Excited to have this WP out! We use a real-stakes survey experiment to measure misperceptions about air pollution/health impacts & test whether updating beliefs changes WTP for clean air We find large misperceptions, but not strong evidence that rectifying these would close Black-White WTP gaps

“Floods are ‘acts of God,’ but flood losses are largely acts of man.” Gilbert White www.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/o...

The U.S. has seen a manufacturing boom since the Inflation Reduction Act, especially in the emerging Southeastern battery belt. But these projects and associated jobs are potentially at risk with proposed changes to tax credits.

I can't believe this. Simon Yates is going to win the Giro d'Italia on the Colle delle Finestre stage, where he lost 26 minutes and lost the Giro in 2018. This is absolutely poetry. 👏 #Giroditalia

Forthcoming in the AER: "Power Flows: Transmission Lines, Allocative Efficiency, and Corporate Profits" by Catherine Hausman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Fun surprise seeing this on the @nber.org homepage as today’s featured WP!

I hope everyone is excited for #IIOC2025 at Drexel LeBow in Philadelphia starting Friday May 2! On Friday, we have the Rising Star Sessions at 5, followed by the Cocktail Party sponsored by Analysis Group. A whole lot of great sessions on Saturday and Sunday. See you there IOs!

Always fun to step back from [waves hands around] to do a thread on new accepted research. Happy to share the release of our paper "Show me the Money! A Field Experiment on EV Charge Timing" in AEJ:Policy today. Co-authors: Megan Bailey, David Brown & Frank Wolak [thread]

Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Colluding against Environmental Regulation," from Alé-Chilet, Chen, @jingli-econ.bsky.social and Reynaert: www.restud.com/colluding-ag... #EconSky #REStud #pollution #regulation #collusion

🆕 Just accepted 🆕 in JAERE: "The Distributional Consequences of Incomplete Regulation" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social) Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #EconSky 📈 📉

May his memory be a blessing. #econsky obituaries.startribune.com/obituary/pat...

Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (@s-stantcheva.bsky.social) of @harvard.edu, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

Recently the President ordered that coal generators don’t need to comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS). My forthcoming JPE paper with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Wendan Zhang on uncertainty surrounding MATS, so it seems like it’s time for a thread! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Tamma Carleton, Esther Duflo, Kelsey Jack, & Guglielmo Zappalà explore the literature on two main forms of #climate adaptation (ex-post and ex-ante), outline how each can evaluate #policy, and consider how they can directly inform policy design and implementation. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

This is very big deal! Removing info of both intrinsic AND instrumental value: Yang and coauthors found the GHG Reporting Program reduced emissions at regulated plants by 7%! www.nber.org/system/files...

I’m probably biased, but I’m a big fan of this paper! Fantastic evidence on a very timely subject AND a very approachable intro to estimating dynamic games. #econsky

Recently accepted to @reveconstudies.bsky.social, "Industrial Policy Implementation: Empirical Evidence from China’s Shipbuilding Industry" from Barwick, Kalouptsidi and Bin Zahur: www.restud.com/industrial-p...

Happy my JMP is (finally) coming out! The JAERE review process was wonderful and improved the paper a lot. Thank you to all who helped see this project through.

Just released an updated version of our working paper w/ Joe Aldy looking at Army Corps levees: 🏘️Protected home values ⬆️3-4% 🌊Risk transfer: nearby home values ⬇️1-5% ⚖️Racial sorting on flood risk post-construction 🏛️Appropriation process likely affects distribution of impacts Comments welcome! 👇

1/19: Seems timely to share a paper which explores how people perceive & understand trade and trade policies. Which factors shape the support for different trade policies? Thread below with the key takeaways #EconTwitter 🧵, and full paper here: socialeconomicslab.org/understandin...

