Our PhD program is hiring again! While this is a general econ program, is also gives you the chance to do, for example, quantitative energy economic research and acquire highly marketable skills in this field. So brush up your CVs and apply!

Could not be more on-brand for a democratic backsliding story ending in competitive authoritarianism: courts controlled by the ruling party tilt elections against the opposition. The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

I’ve decided not to post my annual “women on the Econ job market” thread this year. Social media has splintered too much, and now that I’ve left academia I’m focused on other priorities.

Cars were anti-city in the 1990s. Cars are anti-city today. #MuseumoftheCityofNewYork

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Noosha Aubel zur Wahl als Oberbürgermeisterin von Potsdam! Freue mich für Potsdam und um so mehr, dass dieses irre Negative Campaigning der SPD die verdiente Quittung bekommen hat. @naubelpotsdam.bsky.social

María Corina Machado es de derechas, no de ultraderecha. En Venezuela no hay partidos de ultraderecha desde hace más de dos décadas. Y, en la coalición opositora que dejó en bragas al chavismo por su fraude en las últimas elecciones presidenciales, la mitad de los partidos eran de izquierdas (1/6).

Bad news for night train lovers: 🌙 The Paris–Berlin/Vienna connection ends this December, and the Berlin–Stockholm route will follow in 2026. Politics, not passengers, are derailing Europe’s night trains. We need fair conditions & stable support for sustainable travel. 🚆💔

⭐Este 21 de octubre organizamos en @cunef.bsky.social un taller sobre cooperación al desarrollo basada en evidencia para reflexionar sobre las necesidades de evaluación en la cooperación al desarrollo española y explorar vías de colaboración entre academia y agentes de cooperación. 1/N

Great article from @hannahritchie.bsky.social… and the EU ETS can fund action to reduce these non-CO2 climate impacts from aviation (and from shipping - where black carbon has a GWP of 900). It’s really good that this is getting more public attention

"Eliminating a few percent of the world’s warming is a big deal when the costs are so small. It seems insane to me that such a cheap solution is sitting there, completely untapped." We could reduce the climate impact of aviation by ≈50% in a few years, and nobody seems to be taking this seriously!

The regime's desire for authoritarianism is bottomless, but their capacity is not. Not even close. They rely on bluster and memes to make up the difference. The threat is real, but less powerful than they say. Freedom-loving Americans outnumber them by a lot. Communities can resist. Like this one:

Madrid se desborda en estos momentos en apoyo a Palestina 🇵🇸

Illegal and outrageous. But, of course, nobody will be ever prosecuted as a result of this. podcasts.apple.com/es/podcast/t...

What a cool paper! ⬇️ 😍

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

Oh crap

Las afirmaciones infundadas y gratuitas se refutan con datos. Grande @sanpages.bsky.social Recomendado para posibles desconectados recientes de @nadaesgratis.bsky.social

Someone explain how this is a cancelable offense but a Fox News host saying we should murder homeless people as policy is not?

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

A complete collapse of political norms around virtue and ethics since 2016. This celebration of cruelty and violence, and the encouragement of the public to take joy in violence against others, is very unhealthy for society.

Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)

I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!

📃 IEB #WorkingPaper 2025/9 on #PublicPolicies: “Understanding the link between heat and intimate partner #violence” By ✍️ @adriansantonja.bsky.social, Laura Schmitz, and @juditvall.bsky.social#WorkingPaper#PublicPolicies:#violence”🧵⬇️

Which countries are scaling solar and wind the fastest? www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/solar-wind...

And here we go! 😎 Excited to start my research stay at @columbiasipa.bsky.social! Looking forward to engaging with the community here and diving into new ideas in such a vibrant environment.

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

On my first day in Rome a month ago, I randomly walked into the newly elected Pope on the street. On my first day in New York, I randomly walk into @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social in a cafe. I guess I run into people winning elections in 2025? 😎

More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom. This year, we mark 40 years of Schengen! The Schengen Agreement has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.

Los que tenían que haber corregido su comportamiento seguirán sin hacerlo porque el voto retrospectivo como mecanismo de rendición de cuentas lleva sin funcionar un buen tiempo.

Summer time is travel time 🏝️ Take a peak where our PhD students and Alumni spent some time abroad for research stays and internships in the US 🇺🇸 🏙 New York, Los Angeles or Washington, D.C.? A difficult choice but every city offers various opportunities for early career researchers in Economics.

The past 75 years have witnessed remarkable progress in medicine and public health

Replication Games @i4replication.bsky.social coming to Berlin! @janmarcus.de Register here. www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...

