JEL classification

Journal of Economic Literature Classification (10696) O - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth (1824) O1 - Economic Development (916) O13 - Agriculture; Natural Resources; Energy; Environment; Other Primary Products (91)
Number of items at this level: 91.
2025
  • Agramont, Daniel (2025). Europe’s quest for critical raw materials in Latin America: the clash with China and diversification opportunities. (Working paper series 2). LSE Global South Unit. picture_as_pdf
  • Balboni, Clare, Burgess, Robin, Olken, Benjamin A. (2025). The origins and control of forest fires in the Tropics. The Review of Economic Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdaf088 picture_as_pdf
  • Bracht, Felix, Verhoeven, Dennis (2025). Air pollution and innovation. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 130, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2024.103102 picture_as_pdf
  • Bulte, Erwin, Meriggi, Niccolò, Rozelle, Michael, Voors, Maarten (2025). Agricultural development in the poorest countries: insights from the poultry sector in Sierra Leone. In Pathways to African Food Security: Challenges, Threats and Opportunities towards 2050 (pp. 251-264). Taylor and Francis Inc.. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032649696-26 picture_as_pdf
  • Calel, Raphael, Colmer, Jonathan, Dechezlepretre, Antoine, Glachant, Matthieu (2025). Do carbon offsets offset carbon? American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 17(1), 1 - 40. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.20230052
  • Dietz, Simon, Lanz, Bruno (2025). Growth and adaptation to climate change in the long run. European Economic Review, 173, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2025.104982 picture_as_pdf
  • Galbraith, Emma, Hulke, Carolin, Revilla Diez, Javier (2025). Constrained opportunities for path development: how misaligned agencies and structures shape Southern regional value chains. Regional Studies, 59(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2024.2442009 picture_as_pdf
  • Lasdun, Violet, Harou, Aurélie, Magomba, Chris, Guereña, Davíd (2025). Peer learning and technology adoption in a digital farmer-to-farmer network. Journal of Development Economics, 176, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103496 picture_as_pdf
  • Mbate, Michael, Fall, El Hadji (2025). Financial inclusion and energy access: Evidence from Kenya. Innovation and Green Development, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.igd.2025.100219 picture_as_pdf
  • Ranger, Nicola A., Adam, Christopher, Arndt, Channing, Martín, Roberto Spacey (2025). Climate change and Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of central banks. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 17(1), 339 - 360. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-112923-094342 picture_as_pdf
  • Roy, Tirthankar (2025). Water and development: the troubled economic history of the arid tropics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197802397.001.0001
  • Wan, Lu, Zhou, Yanxi, Wang, Ying, Zhao, Tiantian (2025). Trade penetration, sustainable finance and carbon peak: evidence from China. Sustainable Futures, 10, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2025.101107 picture_as_pdf
  • Wang, Xueyao, Wang, Guihu, Yu, Ziheng (2025). The impact of green-credit policy on carbon emission: evidence from Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei Province. Journal of Economic Issues, 59(3), 881-893. https://doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2025.2533731 picture_as_pdf
    • 2024
  • Carreira, Igor, Costa, Francisco, Pessoa, João Paulo (2024). The deforestation effects of trade and agricultural productivity in Brazil. Journal of Development Economics, 167, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103217
  • Ghatak, Maitreesh, Mookherjee, Dilip (2024). Revisiting the Eswaran-Kotwal model of tenancy. Studies in Microeconomics, 12(1), 32 - 58. https://doi.org/10.1177/23210222241231700 picture_as_pdf
  • Harris, Nicholas (2024). Does the case of the Chilean nitrate boom support activist or deterministic interpretations of the ‘resource curse’? (Economic History Student Working Papers 30). Department of Economic History, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Roy, Tirthankar (2024). Will climate change disrupt tropical development? Lessons from economic history. (Economic History Working Papers 370). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Stern, Nicholas, Lankes, Hans Peter, Macquarie, Rob, Soubeyran, Éléonore (2024). The relationship between climate action and poverty reduction. World Bank Research Observer, 39(1), 1 - 46. https://doi.org/10.1093/wbro/lkad011 picture_as_pdf
  • Tarsia, Romano (2024). Heterogeneous effects of weather shocks on firm economic performance. (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 45). Department of Geography and Environment, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Tarsia, Romano (2024). Heterogeneous effects of weather shocks on firm economic performance. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Papers 414). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • 2023
  • Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M., Baum-Snow, Nathaniel, Jedwab, Remi (2023). The skyscraper revolution: global economic development and land savings. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1959). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Balboni, Clare, Berman, Aaron, Burgess, Robin, Olken, Benjamin A. (2023). The economics of tropical deforestation. Annual Review of Economics, 15, 723 – 754. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-economics-090622-024705 picture_as_pdf
  • Bandeira Morais, Margarida, Iammarino, Simona, Lee, Neil (2023). Economic complexity, exports and natural resources in the Gulf Cooperation Council. (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 41). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Linsenmeier, Manuel (2023). Temperature variability and long-run economic development. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2023.102840 picture_as_pdf
