"This study estimates the carbon-efficient forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon. A $10/ton carbon tax could preserve 95% of the efficient carbon stock, avoiding 42B tons of CO2 & yielding $1.6T in welfare gains."
From @araujocrrafael.bsky.social , @franciscocosta.bsky.social & Sant'Anna
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Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!
After being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.
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Ok it's finally actually out! And somehow...open access? 🧐 🤔 🧐
If they didn’t think research matters, they wouldn’t try to destroy it.
He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.
Thrilled to see this paper out! It shows how political interference in environmental licensing drives Amazon deforestation.
Now, we're seeing history repeat itself: pressure is mounting to approve oil drilling despite technical warnings (see below). Well, our paper doesn't bring good news...
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
James Baldwin
Herein lies a big difference between Brazil, where the rule of law still exists, and the US, where the Roberts Court decided to officially shred it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...
His vibe isn't much for transparency. His EO would be to delete all replication packages immediately, followed by a xenophobic post towards data editors in X.
An important line from @pkrugman.bsky.social today: “All I can promise is that those who continue to tell the truth as they see it will find it easier to live with themselves than those who don’t.”
📢 Call for Papers!
The 8th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics will be held in person at LSE on June 10-11, 2025.
✅ Submissions by Feb 1
📄 Full papers only (no abstracts)
🎤 Keynote: Prof. Josh Graff Zivin
🔗 Submit here: forms.gle/577G9RBZ1V79... #EnvEcon #EconSky
I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring.
The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)
Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:
Interesting. As a recent-ish dev-and-X economist, the flip side is being an X-economist doing research in LMICs and trying to publish in general interest or X-field journals. While this has improved, the emergence of 'dev-and-X' seems like a natural development (excuse the pun) of the field.
The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025 (23.59 UK time)
🔴 zurl.co/M8Nwy
This posting is arriving a bit late in the cycle, but please help circulate it widely!
Check it out! (ungated here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y1omw...)
Kirill, Xavier, and I tried hard to make this useful to wide groups of readers: new users of shift-share IVs, experienced users, and even those who don't know they that they are users
From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the December update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2024-25 cycle.
A thread with graphs follows...
#EconJobMarket
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RFP out for 2025 Structural Transformation of Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STARS) Fellowship, Cornell in collaboration with
WorldBank DECRG, @cgdev.org, PEP, and IICA. Research mentorship for early career (PhD not before 2019) economists working on development topics. 1/2
A very interesting new working paper by the greats Ashesh Rambachan, Rahul Singh, and @vivianodavide.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10959
It seems that this is another area where the empirical common practice was "too fast,'' and econometrics is catching up!
Cool and empirically relevant stuff!
The figure shows a massive rainfall event over the Amazon Rainforest. The picture, in black and white, highlights the composition of the clouds, the rainfall, and the forest.
After many iterations my paper on endogenous climate in deforestation modeling is reborn!
(an amazing photo from the one and only Sebastião Salgado:)
E incompetência mesmo.
JOB ALERT! I'm hiring pre-docs to work with me and my co-authors on a number of projects in Organizational Economics! Apply here: tinyurl.com/scur-predoc
#econsky send us your best undergrad or masters graduates and share widely!
New working paper by #UDelawareEconomics graduate student #GeraldIpapa--he's on the job market (environment/development/education), you all should interview him!
More depressing (but important to be aware of) news on the pollution-haven front: Indian firms have been increasing battery recycling in Africa, with (alas) predictable health consequences: grist.org/accountabili...
A new job mkt paper by Gerald Ipapa documents this: sites.google.com/view/geraldi...
Second that
My latest blog post, "What I’ve learned from being a journal editor" is now up. Short list below, read more here: deryugina.com/what-ive-lea...
🚨Call For Papers🚨7th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics. June 10th - 11th, 2024. Keynote: Kenneth Gillingham (Yale). Submission deadline: Feb 1.
