematic global analysis of how countries are organized around multiple urban centres. That geospatial dataset is very complex. So we just launched the City-Region Explorer🔎... an easy to use platform for analysis. 🧵

AEDE Assistant Professor Alexis H. Villacis with researchers from Arizona, New Mexico, and Puerto Rico, are conducting a study of the coffee value chains in Puerto Rico, from bean to cup, sponsored by the USDA NIFA.