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Marshall Burke

Marshall Burke

Center Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Assistant Professor of Earth System Science

Center on Food Security and the Environment
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-6055

mburke@stanford.edu
(650) 721-2203 (voice)
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Research Interests

Agricultural development; Climate effects on food security

Bio

Marshall Burke is Center Fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSI), and Assistant Professor of Earth System Science.  He received his BA in International Relations from Stanford in 2003, and his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Berkeley in 2014.  His research focuses on understanding how changes in environmental conditions affect a range of social and economic outcomes, and on understanding the causes and consequences of rural productivity improvements.  He has authored over 20 published papers, which have appeared in both economics and science journals, including Science, PNAS, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Economic Journal, and which have been cited over 2900 times.

Stanford Affiliations

Earth System Science

Publications

Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts
Climate and Conflict
Global non-linear effect of temperature on economic production
Income Shocks and HIV in Africa

Research

Climate and Agriculture: Models, Impacts, and Adaptation Strategies
Agricultural Decision-Making in Indonesia with ENSO Variability: Integrating Climate Science, Risk Assessment, and Policy Analysis
Feeding the World in the 21st Century: Exploring the Connections between Food Production, Health, Environmental Resources, and International Security
Impacts of ENSO Events on Chinese Rice Production and the World Rice Market
An Alternative Development Model: Assessing solar electrification for income generation in rural Benin
Agricultural Lives of the Poor
Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Palm Oil Production
Climate Change, Nutrition and Population Health

Topics

Agriculture
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Agriculture policy
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Climate change
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Conflict
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Food Security
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International Development
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International Relations
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Security