Agricultural land use has recently peaked, both globally and across country income groups, after centuries of expansion and intensification…
We compare prices of financial derivatives whose payouts are based on future weather outcomes to CMIP5 climate model predictions as well as…
Across US counties, vaccination rates have a statistically significant downward effect on the Covid-19 death rate, as of August 12, 2021.…
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Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises…
In the twenty-first century the balance of world economic growth has shifted from the G7 industrialized economies, led by Europe, Japan,…
US media often report that a particular policy is generally considered bad or unpopular, when in reality it seeks to achieve a reasonable…
The US economy lost a net of 8 million jobs between February 2020 and April 2021. Agreement is growing that people not actively seeking…
Today, freely floating exchange rates suit most large countries better than the late economists Richard Cooper, Robert Mundell, and John…
America erred in 2009-10 in curtailing the size and duration of the fiscal expansion in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Regardless of…