I am pleased to share that our special issue has been published: Latin America in the Anthropocene: development under planetary constraints | Environment and Development Economics | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New paper out in Ecological Economics: Between drought and flood: How perceptions of climate extremes shape public attitudes toward climate action in Africa. This is the second paper out of @IragenaJoyeuse dissertation. @ZelieGankon is also a coauthor. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Between drought and flood: How perceptions of climate extremes shape public attitudes toward climate action in Africa

Africa emits roughly 4% of global greenhouse gases yet faces some of the world’s most damaging climate extremes. Using approximately 45,000$ face to f…

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Proud to share our paper in Climatic Change:a scoping review of how extreme weather events shape adaptation and pro-environmental behavior in Africa. Evidence is growing, but major gaps remain, especially on mitigation and policy support🧵 link.springer.com/article/10.1... @efdinitiative.bsky.social

Facing the drought: a scoping review of the impact of extreme weather events on adaptation and pro-environmental behavior in Africa - Climatic Change

Climatic Change - Extreme weather events (EWEs) are among the most tangible manifestations of climate change, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations in Africa. This scoping review...

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Paper under review for 6 months at a journal

Love this paper on the impact of #heat on #migration from El Salvador, forthcoming in AEJ. If you want a summary, check out this new blog in VoxDev: voxdev.org/topic/energy... @anamibanez.bsky.social @jimenaromero.bsky.social @andreaventura.bsky.social and Juliana Quigua

Climate change and rural livelihoods: How extreme heat drives international migration from El Salvador

In El Salvador, extreme heat lowers agricultural productivity and rural incomes, pushing farmers – especially those with strong migrant networks – to use international migration as a climate adaptatio...

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🌍 Are you in the market? Dream postdoc opportunity for environmental economists! @envdefensefund.bsky.social + @ucsb.bsky.social's @emlab.ucsb.edu are hiring 2-3 postdocs to work on carbon markets, nature-based solutions & resource economics with Chris Costello (emLab Director/EDF Chief Economist).

Environmental and Resource Economics Postdoctoral Scholar (up to 3 positions), Environmental Markets Lab (emLab), University of California Santa Barbara

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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🚨The Moore Lab at UC Davis is hiring!🚨 Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346

Postdoctoral Scholar - Environmental Science & Policy

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Newly published paper with Job Garcia-Vara and Fernanda Marquez-Padilla shows that deforestation in Mexico reduces birth weight and increases the risk of low Apgar scores www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The giving tree: impacts of deforestation on birth outcomes in Mexico

Deforestation adversely impacts human health through mechanisms such as increased air pollution, shifts in disease vector distributions, and changes in local climate. Although the influence of defo...

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🆕 Complete Focus Collection in Environmental Research: Climate (#ERCL) Understanding the Gender and Climate Change Nexus 🌍♀️ Explore gender gaps in policy, energy access, leadership, and more. 📚 Full issue + editorial: iopscience.iop.org/collections/...

Delighted to share our editorial “Understanding the gender and climate change nexus—towards transformative and inclusive climate action” doi.org/10.1088/2752... @IOPenvironment doi.org/10.1088/2752... via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026 We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!

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🚨🚨 Pre-doc Hiring! 🚨🚨 We are hiring pre-docs to start in Princeton in Summer 2026, supporting Pascaline Dupas, @thomasfujiwara.bsky.social @seema.bsky.social and Mica Sviatschi. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in development economics research before applying to PhD programs. Link 👇

What's current in REEP (@ReepAere.bsky.social)? "The Economics and Governance of Solar Geoengineering" by Juan Moreno-Cruz (@jmorenocruz.bsky.social), David M. McEvoy, Matthew McGinty, and Todd L. Cherry. Read for free here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #EconSky 📉 📈

Loving this NY Times article on "The Surprising Ways That Siblings Shape Our Lives." It features our work showing that, across the globe, older sibs' college choices affect those of their younger sibs. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/m...

As we commemorate International Women’s Day, we at EfD celebrate the outstanding research contributions of the women in our network, who continue to thrive despite the structural inequalities that, unfortunately, still persist in academia—particularly in economics. Follow this to learn more! 🧵

This week I will be giving a lecture to young experimentalists who are interested in publishing. I will provide some tips for doing better field experiments and advice on publishing. The slides will draw from my recent AFE keynote: ideas.repec.org/p/feb/artefa...

Some Tips for Doing Better Field Experiments and Getting You

These are the slides from John A. List's keynote at the 2022 AFE conference.

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Brutal.

📣📣 The Women in Economics (WiE) Index 2024 is out! Launched in 2019, it tracks women's leadership in the academic, private and public sector worldwide. For the first time in six years, we see a slight general improvement in women's representation! 🔗 www.women-in-economics.com/copy-of-index

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Quieren unirse al equipo de la Unidad de Migración de El BID? Si les interesa, revisen los requisitos de la convocatoria: jobs.iadb.org/job/Economic...

The Inter-American Development Bank is forming a poverty group, with multiple staff positions. Lead Specialist jobs.iadb.org/job/Economic... Specialist jobs.iadb.org/job/Economic... Great opportunity to help shape the organization's operational & analytical work around poverty reduction.

more recently he has this which i think is the most insightful picking apart of what's going on in the last two weeks www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We are witnessing the rise of a new Republican ‘Southern Strategy’ | Jason Stanley

How to make sense of the Trump administration’s attacks on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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A bit late in the cycle, but I'm hiring a postdoc to work on natural resource drivers of US agricultural productivity. Looking for someone w/ clear interest in the area & good geospatial data skills. Email me for Qs. Plz circulate w/ potential candidates. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29631

Diplomatic passports and G-4 visas are not being honored. Some colleagues have not been able to return to the US after work trips.

Mexico is a welcome and relevant addition to the "EfD Family"! Read more about this! #environmentaleconomics #sustainability #CATIE #mexico www.efdinitiative.org/news/efd-cen...

EfD Central America expands to include Mexico

EfD Central America (EfD-CA) has, since its establishment in 2007, been a driving force in promoting sustainable development and environmental research in the region.

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This is spot on.

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · 3y ago

Katalin Karikó on the status economy of academia. She’s the hero we don’t deserve. Source: josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-...