Ram Fishman

Biographic Data

ID3708289
NAMERam Fishman
GIVEN NAMESRam
FAMILY NAMEFishman
SIGNATUREFISHMAN R
AFFILIATIONSTel Aviv University
ORCID0000-0003-0381-9153
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS18
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Mixed correlations between groundwater extraction in India and accumulation of physical and human capital

    Open AccessHoward Tobochnik, Esha Zaveri et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2025

    The idea of weak sustainability posits that the exploitation of a natural resource, even if it depletes it, could be accompanied by investments in man-made forms of capital that may help maintain human wellbeing in the long run. Here, we conduct an initial test of the empirical evidence that such investments were made in the context of groundwater extraction in India. Irrigation with groundwater has played a crucial role in India’s rural developm…

  • Decentralized Renewable Energy and Socioeconomic Disparities

    Open AccessYuval Dagan Chudner, Ram Fishman et al.ARTICLEUrban Science2025References: 9

    Decentralized renewable energy (DRE) has emerged as a key tool for global energy transition and emissions reduction. While DRE has the potential to democratize energy production, evidence suggests it may cause unequal benefit distribution across population groups. This study provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of DRE distribution patterns across all Israeli municipalities, examining policy implications for equitable energy transit…

  • Environmental taxation triggers persistent psychological resistance to climate policy

    Open AccessNechumi Malovicki Yaffe, Boaz Hameiri et al.ARTICLEPolicy Sciences2025Cited by: 1References: 1

    Environmental taxation is often lauded as an effective tool for changing consumer behavior, but it can also trigger substantial psychological resistance, especially among disproportionately affected groups, such as the Jewish ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) community, potentially creating a broad anti-environmental backlash. In the current study we provide novel empirical evidence for the psychological mechanisms that can drive such reactance and its pot…

  • Puzzlingly low utilization of solar irrigation pumps by smallholders in Nepal undermines cost-effectiveness

    Open AccessDan Oziel, Aditi Mukherji et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2024

    Solar powered irrigation pumps (SIP) hold substantial potential for low carbon irrigation expansion, particularly where affordable electricity is limited. In contrast to diesel-based irrigation, which carries steep fuel costs, irrigation by SIP requires zero marginal costs, but high initial investments. This makes their competitiveness with diesel pumps highly dependent on the temporal frequency of their usage. Using unique and detailed data on S…

  • Economic factors mediate the impact of drought on farmer suicides in India

    Open AccessYoav Rothler, David Blakeslee et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2024References: 5

  • Efficient irrigation and water conservation: Evidence from South India

    Open AccessRam Fishman, Xavier Giné et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2023References: 2

    Widespread adoption of efficient irrigation technologies, including drip irrigation, has been proposed to limit groundwater over-exploitation, especially in water-stressed South Asia. This paper evaluates the potential productivity and water-saving benefits of smallholder drip irrigation by conducting a randomized control trial in Andhra Pradesh, India. A group of well-owners was offered a subsidy to adopt drip irrigation, while a comparable grou…

  • Can Agricultural Extension and Input Support Be Discontinued? Evidence from a Randomized Phaseout in Uganda

    Ram Fishman, Stephen C Smith et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2022

    Many development programs that attempt to disseminate improved technologies are limited in duration because of external funding constraints or an assumption of impact sustainability, but there is limited evidence on whether and when terminating such programs is efficient. We provide novel experimental evidence on the impacts of a randomized phaseout of an agricultural extension and subsidy program that promotes improved inputs and cultivation pra…

  • Agriculture, irrigation and drought induced international migration: Evidence from Mexico

    Open AccessRam Fishman, Shan LiARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change2022Cited by: 4References: 5

  • Irrigation and the spatial pattern of local economic development in India

    Open AccessDavid Blakeslee, Aaditya Dar et al.ARTICLEJournal of Development Economics2022Cited by: 5References: 8

    We study the long-term impact of large-scale irrigation infrastructure on the composition of local economic activity in India. Our analysis uses high-resolution spatial data covering approximately 150,000 villages and towns and exploits spatial discontinuities in the coverage of irrigation projects. Irrigation increases agricultural output, wealth, and population density in rural villages. However, in towns it reduces population and nightlight de…

  • Urban diversity and epidemic resilience: The case of the Covid-19

    Open AccessRavit Hananel, Ram Fishman et al.ARTICLECities2022Cited by: 5References: 60

  • The impact of groundwater depletion on agricultural production in India

    Open AccessNishan Bhattarai, Adrienne Pollack et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    India relies on groundwater irrigation to produce staple grain crops that provide over half of the calories consumed by its over 1.3 billion people. While groundwater has helped India achieve grain self-sufficiency, aquifers have been overexploited across much of the country and its implications for crop production are unclear. To understand how groundwater depletion affects staple grain (wheat, rice, maize, pearl millet, and sorghum) production …

  • Should long-term climate change adaptation be focused on smallholders

    Open AccessShira Bukchin-Pele, Shira Bukchin-Peles et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2021

    Smallholder agriculture employs the majority of the global poor and produces substantial shares of food in developing countries while also being highly vulnerable to environmental change. This makes it a focus of numerous policies for increased productivity and climate change adaptation. Given demographic and economic processes that are likely to reduce smallholder prevalence, how justified is this focus from a long-term perspective? We estimate …

  • More uneven distributions overturn benefits of higher precipitation for crop yields

    Open AccessRam FishmanARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2016

    Climate change is expected to lead to more uneven temporal distributions of precipitation, but the impacts on human systems are little studied. Most existing, statistically based agricultural climate change impact projections only account for changes in total precipitation, ignoring its intra-seasonal distribution, and conclude that in places that will become wetter, agriculture will benefit. Here, an analysis of daily rainfall and crop yield dat…

  • Can improved agricultural water use efficiency save India’s groundwater

    Open AccessRam Fishman, Naresh Devineni et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2015

    Irrigated agriculture is placing increasing pressure on finite freshwater resources, especially in developing countries, where water extraction is often unregulated, un-priced and even subsidized. To shift agriculture to a more sustainable use of water without harming the food security and livelihoods of hundreds of millions of smallholders, substantial improvements of water use efficiency will be required. Here, we use detailed hydroclimatic and…

  • Three necessary conditions for establishing effective Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene

    Open AccessAlbert V Norström, Astrid Dannenberg et al.ARTICLEConservation Ecology2014Cited by: 3

    Norström, A. V., A. Dannenberg, G. McCarney, M. Milkoreit, F. Diekert, G. Engström, R. Fishman, J. Gars, E. Kyriakopoolou, V. Manoussi, K. Meng, M. Metian, M. Sanctuary, M. Schlüter, M. Schoon, L. Schultz, and M. Sjöstedt. 2014. Three necessary conditions for establishing effective Sustainable Development Goals in the Anthropocene. Ecology and Society 19(3): 8. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06602-190308

  • Modeling Irrigated Area to Increase Water, Energy, and Food Security in Semiarid India

    Tobias Siegfried, Stefan Sobolowski et al.ARTICLEWeather, Climate, and Society2010

    Because of declining public investments in irrigation projects in India, the growth of irrigated agricultural production has increasingly become reliant on unsustainable allocation of groundwater. As a result, groundwater resources are increasingly depleted and their role in buffering climate variability is lost. Given future climate and food supply uncertainty under mounting population pressure, it is vital that the connections between climate v…