    • 2022
  • Dietz, Simon, Lanz, Bruno (2022). Growth and adaptation to climate change in the long run. (CCCEP Working Paper 411). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. picture_as_pdf
  • Dietz, Simon, Lanz, Bruno (2022). Growth and adaptation to climate change in the long run. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Papers 386). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Greenstone, Michael, He, Guojun, Jia, Ruixue, Liu, Tong (2022). Can technology solve the principal-agent problem? Evidence from China’s war on air pollution. American Economic Review, 4(1), 54 - 70. https://doi.org/10.1257/aeri.20200373
  • Lebdioui, Amir (2022). The political economy of moving up in global value chains: how Malaysia added value to its natural resources through industrial policy. Review of International Political Economy, 29(3), 870 - 903. https://doi.org/10.1080/09692290.2020.1844271 picture_as_pdf
  • Liu, Chang, Liu, Yuan, Zhang, Dayong, Xie, Chunping (2022). The capital market responses to new energy vehicle (NEV) subsidies: an event study on China. Energy Economics, 105, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105677
  • Michieka, Nyakundi M., Graziano, Marcello, Musso, Marta, Fouquet, Roger (2022). Energy transitions and labor market patterns in the U.S. coal industry. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 63, 501 - 514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2022.07.005 picture_as_pdf
  • Sonno, Tommaso, Zufacchi, Davide (2022). Epidemics and rapacity of multinational companies. (CEP Discussion Papers 1833). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
    • 2021
  • Bracht, Felix, Verhoeven, Dennis (2021). Air pollution and innovation. (CEP Discussion Papers 1817). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Ding, Yihong, Balcombe, Kelvin, Robinson, Elizabeth (2021). Time discounting and implications for Chinese farmer responses to an upward trend in precipitation. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 72(3), 916 - 930. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12434 picture_as_pdf
  • Elliott, Robert J.R., Nguyen-Tien, Viet, Strobl, Eric A. (2021). Power outages and firm performance: a hydro-IV approach for a single electricity grid. Energy Economics, 103, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105571 picture_as_pdf
  • Linsenmeier, Manuel (2021). Temperature variability and long-run economic development. (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 26). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Roy, Tirthankar (2021). Why geography matters to the economic history of India. Australian Economic History Review, 61(3), 273 - 289. https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12229 picture_as_pdf
  • Ruiz-Tagle, Cristobal, Schueftan, Alejandra (2021). Nudging for cleaner air: experimental evidence from an RCT on wood stove usage. Environmental and Resource Economics, 79(4), 713 - 743. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-021-00582-w picture_as_pdf
  • Sam, Abdoul G., Abidoye, Babatunde, Mashaba, Sihle (2021). Climate change and household welfare in Sub-Saharan Africa: empirical evidence from Swaziland. Food Security, 13(2), 439 – 455. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01113-z picture_as_pdf
    • 2020
  • Claridge, Jordan, Gibbs, Spike (2020). Waifs and strays: property rights in late medieval England. (Economic History Working Papers 313). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Eberle, Ulrich (2020). Damned by dams? Infrastructure and conflict. (CEP Discussion Papers 1694). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
  • Garcia-Lembergman, Ezequiel, Rossi, Martin A., Stucchi, Rodolfo (2020). The impact of export restrictions on production: a synthetic control approach. Economía, 18(2), 147 - 173. https://doi.org/10.31389/eco.62 picture_as_pdf
  • Heger, Martin Philipp, Zens, Gregor, Bangalore, Mook (2020). Land and poverty: the role of soil fertility and vegetation quality in poverty reduction. Environment and Development Economics, 25(4), 315 - 333. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X20000066 picture_as_pdf
  • Lebdioui, Amir, Lee, Keun, Pietrobelli, Carlo (2020). Local-foreign technology interface, resource-based development, and industrial policy: how Chile and Malaysia are escaping the middle-income trap. Journal of Technology Transfer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10961-020-09808-3 picture_as_pdf
  • Sonno, Tommaso (2020). Globalization and conflicts: the good, the bad and the ugly of corporations in Africa. (CEP Discussion Papers 1670). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance. picture_as_pdf
    • 2019
  • Camacho, Carmen, Sun, Yu (2019). Longterm decision making under the threat of earthquakes? (Systemic Risk Centre Discussion Papers 91). Systemic Risk Centre, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Casaburi, Lorenzo, Macchiavello, Rocco (2019). Demand and supply of infrequent payments as a commitment device: evidence from Kenya. American Economic Review, 109(2), 523-555. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20180281 picture_as_pdf
  • Larraín, Felipe, Perelló, Oscar (2019). Resource windfalls and public sector employment: evidence from municipalities in Chile. Economía, 19(2), 127 - 167. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.2019.0004 picture_as_pdf
  • Roy, Tirthankar (2019). Climate and the economy in India, 1850-2000. (Economic History Working Papers 302). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • 2018
  • Brucal, Arlan (2018). Crude oil price futures and stock markets returns: what do their correlations tell us? DLSU Business and Economics Review, 27(2), 190-195.
