🆕 How competition between villages helped divided communities in Indonesia Today on VoxDev w/ Teevrat Garg (UCSD), Caterina Gennaioli (QMUL), Stefania Lovo (University of Reading) & Gregor Singer (LSE) discuss how competing for development grants helped build cohesion: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Submit your paper to our LSE/Imperial Workshop in Environmental Economics! 📅 June 10-11, 2025 | LSE, London 📬 Deadline: Feb 1 🌟 Collegial setting with cutting-edge research 📄 Full papers & ⏳ egg-timers for early careers 🎤 Keynote: Josh Graff Zivin 💵 No fee & 🏨 accommodation +🍴 meals covered 1/2

Our IFS report on air pollution is out! Good news first: air pollution (PM2.5) has HALVED in England since 2003, with a big drop during Covid. There's no rebound post Covid, somewhat puzzlingly. We use DEFRA data, monitoring station data shows the same thing. (1/7) ifs.org.uk/publications...

WP thread: “Measuring and Mitigating Racial Bias in LLM Mortgage Underwriting” with Don Bowen, McKay Price, and Ke Yang Our audit study asks AI to assess simple mortgage applications (real HMDA data w/ randomized race and credit scores) 🦶🦶🏼🦶🏿 Download lukeste.in/llmmortgage 1/

Excited to announce our wonderful research seminar lineup for the year! Looking forward to the diversity of topics.

Thanks Steve! Super useful. I thought I would not ask you to add me to a future Vol 2, but instead, do it :) So here is an attempt at Volume 2: go.bsky.app/MLNao24. A few spots left before we get to 50, so let me know if you want to be added.

Here is Vol. 1 of the Bluesky Energy & Environmental Economics starter pack. If your account is still active at the Nazi Bar, feel free to share there to help get new feeds primed--there are a lot of people here! Let me know if you'd like to be included in the next batch! bsky.app/starter-pack...