We have a new CEPR Discussion Paper Air Quality and Conferences' Engagement with Tanu Gupta, Allen Huang, Valentina Londoño, @santisaap.bsky.social, @mattietoma.bsky.social ow.ly/UypV50X2ckG #CEPR_CCE #EconSky Thanks to @cagewarwick.bsky.social & @warwickecon.bsky.social for funding/support 1/4

Had a blast, as always. Wonderful meeting some of the old and new guard working on health and environmental econ topics. I learned so much from these thoughtful and kind scholars. And impeccable organization!

Of lead paint, bat phones, and school children www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/u...

Happy rejection day to all those who celebrate. Here's to mean and careless reviews: may they come back and bite you where the sun don't shine. Onwards and upwards #EconSky

All good things must end. Thanks @mdgordo.bsky.social and all the great crowd @pse.bsky.social for hosting me and spoiling me for the past couple of months!

Hey #EconSky: Suppose i have a bunch of variables, quite correlated, describing public transit accessibility of nbds. I want to get the causal effect of public transit accessibility on Y. How bad is it if I LASSO, then OLS on selected vars?

Not pictured: the crocs all of us were wearing in the beautiful casa della sostenibilità.

Having a blast, getting great feedback and some snow!

Apply and join us in Rome!

💥Excited💥 for a Workshop on Environmental & Health Economics! Join us in Rome on June 23-24, 2025. 👉🏻Keynotes by Matt Neidell and myself. ⏰ Deadline: April 15. Organized by Università Cattolica & GSSI Supported by: Eaere, Iaere. #Econsky

Excited about this workshop!

Lead is in many homes & can poison people. There are steps people can take to reduce the risk of poisoning, e.g., during renovations. It seems that the UK government should provide guidance, at the very least copying theor cousins at US EPA. I commented on this in an @financialtimes.com article.

Watching in shock. And signing.

Can't wait to visit, meet new people, and perhaps get some time on the slopes. I'm so rusty!

This will be fun! Already enjoying top notch hospitality @pse.bsky.social from @mdgordo.bsky.social for my sabbatical.

Sometimes it's reviewer 3, not 2. 😭

Every bit of this thread is 🔥, but this bit resonates especially. When I failed my first mkt I couldn't understand how ppl could say "everything will be ok". It turned out to be more than ok, after the grief, in part because I allowed myself to embrace unforeseen opportunities. No one size fits all.

How do we call it when a dude on a train repeatedly pushes my elbow off the armrest while I'm working on my laptop and they're reading a magazine? Elbowspreading?

Did you know lead is bad? Like really bad?

Super interesting report on air pollution in UK. It's getting better, but inequalities persist.

Last week I learned something new about lead poisoning: it's ALSO been associated with mental health disorders like anxiety and depression! (On top of physical health, cognitive, and impulse control effects). I wrote about it in the @uk.theconversation.com theconversation.com/leaded-petro...

Econ RA/Predoc Opportunity! Ben Feigenberg & I are looking for an RA to work with us on projects studying the impacts of restorative justice in schools. Apply here! uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... @econ_ra @UChicago @thisisUIC @HarrisPolicy @BeckerFriedman #EconSky

Superexcited to get to work on this project with Lorenzo Neri and Titir Bhattacharya. Thanks @nuffieldfoundation.org for their support.

Please submit your great papers to this EJ special issue, edited by the wonderful @albertobisin.bsky.social

🚨New WP Alert!🚨 When women become empowered, some men retaliate. Why? Which policies can mitigate this? We investigate male backlash in response to female empowerment in rural India (with @ccullen.bsky.social , Vecci, & Talbot-Jones). 🔗https://docs.iza.org/dp17450.pdf #EconSky 🧵👇 1/6

Can't wait to see all your amazing presentations in this beautiful setting!

Hey #EconSky! I am on the market this year. Check my profile for the thread with the paper! You can find all the other great candidates from Warwick at @warwickecon.bsky.social

It's that time of year when some forms say outstanding outstands exceptional and others that exceptional excepts outstanding. Anyways, here's my letter superenthusiasticalyfragilistically supporting this candidate whatever they want to do. #EconSky

Crosspost from the other side: Well, I guess I'm doing this now. *Anxious excitement* I'm revealing my side project now, a shiny interactive dashboard giving frictionless access to the data of the Ukraine Support Tracker (ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-a...) : infornomics.shinyapps.io/shinyukraine/

Well, I guess I should play the same game on this platform as well. I'm still (barely) on the job market. I finished a B.Sc. in Information Systems and worked at the Fraunhofer Institute in Kassel on DeepReinforcement Learning, Data- and Research Software Engineering, see: www.infornomics.de

Hey #EconSky who do I know that works with/on organizations serving newly arrived migrants and/or refugees to the US/UK?

Many of the environmental economists I admire the most graduated from this program. Must be something in the water!

Just want to highlight: we're hiring in England, if you're feeling like a change of scenery. Not the best place in the world, by any means, but reproductive rights are not under attack, for example.

We're hiring. 2 asst positions open. Our department is supportive of juniors, full of talented researchers who often cross field boundaries to produce unique research and who are also kind and thoughtful and fun humans. I've been super happy here. Apply! econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

And the quest for somebody who'll publish a null result that in the editor's words is "surprising, but nothing to learn here" goes on. Can somebody just create the journal of this thing that should totally have worked but didn't?

Day 1 in NYC. Achievement 🔓 Fellow human on the subway mentioning how beautiful he found the book I'm reading. 📖🚇

Dream group!!!

Bigotry+fascism. 🤮🤬 www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...

Do I know anyone who's involved with Title IX committees/work in a US university? Asking for a student who'd like to connect re: data & research.

Can't wait for this workshop!

So so so very happy for this award, for all those involved, but especially for Daron. Their work speaks for itself. From a human standpoint, everyone knows Daron to be generous with his time with students. In fact, he seems to create time out of nowhere for this.

Hey! Do I know anyone who will be in SF or Boston in early November and going to Delhi before mid-December who can take something small with them for the love of research? 🙏

Paper with Mary Evans & Jessamyn Schaller just conditionally accepted at RESTAT as a short paper! 🥂 🧵 below. Also, this is my third paper in RESTAT -- do I get a loyalty card? nber.org/papers/w31522

Hey hivemind: do we have a good reference in the econ literature for a discussion of pros/cons and effectiveness of climate policies aimed at individual action (e.g., nudges, subsidies) vs systemic policies (e.g., better transit, or support for renewables in the grid)? 🙏

So, the UK shut down it's last coal-fired power plant this week. Very proud of the country I live in, for once! 🥂 www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I've had the "have to take an exam" recurring dream. Now, the "I didn't print enough exams for all students" dream is next-level anxiety. Woke up in a puddle of sweat. And I'm on sabbatical...

Arghh. Been followed by a bunch of men who then think it's fine to just slide into DMs for no effing reason. This is worse than Twitter. Got no time. This is mostly about work. Just leave me the eff alone.

I don't remember who posted about this recently, maybe on the other site, but I just got an email from a high school student asking for mentorship on a research project, and like it's not my job? Welp.

Hey Econs on here, how many invites to be an external member for PhD committees do you accept a year? 📈📉