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Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance
Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance

Emily Aiken, Suzanne Bellue, Dean Karlan, Chris Udry and Joshua E. Blumenstock, Nature (2022)

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Selected coverage: The Conversation, NPR, BBC, Wired, Reuters, FastCompany, Berkeley CDSS

Micro-estimates of wealth for all low- and middle-income countries
Micro-estimates of wealth for all low- and middle-income countries

Guanghua Chi, Han Fang, Sourav Chatterjee and Joshua E. Blumenstock, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2022)

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Press Coverage

Interactive Portal

Dataset

Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in Afghanistan
Violence and Financial Decisions: Evidence from Mobile Money in Afghanistan

Joshua E. Blumenstock, Michael Callen, Tarek Ghani and Robert Gonzalez, Review of Economics and Statistics (2022)

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Public mobility data enables COVID-19 forecasting and management at local and global scales
Public mobility data enables COVID-19 forecasting and management at local and global scales

Cornelia Ilin, Sébastien Annan-Phan, Xiao Hui Tai, Shikhar Mehra, Solomon Hsiang & Joshua E. Blumenstock, Nature Scientific Reports (2021)

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The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic
The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic

S Hsiang, D Allen, S Annan-Phan, K Bell, I Bolliger, T Chong, H Druckenmiller, LY Huang, A Hultgren, E Krasovich, P Lau, J Lee, E Rolf, J Tseng and T Wu, Nature (2020)

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Resource page

Berkeley press release

Selected coverage

Machine learning can help get COVID-19 aid to those who need it most
Machine learning can help get COVID-19 aid to those who need it most

Joshua E. Blumenstock, Nature (2020)

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New Jersey's Rising Coastal Risk
New Jersey's Rising Coastal Risk

Hess, Delgado, Hamidi, Houser, Kopp, Bolliger, Hsiang, Greenstone, (2019).

Link to static report

https://njcoastalrisk.com/

Enforcing sovereign property rights reduces unauthorized fishing
Enforcing sovereign property rights reduces unauthorized fishing

Englander, Nature Sustainability (2019)

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Link to blog item

Clear, Present and Underpriced: The Physical Risks of Climate Change
Clear, Present and Underpriced: The Physical Risks of Climate Change

Rhodium Group. (2019).

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Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress
Destructive Behavior, Judgment, and Economic Decision-making under Thermal Stress

Almås, Auffhammer, Bold, Bolliger, Dembo, Hsiang, Kitamura, Miguel, Pickmans, NBER Working Paper 25785 (2019)

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Strengthened scientific support for the Endangerment Finding for atmospheric greenhouse gases
Strengthened scientific support for the Endangerment Finding for atmospheric greenhouse gases

Duffy, Field, Diffenbaugh, Doney, Dutton, Goodman, Heinzerling, Hsiang, Lobell, Mickley, Myers, Natali, Parmesan, Tierney, Williams, Science (2019)

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The Distribution of Environmental Damages
The Distribution of Environmental Damages

S Hsiang, P Oliva, WR Walker, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (2019)

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Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate
Spatial Correlation, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate

Dingel, Meng, and Hsiang, NBER Working Paper 25447 (2019)

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An Economist's Guide to Climate Change Science
An Economist's Guide to Climate Change Science

Hsiang & Kopp, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2018)

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Accounting for Unobservable Heterogeneity in Cross Section Using Spatial First Differences
Accounting for Unobservable Heterogeneity in Cross Section Using Spatial First Differences

Druckenmiller & Hsiang, NBER Working Paper 25177 (2018)

Link to paper (nber, arxiv)

Code is posted here.

Estimating global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions
Estimating global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions

Proctor, Hsiang, Burney, Burke, Schlenker, Nature (2018)

Link to paper (ungated here)

Resource page (FAQs, graphics, videos, data)

Selected coverage: The Washington Post, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Wired, New York, The Guardian, Axios, Science, Reuters

Berkeley press release

Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico
Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico

Burke, Gonzalez, Baylis, Heft-Neal, Baysan, Basu, Hsiang, Nature Climate Change (2018)

Link to paper (ungated here)

Selected coverage: TIME, USA Today, Bloomberg, Scientific American, the Atlantic, SF Chronicle, CNN, World Economic Forum, Reuters, Technology Review, Fortune, Financial Times

