Interested in sustainable development and economic justice in Ghana? Listen to this podcast by ARE professor Francis Annan with professors Chris Udry and Rohini Pande
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BFI affiliates Kristine A. Madsen (Berkeley Public Health) and Sofia B. Villas-Boas’ (@AreBerkeley) conducted a comprehensive study on the impacts of taxes on sugar-sweetened beverage consumption.

Read more about it here: publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/res….

Check out Berkeley ARE job market candidate Pierre Biscaye's paper on the long term impacts of desert locusts on conflict featured at World Bank's Development Impact Blog!
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ARE professor Gonzalez-Navarro and Berkeley alumni Roman David Zarate will present a VoxDev Lit Review on Land Transport Infrastructure on December 5.

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

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Congrats to Professor Alexandra Hill on her recently accepted paper at AJAE 'Air Pollution, Weather, and Agricultural Worker Productivity'.
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Today we celebrated 2023 Berkeley ARE Alumnus of the Year Gershon Feder.

Jed Silver is a development economist .
JMP: how financial constraints and input market frictions each contribute to misallocation in Thai agriculture and shows how separately identifying these distortions is crucial for policy inference.

Web - Page: jedediahsilver.com

Leila Safavi : energy econ, IO, law & econ.
JMP: how the regulation of natural monopolies can distort vertically integrated firm’s input decisions in the context of natural gas pipelines leading to overbuilding of the pipeline network.
Web - Page: leila-safavi.com

Qiaomiao (Michelle) Chen : development, polit econ, and IO.
JMP: identifies corruption in public procurement in China and uses corruption investigations and counterfactuals derived from a structural model to discuss the policy implications.
Web - Page: are.berkeley.edu/candidate/qian…

Jesse Buchsbaum - energy & env econ, IO, applied econometrics. JMP: demonstrates that consumers are much more responsive to prices in the long than in the short run, which has important implications for policy & inducing behavioral change.
Web - Page: jesse-buchsbaum.com

Pierre Biscaye is a development economist at the intersection of labor & env economics.
His jobmarket : severe shocks to ag production lead to increase in the risk of violent conflict, with evidence that this results from a productivity trap.
Web - Page: pierrebiscaye.com

Daniel Agness
Daniel is a development economist focused on urbanization, agricultural transformation, and social networks in East Africa.
His job market paper studies the intergenerational impacts of a housing lottery in Ethiopia.
Web - Page: dagness.github.io

Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics is proud to introduce our 2023-2024 job market candidates, all seeking employment starting Summer 2024. Check out the six candidates HERE: are.berkeley.edu/job-candidates
We will go one by one in the next posts highlighting their papers and research interests!

ARE was very happy to have enjoyed Betty Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry's visit to the department this week! Busy and stimulating for everyone!

New Paper🚨
Why are some countries polluted? Leading existing explanations: environmental policy; factor endowments. Additional story here: institutions provide comparative advantage in clean industries.
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