  • Campi, Mercedes, Dueñas, Marco, Barigozzi, Matteo, Fagiolo, Giorgio (2018). Intellectual property rights, imitation, and development. The effect on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 28(2), 230-256. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2018.1518477
  • Colmer, Jonathan (2018). Weather, labor reallocation and industrial production: evidence from India. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1544). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Duan, Hongbo, Mo, Jianlei, Fan, Ying, Wang, Shouyang (2018). Achieving China's energy and climate policy targets in 2030 under multiple uncertainties. Energy Economics, 70, 45-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2017.12.022
  • Henderson, Vernon, Squires, Tim, Storeygard, Adam, Weil, David (2018). The global distribution of economic activity: nature, history, and the role of trade. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(1), 357-406. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjx030
  • Lanz, Bruno, Dietz, Simon, Swanson, Timothy (2018). Global economic growth and agricultural land conversion under uncertain productivity improvements in agriculture. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 100(2), 545-569. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aax078
    • 2017
  • Alberola, Enrique, Benigno, Gianluca (2017). Revisiting the commodity curse: a financial perspective. Journal of International Economics, 108(S1), S87-S106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2017.02.001
  • Arezki, Rabah, Fetzer, Thiemo, Pisch, Frank (2017). On the comparative advantage of U.S. manufacturing: evidence from the shale gas revolution. Journal of International Economics, 107, 34-59. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinteco.2017.03.002
  • Ashraf, Nava, Glaeser, Edward, Holland, Abraham, Steinberg, Bryce (2017). Water, health and wealth. (NBER Working Paper Series 23807). The National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w23807
    • 2016
  • Aghion, Philippe, Dechezlepretre, Antoine, Hemous, David, Martin, Ralf, Van Reenen, John (2016). Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: evidence from the auto industry. Journal of Political Economy, 124(1), 1-51. https://doi.org/10.1086/684581 picture_as_pdf
  • Arezki, Rabah, Fetzer, Thiemo, Pisch, Frank (2016). On the comparative advantage of U.S. manufacturing:evidence from the shale gas revolution. (CEP discussion paper CEPDP1454). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Besley, Timothy, Leight, Jessica, Pande, Rohini, Rao, Vijayendra (2016). Long-run impacts of land regulation: evidence from tenancy reform in India. Journal of Development Economics, 118, 72-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.08.001
  • Gennaioli, Caterina, Tavoni, Massimo (2016). Clean or dirty energy: evidence of corruption in the renewable energy sector. Public Choice, 166(3), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-016-0322-y
  • Wade, Robert H. (2016). Boulevard to broken dreams, part 1: the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon, and the World Bank’senvironmental and indigenous peoples’ norms. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 36(1), 214-230. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572016v36n01a12
  • Wade, Robert H. (2016). Boulevard to broken dreams, part 2: implementation of the Polonoroeste road project in the Brazilian Amazon, and the World Bank's response to the gathering storm. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 36(3), 646-663. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572016v36n03a10
    • 2015
  • Casaburi, Lorenzo, Macchiavello, Rocco (2015). Loyalty, exit, and enforcement: evidence from a Kenya Dairy Cooperative. American Economic Review, 105(5), 286-290. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.p20151076
  • Commander, Simon, Nikoloski, Zlatko, Vagliasindi, Maria (2015). Estimating the size of external effects of energy subsidies. (IZA discussion paper series 8865). Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA).
  • Gottlieb, Charles, Grobovsek, Jan (2015). Communal land and agricultural productivity. (CFM discussion paper series CFM-DP2015-13). Centre For Macroeconomics.
