Joel Ferguson

Assistant Professor of Sustainable Land Use in the Nelson Institute at UW Madison. I use 🛰️+ML to study questions in Ag/Dev economics

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 Africa faces a climate-conflict poverty trap. Growth is the best solution.

Today on VoxDev, @FergJoel @NelsonInstitute, @MarshallBBurke @Stanford, @UCBerkeley & Solomon Hsiang @stanforddoerr outline their research: https://t.co/jhIdplkOFy

[MarcoGonzalezNavarro @marcogleznav]

Very happy that this new paper "Irrigation infrastructure and satellite-measured land cultivation impacts: Evidence from the Senegal river valley" is now forthcoming at Journal of Development Economics!
https://t.co/iWJra8Bk9D

[Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics @AreBerkeley]

Exciting news from Berkeley ARE! 🎉Abdoulaye Cisse will be joining the @WorldBank as a Research Economist starting in 2026, following an academic year as a Visiting Scholar at @Princeton. Congratulations, Abdoulaye! https://t.co/l1NnvLFSwv #Econwitter

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond?

Last month on VoxDev, @MarshallBBurke, @FergJoel, Solomon Hsiang @stanforddoerr & @tedmiguel @UCBerkeley explored the relationship between conflict and climate change & what this means for policy: https://t.co/pmjTrjRkd2

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond?

Last week on VoxDev, @MarshallBBurke, @FergJoel, Solomon Hsiang @stanforddoerr & @tedmiguel @UCBerkeley explored the relationship between conflict and climate change & what this means for policy: https://t.co/pmjTrjRkd2

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

🆕 Climate change causes conflict: How can policy respond?

Today on VoxDev, @MarshallBBurke, @FergJoel, Solomon Hsiang @stanforddoerr & @tedmiguel @UCBerkeley explore the relationship between conflict and climate change & what this means for policy: https://t.co/pmjTrjRkd2

[Global Action for Policy (GAP) Initiative @GAP_NU_]

Room ISEC 136:" Innovation, technology, and productivity in Agriculture" chaired by Aysen Tanyeri, Northeastern University @FergJoel Irrigation in Senegal's river valley increased cultivation rate during both dry and rainy season with effects concentrated in the last two decades

[Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) @CEGA_UC]

The amount of research linking climate + conflict has roughly doubled in the last decade. @tedmiguel, @MarshallBBurke, @FergJoel, & Solomon Hsiang carry out a meta-analysis, confirming that extreme climate is associated with a higher risk of conflict around the world:

[Joel Ferguson @FergJoel]

Really glad this is out there! If you’re doing a lit review on this topic, or just want to get a feel for what’s out there quickly, take a look at the appendix. We have a huge table summarizing a ton of papers that explore mechanisms linking climate and conflict

[NBER @nberpubs]

Harmonized data from 80 studies show that extreme climate is associated with elevated risk of various types of conflict around the world, from @MarshallBBurke, Joel Ferguson, Solomon M. Hsiang, and @tedmiguel https://t.co/yQEPnnzQNZ

[AERE @AereOrg]

AERE@OSWEET returns * this Friday * 10/11 at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific) with 3 terrific talks on agriculture!

Presenters:
✨ Joel Ferguson (Stanford, @FergJoel)
✨ Na Zhang (UIUC)
✨ Micah Cameron Harp (Kansas State)

Register & learn more: https://t.co/gXmWyGDcrZ

[CGIAR SPIA @cgiarspia]

Don’t miss the #SPIAFest pre-conference workshop at @icae2024 with presentations of impact evidence from the 2019-2024 SPIA portfolio

📑 Agenda now available online: https://t.co/9fnggORQsE

Join us there!

@CGIAR @IAES_CGIAR

[Ishan Nath @IshanBNath]

my new short paper "Is the World Running Out of Fresh Water?" with Tamma Carleton and @LeviGCrews is out today in AEA P&P. https://t.co/uN3ACbOe4d (ungated version here: https://t.co/rHiYWZPJBu)

thanks to @AdrienBilal for a great discussion of it as well.

[Joel Ferguson @FergJoel]

@pbiscaye Thanks Pierre! We don’t have anything else on hand, but maybe distance to capital would be a natural proxy with within-country variation. The handbook chapter we’re working on (cited in the p&p) has a more complete discussion of income+state capacity channels, so stay tuned!

[Joel Ferguson @FergJoel]

Does wealth reduce the impact of weather shocks on the likelihood of civil conflict? @MarshallBBurke, Sol Hsiang, @tedmiguel and I find an interesting answer: it depends! National wealth is a much stronger moderator than local wealth. New AEA P&P out today
https://t.co/9vTWOCcMIe

[Joel Ferguson @FergJoel]

@SeanKHiggins @marcogleznav @QianmiaoC @danagness @jedediahsilver @AreBerkeley @NatureAtCal I was reminiscing with @marcogleznav about those days just a few hours before that picture was taken!

I couldn’t have asked for a better first mentor in research and I reflect a lot on that job to try to improve the experience of my undergrad RAs :)

[MarcoGonzalezNavarro @marcogleznav]

So happy to have celebrated the hooding of this year's ARE PhDs! From left to right: Leila Safavi, Qianmiao Chen, Joel Ferguson, Daniel Agness and Jed Silver. Congratulations!!!! @FergJoel @QianmiaoC @danagness @jedediahsilver @AreBerkeley @NatureAtCal

[CGIAR SPIA @cgiarspia]

📢Make sure to register for #SPIAFest2024 before early-bird registration closes on 15 May!

More info👇
https://t.co/jqOjtGFcUz

[Max Auffhammer @auffhammer]

Extra Extra! EEE Grad Camp is back! August 19-23. Berkeley. Lineup includes Meredith Fowlie, Joe Shapiro, Marshall Burke…. more TBA. Lectures! Friendly environment! Sunshine! Egg timers! New friends and coauthors! Application form here [Deadline 4/20]: https://t.co/GfQMn9wmMf

[Joel Ferguson @FergJoel]

Thanks @chelseaeharvey for this really great piece on the DOS imagery preservation effort! It’s a ton of fun working with the awesome team profiled in the article and I’m really excited to see what we can do with the newly digitized archive

[Chelsea Harvey @chelseaeharvey]

Finally published after weeks of reporting!
How a neglected post-war photography archive was rediscovered, saved, meticulously digitized -- all 1.7 million physical prints! -- and is now informing ground-breaking new research on Earth's past (and future). https://t.co/N6GTLxioG9

[Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) @GAIN_Network_]

Applications are open for the 2024 GAIN program!

Information sharing, mentoring, and financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics and related fields.

➡️ Apply here: https://t.co/atUJ2TqOvF
🗓️ Deadline: March 11th

Please share widely!