Research

Research Papers and Projects

 JOURNAL ARTICLES

7. Environmental Migration and Race during the Great American Drought, 1935–1940 (Christopher Sichko, Ariell Zimran, Aparna Howlader)  

(Conditionally Accepted, AJAE)  NBER Working Paper W33409

6. Howlader, A. (2024) "Environmental Recovery after the Dust Bowl: Implication of Land Policies in the Great Plains" ​Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 2024 11:2, 403-449 (Working Paper, Appendix) Online: doi.org/10.1086/726154​

5. Howlader, A. (2023) Bureaucratic competition and provision of public goods and services: the consequences of inter-agency conflict on agricultural land conservation, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, DOI: 10.1080/09640568.2023.2175647 (Working Paper)

4. Howlader, A. (2023) Determinants and Consequences of Large-Scale Tree Plantation Projects: Evidence from the Great Plains Shelterbelt Project, Land Use Policy, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2023.106785 (Working Paper)

3. Howlader, A., Ando, A.W. "Consequences of Protected Areas for Household Forest Extraction, Time Use, and Consumption: Evidence from Nepal." Environmental and Resource Econ 75, 769-808 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-020-00407-2 (Working Paper)

2. Ando, A., Howlader, A., & Mallory, M. (2018). Diversifying to Reduce Conservation Outcome Uncertainty in Multiple Environmental Objectives. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 1-19. doi:10.1017/age.2018.7  (Working Paper)

1. Ando, A.W., J. Fraterrigo, G. Guntenspergen, A. Howlader, M. Mallory, J. Olker, and S.Stickley. 2018.“When portfolio theory can help environmental investment planning to reduce climate risk to future environmental outcomes - and when it cannot" Conservation Letters. https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/conl.12596 (Working Paper)

WORKING PAPERS (Draft Available)

8. Howlader, A. "The Labor Market Impact of Technological Advancements: Evidence from the Green Revolution in Bangladesh" (Resubmitted,  AEPP) 

9. Howlader, A. ``Local Institutions, Natural Resource Management, and Federal Incentives: Implications of Post-Dust Bowl Institutional Changes on American Agriculture​'' (Submitted) 

10. ``Consequences of Land Retirement Policies on Agricultural Labor and Land Tenure: Evidence from the Historical Conservation Reserve Program in the U.S.'' (with Liqing Li) (Submitted)

11. Howlader, A. ``Rural-Urban Variation in Housing Inequality and Social Efficacy" (R & R, Housing and Society)

12. Howlader, A. "The Environmental and Employment Trade-offs of Conservation Programs: Evidence from the Civilian Conservation Corps (1933-2000)"

Work in Progress 

13. Howlader, A. ``Decoding Polycentric Governance: Analyzing Local Institutions' Annual Reports with Machine Learning" 

14. Howlader, A. "Wasteland (Marginal Land) Conversion and Environmental Consequences: Evidence from East Bengal’s 1950 Land Reforms"

15.  Suburban Growth Patterns: Analyzing Land Use Changes in Pennsylvania Municipalities (1930-2000) (with Malabika Koley) 

16. Impact of Dust Bowl Migrant Camps on Migration Patterns: Evidence from the Resettlement Administration (with Jhih-Yun Liu) 

17. Return Migration in the Great Plains: The Aftermath of World War II (with Jhih-Yun Liu)

18. The Impact of Dust Bowl Migration on Land Use Changes (with Jhih-Yun Liu)

19. Determinants of Land Acquisition for Conservation During the New Deal Era