10/ Interested in learning more about my work on climate adaptation? Let’s connect! 🌍

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9/ 🌟 Why does this matter? Trade research often focuses on international trade & adaptation, leaving a gap in understanding how internal trade policies shape regional outcomes under climate stress. My JMP is the first to tackle this question.

8/ Counterfactual analysis shows that removing internal trade barriers 🛣️ could enable 28.9M people to leave agriculture, even under climate change 🌡️.

𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: This is a critical step for maintaining economic growth, and structural transformation while adapting to climate change

7/ 🔍 Using geolocated government marketplace data, I uncover how these barriers distort prices and stall labor reallocation. To quantify this, I develop a spatial equilibrium model calibrated to India’s economy. 🇮🇳

6/ These barriers arise from the 𝑨𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒆 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒌𝒆𝒕 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒆 (𝑨𝑷𝑴𝑪) 𝑨𝒄𝒕, which mandates sales at government-designated markets. 🚜 Subsistence Farmers face low ag productivity + limited competition among buyers ➡️ resulting in ⬇️ prices & limited labor mobility.

5/ 🛤️ 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒆 is often viewed as an adaptive tool to counter climate shocks and the "food problem". But does it help? Using India’s highway expansion data, I find that internal trade barriers at the state level prevent market integration, limiting trade’s ability to mitigate climate effects.

4/ Declining Income due to climate shocks reshapes consumption patterns such that food expenditure increases (low income elasticity). Combined with falling agri productivity, this creates a “𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒎” where economies over-specialize in low-productivity agriculture to ensure food security.🌽🌾

3/ 🌡️ Rising temperatures are altering the supply & demand drivers of structural transformation.

I find that climate change is 𝒑𝒖𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 in India, inhibiting structural transformation.

2/ Structural Transform: labor reallocation from agriculture ➡️ manufacturing ➡️ services. Yet ~43% of India’s labor force remains in agriculture, with ~90% of farmers on subsistence plots (<2 acres) & rising ag labor share in 3 years. Why? Climate + Policies. 🧵👇
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lol the topic of my paper actually. I show that in India the necessity of food pushes labor back into agriculture under climate change. I revisit “food problem”.

Welcome. This may be useful, including the section on job-market resources.
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This is a wonderful resource. Thank you for creating it and sharing.

I couldn’t deal with the job market and what Twitter has become. This is a lovely alternative.