Identifying the effect of climate on societies is central to understanding historical economic
development, designing modern policies that react to climatic events, and managing future …

We study the long-run effects of one of the most ambitious regional development programs
in US history: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Using as controls authorities that were …

We study the effects of the adoption of new agricultural technologies on structural
transformation. To guide empirical work, we present a simple model where the effect of …

Worsening environmental conditions threaten to undermine progress in reducing rural
poverty. Little is known, however, about the prospects for farmer adaptations to mitigate this …

This paper analyzes the effect of China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001
on structural transformation at the local level, exploiting cross-sectional variation in tariff …

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 …

To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-
driven agricultural productivity shocks? I estimate that temperature-driven reductions in the …

The impact of resource management on natural capital value depends on processes that
affect resource stocks over space and time. We develop an integrated assessment modeling …

How do shocks to agricultural productivity affect the allocation of labor across sectors of the
economy? To answer this, I use data from rural India to show that exogenous increases in …

We estimate how farmers adapted to a water restriction imposed through local governance.
The restriction imposed a uniform quota on water use with a 5-year allocation and allowed …