Last week, Robert Rubin and I warned of the many macroeconomic risks created by the domestic policy bill President Trump signed into law on…
In Global Health 2050, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health concludes that dramatic improvements in human welfare are achievable by…
The Resilient Society by Markus Brunnermeier is a creative, wide-ranging book that aims and often succeeds at providing a new perspective…
My own preference is for incremental health reform rather than the teardown they advocate. This is partly based on answering a different…
I was gratified to see Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein write, “if Furman and others like him are enthusiastic about trying to build…
This paper analyzes an economic-epidemiological model of infectious disease where it is possible to become infected more than once and…
As the largest user of global water, irrigated agriculture accounts for 20% of global cropland and 40% of food production. Irrigation is…
Past pandemic experience can affect health outcomes in future pandemics. This paper focuses on the last major influenza pandemic in 1968 (…
Across US counties, vaccination rates have a statistically significant downward effect on the Covid-19 death rate, as of August 12, 2021.…
/publications/violent-conflict-exacerbated-drought-related-food-insecurity-between-2009-and-2019-sub
Conflict, drought and locusts are leading concerns for African food security but the relative importance and spatiotemporal scale of crises…