🌳⚡ Our new paper — Powerful Forests — shows that Amazon deforestation is not only an environmental problem. It is also an energy market problem. Forests sustain rainfall → rainfall sustains rivers → rivers sustain hydropower → hydropower supplies most of Brazil's electricity.

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Deforestation is out now! Senior Editors @franciscocosta.bsky.social & @allanhsiao.bsky.social (@stanford.edu) review economic research on deforestation. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/de...

"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 #EconSky 👇

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.

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...

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:

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 #EconSky @aeainformation.bsky.social @aeacswep.bsky.social @joelistings.bsky.social 1/9

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!

After many iterations my paper on endogenous climate in deforestation modeling is reborn! (an amazing photo from the one and only Sebastião Salgado:)

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...

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.

trying to make it to the weekend

Imagine Cookie Monster has been pledging to lose weight for 28 years to no avail. Today we're celebrating he used the word "cookie" for the first time. What a joke. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/c...

I’m immensely proud of Rafael and thankful to @aereorg.bsky.social for this recognition!

This is pretty cool https://declaredesign.org Simulated power analysis, made easy

🚨 Call for Papers —Conference on the economics of migration in Latin America, Mar. 14–15 in Washington —Featuring top researchers @sandrarozo.bsky.social @dmckenzie.bsky.social @claireadida.bsky.social et al., run by HUMANS network of LACEA —With a keynote by me —Submissions due 🔜 December 15

Apply to this amazing conference with @mclem.org and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes as keynote speakers, and a panel with @dmckenzie.bsky.social and @claireadida.bsky.social! I learned so much from so many experts on migration last Spring, and I hope to be able to attend again next year!

More UDelaware Economics Department hiring! TT assistant professor macro + advanced assistant in devo, HH finance, IO, labor, macro: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... Also, tenured applied micro: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... Northeast corridor, nifty colleagues, totally rad department chair.

Welcome to #EconSky Manaswini Rao @manaswini.bsky.social! Manaswini is a development/organizations/institutions economist and my UDelaware Economics colleague. More on her work: manaswinirao.com

Since August, Manaus in the Amazon has been covered with smoke from forest fires with little public awareness. That’s unfortunate. Rafael Araujo, Teevrat Garg, and I studied what happened when Amazon forest fires went viral in August 2019.

QT with 10 of your favorite novels One Hundred Years of Solitude Pachinko Demian Stoner Butcher's Crossing The Dutch House White Teeth The picture of Dorian gray No country for old man 1984

"The Conservation Multiplier" (JPE '23) shows that the mere expectation of future lobbying can cause immediate resource extraction, as deforestation. Conservation policies must take this into account. Thanks @juliakane.bsky.social for popularizing the research: www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/how...

UD is hiring one tenured (US focus) and one advanced AP. For those who don't know (as I didn't), Delaware is a small blue state, very green, and affordable. The university is within commuting distance to Philly and 2 hrs from NYC and DC. + great & generous colleagues! Pls share & apply!

climate / energysky folks: @givinggreen.bsky.social is seeking (paid!) external reviewers to enhance the accuracy, depth, and credibility of our evaluations -- specifically in geothermal, shipping, and aviation. let us know here if you can help: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A new invaluable resource for those eager to work with remote sensing data! Seriously. #envecon link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Some news: I have joined the Board of Reviewing Editors (BoRE) at Science. Part of the remit is to encourage more high-quality economics submissions. So here’s a long-ish thread on why, what, and how you should submit to Science, as well as some details on the editorial process 1/n