I'm so excited to finally introduce Fields of The World (FTW!) - the largest & most diverse ML dataset for field instance segmentation in satellite images. FTW has >70k samples from 24 countries (4 continents), with semantic & instance labels + Sentinel-2 RGB-NIR from 2 dates. 🧵

🚗🔋Blog: Do IRA EV subsidies help the climate & economy? energyathaas.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/wil… ⚡Results: ✅Consumers bear most incidence ✅Spike in EV leasing 📈 ✅One-size-fits-all subsidies fall short ✅3 in 4 subsidy recipients would've bought EV anyways ✅Climate & economy likely benefit

Professor Aaron Smith spoke to Civil Eats about a Denver ballot initiative that would ban all commercial slaughter in the city, and the impacts it could have on jobs, workers’ rights, and animal welfare. civileats.com/2024/10/23/the…

Consider applying to this Dept. of Agriculture and NÉBER JÁNOS post-doc (open new PhDs and junior faculty) to work with other ag/climate/environmental economists here in Cambridge. nber.org/career-resourc…

Justin Wolfers I think it means we need to start reminding people about the terrible import taxes that the US government sets on all manner of products from all kinds of places, from milk powder and baby formula from New Zealand to steel and aluminium from New Zealand.

Much media interest today in how repealing electric vehicle tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act will affect EV sales e.g. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… One estimate: 27 percent decrease in sales relative to counterfactual, from Table 5 of joseph-s-shapiro.com/research/EVTra…

Professor Aaron Smith (Aaron Smith) recently spoke to the Haas Energy Institute about his research and career in energy and environmental economics. Read his full Q&A. haas.berkeley.edu/energy-institu…

California produced ~52 million oz of gold 1850-1888 (Fig 8), worth about $138 billion at today's prices. This 38 years of gold production is worth ~2+ years of Calif agriculture production or 13 days of California's $4 trillion/y economy today. na07.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/action/ur…

AI is rewriting ag’s playbook 🌾🤖  Bloomberg #AIIRL spotlights: UC Davis predicting traits, Digital Green delivering real‑time advice, and Verdant Robotics bringing mm‑level precision to the field. More yield, less input—tech that amplifies farmers. Watch:

Is US air pollution regulation too lenient? 🏭💸 We find marginal benefits of pollution control exceed marginal costs by >10×. New evidence from dozens of US pollution offset markets. 📄forthcoming at AER , w/ Reed Walker 1/🧵