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Wolfram Schlenker

  • Visiting Scholar

School of International and Public Affairs
Department of Economics
420 West 118th St
New York, NY, 10027

Biography

Wolfram Schlenker was a former Cargill Visiting Fellow at FSE. His research interests include the economics of climate change, water rights, and their impact on agricultural output, as well as models of exhaustible resources with endogenous discoveries.

Schlenker is currently Professor ineconomics at Columbia University.  He holds a PhD in agricultural and resource economics from the University of California, Berkeley (2003) and a Master of engineering and management sciences from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (2000), as well as a Master of environmental management from Duke University (1998).

publications

Journal Articles
August 2018

Estimating global agricultural effects of geoengineering using volcanic eruptions

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Journal Articles
February 2015

The effects of extremely wet planting conditions on maize and soybean yields

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Journal Articles
May 2014

Greater sensitivity to drought accompanies maize yield increase in the US Midwest

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In The News

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News

Warmer temperatures pose major risks to food production in sub-Saharan Africa

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