A new commentary by @knittelmit.bsky.social focuses primarily on retail tariff design in the United States, and explains why that tariff structure is becoming increasingly inefficient, regressive, and outdated. Check it out at the link below: ceepr.link/4emt2oM

Wait…..US companies are saying that they deserve a refund now that the tariffs were deemed unconstitutional……but……but…..I thought CHINA paid the tariffs!!!!???? Now we will get to learn lots of people actually understand economics.

I am excited that my energy economics and policy class is part of a really cool MicroMasters program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP). Learn more here: www.povertyactionlab.org/page/dedp-mi... Enroll now!

J-PAL@j-pal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

From oil & gas to renewables—learn how energy markets work and how policy can drive change. ⛽ Enroll now in our free, online Energy Economics and Policy course with @mitxcourses.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/3L56NJz

New paper out today in Nature Energy! We evaluate how Congressional proposals for policy-driven transmission expansion would shape U.S. electricity costs, emissions, and reliability. Big implications for climate and grid planning. rdcu.be/eS7lj #EnergyPolicy #Transmission #CleanEnergy

Implications of policy-driven transmission expansion for costs, emissions and reliability in the USA

Nature Energy - Interregional transmission is key to a cost-efficient, reliable and cleaner US grid. Senga et al. find that current legislative proposals can increase reliability while capturing...

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Electricity affordability is a major concern. A new paper with grad student Fischer Espiritu Argosino shows renewable policies aren’t driving price increases once you control for confounders. ceepr.mit.edu/workingpaper... #EnergyAffordability #ElectricityPrices #Renewables #PolicyResearch

New blog post today on work with @knittelmit.bsky.social and @cwolfram.bsky.social. Climate inaction is *already* a big expense affecting US households costs; the most important mechanism is the impact of climate-related natural disasters on housing costs. legal-planet.org/2025/11/20/c...

Climate inaction is ALREADY a big expense affecting US households' costs. One of the biggest? The impact of climate-related natural disasters on housing costs. New post and research by @kclausing.bsky.social @knittelmit.bsky.social @cwolfram.bsky.social legal-planet.org/2025/11/20/c...

Climate Inaction is an Affordability Problem - Legal Planet

This post is authored by UCLA Law’s Kimberly A. Clausing along with guest contributors Christopher R. Knittel and Catherine Wolfram. Many of us have seen large increases in our homeowner’s insurance p...

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Faculty Director @knittelmit.bsky.social is speaking at the New Deal Leaders 15th Annual Leaders' Conference. Sessions include in-depth policy conversations on key issues, including #housing, #education, #cleanenergy, #AI, + more. buff.ly/sjRJmp8 📅 November 19-21 📍 Washington, DC

15th Annual Leaders Conference – NewDEAL

Washington, DC | November 19-21

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The podcast version of our BPEA paper on “Who bears the burden of climate inaction?” (thread below, with @cwolfram.bsky.social and @knittelmit.bsky.social) just dropped . www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

How much is climate change costing US households? | Brookings

Studies of the economic impacts of climate change often look at long-term, national costs. A new BPEA study takes a different approach, focusing on the current household level costs attributable to ch...

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Kimberly Clausing@kclausing.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧵 (1/7) With @knittelmit.bsky.social and @cwolfram.bsky.social, happy to announce our new paper on “Who Bears the Burden of Climate Inaction?”, just posted for BPEA @brookings.edu. We find large climate cost impacts that vary by both geography and income. www.brookings.edu/articles/who...

An MIT CEEPR paper by @knittelmit.bsky.social, @gibmetcalf.bsky.social and @shereeinsaraf.bsky.social looks at the impacts from a Gas-to-VMT Tax Shift. Check out the full paper at the link below: ceepr.link/42R44sv

🧵 (1/7) With @knittelmit.bsky.social and @cwolfram.bsky.social, happy to announce our new paper on “Who Bears the Burden of Climate Inaction?”, just posted for BPEA @brookings.edu. We find large climate cost impacts that vary by both geography and income. www.brookings.edu/articles/who...

Any #Warsaw recommendations? Food and tourism.

First they came after the undocumented immigrants' speech, who had few constitutional protections, and I did not speak out— because I was not undocumented.

