How do improvements in predictions affect our investment in loss prevention? Glad to share my article in @informs.bsky.social journal Decision Analysis that examines this question. Open-access SSRN link: papers.ssrn.com/abstract=417... Journal link: pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10....
Vaibhav Anand
@vaibhavanand.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Greenberg School of Risk and Insurance, St. John's University | https://www.vaibhavanand.com/
🌾How does extreme heat change diets of farming families in rural India? 🔥A new #JAERE study finds that when growing-season temperatures spike, crop yields drop and this drives strong undernutrition for many households, especially calories, zinc, thiamine, and niacin. 📊 #JaereFigureFriday 🌎 #EconSky
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An insightful discussion of my paper by @mattkahn1966.bsky.social Thank you for highlighting the work. The post raises interesting questions on how tech innovations (e.g., remote work, autonomous cars) might interact with these traditional adaptation measures (e.g., weather advisories).
Important advance for simulated instruments
📢New WP w/ @borusyak.bsky.social We derive the most powerful recentered IVs for formula treatments & propose an algorithm for approximating them This approach yields *huge* power gains, relative to conventional simulated IV, when estimating Medicaid crowdout effects Check it out! t.co/UPg2XQBefN
🌤️ Our #AI weather forecasting model has been published today in Nature 🤖 🥇the first AI weather model to learn directly from raw environmental observations 🌎 compared to existing AI models it is cheaper to train, uses less carbon and easier to deploy locally www.turing.ac.uk/news/fully-a...
Fully AI driven weather prediction system could start revolution in forecasting
A new AI weather prediction system, Aardvark Weather, can deliver accurate forecasts tens of times faster and using thousands of times less computing power t
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Heads (and elbows) up: The call for abstracts for the 9th Conference on Econometric Models of Climate Change (University of Victoria, BC, Canada – Aug. 27-28, 2025) is open until April 17th! #Econsky Looking forward to seeing you in August! More info at: www.tinyurl.com/emcc2025uvic
Excited to share that my job market paper "Does Getting Forecasts Earlier Matter? Evidence from Winter Advisories and Vehicle Crashes" is forthcoming in AEJ Policy!
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Does Getting Forecasts Earlier Matter? Evidence from Winter Advisories and Vehicle Crashes" by Vaibhav Anand. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Join us at #AERE2024 for an exciting plenary on America's Trillion Dollar Climate Investment. We'll hear from panelists Karen Palmer, Arik Levinson, Lori Bennear, and Nathaniel Keohane, moderated by Joe Aldy 📈📉
"Machine learning makes this science a lot more fun,” says Tapio Schneider. New climate feature in Nature by Carissa Wong:
How AI is improving climate forecasts
Researchers are using various machine-learning strategies to speed up climate modelling, reduce its energy costs and hopefully improve accuracy. Researchers are using various machine-learning strategi...
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More timely than expected: Check out my latest Economic Letter showing extreme weather events cause uncertainty for affected firms that lasts several months. We focus on hurricanes but find similar effects after other extreme weather events. #EconSky #ExtremeWeather www.frbsf.org/economic-res...