🚨New paper alert!🚨 I continue to be surprised by how much heat and cold impact different groups in society differently. We find heat deaths are way more concentrated among young manual/agricultural workers, while cold deaths are more concentrated among older non-workers. (1/5)

The JHR@j-humanresources.bsky.social · 5mo ago

4/4 @rdbressler.bsky.social, @annapappp.bsky.social, Luis Sarmiento, Jeffrey G. Shrader & Andrew J. Wilson find that #climate vulnerability isn’t just about where you live – it’s about what you do for work. #MortalitySpecialIssue Read the full article here: doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

Was your train delayed or cancelled this weekend? Mine was. Do you crave research that speaks to this particular experience? Look no further. In a new paper, @xinmingdu.bsky.social and I quantify how much rail safety and operations are affected by the weather.

The best, clearest article I've read yet on recent regulatory changes. The crucial bigger picture, that I agree has been overlooked, is that the health benefits from regulations are no longer being quantified. Lives are being valued at zero de facto because they are being ignored.

Lisa A Robinson@lisa-a-robinson.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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Call for papers: HISTORY OF CLIMATE ECONOMICS Details at: journals.openedition.org/oeconomia/19... Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Deadline for abstracts : January 15th, 2026

History of Climate Economics

Editors of the Special Issue Christophe Cassen (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Béatrice Cointe (CNRS, CSI Paris) Antoine Missemer (CNRS, CIRED Paris) Call for Papers In 2018, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Eco...

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I love that the justification for assigning zero quantitative value to health benefits is that they're uncertain. Because there's obviously no uncertainty on the compliance-cost side of the ledger. No need to worry about "false precision" there. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

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Apparently this marks the end of a 13 year blogging hiatus. www.paulkelleher.net/blog/2025/12... @madisoncondon.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social @lissaharris.bsky.social @lpeblog.bsky.social

This is a fascinating paper. It's the first (afaik) to actually document food&drink&retail scheduling unpredictability using actual firm data. It illustrates v clearly why unpredictable scheduling makes these jobs so difficult:

Robert Metcalfe@rmetcalfe.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Check out Hannah awesome JMP on job schedule unpredictability and how minimum wage policy affects such unpredictability: hannahfarkas.github.io/files/The_Ec...

Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year. Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them. JMP 🧵:

Analysis based on work by @rdbressler.bsky.social on the mortality consequences of climate change, including our co-authored paper on country-level climate damages www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Estimates of country level temperature-related mortality damage functions - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Estimates of country level temperature-related mortality damage functions

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David Roberts@volts.wtf · 9mo ago

All the VSPs decided that we can't talk about climate any more, and the entire climate establishment pathetically acceded, nonetheless: climate change is still very real! And Trump is going to rack up Holocaust-style numbers with his anti-climate policies.

Here's a few things I learned digging into electricity affordability and decarbonization in Connecticut 🧵

Really well-done article by @fastlerner.bsky.social that estimated temperature-related mortality impacts from recent climate rollbacks, drawing in part on my 2021 Nature Comms paper and my job market paper (bsky.app/profile/rdbr...). Check it out!

Sharon Lerner@fastlerner.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW: How will Trump's climate rollbacks play out in the future? Our analysis using modeled emissions and a peer reviewed metric shows the people most likely to die from the resulting additional GHGs will be in poor countries least prepared to cope with the heat www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Should the carbon price be the same across countries and sectors? Four kinds of imperfections call for differentiated carbon prices: 1. Different growth rates 2. Market power in trade 3. The presence of country- or sector-specific distorsive taxes 4. A constraint preventing cross-country transfers

A lot of Americans like to blame the Reagan Administration for the rise of market power and oligopoly in the US. But markups have been rising globally (except in South America) since 1980. Seems likely that other causes were at play: drive.google.com/file/d/1W7A9...

🚨New Paper🚨 Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics" My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics

Policies subject to BCA sometimes prevent premature deaths. If survivors would later have children, those policies not only prevent deaths; they cause…

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We had an all-star group of job market candidates this year and an all-star job market coordinator @rmetcalfe.bsky.social . Great set of placements in a really tough year. Proud to be a part of this group!

Robert Metcalfe@rmetcalfe.bsky.social · last yr.

Thrilled to share the fantastic placements of our eight Sustainable Development PhD job market candidates this year! Anna Papp – Postdoc: MIT Econ | AP: UCSB Bren Danny Bressler – AP: Bentley Econ Gabriel Gonzalez Suntil – Economist: Amazon Isabella Smythe – ML Engineer: Rhizome

"The uncertainty that is baked into this crisis is all the more reason to take urgent and decisive action to address it."

NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature

A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...

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Job Market Done ✅ I'm thrilled to announce that I will be an Assistant Professor in Economics at Bentley University this fall. I'm excited to join a great group of colleagues and to move back to Boston!

New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause: - 15.2m deaths from AIDS - 2.2m deaths from TB - 7.9 additional child deaths

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵

Essential reading for folks interested in the economics of climate change. Check it out!

Paul Kelleher@paulkelleher.net · 2y ago

Those with institutional access to Oxford Academic/Oxford Scholarship Online can now access an HTML version of my book here: academic.oup.com/book/59438 Looks like the dead-tree version will be available on/by March 4.

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 world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better. All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems. We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵

What’s important about this piece is economic theory, when translated into practice, needs to overcorrect for the actual impacts to people’s lives that efficiency driven by theory create. It’s not “winners COULD compensate losers” it’s “winners DO compensate losers”. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/o...

Opinion | What Economists Could Learn From George Costanza

Their economic models produced a disaster, but they doubled down.

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Excited to announce a new @pnas.org publication on the Social Cost of Carbon. We integrate evidence from the literature and expert survey to provide an SCC distribution inclusive of both parametric and structural uncertainties. Our mean 2020 value is $283 per ton CO2 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Synthesis of evidence yields high social cost of carbon due to structural model variation and uncertainties | PNAS

Estimating the cost to society from a ton of CO2—termed the social cost of carbon (SCC)—requires connecting a model of the climate system with a re...

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Extreme heat is preferentially killing young adults and small children, finds a new study co-led by @rdbressler.bsky.social and @ajsw.info with Columbia Climate School's Radley Horton, @adamsobel.bsky.social, @ccivanovich.bsky.social (now NASAGISS), Jeffrey Shrader, and colleagues. Via CBS News.

Young people more susceptible to heat-related death, study finds

A new Columbia University Climate School study discovered that young people may be most at risk of heat-related deaths. CBS News environmental correspondent David Schechter reports.

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Save the date: 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change (EMCC) will be at the University of Victoria BC, Canada, Aug. 27-28, 2025. Come if you want to learn about climate and econometrics (or just want to visit Vancouver Island...) Formal call for papers to follow in 2025. #EconSky

🚨"Heat disproportionally kills young people: Evidence from Wet-Bulb Temperature Exposure" My new paper co-lead with @ajsw.info is out today! Using 20 years of nationwide mortality microdata + wet-bulb temperature, we uncovered fascinating new findings. Thread 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Heat disproportionately kills young people: Evidence from wet-bulb temperature in Mexico

Analysis of temperature exposure and microdata finds the majority of heat-related deaths are among people under 35 years old.

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