This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial distribution of
economic activity within subnational regions across a large number of developing countries …

In the context of an exponential rise in access to information in the last two decades, this
special issue explores when and how information might be harnessed to improve …

Food aid presents a core component of humanitarian support for people incapable of
meeting basic human needs and aims to bolster food security. However, some studies …

Crop-water production functions are important tools for quantifying effects of water scarcity
and climate change on agricultural production, and are also widely used within hydro …

ABSTRACT A recent econometric literature shows two distinct paths for identification with
shift-share instruments, leveraging either many exogenous shifts or exogenous shares. We …

Why do some international agreements yield more cooperation than others? I argue that the
network context of agreements conditions their effectiveness. I focus on bilateral defense …

We estimate the impact of tariffs faced by US agricultural exports on farmland rents. The
localized tariff is determined by the average of tariffs across trading partners for the crops …

Economists have widely endorsed pricing CO 2 emissions to internalize climate change-
related externalities. Doing so would significantly affect coal, the most carbon-intensive …

We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through
which food aid can affect conflict. We address questions of methodological choice and …

Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) define a set of investors' rights and allow foreign investors
to sue countries for policies that breach them. Political scientists typically study the extent to …