Joel Ferguson
@joelferguson.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, UW Madison
Remote Sensing + Machine Learning for Ag/Dev econ questions
joelferg.github.io
Remote Sensing + Machine Learning for Ag/Dev econ questions
joelferg.github.io
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🆕 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...
Abdoulaye Cisse, Alain de Janvry @natureatcal.bsky.social, @joelferguson.bsky.social, @marcogn.bsky.social, Samba Mbaye, Elisabeth Sadoulet & Mame Mor: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...
Why irrigation infrastructure projects are key to food security and climate resilience in sub-Saharan Africa
Expanding irrigation infrastructure in Senegal led to significant and sustained increases in cultivation rates and reduced sensitivity to temperature shocks.
voxdev.org
October 23, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🆕 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...
Abdoulaye Cisse, Alain de Janvry @natureatcal.bsky.social, @joelferguson.bsky.social, @marcogn.bsky.social, Samba Mbaye, Elisabeth Sadoulet & Mame Mor: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...
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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
Midwest International Economic Development Conference
mwiedc.org
October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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...
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...
Redirecting
doi.org
September 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“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...
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...
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New Nature paper (open access!) from the Climate Impact Lab, led by Andy Hultgren (UIUC).
Climate change cuts global crop yields, even when farmers adapt - Climate Impact Lab
A new study finds the global food system faces growing risks from climate change, even as farmers seek to adapt.
impactlab.org
June 18, 2025 at 4:16 PM
New Nature paper (open access!) from the Climate Impact Lab, led by Andy Hultgren (UIUC).
Reposted by Joel Ferguson
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.
🔗 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.
summer school — Maximilian Auffhammer
www.auffhammer.com
April 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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.
🔗 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
Special thanks to @marcogn.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social and Sol Hsiang for all their support throughout my PhD/postdoc and the job search
March 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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
Special thanks to @marcogn.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social and Sol Hsiang for all their support throughout my PhD/postdoc and the job search
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🚨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...
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...
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor: Computational Earth System Science
The College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences invites applications for multiple part-time (.75 FTE), 12-month, tenure-track/tenured Assistant, Associate or Full Professor positions (depending o...
jobs.oregonstate.edu
March 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
🚨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...
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
February 16, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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
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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
TWEEDS | The workshop in environmental economics and data science
tweeds.io
December 16, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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.
🆕 Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond?
Today on VoxDev, @marshallburke.bsky.social , @joelferguson.bsky.social, Solomon Hsiang Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability & @tedmiguel.bsky.social UC Berkeley explore the conflict-climate change relationship
voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Today on VoxDev, @marshallburke.bsky.social , @joelferguson.bsky.social, Solomon Hsiang Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability & @tedmiguel.bsky.social UC Berkeley explore the conflict-climate change relationship
voxdev.org/topic/instit...
Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond?
Climate change is projected to cause an increase in numerous forms of violent human behaviour. Policies like a robust social safety net and political inclusion can help ensure a more peaceful future.
voxdev.org
December 13, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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.
Reposted by Joel Ferguson
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
go.bsky.app/PTSxCQf
November 21, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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
go.bsky.app/PTSxCQf
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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/...
Undocumented migration MX->US increases when communities experience droughts. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Weather deviations linked to undocumented migration and return between Mexico and the United States | PNAS
As the world’s climate continues to change, human populations are exposed to increasingly
severe and extreme weather conditions that can promote mi...
www.pnas.org
November 13, 2024 at 5:28 PM
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/...
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
October 14, 2024 at 2:29 PM
I’ve been saying Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson for so long my friend assumed they were my pick for this year
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📣 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
Presenters:
✨ Joel Ferguson (Stanford, @joelferguson.bsky.social )
✨ Na Zhang (UIUC)
✨ Micah Cameron Harp (Kansas State)
Register & learn more: cornell.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📈📉 #EconSky
October 8, 2024 at 1:02 PM
📣 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
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?
September 23, 2024 at 11:27 PM
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
The lab really got a kick out of that one
September 14, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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
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
August 26, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Cool/interesting to see so many recent follows on here! I’ll try to make it worthwhile and post more
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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
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
December 1, 2023 at 5:40 PM
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
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...
joelferg.github.io/blog/shift_s...
November 15, 2023 at 6:58 PM
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...
joelferg.github.io/blog/shift_s...
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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...
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...
Center for Effective Global Action - Pacific Conference For Development Economics (PacDev) 2024 - St...
cega.submittable.com
October 31, 2023 at 10:49 PM
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...
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....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
www.aeaweb.org
October 24, 2023 at 2:37 PM
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....
www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....