🆕 Climate adaptation and vulnerability in Mexico Today on VoxDev w/ IEA, Sandra Aguilar-Gomez (Technologico de Monterrey) discusses why a one-size-fits-all approach to climate change won’t work in Mexico: https://voxdev.org/topic/energy-environment/climate-adaptation-and-vulnerability-mexico

Traveling to @aereorg.bsky.social in NM tonight. I was not able to check in online despite having a return flight w/ the same airline. Here I am, stressed as hell at the airport, hoping that I can make it to the conference. I might attend the European version until 2029 if today does not go well.

🤩🥂 thrilled that this paper with Eva Arceo and Elia de l Cruz will be out soon at JDE! Also, this makes two published/accepted dissertation chapters and one in RR. Can’t complain!

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

I wrote a short essay reflecting on what “AI” means for academia. All my academic friends should probably now disown me. open.substack.com/pub/thepoorr...

Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

Very cool opportunity - PhDs in environmental econ definitely consider applying!

Philanthropic organizations after universities? Again if you have paid attention to Russia and Hungary a decade ago, you should expect this to happen soon.

It’s out! My first book chapter 🥰 📖 I loved the process of finding my voice to write this piece. 🔗 www.routledge.com/Equity-in-th...

Thank you so much for sharing our research! This working paper is the result of two years of work and hundreds of information requests. More findings soon 🔜

If only there were a group of prestigious universities that could coordinate. A "league" of sorts. Given the classic ivy draping buildings on college campuses maybe we could use that type of symbol to unite them.

And in Mexico, @sandraguilarg.bsky.social shows that drought ⬆️ IPV in multiple admin data sources (even in a middle-income country)! publications.iadb.org/en/droughts-... A lot here to dig into in terms of understanding this important climate/violence relationship

Extreme heat events are not only a direct #health threat, but also a systems-level shock to #healthcare delivery. Addressing the indirect effects of #climatechange is an essential component of climate adaptation. @sandraguilarg.bsky.social, J Graff Zivin, M Neidell cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

"Very thrilled to share my new working paper on..."

Excited to be at LAERE 2025 Conference! Interesting opening keynote by @juanpablorud.bsky.social on natural resource-deriven cash windfalls and local economic development in Peru 🇵🇪

New WP alert! 🚨

Err, guys, we’ve done this. It went really bad.

Extreme heat leads to surges in healthcare demand that generate hospital congestion and spillover impacts on other patients, from Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Matthew J. Neidell https://www.nber.org/papers/w33491

New WP alert! 🚨

#Environmental degradation poses a #publicpolicy challenge, particularly impacting the Global South, where women & girls often experience greater burdens from #climatechange & #airpollution than men & boys. Read more: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/link/U-Andes...

Domingo 12pm. Alguien pidió UN PAN por Rappi. ¿Cuál es el ingreso del repartidor para que el viaje valga la la pena? ¿Qué desigualdad existe para que a alguien le convenga tercerizar bajar por el pan? ¿Qué indolencia ambiental dado que quizá ese viaje se hizo en coche o moto?

is it woke to want to end cancer?

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

This is fantastic: a 68 country data set with perceptions of science, science communication and climate attitudes. Featured in @nature.com Led by the formidable @nielsmede.bsky.social What a resource! Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proofs day!! It’s proofs day!!! 🚨 This manuscript that took a year for us to review will self-destruct in 48 hours if you don’t return proofs within that period!! 💣 (Still, proofs day 🥂!)

🚨New dataset alert 🚨 In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico! Download here: www.banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/... #EconSky #Mexico

#EconSky are people clustering SE by running variable in their RDDs these days? I am finding conflicting advice in recent textbooks… e.g Cattaneo et al 2024 handbook explains how to do it but Cunningham’s Mixtape and Huntington-Klein’s The Effect say DON’T!!

@sandraguilarg @sandraguilarg.bsky.social: environment + gender sandraaguilargomez.com @Dweepobotee @dweepobotee.bsky.social: applied econometrics + machine learning sites.google.com/view/dweepob... @sallyzhangecon @sallyzhangecon.bsky.social: intrahh dynamics www.zhangsally.com

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A pretty straightforward explanation of what is to be gained from dismantling the US federal administrative state via DOGE (from Tooze's latest Chartbook)

Woke up 5:30 ☀️ Biked through ciclovía 🚲 Breakfast: tinto, arepa’e’huevo & caldo de papa ☕️ I deserve the dual nationality 🇨🇴 🇲🇽

Still getting much more impressions and interactions on the other place, contrary to what some other (mostly US-based) economists have experienced. This is your weekly reminder that Econsky is very US-biased and still disconnected from the general public.

We are thrilled to have Jim Robinson visiting Universidad de los Andes for a tribute to his continuing alliance with the university and the country, and to hear insights about his motivations and trajectory. #EconSky

We would call this a burn SHEINBAUM: “President Trump, it isn’t with threats or tariffs that we resolve the migratory phenomenon or the abuse of drugs in the United States.” CANADA: “Our relationship today is balanced and mutually beneficial, particularly for American workers” surl.li/euarhh

“One tariff would be followed by another in response, and so on until we put at risk common businesses,” Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum said, warning that tariffs would cause inflation and job losses in both countries. “What sense is there?”

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Latinos: the glass once contained delicious mole

Can someone over here please tell me a decent Trump’s cabinet appointment? I need a bit of hope (?)

Papers written by non-white economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those written by white economists. This disparity is not attributable to differences in research quality, author ability, or visibility. However, this racial gap has declined by quite a bit in recent years.

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

+++NEW ANALYSIS: China’s CO2 emissions have now caused more global warming than EU+++ Our new analysis comes as the "principle of historical responsibility" is being cited in #COP29 talks on a new climate finance goal THREAD with details, caveats + bonus chart www.carbonbrief.org/...#COP291/12

I’m thrilled to introduce six outstanding economics job market candidates from the PhD program in Sustainable Development at Columbia. Each of them brings a unique perspective and cutting-edge research in environmental economics and applied topics. #EconTwitter #EconJMP #EconJMC #EconJobMarket

Nothing ever compares to Mexican breakfasts. Scrambled eggs with morita chile and maguey worms sauce, with a side of pickled nopales 🌵.

Presentation day!

Seeing your work (in progress) in print >>>>>>

Help! #academicsky