Papers | SOLOmon HSIANG
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)
Duffy, Field, Diffenbaugh, Doney, Dutton, Goodman, Heinzerling, Hsiang, Lobell, Mickley, Myers, Natali, Parmesan, Tierney, Williams, Science (2019)
S Hsiang, P Oliva, WR Walker, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (2019)
Dingel, Meng, and Hsiang, NBER Working Paper 25447 (2019)
Hsiang & Kopp, Journal of Economic Perspectives (2018)
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
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
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)
Graff Zivin, J. S.M. Hsiang, M. Neidell, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (2018)
Coverage: Washington Post
I Bolliger, T Carleton, S Hsiang, J Kadish, J Proctor, B Recht, E Rolf, V Shankar, Bloomberg Data for Good Exchange (2017)
Hsiang, Kopp, Jina, Rising, Delgado, Mohan, Rasmussen, Muir-Wood, Wilson, Oppenheimer, Larsen, Houser, Science (2017)
Perspective commentary by Billy Pizer
Resource page (simplified data output)
Full data archive
Selected coverage: Economist, NYT, Atlantic, AP, WP, TIME, USA Today, NPR, CBS, Newsweek, Reuters, Forbes
Deryugina, T., & S. Hsiang, NBER Working Paper 24072 (2016)
T.A. Carleton & S.M. Hsiang, Science (2016)
Coverage: Bloomberg, Xinhua, ClimateWire, NPR, Quartz, Chile Sustentable, Vvox, Guinee28, Afrique Expansion, East Online,
S. Hsiang & N. Sekar, NBER working paper 22314 (2016)
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,
S.M. Hsiang & A.H. Sobel, Scientific Reports (2016)
Coverage: Washington Post, Scientific American, Xinhua, Radio Santiago, GreenReport.it, TeInteresa.es, América Economíca, SinEmbargo.mx, Piac és Profit
Carleton, T.A., S.M. Hsiang, M. Burke, European Physical Journal Special Topics (2016).
Hsiang, S.M., Annual review of Resource Economics (2016)
Burke, M., M. Craxton, C. D. Kolstad, C. Onda, H. Allcott, E. Baker, L. Barrage, R. Carson, K. Gillingham, J. Graf-Zivin, M. Greenstone, S. Hallegatte, W.M. Hanemann, G. Heal, S. Hsiang, B. Jones, D. L. Kelly, R. Kopp, M. Kotchen, R. Mendelsohn, K. Meng, G. Metcalf, J. Moreno-Cruz, R. Pindyck, S. Rose, I. Rudik, J. Stock, R. S. J. Tol, Science (2016)
Camargo, S, SM Hsiang (2015) in Extreme Events: Observations, Modeling, and Economics Ed. Chavez, Ghil, & Urrutia-Fucugauchi
Burke, M, SM Hsiang, E Miguel, Nature (2015)
Nature News and Views by Thomas Sterner
Globe images of temperature and night-lights
Coauthor Ted Miguel presents results at the World Bank (Video)
Coverage: Nature, the Economist, NPR (radio), the Atlantic, AP, NYT, Reuters (video), LA Times, PBS, Financial Times, TIME, Technology Review, Fast Company, MSNBC, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Le Monde, Daily Mail, Fortune, World Economic Forum, MSNBC (video), Christian Science Monitor, Wired, Sydney Morning Herald, Le Scienze, Frankfurter Allgemeine, CBC (video), Vox, Guardian, Le Figaro, US News, Japan Times, China Daily, Khaleej Times, ABP, Quartz, Mashable, 250+ other outlets
Houser, T., R. Kopp, S.M. Hsiang, M. Delgado, A.S. Jina, K. Larsen, M. Mastrandrea, S. Mohan, R. Muir-Wood, DJ Rasmussen, J. Rising, P. Wilson, Columbia University Press (2015)
Climateprospectus.org (data, figures, more info)
UCTV interview about the project (28 min)
Coverage: The Economist, Bloomberg, New York Times (also, also), Wall Street Journal, Financial Times (also), Forbes, Reuters, TIME, Washington Post, National Geographic, NPR (also), Wired, Technology Review, Eos, 400+ other outlets.