  • Macchiavello, Rocco, Morjaria, Ameet (2015). The value of relationships: evidence from a supply shock to Kenyan rose exports. American Economic Review, 105(9), 2911-2945. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20120141
    • 2014
  • Fajgelbaum, Pablo, Redding, Stephen (2014). External integration, structural transformation and economic development: evidence from Argentina. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1273). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Fankhauser, Samuel, McDermott, Thomas K. J. (2014). Understanding the adaptation deficit: why are poor countries more vulnerable to climate events than rich countries? Global Environmental Change, 27(1), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.04.014
  • Fetzer, Thiemo (2014). Fracking growth. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1278). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Lei, Yu-Hsiang, Michaels, Guy (2014). Do giant oilfield discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts? Journal of Development Economics, 110, 139-157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2014.06.003
  • Wills, Samuel (2014). Optimal monetary responses to oil discoveries. (CFM discussion paper series CFM-DP2014-8). Centre For Macroeconomics.
    • 2013
  • Caselli, Francesco, Michaels, Guy (2013). Do oil windfalls improve living standards? Evidence from Brazil. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 5(1), 208-238. https://doi.org/10.1257/app.5.1.208
  • Urban, Frauke, Nordensvard, Johan, Khatri, Deepika, Wang, Yu (2013). An analysis of China’s investment in the hydropower sector in the Greater Mekong sub-region. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 15(2), 301-324. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-012-9415-z
    • 2012
  • Aghion, Philippe, Dechezlepretre, Antoine, Hemous, David, Martin, Ralf, Van Reenen, John (2012). Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change: evidence from the auto industry. (CEP Discussion Papers CEPDP1178). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Jedwab, Remi, Moradi, Alexander (2012-03-08) Revolutionizing transport: modern infrastructure, agriculture and development in Ghana [Paper]. Modern and Comparative seminar, London, United Kingdom, GBR.
    • 2011
  • Gatti, Rupert, Goeschl, Timo, Groom, Ben, Swanson, Timothy (2011). The biodiversity bargaining problem. Environmental and Resource Economics, 48(4), 609-628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9416-z
  • Lei, Yu-Hsiang, Michaels, Guy (2011). Do giant oilfield discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts? (Discussion Papers 1089). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Michaels, Guy (2011). The long term consequences of resource-based specialisation. The Economic Journal, 121(551), 31-57. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0297.2010.02402.x
  • Peñaranda, Francisco, Micola, Augusto (2011). On the drivers of commodity co-movement: evidence from biofuels. (Financial Markets Group Discussion Papers 695). Financial Markets Group, The London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • 2010
  • Burgess, Robin, Donaldson, Dave (2010). Can openness mitigate the effects of weather shocks? Evidence from India's famine era. American Economic Review, 100(2), 449-453. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.100.2.449
  • Michaels, Guy (2010). Challenges for research on resource-rich economies. (Kuwait Programme on Development, Governance and Globalisation in the Gulf States 8). London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
    • 2009
  • Caselli, Francesco, Cunningham, Tom (2009). Leader behavior and the natural resource curse. (CEP discussion papers 913). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Caselli, Francesco, Cunningham, Tom (2009). Leader behaviour and the natural resource curse. Oxford Economic Papers, 61(4), 628-650. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpp023
  • Caselli, Francesco, Michaels, Guy (2009). Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil. (CEP Discussion Paper 960). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance.
  • Krivonos, Ekaterina, Olarreaga, Marcelo (2009). Sugar prices, labor income, and poverty in Brazil. Economía, 9(2), 95 - 123. https://doi.org/10.1353/eco.0.0028 picture_as_pdf
    • 2007
  • Roy, Tirthankar (2007). A delayed revolution: environment and agrarian change in India. Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 23(2), 239-250. https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/grm011
    • 2006
  • Engel, Stefanie, López, Ramón, Palmer, Charles (2006). Community-industry contracting over natural resource use in a context of weak property rights: the case of Indonesia. Environmental and Resource Economics, 33(1), 73-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-005-1706-5
    • 2005
  • Bandiera, Oriana, Barankay, Iwan, Rasul, Imran (2005). Cooperation in collective action. Economics of Transition, 13(3), 473-498. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0351.2005.00228.x
  • Fankhauser, Samuel, Sjtol, Richard (2005). On climate change and economic growth. Resources and Energy Economics, 27(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2004.03.003
    • 1997
  • Van Reenen, John (1997). Why has Britain had slower R&D growth? Research Policy, 26(4-5.), 493-507. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0048-7333(97)00026-7