A major adaptation response: mixed cropping. 🌾High temps lead farmers to diversify crops, adding resilience to their systems, though it might reduce potential yields. 6/10

📊 Here’s a figure showing the mean temperatures during the growing season in Nigeria from 1983 to 2015 and present an upward trend from 1990 onwards. 3/10

Using data from the Nigeria LSMS-ISA (2010-2015), we investigate how current and past heat exposure impacts TFP, crop yields, cultivated areas, and input use. We combine farm data with high-res satellite temperature records. 2/10

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Trying to buy a taco after a 25% tariff on Mexico
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Seeing my work cited 100+ times this year has been a meaningful milestone. Thank you to all who found value in it.
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I am part of the latter group 😂😂😂
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Attending #SEA2024 in DC?
Make sure you attend the session “Innovations in Agricultural Policy and Practice: Insights from Empirical Studies” chaired by Elaine Liu ⬇️

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Can’t wait to see which cabinet position this guy’s going to land 🫠

Found this Georgetown acceptance letter while cleaning old documents this weekend, and it got me reflecting. As a middle-class kid from Ecuador this was huge! I ended up taking a different path though. What paths did you consider but not take? Share here with everybody!

#Throwback to the good old days when #TaylorSwift explained Omitted Variable Bias to an audience of non-economists 🙃
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I keep coming back to this Tolkien quote—it resonates more and more every time...