Reflecting today... grad school and academic research positions are easier if you have deep curiosity about what there is to learn and discover that keeps you going when the work is hard. In the new year, let's re-commit to curiosity

New paper out in Nature Climate Change today where we develop the first direct estimates of the social costs of hydrofluorocarbons (SC-HFCs) and the large climate benefits associated with global agreements that phase down their production and consumption. nature.com/articles/s4155…

I’m gonna give 10 random people that repost this and follow me $25,000 for fun (the $250,000 my X video made) I’ll pick the winners in 72 hours

In this blog I briefly discuss our recent paper about tequila, bats and agave conservation. efdinitiative.org/blog/saving-me… Link to open access paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Latest paper in Science Magazine #OpenAccess via World Bank Integrated approaches to accounting and regulation across scales can ensure that solar irrigation contributes to poverty alleviation without causing long-term harm. blogs.worldbank.org/water/navigati… via @worldbank

This is a great article! We've hosted the occasional sabbatical and other visitors, and they've always been great experiences. I didn't see this program mentioned, but the AAAS S&T Fellowship is great. aaas.org/programs/scien…

Here’s your chance for a hands-on learning on non-market valuations Prof. Sahan Dissanayake. Sahan T. M. Dissanayake is an Associate Professor of Economics, Director of the Graduate Certificate in Sustainability and Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland

Last Day to apply for the 18th #SANDEE Summer School 2024. #opportunity #summerschool #environmenteconomics

I just heard Catherine Wolfram’s keynote at SBCA. It was great, and she’s optimistic about a carbon price in the US by 2026 — a “grand bargain” to pay for expiring tax cuts.

Being an editor at climate journals, I see a few mishaps in econ papers. Cite relevant work from other disciplines. Motivate the work to a general audience. Theorists/econometricians move eqns to back & focus on the main insights/results the work brings to policy discourse.

The 18th Annual Meeting of EfD is organized by EfD Kenya and the EfD Global Hub in collaboration with the African Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AFAERE) on October 3-6, 2024. Submit your papers now! efdinitiative.org/news-events/ef…

We introduce the United States Groundwater Well Database (USGWD), which contains 14.2+ million use and monitoring wells across the US. 1/9 Paper: rdcu.be/dDGDY Data: hydroshare.org/resource/8b028…

In mathematics, a rose curve is a sinusoid characterized by the equation r = cos(kθ) or r = sin(kθ) in polar coordinates

In our new paper “Extreme temperatures and school performance of the poor: Evidence from Mexico” Eva O. Arceo-Gomez and I show that a 1°C rise in average temperature could drop math and Spanish test scores by 0.08 and 0.07 SDs respectively. Open access sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Many of you are interested in the economics of climate change. My old friend Paul Kelleher has something for you: A book titled "The Social Cost of Carbon: Ethics and the Limits of Climate Change Economics," forthcoming in OUP's new Philosophy, Politics, and Economics series.

Deadline Approaching soon. Apply before 31st May, 2024. #SANDEE #ICIMOD #HKH #ResearchGrant #Opportunity #EnvironmentEconomics

Thrilled to share that our paper, co-authored with my amazing friend Liqing Li, has been published in Food Policy! Our research reveals that residents highly value community gardens, drawn to the fresh produce rather than ecosystem services. Check it out: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Thank you Joe Biden! For leading for so long and for putting country first!

Biodiversiy is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

So great to see this fantastic work by Eyal Frank out in Science. The economic and health impacts linked to the loss of biodiversity are substantial— in places where bat populations crashed, farmers sprayed more insecticide and infant mortality spiked