G-FEED

Thanks in large part to the authors of G-FEED, our knowledge of the link between climatic variables and rates of crime and conflict is exten...

Adam Sobel  and I have a new paper on  Potentially Extreme Population Displacement and Concentration in the Tropics Under Non-Extreme Warmi...

Marshall and I think a lot about the economics of violence, so when the debate about gun control started on House of Cards, I started consi...

I have a new working paper  out reviewing various methods, models, and assumptions used in the econometrics literature to quantify the impac...

We're hiring! The   Global Policy Lab   at  UC Berkeley  is now hiring multiple positions for a major research project at the nexus...

As our blog wakes up from an apparent winter hibernation, I’ve been thinking about some predictions for the spring that came out last fall....

I was rooting around in my hard-drive for a review article when I tripped over this old comment  that Marshall, Ted and I drafted a while ba...

As the Heisman Trophy voters showed again, it is super easy to overfit a model. Sure, the SEC is good at playing football. But that doesn’t...

Everyone likes fresh air, sunshine, and pleasant temperatures. But how much do we like these things? And how much would we be willing to pa...

The other day Marshall and Sol took on Bjorn Lomborg for ignoring the benefits of curbing greenhouse gas emissions.  Indeed.  But Bjorn, am...