Aaron Yongtae Kwon
@yongtaekwon
PhD in Public Policy @UTAustin @TheLBJSchool || BA, MA @SeoulNatlUni || Environmental and Energy Economics, Environmental Justice || 🇰🇷
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This fall I was thrilled that my paper with Parker Rogers on the evolution of prosthetic device patenting during the U.S. Civil War and World War I was accepted by the Review of Economics and Statistics: econweb.ucsd.edu/~j1clemens/pdf… (1/N)
Has inequality risen? Really helpful breakdown of the differences between Piketty, Saez & Zucman and Auten & Splinter from @WilliamGale2, Sam Thorpe & John Sabelhaus brookings.edu/articles/measu…
How lead exposure almost killed cost-benefit analysis: Eager to block environmental regulation, the Reagan admin wanted to require CBA of new regulations. But addressing lead exposure ended up looking so cost effective, they abandoned the bill. from Beth Popp Berman (epopppp@bsky):
Today, the Biden Administration announced $6 billion in DOE funding supporting about $20 billion in total investment to decarbonize US industries. Brought to you by the Inflation Reduction Act. Read all about it in Canary Media canarymedia.com/articles/clean…
Banning the purchase of sex 🚨DOES NOT🚨increase cases of reported rape. A re-analysis of Ciacci (2024) shows that the paper's headline result comes from an erroneous use of Stata's regression command. A thread from Joop Adema, Olle Folke, and me 1/11
Next week, we will host a Symposium at UT Austin on "Assessing Policy Strategies for Scaling Carbon Capture and Storage in the United States." sites.utexas.edu/ccusecon/ccs-s… This is part of a three-year Sloan Foundation project on the #economics of #carbon capture, utilization, and ...
AEAP&P full of short+fascinating papers. Our 'new frontiers' environmntl econ session right by the top; cool! aeaweb.org/issues/763 Thx @Ishan_Nath Levi Crews Dave Keiser David Molitor Brant Walker Jonathan Colmer @john_voorheis reed walker Allan Hsiao,non-X authors
Excited to welcome our new PhD Students to the LBJ School. What a promising group of researchers! Hook’em! The LBJ School LBJ School Alumni
#EconTwitter I'm very excited to present our new working paper (nber.org/papers/w33050) at Brown University tomorrow! Thanks for hosting me! A mid-sized 🧵 TL;DR: "Racial differences in income unable to explain a meaningful share of gaps in ambient air pollution exposure."
