Exercise - Calibration

Replication of a paper on impacts of high temperature on agricultural yields.

Instructions

Due date: Friday October 11th, 7pm

Submission link (no email this time): https://forms.gle/eTr4ZdbZtiHYZ7ko7

Exercise: Follow the steps in the document describing the simulation.

Submission type: please submit your .html document (not a .qmd document), generated with Quarto, implementing the analysis required and answering the questions listed in the document describing the simulation.

Warning

Make sure to include the following lines as an option to your document (at the very top of your .qmd document, between the two series of ---. Don’t forget to remove the pre-existing format: html line, if there is one). It will produce a self-contained html, ie, a nicely rendered html that stands alone:

format:
  html:
    embed-resources: true

The goal of this exercise is to replicate a result from a paper, Burke and Emerick (2016), and explore the distribution of the variables in the associated dataset. We will then be able to use this to implement a simulation based. This paper aims to evaluate the potential impact of climate change on agricultural outcomes.

You will not need to read the paper for this exercise but at least glance through the introduction to understand what is at stake here.