My latest research with Prakash Mishra from The Wharton School and Mathias Reynaert from TSE analyzes millions of satellite records and concludes that Europe can be a lot more ambitious with its land protection policy. #30x30 #natura2000 #forests The ESG Initiative at the Wharton School shorturl.at/rwKSY

a rare non-econ piece of content on my econ account but got stranded by an @zipcar today and the absolute lack of customer service/roadside assistance help is giving black mirror --- truly in freezing weather with a bricked out car and survived by the kindness of an innkeeper

Announcing my new book with Princeton University Press! The empirical economics literature on climate impacts has exploded in recent years. "Slow Burn" attempts an accessible synthesis, highlighting some of the more subtle human consequences of a warming world. buff.ly/4aOK6AI

📢 Calling all queer econ PhD students! Join Pol Simpson and I at the inaugural LSE QueerConf for a day of talks, networking, and community building 🌈 🗓️ July 5, 2024 📍 LSE ✍️ Submit papers by May 27, 2024 lsequeerconf.com STICERD AEA Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals European Committee for LGBTQ+ Economists #EconTwitter

🆕 Green trade policy for palm oil Today on VoxDev, Allan Hsiao (Princeton Economics Princeton School of Public & International Affairs Princeton Development Economics Research Program) outlines how green trade policy for palm oil can greatly reduce emissions for an industry that is pivotal in the fight against climate change: voxdev.org/topic/trade/gr…

Buckle up for a thread on forest fires! Fires in the Amazon are (unfortunately) recurrent, with consequences for global warming, health, productivity, and biodiversity! Fires in the Amazon are man made and once started they are hard to curtail. Look at the size of this beast:

Excited to share my job market paper #EconTwitter! What would happen to commission rates and house prices in the U.S. under a policy requiring buyers and sellers to pay their own brokers, aka “decoupling”? Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7pa4jd Website: gi-kim.com

🚨 CLIMATE CONFERENCE: together with CEPR, The Econometric Society, we at Barcelona School of Economics are organizing the Economics+Climate Science conference at Barcelona (March 27-28). Spread the word and apply! 😃

🚨"Heat disproportionally kills young people: Evidence from Wet-Bulb Temperature Exposure" My new Science Advances paper co-lead with Andrew Wilson is out! Using 20 years of nationwide mortality microdata + wet-bulb temperature, we uncovered fascinating new findings. 🧵

Hey #econtwitter! Dropping back over to tell you about a great Wharton job candidate! Xian Ng studies whether households are able to optimize over financial products with different up-front versus sustained payments. This area often has a tradeoff b/t identification and stakes 🧵

1/🚨New chapter in Handbook of Regional & Urban Econ: Spatial Environmental Economics 🌍 How do spatial forces affect the enviro? How does enviro shape spatial outcomes? Thread, chapter explore nascent subfield via stylized acts, models, research guide. w Clare Balboni.

Are you a PhD student working on topics related to globalization? Come hang out with us at Dartmouth for a term as a Globalization Ph.D. Fellow! We're now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 academic year: globalization.dartmouth.edu/programs/globa…

New Paper Alert🚨 “The Winners and Losers of Climate Policies: A Sufficient Statistics Approach” with Jordan Rosenthal-Kay Jordan Rosenthal-Kay We study the spillovers of climate policies across countries through trade and energy markets #EconTwitter #ClimatePolicy #TradeLeakage #CBAM🧵1/9

Happy my JMP is (finally) coming out! The review process at JAERE improved the paper a lot. Thanks to all who helps see this project through.

Many distortions can be seen as implicit or explicit quotas that fix quantities independent of prices—think local content rules, zoning laws, H-1B caps, capital controls, or missing markets. In a new paper, David Baqaee and I analyze such quotas in general equilibrium. 1/5

We are back! EEE Summer School @ Berkeley! 🔗 Info + application: auffhammer.com/summer-school📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 We especially encourage early stage Ph.D. students with possible interest in EEE topics! Must be enrolled in North American Econ"ish" Ph.D. program.

Thrilled to share the cover of my upcoming book, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. Flatiron, Sept 23! Containing 15 years of research & my personal story. Preorder links, book talks, & newsletter here! corinnelow.com/book

The Globalization Cluster at Dartmouth is hiring a pre-doctoral fellow for a two year position starting this summer or fall. International candidates welcome. Take courses. Great placement record. Friendly group! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/167442 DartmouthEcon Tuck School

🚨New NBER WP🚨 We use data on 42,000 households in #India to study how the agricultural sector copes w/ labour loss. As #farmers move to cities for higher wages, their left-behind families *don't* substitute with increased capital -- they downsize their farms. (1/2)

Stanford Doerr School is hiring at assistant prof level in Global Environmental Policy. Search is broadly scoped and aimed at anyone in quantitative social sciences or related fields, including econ, polisci, env policy, or data science as applied to env policy. Plz share, RT!