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Monday, May 8, 2017

Chat with Nature editor Michael White about publishing, interdisciplinary research, and the state of climate economics

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I recently had a long discussion with  Dr. Michael White  (the editor at Nature who handles climate science and economics) about a whole bun...
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Saturday, May 6, 2017

Are the curious trends in despair and diets related?

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There’s a new working paper out by Anne Case and Angus Deaton on one of the most curious (and saddest) trends in America ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Better than the real thing

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Why read a stack of research papers when you can watch a 3 min cartoon? Thanks to Eric Roston of Bloomberg for putting this together.
Saturday, February 18, 2017

Targeting poverty with satellites

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[This post is co-authored with Matt Davis , co-author and RA extraordinaire...] About six months ago, our Stanford SustainLab crew had...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Some scintillating satellite studies

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We’ve had a couple of papers come out that might be of interest to readers of the blog. Both relate to using satellites to measure crop yie...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Food fights

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Eoin McGuirk and I have a new NBER working paper out that (we argue) sheds important new light on the economic origins of conflict in Afr...
Friday, January 27, 2017

Measuring temperature from space

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[We are going to try to bring G-FEED out of its fall/winter hibernation with a few posts on papers that various of us have coming out.  B...