Letter - Ivory crisis: Growing no-trade consensus
Letter - Ivory crisis: Growing no-trade consensus

N Sekar, W Clark, A Dobson, P Coelho, P Hannam, R Hepworth, S Hsiang, P Kahumbu, P Lee, K Lindsay, C Lopes Pereira, S Wasser, K Nowak, Science (2018)

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Correspondence - Climate and conflict: no stigma
Correspondence - Climate and conflict: no stigma

Hsiang, S & M Burke, Nature (2018)

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Reply to Plewis, Murari et al., and Das: The suicide–temperature link in India and the evidence of an agricultural channel are robust
Reply to Plewis, Murari et al., and Das: The suicide–temperature link in India and the evidence of an agricultural channel are robust

T Carleton, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)

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Temperature and Human Capital in the Short- and Long-Run
Temperature and Human Capital in the Short- and Long-Run

Graff Zivin, J. S.M. Hsiang, M. Neidell, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2018)

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Coverage: Washington Post

Ground Control to Major Tom: the importance of field surveys in remotely sensed data analysis
Ground Control to Major Tom: the importance of field surveys in remotely sensed data analysis

I Bolliger, T Carleton, S Hsiang, J Kadish, J Proctor, B Recht, E Rolf, V Shankar, Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange (2017)

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Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India
Crop-damaging temperatures increase suicide rates in India

T Carleton, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)

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Selected coverage: AP, Washington Post, The Guardian, National Geographic, The Indian Express, The Wire

Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States
Estimating economic damage from climate change in the United States

Hsiang, Kopp, Jina, Rising, Delgado, Mohan, Rasmussen, Muir-Wood, Wilson, Oppenheimer, Larsen, Houser, Science (2017)

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Technical Appendix

Perspective commentary by Billy Pizer

Data visualization of results

Resource page (simplified data output)

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Full data archive

Selected coverage: Economist, NYT, Atlantic, AP, WP, TIME, USA Today, NPR, CBS, Newsweek, Reuters, Forbes

The Marginal Product of Climate
The Marginal Product of Climate

Deryugina, T., & S. Hsiang, NBER Working Paper 24072 (2016)

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Collective Action in Networks: Evidence from the Chilean Student Movement
Collective Action in Networks: Evidence from the Chilean Student Movement

F. González, Job Market Paper (2016)

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Social and economic impacts of climate
Social and economic impacts of climate

T.A. Carleton & S.M. Hsiang, Science (2016)

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Blog description

Coverage: Bloomberg, Xinhua, ClimateWire, NPR, Quartz, Chile Sustentable, Vvox, Guinee28, Afrique Expansion, East Online, 

Does Legalization Reduce Black Market Activity? Evidence from a Global Ivory Experiment and Elephant Poaching Data
Does Legalization Reduce Black Market Activity? Evidence from a Global Ivory Experiment and Elephant Poaching Data

S. Hsiang & N. Sekar, NBER working paper 22314 (2016)

Link to paper

Replication files (Stata)

Excel replication file for main result

Blog posts explaining paper and responding to critiques: response to Underwood I, response to Underwood II, response to World Bank blog, response to CITES Technical Advisory Group

New York Times editorial discussing findings

Contributed Op-Ed to Guardian debate

CITES CoP17 Information Document 96 we wrote submitted by Kenya: Evidence should be used in the global management of endangered species: A reply to the CITES Technical Advisory Group

Description of paper's impact on CoP 17 ivory legalization decision

Coverage: The Guardian, Washington Post, Newsweek, Xinhua, Forbes, NBER Digest, Voice of America China, News24, The Citizen, The Conversation, Observer,

Potentially Extreme Population Displacement and Concentration in the Tropics Under Non-Extreme Warming
Potentially Extreme Population Displacement and Concentration in the Tropics Under Non-Extreme Warming

S.M. Hsiang & A.H. Sobel, Scientific Reports (2016)

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Blog description

Coverage: Washington Post, Scientific American, Xinhua, Radio Santiago, GreenReport.it, TeInteresa.es, América Economíca, SinEmbargo.mx, Piac és Profit

Conflict in a changing climate
Conflict in a changing climate

Carleton, T.A., S.M. Hsiang, M. Burke, European Physical Journal Special Topics (2016).

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