From my awesome co-author Jen Alix-Garcia: thehill.com/opinion/ener...

Leveraging input from stakeholders across the EV ecosystem, a team of @harvardsalata.bsky.social and MIT CEEPR researchers recommends how to speed deployment of new charging technology to rapidly expand the EV market. salatainstitute.harvard.edu/deploying-pl...

Deploying Plug & Charge technology can speed EV adoption - The Salata Institute

Leveraging input from stakeholders across the EV ecosystem, a team of Harvard and MIT researchers recommends how to speed deployment of new charging technology to rapidly expand the EV market.

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The #tradewar is on. Real-time electricity prices doubled few minutes after midnight EST in New England. 🔌💡

Submit your interesting paper to the Spring @nberpubs.bsky.social EEE meetings. The great #PaulinaOliva and @stevecicala.bsky.social ky.social are sure to pick an amazing set of papers. DEADLINE IS IN 9 DAYS!! March 27-28, 2025 conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Submission: Environment and Energy Economics Program Meeting, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research

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You should listen to this podcast! You can skip the most recent one, but the others are worthwhile! #energysky #econsky #climatesky energy.mit.edu/podcast/the-...

The next four years of U.S. energy

President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to repeal key climate and energy legislation enacted under the Biden administration. What should we expect over the next four years and what will this mean for c...

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My amazing post doc, Juan Senga, presenting our work using a revealed preference argument to estimate the non-engineering costs associated with building transmission at the #CEEPR workshop.

Looking forward to our #CEEPR fall workshop in DC. A great lineup of papers and our largest registration ever! 1/3 academics, 1/3 industry, 1/3 policy makers. ceepr.mit.edu/wp-content/u... #energysky

Frying a turkey in a log cabin in the middle of a New Hampshire forest? What can go wrong!? At least there isn’t an open flame. Happy #Thanksgiving everyone!

A quick calculation on #Trump's #tariffs. We import ~$900B from Ca and M. 25% tariff. Assume a 75% pass-through (low?), that's a $1,000 tax on the avg US household. We import $430B from China. 10% tariff => $250/HH. Here comes a $1,250/year tax on US households? #TrumpTradeWar

Hey #energysky #econsky #academicsky, If you haven't tried, try #Google's #NotebookLM podcast feature. Just upload a paper and hit go. I plan to use these for my class. It seems to do a decent job at AI generating the podcast.

My son and I always behave myopically at hotpot. The ride home is always painful.

Excited to share our new paper: "Using Information to Curb Racial Discrimination" with Don MacKenzie, Michiko Namazu, @ozaltun.bsky.social, @dansvirsky.bsky.social, & @stephenzoepf.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w33118 #EconSky #EnergySky #TechSky #ResearchSky

Using Information to Curb Racial Discrimination

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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Highlighting rider ratings can reduce ride cancellations for groups vulnerable to bias, but other relevant information has a smaller, non-significant effect, from Christopher R. Knittel, Donald MacKenzie, Michiko Namazu, Bora Ozaltun, Dan Svirsky, and Stephen Zoepf https://www.nber.org/papers/w33118

Faculty director @knittelmit.bsky.social in a @nytimes.com feature on oil companies retreating from clean energy: “If we want to combat climate change, we need to make it in the firms’ and consumers’ self-interest to produce and buy the low-carbon alternatives” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...

Why Oil Companies Are Walking Back From Green Energy

As leaders gather for a global climate summit, investors are rewarding oil giants like Exxon Mobil that did not embrace wind and solar.

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@mitsloan.bsky.social was kind enough to write out our recently published paper in #ScienceAdvances on energy poverty and the disconnect with where #LIHEAP allocations go. Work continues; please let me know what you think! #energysky #climatesky #econsky #policysky mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...

‘Energy poverty’ hits US residents more in the South and Southwest, study finds | MIT Sloan

The LIHEAP formula for calculating energy aid was written in the 1980s. Researchers propose a solution that recognizes the cost of cooling a warming south.

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My son’s first #Steelers game. It was a good one. My brother (pictured) and I were on the season-ticket waitlist for 24 years….

Off to Pittsburgh!!! Go #Steelers.