📢 TODAY! Join us Online Spatial & Urban Seminar at 11:30 ET, 4:30pm (UK), or 5:30pm (Europe) Allison Shertzer (Univ. of Pittsburgh) will present “The Value of Piped Water & Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago” (osus.info) Hosted by Urban Economics Association #EconTwitter

Friends - submit papers to this conference. In person and in my favorite city in the world!

I'm very excited to share info about this new initiative from J-PAL MENA. We're looking to help support young researchers (Ph.Ds based in MENA and Ph.D. students based anywhere) get more involved in rigorous research in the Middle East, and get paid to do it! Please share widely.

I'm hiring 2 full time RAs/pre-docs for a summer 2023 start date. You will work in a collaborative lab environment, and nearly all past RAs have had their names on multiple pubs. Coding experience in R/python desired. Plz retweet! #EconTwitter careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/research-…

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It was a privilege to work with Peter Christensen and @gabelade on this important topic. I hope this paper helps shed light on the economic consequences of the Flint drinking water crisis.

Send us your best electricity research—it’s going to be a great event in a spectacular location!

Thanks to AEA Journals for communicating about this new evidence on the Flint crisis. It is important to remember that the impacts are still being felt. Our field is uniquely positioned to continue to shed light on a range of short-run and long-run outcomes.

What's the best (applied) Bayesian answer to wanting inference to be robust to getting the error distribution wrong? eg I can use heteroscedasticity-robust "sandwich" standard errors with OLS or a log link (quasi-Poisson). If I want to be fully Bayesian, what do I do?

Interested in helping run field trials aimed at understanding household-level automation and behavior change in the future energy system? Then you should apply to this excellent job at Centre for Net Zero (Octopus Energy Group). jobs.lever.co/octoenergy/f72…

Congrats to Frances Moore and @WhiteHouseCEA for a clear, readable, and important chapter on climate change in the Economic Report of the President. Everybody should read it. Don't want to? Listen to Jim Tankersley on The Daily. nyti.ms/3ZdYD28

Many thanks to Laina Sonterblum for covering our work on discrimination and housing/neighborhood choice constraints. There is excellent emerging work and so much more to do to understand the mechanisms underlying sorting-driven inequality in US cities.

Extra Extra! 2023 Sloan Foundation/Energy Institute at Haas Grad Camp applications are live! Dates: 8/14-8/19. Full lineup forthcoming. But Susanna Berkouwer Joseph Shapiro Marshall Burke Meredith Fowlie Koichiro Ito 伊藤公一朗 are confirmed. Live. In Person. In Berkeley. More here: auffhammer.com/summer-school

So well-deserved!

Check out our new working paper on the power of contractor incentives to improve energy efficiency retrofit outcomes.

Looking forward to being back at this stellar event and honored to give the keynote this year

The research elegantly illustrates how social & behavioral science can help address climate change mitigation: Erica Myers Peter Christensen Paul Francisco looked at a very large existing home weatherization program & found a way to improve it w/ a simple behavioral insight.

Deadline for the Sloan Foundation Energy Institute at Haas 2023 Grad Camp is around the corner (June 23). Apply here: auffhammer.com/summer-school. Lineup is Awesome. Meredith Fowlie, Joseph Shapiro, Susanna Berkouwer, @krhwagner, James Sallee, Marshall Burke, Koichiro Ito 伊藤公一朗, @teevrat and yours truly.

Thanks to the NBER for featuring this study with Adam Osman, which uses a ridehailing experiment to quantify the benefits and external costs generated by reductions in the price of private transport services in a major developing country city. nber.org/papers/w31330

📣 Exciting news for govt climate leaders 📣 J-PAL North America is thrilled to launch the #ClimateActionLearningLab! Apply today to join a cohort of peers in leveraging rigorous evaluation to identify and scale effective and equitable climate mitigation strategies. j-p.al/r9d