How well do heat pumps perform in homes under different temperatures—& what does that mean for households and the grid? Our updated paper @centrefornetzero.bsky.social reveals that heat pump efficiency varies sharply with outdoor temperature. www.centrefornetzero.org/news/what-ha...

📃 IEB #WorkingPaper 2025/9 on #PublicPolicies: “Understanding the link between heat and intimate partner #violence” By ✍️ @adriansantonja.bsky.social, Laura Schmitz, and @juditvall.bsky.social#WorkingPaper#PublicPolicies:#violence”🧵⬇️

NYT on how the 🇪🇺🇺🇸 „deal“ is quite nonfeasible on energy issues. (Gift article 👇) Handelsblatt also writes about it, adding that issues of food regulation, digital markets and tarriffs on steel and aluminum are also wide open. Not a deal yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Hoy escribo sobre cómo el decreto para reforzar la transición energética fue tumbado por una mezcla de oportunismo y retardismo climático. Mientras se frena la transición energética, el capital fósil respira tranquilo. www.eldiario.es/opinion/zona...

The German government wants to cut taxes on air travel, but who would benefit from it? 32% of Germans "never" fly, 38.5% do so less than once a year Meanwhile a small group of "frequent flyers" (7.5% who fly at least every 6 months) is responsible for 43%-49% of flights

Letzte Woche war @peterneumann.bsky.social mit @antjekapek.bsky.social & @odahassepass.bsky.social bei @davidbelliard.bsky.social in #Paris. Der grüne Vizebürgermeister: „Es geht um ein besseres Stadtklima. Wir sprechen nicht über Autos, sondern über Gesundheit.“ Dazu gibt’s ein ganzes Programm. 👉

🚨New Working Paper🚨 "Understanding the link between heat and intimate partner violence” Together with @juditvall.bsky.social and Laura Schmitz, we study how high temperatures affect intimate partner violence (IPV) in Spain over 15 years. Curious about our results? This is what we find ⬇️

"2 dangers 1) to argue that private jets are such a small percentage, therefore they should be left alone 2) to argue that until private jets are not dealt with we shouldn't do anything about the remaining 97% of emissions from passenger aviation We should avoid both." @giuliomattioli.bsky.social

La mayoría de las personas que mueren como consecuencia del calor no salen en las noticias. Lo hacen en sus casas, sin necesidad de haberse expuesto directamente al sol social.elpais.com/k0aq35

"The Gas Trap" paper, with @kholtsmark.bsky.social, is accepted in JPE! GSB Insights @stanford.edu wrote an article about it: www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/rus...

Last night was a very bad night for air quality, as the Fourth of July often is. But its worth taking a stab at quantifying exactly how extensive this exposure to poor air quality might be. I've been spinning up a workflow to examine this using the Gridded EIF and real time AirNow data from EPA.

Gute Nachrichten: erstmals löscht Deutschland über 500.000 Emissionszertifikate, um den Wasserbetteffekt zu verhindern und den positiven Klima-Effekt des Kohleausstiegs zu sichern www.umweltbundesamt.de/presse/press...

Great presentations & atmosphere at our 1st Workshop on Health & Environmental Economics (joint w @unicatt.bsky.social) Delighted to host keynote speakers Matthew Neidell (Columbia) & @ludogazze.bsky.social (Warwick). @sandoralp.bsky.social Gilberto Turati Elena Cottini Luca Salmasi Carlo Caporali

This is a fantastic Workshop for PhD students. Don’t miss this opportunity!

TAZ: Klimagerechtigkeit in Berlin: Hitzefrei für Reiche taz.de/Klimagerecht... #Klimakrise #BadNews

Wenn die Union damit durchkommt, ist das ein epochaler Skandal. Man kann mitten in einer eskalierenden Katastrophe nicht Gelder,die zur Bekämpfung der Katastrophe eingeplant sind, stattdessen zur Beschleunigung der Katastrophe einsetzen.

Still time to apply to our 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, incl. a lecture series by Jens Hainmueller (Stanford) + keynote lecture by Amanda Agan (Cornell )! We look forward to applications from PhD students & recent postdocs. 📅 Sep 24-25. ⏳ Deadline: June 30. Further details 👇

Wir suchen Unterstützung für die Abteilung Kriminalität, Arbeit und Ungleichheit am @diw.de und freuen uns auf Bewerbungen! ➡️ Studentische Hilfskraft (w/m/d) für 10h/Woche, nächstmöglicher Startzeitpunkt. ⏱️ Bewerbungsfrist: 30.06.2025 👇 Weitere Informationen: www.diw.de/sixcms/detai...