Jonathan Colmer
@jmcolmer.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UVA Econ | Co-Founder & Director of the Environmental Inequality Lab | Environmental Econ, Growth & Dev, Labor, Public | PhD from LSE | 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 | www.jonathancolmer.com
Please Share! The Environmental Inequality Lab is hosting it's second undergraduate research training program in environmental and energy economics this summer & it's open to all (with current U.S. work authorization)! Full-time, funded, in-person, 10-weeks. More details here tinyurl.com/EEE-URTP
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New and #OpenAccess in the January issue of the Review of Economics and Statistics: @jmcolmer.bsky.social and @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social consider whether restricting the concealed carry of firearms mitigates or exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. @restatjournal.bsky.social
Access to Guns in the Heat of the Moment: More Restrictive Gun Laws Mitigate the Effect of Temperature on Violence
Abstract. Gun violence is a major problem in the United States, and extensive prior work has shown that higher temperatures increase violent behavior. We consider whether restricting the concealed…
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We're hiring at least one pre-doc this year! Please share and apply! Review will begin 11/3/25. jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...
Pre-Doctoral Associate, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Other at University of Virginia
Apply for Pre-Doctoral Associate, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Other at University of Vir...
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🆕 Do carbon offsets work? Evidence from the world’s largest offset programme Today on VoxDev, Raphael Calel (Georgetown University), Jonathan Colmer (University of Virginia), Antoine Dechezleprêtre (OECD) & Matthieu Glachant (Mines Paris) outline research on India: voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Do carbon offsets work? Evidence from the world’s largest offset programme
Carbon offset programmes allow polluters to pay others to reduce emissions on their behalf. In theory, this can achieve the same emissions reductions at a lower cost, but only if the payment actually ...
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Austin people, I'm in town Thursday until Monday evening. If anyone has interest in tennis, let me know!
The Environmental Inequality Lab is hiring 2 new pre-docs to join our team! We do research in environmental economics but those with interests in labor/public/urban/spatial/development economics should def apply. Apply here: tinyurl.com/EIL-pre-doc @AereOrg
Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Res...
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Welcome to the new arrivals. Here's a starter pack of Energy/Environmental economists to get you going: bsky.app/starter-pack...
Thanks to @nberpubs.bsky.social for summarizing our study on payments for ecosystem services (PES). With a simple contract tweak, the cost to conserve additional forest thru PES plummeted. The cost per hectare shown here maps to permanently averting a ton of CO2 for <$5. www.nber.org/digest/20241...
Read the latest @CEP_LSE #CentrePiece article on designing carbon markets that deliver change, by Jonathan Colmer, Ralf Martin @mondpanther.bsky.social , Mirabelle Muuls, and Ulrich Wagner poid.lse.ac.uk/PUBLICATIONS...
in brief... Designing carbon markets that deliver change
Ever since the European Union created its market-based carbon policy, governments and businesses have been keen to assess its impact. Jonathan Colmer, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Ulrich Wagner explain why analysing the effectiveness of such policies can be complex - and why hard proof that carbon markets can achieve what they set out to do is scarce.
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The Environmental Inequality Lab team have been working to build frameworks for real-time analysis of natural disasters and extreme weather events. The goal is to forecast vulnerability, identifying who, rather than just where, will be exposed.
Hi #EconSky, I'm very excited to present our new working paper (nber.org/papers/w33050) at Brown today! A mid-sized 🧵 TL;DR: "Racial differences in income unable to explain a meaningful share of gaps in ambient air pollution exposure."
Income, Wealth, and Environmental Inequality in the United States
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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#EconSky We’re excited to be hiring a pre-doctoral research fellow in environmental economics starting summer/fall 2024! Apply here: tinyurl.com/EIL-pre-doc-24 Please share/apply!
#EconSky #ETP-Tour I will be in San Antonio for the AEAs. @paulgp.com and I are playing tennis at some point on the Friday. If anyone else is looking to play tennis let me know as I'd be keen to play Saturday as well.
If you're a senior male economist and would be interested in discussing the drafting of an open letter re the newly announced IZA leadership change, e-mail me. Female econs are rightly tired of the burden of such efforts falling on them.
#EconSky On January 1st 2024, I will be ending my association with IZA. My previous association will not be invisible, instead it will appear as strikethrough text on public materials.
#EconSky Two thumbs up from the Department! Thank you to everyone that wrote my letters, I greatly appreciate the support! Let's go!
#Econsky Who is doing modern IO in the Ag Space. Paul Scott and Will Rafey come to mind but I'm not thinking very deeply. Help me broaden my horizons, @marcfbellemare.bsky.social @jeffbloem.bsky.social :)
Getting this started early #econsky, but who wants to play tennis at the AEAs in January? @jmcolmer.bsky.social and I are in. @florianederer.bsky.social might be in. Anyone else?
#Econsky We're looking to hire someone to help us level up our graphics/figures/presentation of results? Has anyone done this before. We have in mind someone who can work on a project-by-project basis, rather than hiring someone in-house.
Alright, let's try out the new hive mind. I'm at Yale for the next couple of days. Where/What should I eat/drink/see? #Econsky 📉📈
We're hiring! The Princeton development econ faculty are hiring pre-docs to start in Summer 2024, under the supervision of Pascaline Dupas, Mica Sviatsci, Thomas Fujiwaran, Allan Hsiao, and me. Can sponsor visas. Please share! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/17772/s... 📈📉
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Rachel Glennerster and I have a recent JEP article on why many of the most cost-effective ways to mitigate climate change are in low- and middle-income countries. This Q&A covers the main points in our article. 📈📉 spia.princeton.edu/news/whose-c...
Whose CO2 is it Anyway? Seema Jayachandran’s Research Explores Alternate Mitigation Efforts | Prin...
As CO2 emissions continue to climb globally, Seema Jayachandran, a professor of economics and public affairs and co-director of the Research Program in Development Economics, published research in the...
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So I guess this is happening. How are we all feeling about real analysis today? #EconSky? #EconBlue? #Econbsky? #EconTwitter4Ever? #Econ?