Growth plays an extremely powerful role in determining conflict outcomes under climate change. Growth-promoting policies provide a large additional social benefit in the form of reduced future conflict incidence in Africa.

🆕 Why irrigation infrastructure projects are key to food security and climate resilience in sub-Saharan Africa Abdoulaye Cisse, Alain de Janvry @natureatcal.bsky.social, @joelferguson.bsky.social, @marcogn.bsky.social, Samba Mbaye, Elisabeth Sadoulet & Mame Mor: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Call for Papers: 23rd Midwest International Economic Development Conference. April 24-25, 2026. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Details: mwiedc.org Submit: editorialexpress.com/conference/m... #EconSky

“Irrigation infrastructure and satellite-measured land cultivation impacts: Evidence from the Senegal river valley” is now live at the JDE! I’m really proud of the work that my coauthors - Abdou, Alain, @marcogn.bsky.social, Samba, Betty, and Mame Mor - and I put into this. doi.org/10.1016/j.jd...

New Nature paper (open access!) from the Climate Impact Lab, led by Andy Hultgren (UIUC).

We are back! EEE Summer School @ Berkeley! 🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school 📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley We especially encourage early stage Ph.D. students with possible interest in EEE topics! Must be enrolled in North American Econ"ish" Ph.D. program.

I’m super excited to share that this fall I’ll join the faculty of University of Wisconsin in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies! Special thanks to @marcogn.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social and Sol Hsiang for all their support throughout my PhD/postdoc and the job search

🚨Job Alert Earth System Modelers wanted at Oregon State University Hiring multiple tenure-track/tenured faculty in Computational Earth System Science, at Assistant, Associate and/or Full Professor ranks. Deadline 15th April jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/165...

The last time I visited my grandparents my grandpa came in and wrote something on the calendar. Turns out he’s been measuring precipitation there since 1991! Here are his measurements against PRISM

Applications open for the The Workshop in Environmental Economics and Data Science! This is a fantastic and fun small workshop and this year featuring the great Jen Burney as keynote. Applications due Jan 15th tweeds.io

What can policymakers do to help reduce the horribly costly impacts of climate change on conflict? We draw on our recent NBER WP to highlight 3 areas: strengthening the social safety net, reducing the sensitivity of income to weather shocks, and political inclusion.

Created this starter pack of scholars who have worked on economic causes and consequences of conflict. The list is inevitably non-exhaustive, so please let me know if you would like to be added to it (or know of someone who should be on the list). go.bsky.app/PTSxCQf

Important PNAS article on the impact of climate change on migration by Garip et al. Undocumented migration MX->US increases when communities experience droughts. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I’ve been saying Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson for so long my friend assumed they were my pick for this year

📣 AERE@OSWEET returns *this Friday* 10/11 at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific) with 3 terrific talks on agriculture! Presenters: ✨ Joel Ferguson (Stanford, @joelferguson.bsky.social ) ✨ Na Zhang (UIUC) ✨ Micah Cameron Harp (Kansas State) Register & learn more: cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regi... 📈📉 #EconSky

What makes for a “good” question from the audience in a research talk? Or (probably easier to answer) what makes for a “bad” question?

I recently remembered the time when I was doing a lit review for @seankhiggins.bsky.social in my first RA job and I told him about a cool paper I’d read in “some journal called ‘Econometrica’” The lab really got a kick out of that one

Cool/interesting to see so many recent follows on here! I’ll try to make it worthwhile and post more

Excited to see my JMP in the World Bank DIME Blog today! tinyurl.com/3aa5w7bc Many studies show short-run effects of agricultural shocks on violent conflict. My JMP asks: what about the long-run? I find that desert locust swarm exposure persistently s conflict over the next 14 yrs. A 🧵 1/13

Today I’m leading a methods workshop at Berkeley ARE on shift share designs and the slides are up on my website! I go over three different paths to identification and the implications of each joelferg.github.io/blog/shift_s...

Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) Saturday, March 9, 2024 Stanford King Center on Global Development Submit Your Paper Paper submissions are due by 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, December 10, 2023 #Econsky cega.submittable.com/submit/27734...

Come join our awesome team working to understand long-run outcomes in Africa using a massive newly-digitized collection of aerial photographs spanning the 1950s-80s! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....