Ariel Ortiz-Bobea

Biography

Ariel Ortiz-Bobea is Associate Professor in Applied Economics and Policy at Cornell University, with joint appointments in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and the Brooks School of Public Policy. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability. His research broadly focuses on how people cope and adapt to environmental change, particularly in agriculture. Prior to Cornell, he was a Fellow at Resources for the Future. Before graduate school, he served as Special Assistant to the Minister of the Environment of the Dominican Republic. He has won awards for his research and teaching and holds editorial responsibilities at various academic journals.

Education

PhD University of Maryland, College Park, 2013
MS University of Maryland, College Park, 2011
MPA Syracuse University, 2006
MEng AgroParisTech, 2004
BS Universite Paris-Saclay, 2001

Research

• Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel; Ault, Toby; Carrillo, Carlos; Chambers, Robert; Lobell, David. "Anthropogenic climate change has slowed global agricultural productivity growth"Nature Climate Change. 11 (2021): 306-312
• Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel; Chambers, Bob; He, Yurou; Lobell, David. "Large increases in public R&D investment are needed to avoid declines of US agricultural productivity"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122.11 (2025): e2411010122
• Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel; Pieralli, Simone. "Unpacking the growth of global agricultural greenhouse gas emissions"Science Advances. 12.3 (2026): 12
• Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel; Knippenberg, Erwin; Chambers, Robert. "Growing Climatic Sensitivity of US Agriculture Linked to Technological Change and Regional Specialization"Science Advances. 4.12 (2018)
• Blom, Sylvia; Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel; Hoddinott, John. "Heat exposure and child nutrition: Evidence from West Africa"Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. 115 (2022): 102698
• Addoum, Jawad; Ng, David; Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel. "Temperature Shocks and Industry Earnings News"Journal of Financial Economics. 150.1 (2023): 1-45
• Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel. "The Role of Nonfarm Influences in Ricardian Estimates of Climate Change Impacts on US Agriculture"American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 102.3 (2020): 934-959
• Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel; Wang, Haoying; Carrillo, Carlos; Ault, Toby. "Unpacking the climatic drivers of US agricultural yields"Environmental Research Letters. 14.6 (2019)
• Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel. "The Empirical Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Agriculture"Handbook of Agricultural Economics. Elsevier. 5 (2021): 3981-4073
• Addoum, Jawad; Ng, David; Ortiz-Bobea, Ariel. "Temperature Shocks and Establishment Sales"Review of Financial Studies. 33.3 (2020): 1331-1366

Awards

• Teaching Excellence, Graduate Program (2026) Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
• 2021 Outstanding Journal Article of the Year Award (2021) American Journal of Agricultural Economics
• Best Paper Award, 2021 Climate Change Workshop (2021) NeurIPS2021
• 2020 Best Paper Award (2020) American Journal of Agricultural Economics
• Dr. and Mrs. Bill V. Lessley Award for Dissertation Excellence (2013) Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, University of Maryland