Valuing Disaster Prevention: Desert Locust Monitoring and Control

We thank Kathy Baylis, Susanna Berkouwer, Fiona Burlig, Koichiro Ito, Namrata Kala, Ryan Kellogg, Eduardo Montero, Paulina Oliva, and Ed Rubin for their helpful comments, as well as seminar participants at the NBER Summer Institute, AERE, the Virtual Sustainable Development Seminar, University of Wisconsin Madison, University of Arizona, EPIC Junior Workshop, Oregon State University, University of California San Diego, the Yinghua He Empirical Micro Workshop, CREM (Rennes~1), the TWEEDS workshop, the Occasional Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics, the LSE Environment Week, and the University of British Columbia. We thank Michael Caosun, Nadia Fitriani, Miriam Gold, Lily Grier, Kate Habich, Riley Morrison, and Shwetha Srinivasan for excellent research assistance. We wish to thank Keith Cressman for providing data and answering our questions regarding locust monitoring by the FAO, Amir Ayali for taking time to answer questions about locust behaviour, and Ram Fishman for his contributions at an early stage of this project. Anouch Missirian acknowledges financial support from the Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (EUR CHESS # ANR-17-EURE-0010). Amir Jina and Eyal Frank acknowledge financial support from the Predoctoral Program in Policy at the University of Chicago. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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