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The UC Berkeley Dev family reunited today at #neudc2023 Harvard CID ! GO BEARS!!🐻 Miguel Ortiz Michelle (Qianmiao) Chen Cristóbal Otero Susanna Berkouwer Joel Ferguson @david_wqh Nick Swanson Eleanor Wiseman Jed Silver 🟣 Maximiliano Lauletta and more not in the picture Stephanie Bonds Daniel Agness Shreya Chandra

Today I’m leading a methods workshop Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics 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 joelferg.github.io/blog/shift_sha…

🚀JMP alert🚀 My paper w Joel Ferguson 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. 🧵

Tomorrow I’m giving a webinar with Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) 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 joelferg.github.io/blog/GAIN%20GS…

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: gain-network.net/participants 🗓️ Deadline: March 11th Please share widely!

Thanks Chelsea Harvey 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

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]: auffhammer.com/summer-school

📢Make sure to register for #SPIAFest2024 before early-bird registration closes on 15 May! More info👇 iaes.cgiar.org/spia/events/sp…

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!!!! Joel Ferguson Michelle (Qianmiao) Chen Daniel Agness Jed Silver 🟣 Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources

Does wealth reduce the impact of weather shocks on the likelihood of civil conflict? Marshall Burke, 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 aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

my new short paper "Is the World Running Out of Fresh Water?" with Tamma Carleton and Levi Crews is out today in AEA P&P. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… (ungated version here: ishannath.com/research) thanks to Adrien Bilal for a great discussion of it as well.

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: bit.ly/49iAtsA Join us there! CGIAR CGIAR Independent Advisory and Evaluation Service

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

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

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

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

🆕 Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond? Today on VoxDev, Marshall Burke, Joel Ferguson, Solomon Hsiang Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability & @tedmiguel UC Berkeley explore the relationship between conflict and climate change & what this means for policy: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond? Last week on VoxDev, Marshall Burke, Joel Ferguson, Solomon Hsiang Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability & @tedmiguel UC Berkeley explored the relationship between conflict and climate change & what this means for policy: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond? Last month on VoxDev, Marshall Burke, Joel Ferguson, Solomon Hsiang Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability & @tedmiguel UC Berkeley explored the relationship between conflict and climate change & what this means for policy: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

Exciting news from Berkeley ARE! 🎉Abdoulaye Cisse will be joining the World Bank as a Research Economist starting in 2026, following an academic year as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University. Congratulations, Abdoulaye! acisse.com #Econwitter