Provide short titles for figure legends: sometimes this can be descriptive, like “Study area”. But if possible, make the title declarative, like “Habitat fragmentation increases cloud condensation nuclei” (hypothetical!).

Hi #EconTwitter! 📈 For the applied economists who missed these great surveys: 📚 Check out👇 the Journal of Econometrics's "𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨" papers - Cluster robust inference (James MacKinnon, @MortenEcon, Matt Webb); - instrument strength in IV (Keane & Neal); - Diff-in-diff #Econometrics

Newly uncovered threats to causal interpretation of Difference in Difference estimates, and the solutions the literature has proposed with step-by-step examples, code, and a checklist, from Freedman, @ajhollingsworth, Kosali Simon, Coady Wing, and Yozwiak nber.org/papers/w31842

I have previously provided an in-depth overview of the strengths/limitations of the various forms of nightlights data here:

Finding official sub-national GDP data is a nightmare. I've spent years researching this. Here's a comprehensive list of official sub-national GDP sources for 50+ countries, I wish I had 5 years ago:

Happy to share our latest policy brief on climate migration and bridging the science policy gap - even more important before #COP28UAE Roman Hoffmann Barbora Šedová @knomad World Bank reliefweb.int/report/world/k…

10 Great books on Economic Inequality 1) Inequality - Tony Atkinson Absolutely THE book on inequality and what can be done about it. Atkinson was a giant in the profession and this book reflects this, the length-insights ratio of this book is amazing.

Right on time for #COP28UAE: New KNOMAD policy brief on ways to strengthen the science policy interface in the #climate & #migration field w/ Kira Vinke & Barbora Šedová reliefweb.int/report/world/k… The brief is based on our study in International Migration onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Below is a link to a new folder in my shared Dropbox. It includes slides and Stata files for my recent short course in Rio. At some point I may add recordings (which, alas, I don't yet have). dropbox.com/sh/zj91darudf2…

Our Special Feature in PNASNews on migration and sustainability w William C. Clark Sonja Fransen and Ricardo S. de Campos Project MISTY Read the papers: pnas.org/topic/554 Open access International Science Council Belmont Forum ExeterGeography

Introducing the concept of climate matching as a driver of migration: movers select destinations with climates similar to their place of origin, from Marguerite Obolensky, Marco Tabellini, and Charles Taylor nber.org/papers/w32035

Racial gaps in air pollution have been falling over the past 40 years, but the relative positions of households in the pollution distribution have remained constant until recently, from Jonathan Colmer, Suvy Qin, @john_voorheis, and Reed Walker nber.org/papers/w32060

Barbora Šedová leitet seit 2020 das FutureLab "Security, Ethnic Conflicts and Migration" am @PIK_climate. Sie ist seit Januar 2023 Mitglied des Beirats. #BeiratZKP

Excited to see our (Lisa Binder Sidney Michelini Marie Schellens, Lukas Rüttinger) review of #climate #security risk assessment tools published in the new journal Environment and Security Environment and Security Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research PIK Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung PIK UN Environment Programme adelphi 🌐 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/U5ZC9ZY…

📢 Available now - our special issue Environment and Security | co-edited with Natalia Dalmer, Tobias Ide, and Anselm Vogler | featuring great papers by Barbora Šedová Solveig Richter @solveigrichter.bsky.social @St_Kroll Dhirendra Nalbo, Ben Francis, Mark Axelrod & many more! ▶️ journals.sagepub.com/toc/EAS/current

🌍🌍Conference Alert!🌍🌍 We just published the Call for Papers for the Kiel-CEPR African Economic Development Conference! Submit your work until May 29 to join us in Berlin in September for an exciting two days of research and policy discussions. cepr.org/events/kiel-ce…

Announcing v2 of our climate adaptation conference at Stanford, this Oct 10-11. Please submit! Looking for empirical work on adaptation & will consider earlier-stage working papers as well as more polished work. Submission deadline July 15. Plz share, RT gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-resear…

The new #WeatheringRisk report looks at how climate change is likely to affect peace and security in the next decade and outlines strategies to address these risks and strengthen resilience. 👇

📬On our latest newsletter: 🕊️ #WeatheringRisk: Nine global trends & opportunities for Climate and Peace 🎙️Podcast: Addressing your questions on Climate, Peace & Security 🌍 Report: Climate Security in South Asia Read: adelph.it/6thIssue2024 Subscribe: adelph.it/ECCnewsletter

Mapping the overlay between climate and conflict risks: The Climate Conflict Vulnerability Index helps to assess and map security risks arising from climate hazards. The new tool was presented at #BCSC2024 today. 👇 pik-potsdam.de/en/news/latest…