Research
My research focuses on the interaction of economic development and the environment. In particular, I am interested in the impacts of improved market access and property rights on land use and natural resources such as fish stocks, forests, and biodiversity. I use mathematical models to guide my empirical analysis and to derive testable predictions. I often collaborate with environmental scientists to better understand and quantify the environmental changes and drivers.
I am co-PI of the Wildlife and Conservation Economics Laboratory which hosts the profiles of my lab members.
Working Papers
Graduate students are underlined.
Rural-Urban Migration and the Re-organization of Agriculture
with Raahil Madhok, Mushfiq Mobarak, and Olivier Deschnes. Yale Economic Growth Center Working Paper.
Ecology of scope and the productivity of small-scale farming
with Martin Quaas
The Impact of Multinational Firms on the Environment
with Dominic Rohner and Tommaso Sonno (Draft available upon request)
Publications
Graduate students are underlined.
The long shadow of biodiversity loss
Ashley Larsen, Dennis Engist, Frederik Noack, Science, 2024.
Environmental Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops
Frederik Noack,…, Claire Kremen, Science, 2024.
The impact of genetically modified crops on bird diversity
Dennis Engist, Laura Melissa Guzman, Ashley Larsen, Frederik Noack, Nature Sustainability, 2024.
Spillover effects of organic agriculture on pesticide use on nearby fields
Ashley Larsen, Frederik Noack, Claire Powers, Science, 2024.
Covered among others by Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Science, and Los Angeles Times.
Nature’s Decline and Recovery – Structural Change, Regulatory Costs, and the Onset of Resource Use Regulation
Marie-Catherine Riekhof and Frederik Noack, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024.
Credit markets, property rights, and the commons
Frederik Noack and Christopher Costello, Journal of Political Economy, 2024.
Crop diversity buffers the impact of droughts and high temperatures on food production.
Delphine Renard, Lucie Mahaut, and Frederik Noack, Environmental Research Letters, 2023.
The Land Use Consequences of Rural to Urban Migration
Julia Brewer, Ashley Larsen, and Frederik Noack, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2022.
A bird’s eye view of farm size and biodiversity: The ecological legacy of the iron curtain
Frederik Noack, Ashley Larsen, Johannes Kamp, and Christian Levers, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2022.
Saving the world from your couch: The heterogeneous medium-run benefits of COVID-19 lockdowns on air pollution
Jean-Philippe Bonardi, Quentin Gallea, Dimitrija Kalanoski, Rafael Lalive, Raahil Madhok, Frederik Noack, Dominic Rohner and Tommaso Sonno, Environmental Research Letters, 2021.
The study was covered by The Conversation, the National Post, Global News, Spice Radio and other news outlets.
Human casualties are the dominant cost of human–wildlife conflict in India
Sumeet Gulati, Krithi K. Karanth, Nguyet Anh Le & Frederik Noack, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021.
Impact of local and landscape complexity on the stability of field-level pest control
Ashley Larsen & Frederik Noack, Nature Sustainability, 2021.
Resource abundance and education
Frederik Noack, Economic Development & Cultural Change, 2020.
The contrasting effects of farm size on farm incomes and food production.
Frederik Noack & Ashley Larsen, Environmental Research Letters, 2019.
Droughts, Biodiversity, and Rural Incomes in the Tropics.
Frederik Noack, Marie-Catherine Riekhof & Salvatore Di Falco, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019
Climate, crops, and forests: a pan-tropical analysis of household income generation.
Sven Wunder, Frederik Noack & Arild Angelsen, Environment and Development Economics, 2018. Link to the working paper.
Development in a Dual Economy: The Importance of Resource-Use Regulation.
Frederik Noack, Marie-Catherine Riekhof & Martin Quaas, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2018. Link to the working paper.
Identifying the landscape drivers of agricultural insecticide use leveraging evidence from 100,000 fields.
Ashley Larsen & Frederik Noack, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017
Separate or mixed production of timber, livestock and biodiversity in the Caspian Forest.
Frederik Noack, Michael Manthey, Jack Ruitenbeek, & Marvie Mohadjerd, Ecological Economics, 2010.