We study the long-term impact of large-scale irrigation infrastructure on the composition of
local economic activity in India. Our analysis uses high-resolution spatial data covering …

Industrial policy prioritizes growth in specific sectors. Yet there is little agreement about how
to target sectors in practice, and many argue that governments cannot pick winners. This …

Technological change in production processes with gendered division of labor across tasks,
such as agriculture, can have a differential impact on women's and men's labor. Using …

Structural transformation in most currently developing countries takes the form of a rapid rise
in services but limited industrialization. In this paper, we propose a new methodology to …

We study the effect of information on technology adoption and productivity in agriculture. Our
empirical strategy exploits the expansion of the mobile phone network in previously …

Land market incompleteness is argued to have pervasive effects in Sub-Saharan Africa,
including on agricultural efficiency, equity, and structural transformation. Yet experimental …

The rising rate of chronic disease is a leading driver of the global disease burden. Yet, its
determinants are not fully understood. Exploiting the Green Revolution and its expansion in …

This paper describes an emerging literature in economics that aims to merge macro issues
of structural change and growth with micro data and analysis. This literature focuses on a set …

Rural labour markets in Africa are frequently characterised by underemployment, with
farmers unable to fully deploy throughout the year one of their most important assets—their …

Human actions can alter the regional climate, particularly via land use. We analyze the Great
Plains Shelterbelt, a large-scale forestation program in the 1930s across the US Midwest …