Rain Follows the Forest: Land Use Policy, Climate Change, and Adaptation -- by Florian Grosset-Touba, Anna Papp, Charles A. Taylor

This paper greatly benefited from comments by Francis Annan, Douglas Almond, Price Fishback, Eyal Frank, Robert Heilmayer, Rick Hornbeck, Solomon Hsiang, Gary Libecap, Kyle Meng, Ben Olken, Wolfram Schlenker, Jeffrey Shrader, Aaron Smith, Marco Tabellini, Andrew Waxman, Andrew Wilson, Brian Wright, and various seminar participants. Aidan McCullen, Yixian Liu, Elisée Amewouame and Baptiste Guybert provided excellent research assistance. AI tools were used to support this research. We are grateful to Dr Meagan Snow for sharing digitized Shelterbelt data. We acknowledge funding support from the Sustainable Development Chair at Ecole Polytechnique (DDX). All errors and omissions are our own. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.