We're hiring! Postdoc positions in environmental econ, political econ, microeconomic theory, U of Oslo: econjobmarket.org/positions/12.... Brilliant & friendly colleagues, lovely city, beautiful nature, family friendly norms, Oslo's best views from our lunch room!

Get your fill of Global Carbon Budget 2025 figures and associated data here, released today: robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2025/

📢Global Carbon Budget 2025📢 Fossil CO2 emissions continue to rise in 2025 while the terrestrial carbon sink recovers to pre-El Niño strength. The key findings are covered in two reports this year: * ESSDD (preprint): essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... * Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/

Jeg har skrevet om sløseridebatt, offentlig pengebruk og om å prioritere velferd. Det er ikke sløsing å bruke penger på velferd, det er en prioritering. Og skal vi beholde velferdsstaten i fremtiden må vi sannsynligvis regne med at den blir dyrere. Les hvorfor her:

Is social media to blame for teens’ mental health decline? Intuition says yes—but RCTs find only small short-term effects when users quit. This new preprint argues these studies don’t prove social media isn’t to blame. Here’s why: 3 reasons.

Did you know that Econ4UA has compiled answers to FAQs about the war in #Ukraine, providing direct and accessible information? Our page covers questions about the origins of the war, the Russian government & how to help, amongst others. Learn more at:

Thanks to @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social and @motherjones.com for a fun interview!

Experience curves indicate that successful technologies reduce in cost by ~20% for each doubling of cumulative production. However, we find that past learning rates are not very predictive of future learning rates, throwing many energy tech cost projections into doubt. doi.org/10.1016/j.ad...

Parkeringsnormen i Oslo er i spill. Og NRK gjør seg til hendig talerør for Høyre og den nye bilvennlige ledelsen i handelsstanden. Men altså her gjelder det å holde tungen rett i munnen: for hva handler p-normen om? Dette må bli en tråd. www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/by...

Energy and climate workshop in Groningen 24-25 March submit paper by 12 Jan www.rug.nl/cenber/event...

I am looking for a post-doc working on behavioral/environmental/urban/energy economics to join my group at the University of Copenhagen. Position is 2 years (possibly 3), good salary, free health insurance, one of the most livable cities in the world. Apply here: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

🚨The Moore Lab at UC Davis is hiring!🚨 Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346

We are hiring! Two positions: - candidates with expertise in RCTs and interest in contributing to large-scale RCTs in Synapse Lab UiS. www.uis.no/en/synapselab - candidates working in environmental and resource economics, public economics, or labor economics. econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

#GDRI_rep Update 9: We have been waiting a couple of months to make two announcements. A few journals were in the process of retracting GDRI article. The editors informed the authors and then lawyers got involved. Who knows how long it will take.

New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We are hiring tenure-track assistant/associate professors in Economics at the University of Oslo. Fields: macro, micro theory, international trade, development Application deadline: November 30! More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

September 2025 was the third warmest on record in the Berkeley Earth dataset. But this downplays how anomalous it was; without 2023 and 2024 this year would have been well above any prior records and well above the long-term trend:

RIP Betty are.berkeley.edu/news/remembe...

I am not sure the NRK Debatten on costs of climate policy was that helpful... tv.nrk.no/serie/debatt... In simplified terms, the IPCC is clear, mitigation costs less than impacts, & more mitigation leads to more benefits (with high confidence). The IPCC text is hard to pass, so a thread... 1/

The car crisis tops today’s EU summit but leaders keep staring at the wrong problem The issue isn’t the 2035 engine ban - it’s demand falling off a cliff today With @sandertordoir.bsky.social and @lucasguttenberg.bsky.social, we show why flipping regs won’t help - and what the EU can do instead.

Apropos oljeskattepakken og oljeselskapene som ikke oppfyller avtalen om å halvere utslippene - og politikerne våre som bare sier "OK" ⬇️

As part of the Helsinki GSE initiative, the Department of Economics at Aalto University School of Business invites applications for Assistant Professor position in Economics (Tenure Track). Applications in all fields of economics are invited. Read more: www.aalto.fi/en/open-posi... #Economics

Lave avgifter på nye og dyre elbiler er neppe den mest treffsikre elbilpolitikken i den fasen vi er i nå. Å styrke virkemidlene som stimulerer til å eie og bruke elbil kan gi både bedre klimaeffekt og fordelingsprofil. Har skrevet om elbilmomsen i Aftenposten. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Jim Sallee gives a master class in how to explain complex policy in simple prose. I'm definitely assigning this to students.

