new data collected to identify low-, medium-, and high-erosion counties, the Dust Bowl is estimated to have immediately …

less likely to invest in erosion control than were larger farmers. Soil Conservation Districts, established by government … environmental crises in North America in the 20th Century. Severe drought and wind erosion hit the Great Plains in 1930 and lasted … through 1940. There were similar droughts in the 1950s and 1970s, but no comparable level of wind erosion. We explain why. The …

Intensive agriculture and deep plowing resulted in top-soil erosion and dust storms during the 1930s. These effects …-utero and early-life exposure to top-soil erosion caused by the Dust Bowl of the 1930s on old-age longevity. Specifically, we … difference-in-difference designs to compare the longevity of individuals in high/medium versus low top-soil erosion counties post …

causal evidence on the economic drivers of biodiversity loss using a novel panel dataset on the types and quantities of … pollution as underlying contributors to contemporaneous biodiversity declines …

This paper summarizes in non-technical terms the economic case for conserving biodiversity, and explains why we cannot … rely on market forces to do this task. It reviews the policy interventions that could help in biodiversity conservation …

Crop biodiversity has the potential to enhance resistance to strains due to biotic and abiotic factors and to improve … crop production and farm revenues. To investigate the effect of crop biodiversity on crop productivity, we build a …

The use of private capital to finance biodiversity conservation and restoration is a new practice in sustainable … finance. This study sheds light on this new practice. First, we provide a conceptual framework that lays out how biodiversity … types of financing is the "monetization" of biodiversity, that is, the extent to which investments in biodiversity can …

We explore the effects of physical and regulatory risks related to biodiversity loss on economic activity and asset … values. We first develop a news-based measure of aggregate biodiversity risk and analyze how it varies over time. We also … construct and publicly release several firm-level measures of exposure to biodiversity risk, based on textual analyses of firms …

econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …