🆕 Climate adaptation and vulnerability in Mexico Today on VoxDev w/ IEA, Sandra Aguilar-Gomez (Technologico de Monterrey) discusses why a one-size-fits-all approach to climate change won’t work in Mexico: https://voxdev.org/topic/energy-environment/climate-adaptation-and-vulnerability-mexico

Climate adaptation and vulnerability in Mexico

A one-size-fits-all approach to climate change won’t work in Mexico, where climate adaptation is highly unequal. Currently, private responses such as air conditioning, migration, and financial adjustment play a central role. These mechanisms are often more accessible to higher-income households while exacerbating inequality and shifting climate risks onto poorer, informal, and rural populations, as well as overburdening health, labour, and financial systems.

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Traveling to @aereorg.bsky.social in NM tonight. I was not able to check in online despite having a return flight w/ the same airline. Here I am, stressed as hell at the airport, hoping that I can make it to the conference. I might attend the European version until 2029 if today does not go well.

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · last yr.

Saw that one coming

🤩🥂 thrilled that this paper with Eva Arceo and Elia de l Cruz will be out soon at JDE! Also, this makes two published/accepted dissertation chapters and one in RR. Can’t complain!

This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · last yr.

Lordy I hate these people www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

I wrote a short essay reflecting on what “AI” means for academia. All my academic friends should probably now disown me. open.substack.com/pub/thepoorr...

Now Is Existential Question Time for Academia

The rise of the machines means that academics must ask themselves “Why Do I Exist?”

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Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.

Very cool opportunity - PhDs in environmental econ definitely consider applying!

Max(imilian) Auffhammer@auffhammer.bsky.social · last yr.

We are back! EEE Summer School @ Berkeley! 🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school 📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley We especially encourage early stage Ph.D. students with possible interest in EEE topics! Must be enrolled in North American Econ"ish" Ph.D. program.

Philanthropic organizations after universities? Again if you have paid attention to Russia and Hungary a decade ago, you should expect this to happen soon.

It’s out! My first book chapter 🥰 📖 I loved the process of finding my voice to write this piece. 🔗 www.routledge.com/Equity-in-th...

Thank you so much for sharing our research! This working paper is the result of two years of work and hundreds of information requests. More findings soon 🔜

Jessica Leight@leightjessica.bsky.social · 2y ago

And in Mexico, @sandraguilarg.bsky.social shows that drought ⬆️ IPV in multiple admin data sources (even in a middle-income country)! publications.iadb.org/en/droughts-... A lot here to dig into in terms of understanding this important climate/violence relationship

If only there were a group of prestigious universities that could coordinate. A "league" of sorts. Given the classic ivy draping buildings on college campuses maybe we could use that type of symbol to unite them.

Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.

And in Mexico, @sandraguilarg.bsky.social shows that drought ⬆️ IPV in multiple admin data sources (even in a middle-income country)! publications.iadb.org/en/droughts-... A lot here to dig into in terms of understanding this important climate/violence relationship

Extreme heat events are not only a direct #health threat, but also a systems-level shock to #healthcare delivery. Addressing the indirect effects of #climatechange is an essential component of climate adaptation. @sandraguilarg.bsky.social, J Graff Zivin, M Neidell cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved

"Very thrilled to share my new working paper on..."

Excited to be at LAERE 2025 Conference! Interesting opening keynote by @juanpablorud.bsky.social on natural resource-deriven cash windfalls and local economic development in Peru 🇵🇪

New WP alert! 🚨

NBER@nber.org · 2y ago

Extreme heat leads to surges in healthcare demand that generate hospital congestion and spillover impacts on other patients, from Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Matthew J. Neidell https://www.nber.org/papers/w33491

Err, guys, we’ve done this. It went really bad.

Philipp Heimberger@heimbergecon.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hard right parties have now surpassed the Conservatives and Social Democrats in European democracies in terms of average vote share.

Extreme heat leads to surges in healthcare demand that generate hospital congestion and spillover impacts on other patients, from Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Matthew J. Neidell https://www.nber.org/papers/w33491

New WP alert! 🚨

NBER@nber.org · 2y ago

Extreme heat leads to surges in healthcare demand that generate hospital congestion and spillover impacts on other patients, from Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Matthew J. Neidell https://www.nber.org/papers/w33491

#Environmental degradation poses a #publicpolicy challenge, particularly impacting the Global South, where women & girls often experience greater burdens from #climatechange & #airpollution than men & boys. Read more: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/link/U-Andes...

Domingo 12pm. Alguien pidió UN PAN por Rappi. ¿Cuál es el ingreso del repartidor para que el viaje valga la la pena? ¿Qué desigualdad existe para que a alguien le convenga tercerizar bajar por el pan? ¿Qué indolencia ambiental dado que quizá ese viaje se hizo en coche o moto?

is it woke to want to end cancer?

Christina Jewett@by-cjewett.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW: The N.I.H. will cut about $4 Billion from federal research grants that support cancer, virus and heart disease research. #Project2025 called for the cuts to end subsidies to "leftist" university agendas. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

This is fantastic: a 68 country data set with perceptions of science, science communication and climate attitudes. Featured in @nature.com Led by the formidable @nielsmede.bsky.social What a resource! Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset

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Proofs day!! It’s proofs day!!! 🚨 This manuscript that took a year for us to review will self-destruct in 48 hours if you don’t return proofs within that period!! 💣 (Still, proofs day 🥂!)

🚨New dataset alert 🚨 In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico! Download here: www.banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/... #EconSky #Mexico