🌳⚡ Our new paper — Powerful Forests — shows that Amazon deforestation is not only an environmental problem. It is also an energy market problem. Forests sustain rainfall → rainfall sustains rivers → rivers sustain hydropower → hydropower supplies most of Brazil's electricity.

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on Deforestation is out now! Senior Editors @franciscocosta.bsky.social & @allanhsiao.bsky.social (@stanford.edu) review economic research on deforestation. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/de...

Deforestation

Deforestation is a major source of global carbon emissions, but efforts to curb deforestation rates have faced significant challenges. In this VoxDevLit, we synthesise recent economic research that at...

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"This study estimates the carbon-efficient forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon. A $10/ton carbon tax could preserve 95% of the efficient carbon stock, avoiding 42B tons of CO2 & yielding $1.6T in welfare gains." From @araujocrrafael.bsky.social , @franciscocosta.bsky.social & Sant'Anna #EconSky 👇

Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!

After being an editor for 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA), I have accumulated a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary rejections.

If they didn’t think research matters, they wouldn’t try to destroy it.

He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday

He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

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Thrilled to see this paper out! It shows how political interference in environmental licensing drives Amazon deforestation. Now, we're seeing history repeat itself: pressure is mounting to approve oil drilling despite technical warnings (see below). Well, our paper doesn't bring good news...

Journal of Public Economics@jpube.bsky.social · last yr.

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon" By @franciscocosta.bsky.social, Dimitri Szerman, & Juliano Assunção www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

Herein lies a big difference between Brazil, where the rule of law still exists, and the US, where the Roberts Court decided to officially shred it. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

An important line from @pkrugman.bsky.social today: “All I can promise is that those who continue to tell the truth as they see it will find it easier to live with themselves than those who don’t.”

📢 Call for Papers! The 8th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics will be held in person at LSE on June 10-11, 2025. ✅ Submissions by Feb 1 📄 Full papers only (no abstracts) 🎤 Keynote: Prof. Josh Graff Zivin 🔗 Submit here: forms.gle/577G9RBZ1V79... #EnvEcon #EconSky

I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

CSWEP@aeacswep.bsky.social · 2y ago

@aeacswep.bsky.social announces Sandra E. Black as the 2024 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award winner! Visit aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... for the full announcement. Congratulations to @econsandy.bsky.social

Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:

The Department of Geography and Environment at LSE is hiring an Assistant Professor (Education) in Environmental Economics and Policy. 🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025 (23.59 UK time) 🔴 zurl.co/M8Nwy This posting is arriving a bit late in the cycle, but please help circulate it widely!

Check it out! (ungated here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/y1omw...) Kirill, Xavier, and I tried hard to make this useful to wide groups of readers: new users of shift-share IVs, experienced users, and even those who don't know they that they are users

NBER@nber.org · 2y ago

A practical guide to recent econometric advances with shift-share instruments, from Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull, and Xavier Jaravel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33236

From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the December update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2024-25 cycle. A thread with graphs follows... #EconJobMarket #EconSky @aeainformation.bsky.social @aeacswep.bsky.social @joelistings.bsky.social 1/9

RFP out for 2025 Structural Transformation of Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STARS) Fellowship, Cornell in collaboration with WorldBank DECRG, @cgdev.org, PEP, and IICA. Research mentorship for early career (PhD not before 2019) economists working on development topics. 1/2

A very interesting new working paper by the greats Ashesh Rambachan, Rahul Singh, and @vivianodavide.bsky.social: arxiv.org/pdf/2411.10959 It seems that this is another area where the empirical common practice was "too fast,'' and econometrics is catching up! Cool and empirically relevant stuff!

After many iterations my paper on endogenous climate in deforestation modeling is reborn! (an amazing photo from the one and only Sebastião Salgado:)

JOB ALERT! I'm hiring pre-docs to work with me and my co-authors on a number of projects in Organizational Economics! Apply here: tinyurl.com/scur-predoc #econsky send us your best undergrad or masters graduates and share widely!

Pre-Doctoral Fellow (Professor Scur), Cornell University

Our College: Leading at the intersection of people, business, and technology, the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business is one of the most comprehensive business schools in the nation and includes ma...

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New working paper by #UDelawareEconomics graduate student #GeraldIpapa--he's on the job market (environment/development/education), you all should interview him!

Eric Verhoogen@ericverhoogen.bsky.social · 3y ago

More depressing (but important to be aware of) news on the pollution-haven front: Indian firms have been increasing battery recycling in Africa, with (alas) predictable health consequences: grist.org/accountabili... A new job mkt paper by Gerald Ipapa documents this: sites.google.com/view/geraldi...

More depressing (but important to be aware of) news on the pollution-haven front: Indian firms have been increasing battery recycling in Africa, with (alas) predictable health consequences: grist.org/accountabili... A new job mkt paper by Gerald Ipapa documents this: sites.google.com/view/geraldi...

Indian companies are bringing one of the world’s most toxic industries to Africa. People are getti...

Families near battery recycling plants face “dangerous" levels of lead in their blood and in soil, testing shows.

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My latest blog post, "What I’ve learned from being a journal editor" is now up. Short list below, read more here: deryugina.com/what-ive-lea...

🚨Call For Papers🚨7th Annual LSE/Imperial Workshop on Environmental Economics. June 10th - 11th, 2024. Keynote: Kenneth Gillingham (Yale). Submission deadline: Feb 1.

trying to make it to the weekend

Imagine Cookie Monster has been pledging to lose weight for 28 years to no avail. Today we're celebrating he used the word "cookie" for the first time. What a joke. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/13/c...

Two Words That Could Change the World

An unlikely breakthrough on fossil fuels at COP28

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I’m immensely proud of Rafael and thankful to @aereorg.bsky.social for this recognition!

AERE@aereorg.bsky.social · 3y ago

Congratulations to Rafael Araujo for receiving the 2023 Oates Dissertation Award! Dr. Araujo is an Assistant Professor of Economics at FGV EESP and works on environmental issues and their social effects. See the below announcement for more details.

This is pretty cool https://declaredesign.org Simulated power analysis, made easy