Burke, M, SM Hsiang, E Miguel, Annual Review of Economics (2015)
Coverage: Washington Post, Grist, Grist (video), VICE, NBER Digest, Think Progress, La Repubblica, Clean Technica
Hsiang, S.M., A.S. Jina, NBER Working Paper 20352 (2014)
Coverage: The Economist, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Climate Central, National Review, Business Insider, Marginal Revolution, Smartweek, Dinero
Awarded Quartz Chart of the Year 2014
Deryugina, T., S.M. Hsiang, NBER Working Paper No. 20750 (2014)
Coverage: Associated Press, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, CBS, Boston Globe, Huffington Post, VOX, NBER Digest, International Business Times, Medical Daily, Five Thirty Eight, VICE, ClimateWire, Bangor Daily, Politico
Bohra-Mishra, P, M Oppenheimer, SM Hsiang, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
Coverage: Science, National Geographic, Scientific American, NPR
Cane, M.A., E. Miguel, M. Burke, S.M. Hsiang, D.B. Lobell, K.C. Meng, S. Satyanath, Nature Climate Change (2014)
Hsiang, S.M., M. Burke, E. Miguel, CEGA Working Paper 032 (2013)
Hsiang, SM, KC Meng, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014)
Hsiang, SM, M Burke, E Miguel, Science (2013)
Presentation slides (PDF, 55M)
TED talk by coauthor Ted Miguel
Talk at UC Berkeley (25 min), Full academic talk at USGS (1 hr)
Press Releases: Princeton, Berkeley
Coverage: CNN (video, print), BBC World Service, BBC print, Economist, PBS Newshour, NPR Science Friday, Associated Press, AFP, National Geographic, Scientific American, Nature, Aljazeera, 100+ other outlets
Listed as one of Discover's top 100 Science stories in 2013
Auffhammer, M, SM Hsiang, W Schlenker, AH Sobel, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (2013)
Anttila-Hughes JK, SM Hsiang, SSRN Working Paper (2012)
4-minute video summary (Berkeley Institute for Data Science Launch event)
Presentation slides (PDF, 16M)
Nontechnical description on our blog
Coverage: Wall Street Journal, CNN, the Atlantic, Slate, the Guardian, Yahoo News, New Scientist, California Magazine, Inter Press Service, Southern California Public Radio
Hsiang, SM (2012)
Code to produce visually-weighted nonparametric regression in Matlab and Stata (zipped, also contains replication code)
Hsiang, S.M., D. Narita, Climate Change Economics (2012)
Nontechnical description in Earth Magazine
Coverage: Chazen Global Insights
Hsiang, SM, KC Meng, MA Cane, Nature (2011)
News and Views by Andrew Solow
Supplementary Information Appendix (6M)
replication data and code (zipped, runs in STATA 11) (CSV, data only)
table of teleconnected and weakly-affect countries with GWNO codes (CSV, STATA)
grid of pixel assignments to teleconnected or weakly-affected coding (MATLAB, EXCEL, CSV) to remake Figure 1A
Google Earth file of ENSO teleconnections (data on cover image)
video to visualize ENSO teleconnections (MOV [10M], YouTube), PDF of images (10M)
Selected coverage: NPR, The Economist, BBC (World Service, print, BBC4), Washington Post, Financial Times, The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, TIME, CBC (print, radio), Reuters, AFP, Technology Review, The Independent, Voice of America, The World, Slate, Scientific American, The Australian, Guangming Daily, L'Express, La Stampa, Spiegel, Época, ABC, Science, Nature Climate Change, Significance Magazine, Global Post, other coverage (press release)
Hsiang, SM, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2010)
my nontechnical description on my blog
my nontechnical description in Earth Magazine
description of the LICRICE tropical cyclone model
Coverage: The Economist, The Washington Post, US News & World Report, Mother Jones, The Monkey Cage
Almås, Auffhammer, Bold, Bolliger, Dembo, Hsiang, Kitamura, Miguel, Pickmans, NBER Working Paper 25785 (2019)
Link to paper