This is so odd to me. CoreLogic was a much better name.

The funny thing about the logged x-axis is it shows that utility is concave in wealth

#RDDers: check it out. "Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Regression Discontinuity Designs"

First Street Foundation projected unhealthy air days over the next 15 years:

They tend to say things like, "socialize the downside risk, let us retain the private upside risk, and maaaaybe we're in."

Oregon’s cap and trade would be modeled after Washington’s. Unlikely with only 5 weeks in the session, but would mean the whole West Coast under cap and trade.

🏆 Congratulations to Andrew Plantinga, 2025 AERE Fellow! He is honored for his pioneering research on land use, environmental policy, and ecosystem services, his outstanding mentorship, and his unwavering service to the AERE community. 👏

🚨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)

What's current in #REEP? "Wildfire Smoke in the United States" by Jacob Gellman (jacob gellman) and Matthew Wibbenmeyer. Read this article from the Winter '25 issue: buff.ly/duh235f

It's not a complete account but this paper (forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Perspectives) shows that the evidence on the success of industrial policy is quite mixed.

Top states by EV or plug-in electric hybrid share (as of 2023): CA: 4.5% DC: 3.8% HI: 3.0% WA: 2.8% OR: 2.4% NJ: 2.4%

In this substack, I explore the intended and unintended consequences of Verisk receiving a California monopoly on predicting wildfire risks (as an input in Insurance rate hike regulatory decisions). My piece is titled; "Supermodel Competition"!! matthewekahn.substack.com/p/a-new-superm…

I still think about this all the time

I was not aware that a major driver of Indonesian deforestation is... American RV demand nytimes.com/2025/08/19/wor…