Here's a link to my slides, in case you may be interested: scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.… I ended up spending a significant amount of time reviewing the "charted waters," but that seemed important when speaking to a general-interest audience. Please do share any comments/suggestions.

This paper has a terrific start: "Science is curiously asymmetric. New ideas are meticulously tested using data, statistics, and formal models. Yet those ideas originate in a notably less meticulous process involving intuition, inspiration, and creativity."

Policies based on physicians’ locational preferences are cost-effective to attract doctors to regions in need. In the January 2024 issue, by Francisco Costa (Francisco Costa), Letícia Nunes, Fabio Miessi Sanches (Fabio Miessi). zurl.co/VdLt

Are you a young researcher and want to join 🌐DIME🌐 World Bank Research ? We have many many vacancies now open -> link to dashboard in next tweet ⬇️

Call for Papers! Special Issue on Religion and Climate. Guest edited by Jeanet Sinding Bentzen of University of Copenhagen !

Do religious ideas influence climate change or is religion influenced by climate change? I will guest edit a special issue in the JEMAR on this topic. I am looking forward to receive your submissions! Deadline: Dec 15th.

🆕 National policy reversals & deforestation in the Amazon Robin Burgess LSE Department of Economics International Growth Centre, Francisco Costa Lerner College & Ben Olken MIT Economics J-PAL highlight the crucial role of policy continuity & political commitment in fighting deforestation: voxdev.org/topic/energy-e…

If you're a foreign correspondent in Brazil and you're writing about Elon Musk's latest tantrum, please don't be lazy. Don't treat this as a conflict between a judge and a bunch of twitter users. It's nothing of the sort. (1/n).

Parceira incrível, construída com muita delicadeza, se concretiza entre o GAPPE/UFPE e o IMDS. Vamos juntos construir o Mapa de Mobilidade Social do Brasil, questão de primeira ordem para desenvolvimento do nosso país. imdsbrasil.org/em-pauta/carta…

Congratulations to newly minted Univ. of Delaware Lerner College Economics Department PhD Dr. Gerald Ipapa (Ipapa Etarukot)! Pictured with committee members Francisco Costa, #KimberlyOremus & me (missing Elodie)

Send your papers to Vox.LACEA The Econometric Society LatAm in Montevideo, Uruguay in November lacealames2024.org

🌿Call for Papers - LSE Environment Week, 23-26 September 2024 🌞Open to economists in all fields working on environmental questions! 🌞No fee + we pay for travel! 🌞My favourite week of the year! 🌞Deadline 28th June! Apply here: lse-environment-week.com/open-calls

Call for papers! 2024 RIDGE Workshop on Environmental Economics ridge.org.uy/wp-content/upl…

fire burns through vegetation in the pantanal, world's largest wetland corumba, brazil

🌳 Just accepted 🌳 in JAERE: "Going Viral: Public Attention and Environmental Action in the Amazon" by Rafael Araujo (Rafael Araujo), Francisco Costa (Francisco Costa), and Teevrat Garg (@teevrat) Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

The media plays a crucial role in protecting the Amazon rainforests. When the spotlight is on environmental destruction, politicians will act. Even those openly hostile to the environmental agenda.

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:

What are the effects of public attention on conservation? 📈 🌳 New work in JAERE studies a time of unprecedented public attention on forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon - after fires "went viral" in Aug. 2019 - that ⬇️ subsequent fires (in the short term). #JaereFigureFriday

The Pirenne Thesis remains undefeated. Johannes Boehm & Chaney provide new evidence that the end of antiquity was not brought about by the fall of the Roman empire but rather by the reduced trade openness between Christianity and Islam. jmboehm.github.io/coins.pdf