For fem år siden fikk oljebransjen omfattende skattesubsidier, mot at utslippene i 2030 skulle halveres Nå som subsidiene er "fortært", innrømmer bransjen at de ikke oppfyller sin del av avtalen Og så er det ingen konsekvenser Vanskelig å tro på slike løfter i framtiden www.tu.no/artikler/olj...

Taking the literature as a whole, the global consequences of unmitigated climate change are likely to be substantial, unequal, harmful in aggregate, and potentially destabilizing, from Solomon Hsiang www.nber.org/papers/w34357

We recently polled our US Economic Experts Panel on Low-carbon Energy R&D. The confidence-weighted answer to the 1st question is as follows: kentclarkcenter.org/surveys/low-...

Tenker det solidariske alternativet for venstresiden er mer utveksling for: 1. Lavere kraftpriser for arbeidere i våre naboland 2. Bistå med å fase ut gass og kull i Europa 3. Hjelpe Europa kvitte seg med russisk gass, inntekter som går til Russlands krigføring i Ukraina 4. Mer å omfordele i Norge

Excited to share that my paper "The value of cabin-based outdoor recreation: Evidence from a natural experiment" (with @edsandorf.bsky.social, @zanderventer.bsky.social and Anders Dugstad) is now out in the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management doi.org/10.1016/j.je... 🧵

New Substack post: the Nobel Prize goes to an economic historian and two economists of growth trying to answer the question, where do new technologies come from? someunpleasant.substack.com/p/growing-th...

The world can now produce more than three times as much cereal from a given area of land as it did in 1961 (i.e., an increase in yield of 214%). In the same period, land used for cereal has only increased by 14%.

Hva koster det å nå klimamålet for 2035? @angelsen.bsky.social, Ståle Navrud og jeg skriver om dette i @energiogklima.no, med utg.pkt i debatten siste uka. Svært sprikende kostnadsanslag skyldes dels ulikt "nullalternativ" og dels ulike kostnader per tonn utslipp www.energiogklima.no/meninger-og-...

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

Quite the turnaround.

– Ingenting tyder på at folk responderer på incentiver, sier kjendisøkonom hvis jobb avhenger av å komme i media.

Specialized in microeconomic theory and on the job market? If you are interested in topics such as mechanism and market design, consider working with me at Lund University. For info about the tenure-track position, see 👇 econjobmarket.org/positions/11821

Teori og empiri tilsier at skattekutt i stor grad kapitaliseres i boligpriser. Dvs. at lavere eiendomsskatt gir høyere boligpriser. Et kutt er dermed ikke en fordel for de som skal kjøpe bolig i fremtiden, kun en gevinst for de som allerede eier de 34% dyreste boligene. www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/by...

This is the primary contributor to the acceleration in global warming in recent years. Cutting air pollution saves lives and is unequivocally worth doing, but it is also driving about a quarter (~0.14C) of the approximately 0.5C warming the world has experienced between 2007 and 2024.

In the first seven days since I launched this new game, almost ten thousand people from 82 countries have played it. (Top cities so far: New York City, Zurich, Toronto, Chicago, Berlin, Vienna, Stockholm) What topics would you like me to add next? dataguessr.com

As a reminder, land areas (where we live) are warming around twice as fast as over the oceans. Subsequently, most of us are 'feeling' temperatures rising faster than the global mean record. Graphic from zacklabe.com/climate-chan...

Important new paper from @marshallburke.bsky.social on the devastating toll of wildfire smoke in @nature.com "climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the US" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

yes, the economic arguments for regulating air pollution are strong

Extremely useful resource.

Det här är otroligt, jag trodde inte det skulle bli så 2015.

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

New publication: “A simple growth model of open economies” Small twist to Solow model, aligns it better to open economies. Contribution: 1: Organizes many empirical observations under simple framework. 2: Enables teaching open-economy growth at undergrad. 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

BI is hiring PhD candidates in economics. We offer: - a friendly and collegial department - strong faculty support during your PhD - access to very rich Norwegian microdata - a competitive salary - a strong track record in PhD placements. Please share #EconSky 🙏🙏 bi.easycruit.com/vacancy/3539...

Her er noen "hva om"-utregninger etter stortingsvalgresultatet 2025. Alt med forbehold om feil, og at resultatene heller ikke er helt klare ennå (foreløpige tall er lastet ned fra valg.no). Mandatfordelingen med disse tallene er altså: