Vis Taraz

Smith College

Assistant Professor of Economics

Northampton, MA 01063

United States

http://www.smith.edu/academics/faculty/vis-taraz

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1.

Temperature and Human Capital in India

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 28 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2020
Teevrat Garg, Maulik Jagnani and Vis Taraz
School of Global Policy and Strategy, UCSD, Cornell University, Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and Smith College
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Climate Change, Human Capital, Workfare, Agriculture

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Weather Shocks, Social Protection, and Crop Yields: Evidence from India

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 May 2018 Last Revised: 14 Oct 2019
Vis Taraz
Smith College
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Public Works, Workfare, Agriculture, Crop Yields, India, Climate Change, Adaptation

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Ethiopia’s Flagship Public Works Program Increases Tree Cover in Rural Areas and Sloped Terrains

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 25 Mar 2021
Kalle Hirvonen, Elia Machado, Andrew Simons and Vis Taraz
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), Dept. of Earth, Environmental, and Geospatial Sciences, City University of New York, Fordham University - Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and Smith College
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tree cover, public works, difference-in-difference

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Groundwater Depletion in India: Social Losses From Costly Well Deepening

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Forthcoming
Posted: 25 May 2018 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2018
Susan Sayre and Vis Taraz
Smith College - Department of Economics and Smith College

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Groundwater, India, Irrigation, Common Property Resource, Numerical Simulation, Dynamic Optimization, Well Capacity