Infectious diseases are emerging globally at an unprecedented rate while global food
demand is projected to increase sharply by 2100. Here, we synthesize the pathways by …

Mosquito‐borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of
these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly to temperature …

Background Relative prices of healthy/unhealthy foods have been implicated in the obesity
epidemic, but never extensively quantified across countries or empirically linked to …

This article studies the global variation in economic preferences. For this purpose, we
present the Global Preference Survey (GPS), an experimentally validated survey data set of …

A large literature on persistence finds that many modern outcomes strongly reflect
characteristics of the same places in the distant past. However, alongside unusually high t …

Agricultural production in sub-Saharan Africa has, in recent times, remained lower than the
rest of the world. Many attribute this to factors inherent to Africa and its people, such as …

BACKGROUND Traditionally, research into contemporary economic development has taken
a primarily ahistorical approach. The study of the past was relegated to the separate field of …

Across the social sciences, a key question is how societies manage to enforce cooperative
behavior in social dilemmas such as public goods provision or bilateral trade. According to …

We examine intergenerational mobility (IM) in educational attainment in Africa since
independence using census data. First, we map IM across 27 countries and more than 2800 …

We investigate the role of national institutions on subnational African development in a novel
framework that accounts for both local geography and cultural-genetic traits. We exploit the …