📣📣 New data alert: we Development Data Lab are releasing open village and town maps for all of India. Find them at the top link here: devdatalab.org/shrug_download… We wrote a post with some more details about the maps: devdatalab.medium.com/open-access-ge… Sam Asher Tobias Lunt 1/5

💧🌍 Water stress warning: Population growth is straining water resources. China has seen a 50% decrease, and Pakistan an 80% reduction in per capita water availability from 1963 to 2019. Explore this #SDGAtlas interactive #dataviz: wrld.bg/VNcl50PIVBW

Technology response to the shale gas boom results in a significant increase in emissions as the US economy is pushed into a “fossil-fuel trap” in which long-run innovations shift away from renewables, from Daron Acemoglu, Aghion, Barrage, and David Hémous nber.org/papers/w31657

📢 Submit your session proposal for AERE@AAEA! AERE organizes four track sessions at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Conference, to be held July 28-30, 2024 in New Orleans, LA. Submit proposals by October 31st! More: aere.memberclicks.net/organized-sess…

⏰ Session proposal for AERE@AAEA due in two weeks! AERE organizes 4 track sessions at the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Conference, to be held July 28-30, 2024 in New Orleans, LA. Submit proposals by November 17th! More:aere.memberclicks.net/organized-sess…

🚨🚨 Are you a female-identified or non-binary environmental economist working on Data, Information, and the environment broadly defined? Andrea La Nauze and I are organizing a workshop for you! When: Sep 30-Oct1 2024 Where: Warwick Economics CAGE @ Warwick Details 👇

Climate change and pregnancy loss: Being exposed to flood during & before pregnancy significantly increase the risk of miscarriage and stillbirth in low and middle-income countries 👇Paper by Cheng He et al nature.com/articles/s4146…

Spillovers, three ways - Gabe Englander illustrates three ways of dealing with spillovers in impact evaluation through papers that look at impacts of Marine Protected Areas that limit or prohibit fishing in a location blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

What innovative solutions help to address barriers and promote an inclusive financial ecosystem in Sub-Saharan Africa? How the World Bank is leveraging data to scale up successful financial inclusion strategies? Read new blog by Leora Klapper to find out blogs.worldbank.org/en/development…

Exciting new research on sacred forests! Read more about this! #forestry #environment #biodiversity #sustainability #sacred #EfD #Nigeria efdinitiative.org/news/cultural-…

It was an amazing and unique experience to have spent the last few days meeting researchers of diverse backgrounds with common interests in environmental issues at #EPG2024 in Québec City! Many thanks to Jean-Frédéric Morin and his team for hosting this excellent conference!

Deeply honored to receive the #EPG2024 Best Poster Award! Feeling lucky to be part of this lovely group and thanks for all kinds of support!

Subsidies for climate adaptation can boost farmer resilience, but their effectiveness depends on individual beliefs & information. This study assesses the impact of input- and output-based subsidies, & information campaigns, on Ghana's cocoa sector ⤵️ theigc.org/blogs/climate-…

Engaging discussion at #EPG2024: time for reflection on our role as #climate and #environmental researchers🌎

New #PEDLWorkingPaper by Yunyu Shu (Brown Economics) and Jiayue Zhang (Brown Economics) studies how information shapes adaptation under different subsidy schemes for cocoa farmers in Ghana. bit.ly/4fDNjFC #ClimateAdaptation #Cocoa

Thanks to the World Bank Development Impact Blog for posting my JMP! Yunyu Shu (Brown Economics) studies how information shapes adaptation under input vs output subsidies in the context of shaded cocoa in Ghana 🇬🇭. More insights here 👇 blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Very insightful JMP!

Check out Yunyu's amazing JMP!👇