Excited to see this paper coming out in JAERE! The idea for this came from casual conversations very early in the PhD, so it's nice to see it find such a wonderful home! JAERE's review process was super helpful. Alternative title: "Why your recreation demand model probably needs a price instrument"

Half of all new US EV registrations, 2012–2023, went to the top 10 percent most Democratic counties, from Lucas W. Davis, Jing Li, and Katalin Springel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33591

Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy: We find that consumer product markups increased more than 25 percent from 2006 to 2019. One contribution is an approach to estimate IO-style models at scale, yielding flexible consumer preferences and estimates of marginal costs.

I have consistently taught my (pretty international!) students that one reason I use US examples all the time is because we have unusually fantastic data through EIA. EIA staff are some of the most responsive in the biz. This is very stupid.

Gordon Leslie and I are thrilled to see this paper in print. A summary in three posts: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Guys talk about getting the sign wrong on policy!!! Government R&R accounted for 1/5 of total TFP growth since wwii!!!

It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages

Really enjoyed talking with @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessedjenkins.com on the insurance context of the CA wildfires and the likely struggles for insurance affordability and access going forward. Super smart questions led to a deep convo. Thanks for having me @heatmap.news SHIFT KEY!

What are the economic effects of wildfire smoke? Matt Wibbenmeyer and I recently reviewed the impacts on health, mortality, labor markets, and measures of general well-being. Just published in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

We are thrilled to officially announce that @econsandy.bsky.social will be returning to UT-Austin as a faculty member this fall! Welcome back Professor Black!

See our research cited here in re climate risk in GSE portfolios. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...

Do you have a climate/energy/nature/environment book coming out in 2025 that @heatmap.news readers should know about? The time for shameless self-promotion is NOW; drop that link! (And please boost — I don't want to leave anyone out!)

I'm on the job market! My #EconJMP examines climate adaptation inequality in labor markets (see ⬇️). This is part of my research on the effects of climate change/plastic pollution on workers & society - often with unique data & an interdisciplinary lens. Learn more: https://pappanna.github.io/

We have a great group of PhD students on the job market this year! Check them out, and contact placement director @mikegeruso.bsky.social with any questions. liberalarts.utexas.edu/economics/ph...

We've made it to Bluesky! Please re-post so others can follows us... 🤘

Hey #EconSky, I'm on the job market with an #EconJMP about open source software. OSS is a global public good, widely used and provided by the private sector, but the target of recent industrial policy. Paper: jeffgortmaker.com/files/Open_S... 1/

Clean energy spending resulting from the Inflation Reduction Act could exceed $1 trillion, depending on political and regulatory systems, innovation, and how investment interacts with current energy networks, from Joseph E. Aldy https://www.nber.org/papers/w33092

The reason folks think we don’t need the EPA is because we have the EPA.

This seems like a very big deal. Policy can now match the feeling on the ground that 100yr event of today is a thing of the past

Cornell is hiring an environmental/energy/resource economist (open-rank). Join our vibrant academic community working on the major sustainability challenges facing the world today... & have the option to make this part of your daily commute :) Plz share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28657

Haven’t read yet but a fascinating result with big implications for many IRA provisions…

We are on Blue Sky! The Energy Markets & Policy (EMP) department of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab seeks solutions to existing and emerging global energy challenges through objective and timely research and technical assistance. Follow us and tell your friends! Find more at emp.lbl.gov

A new RFF podcast just popped up in my feed and it’s @catiehausman.bsky.social talking about her cool paper on grid integration :) I’ve found podcasts work great alongside the papers/books I assign for students. This one will definitely be going on the reading list for one of my classes this year.

A (very early) job market update: I'm thrilled to be joining UT Austin's McCombs School of Business in 2024 as an assistant professor! This came far earlier than expected, but today seemed like a fitting day to share this news 🤘 (1/3)

The Biden administration has proposed rules governing the hydrogen tax credit, one of the thorniest and most generous subsidies in the IRA. The new rules could do much more than shape the young industry — they could remake how the whole power grid works: heatmap.news/politics/hyd...

(1/many) #EconSky My job market paper investigates what police propaganda and its effects can teach us about the institution of policing. t.co/5bzHCTdmR2