This posting is coming late in the process, but we’d appreciate your help circulating it broadly. The Department of Geography and Environment has a fantastic and growing team of faculty and students engaged in environmental economics and policy research and teaching.

It’s an extremely tough year for candidates on the economics job market. For those of you who want to carry on doing academic research in a rich policy environment, apply to our position below. I can guarantee a lot of productive projects that have policy impact. #econtwitter

cool new paper from my colleague Michael Grubb. auto-enrollment in text alerts significantly reduces the amount that banking customers pay in overdraft fees

My annual decarbonization presentation is here. 200 slides, covering everything from water levels in Lake Gatún to sulfur dioxide emissions to ESG fund flows to Chinese auto exports to artificial intelligence. Link in reply

wasted an hour trying to figure out why my GitHub pushes weren't working (all of a sudden 🤔). if anyone gets an RPC error, this worked for me👇 git config --global http.postBuffer 524288000

New working paper: Could AI leapfrog the web? Only 37% of sub-Saharan Africans use the internet. Cost is the #1 constraint. In a study with 469 teachers in Sierra Leone, we find AI works better than the web--and is 87% cheaper. arxiv.org/abs/2502.12397 Let's dive in... 🧵(1/X)

An oldie of mine on investment and uncertainty, in case anyone happens to be interested rn

For PhD students and scholars interested in joining: I will take part in teaching International Trade and the Environment at #PSESummerSchool (June 9-12). parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/summer-scho… Below is a description (1/7)

🚨PhD alert! In light of everything happening in the world, the Econ Department at Imperial Business School is conducting a second lightning round of admissions for fall 2025! Applications due April 30, offers in mid-May. Please spread the word! More details: dropbox.com/scl/fi/55wkl2q…

I am hiring 3 RAs to help build out a data set on state DOT infrastructure costs. Description attached. If you are interested in infrastructure and getting into the weeds with data please apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04891.

Excited to be participating in the 7th Annual NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference tomorrow. I’ll be presenting research on how we can improve the siting of renewable energy projects to better support the grid. Stream here 👇 nber.org/conferences/7t…

📢Call for papers! 🔌We are announcing MWEET: an economics of energy transition workshop in Manchester on Dec 11-12! 🗨️Keynotes: Shanjun Li + Michael Pollitt 📎Please submit your abstract at forms.gle/ZRQdnmPdJ9PDz9… by 1 Aug 💡More info: tinyurl.com/4e3w8rph Pls retweet :)

talk about real world impact! this paper finds that the announcement of peter cramton's visit to colombia caused an electricity cartel to collapse dropbox.com/scl/fi/rs3ju8s…

Interesting IO + EEE topic: "The demand response resources don’t have to bid into the capacity market, which would allow NRG to withhold them from the market to drive up capacity prices to the benefit of its power plants, according to the market monitor."

This paper was quite a journey with my excellent coauthor, Ahmad Lashkaripour I’m proud that it found the best home I could imagine. Here is a summary 🧵

green tax credits are much more confusing and uncertain for consumers than direct subsidies

Some great research topics for energy economists in these threads by Ari Peskoe and Travis Kavulla

With today's news, worth re-upping this footnote from the Aghion, Howitt, et al "inverted-U" paper. (Click to the replies to see Nick Bloom defend this head-scratching sample selection criteria 😂)