A. Development

1. Bellemare, M. F. (2018). Contract farming: opportunity cost and trade‐offs. Agricultural Economics, 49(3), 279-288.

2. Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S., & Robinson, J. A. (2001). The colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation. American economic review, 91(5), 1369-1401. 

3. Xia, F., & Deininger, K. (2019). Spillover effects of tobacco farms on the labor supply, education, and health of children: Evidence from Malawi. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 101(4), 1181-1202. 

4. Mkondiwa, M. (2023). Is wealth found in the soil or in the brain? Investing in farm people in Malawi. Review of Development Economics, 27(1), 134-157. 

5. Carleton, T., Jina, A., Delgado, M., Greenstone, M., Houser, T., Hsiang, S., ... & Zhang, A. T. (2022). Valuing the global mortality consequences of climate change accounting for adaptation costs and benefits. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 137(4), 2037-2105. 

6. Fetzer, T. (2020). Can workfare programs moderate conflict? Evidence from India. Journal of the European Economic Association, 18(6), 3337-3375. 

B. Methods (Mostly microeconometrics)

1. Abadie, A. (2005). Semiparametric difference-in-differences estimators. The review of economic studies, 72(1), 1-19. 

2. Mellon, J. (2024). Rain, rain, go away: 194 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable. American Journal of Political Science.