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Jörg Ankel-Peters

@jrgptrs.bsky.social

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development & environmental economist. energy access, climate policy, research transparency, replication & meta-science. #FirstGen bit.ly/40e2aQj

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Michael Jakob @ct-economics.bsky.social · 59m

New piece on growth dependence out in Futures.

To account for the possibility that environmental sustainability can only be achieved with lower economic output, this study carries out a thought experiment in which ambitious environmental policies result in economic contraction.

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 1d

And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to..

Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt

for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication"

#AkadSoz25 #sociology

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 1d

New DP @i4replication.bsky.social: Meta-analysis on green nudges correcting for publication bias. "Behavioral interventions on households and individuals are unlikely to deliver material climate benefits." www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 1d

BAP as a "Canadian kid" qualifies as ethnografic immersion. Chapeau.

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 3d

Today is the day!!! Existential Politics is out in the world!

Read about why we’re doing climate policy wrong (too focused on measuring emissions) & what we should do instead (focus on $$ to constrain fossil asset owners & expand green asset owners). Just in time for #COP30.

Existential Politics

A new way to tackle the real politics of climate change through asset revaluation

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 5d

New DP @i4replication.bsky.social : Meta-analysis on the price elasticity of heating and cooling energy demand. www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 5d

Natürlich ist das so, wie Sie sagen. Trotzdem ist es erheblich lokaler (was die Spürbarkeit angeht) als Emissionsvermeidung. Deshalb: man kann doch nicht den "Vibe Shift" wegreden, indem man auf lokale Anpassungsmaßnahmen verweist. Das ist am Problem vorbei argumentiert.

Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 5d

Für Anpassung wird sich sowieso stets eine Mehrheit finden lassen. Die wirkt ja unmittelbar, und eben vor Ort. Der Vibe Shift betrifft die Emissionsvermeidung, und über die diesbzezügliche Regulation entscheiden keine Kommunen und keine entschlossenen Minderheiten. Sondern eben Mehrheiten.

Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 5d

Mag sein, nur nützt sie dort nichts - es sei denn man argumentiert über sehr indirekte Effekte wie "Vorbildfunktion" oder "Machbarkeit demonstrieren". Die wesentliche Klimapolitik wird durch Regierungen gemacht. Und für die sind Mehrheiten entscheidend, nicht die Entschlossenheit weniger.

Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 5d

Sprache mag subjektiv Realität schaffen, nur wird aus diesen Beispielen lokalen Engagements hier noch lange keine Klimapolitik. Und schonmal gar keine globale. In der Realität.

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 6d

Insights into Elsevier's business model. "Publishers trade off higher returns in the short run with maintaining prestige in the long run." And I even guess this long-term-prestige objective only applies to upper tier Elsevier journals like Energy Economics.

Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 6d

Some more words on Energy Economics open.substack.com/pub/richardt...

Autopsy

Lessons for editors

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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 6d

Some more words on Energy Economics open.substack.com/pub/richardt...

Autopsy

Lessons for editors

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 6d

My article "Data is not available upon request" was published in Meta-Psychology. Very happy to see this out!
open.lnu.se/index.php/me...

LnuOpen | Meta-Psychology

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 7d

Das kann doch kein Zufall sein.

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Frikk Nesje @frikknesje.bsky.social · 8d

New publication: Designing Carbon Pricing Policies Across the Globe with Robert Schmidt and @moritzdrupp.bsky.social in Environmental and Resource Economics!

We present the largest international expert survey on carbon pricing design (400+ participants, ~40 countries). Some highlights.

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SETI Energy @setienergy.bsky.social · 9d

EfD and SETI fellows, @jrgptrs.bsky.social
, Gunther Bensch, and Maximiliane Sievert have published two studies to advise an evaluation conducted by the German Institute for Development Evaluation (DEval)
@efdinitiative.bsky.social
#EnergyTransition

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Studies reviewed the effectiveness of rural energy access programs

How effective are Germany’s energy access programs in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 11d

At @i4replication.bsky.social it is our ambition to foster a replication culture in the social sciences – and we hence welcome if our approaches are replicated as well: Replication Games on using LLM in experiments, in Valencia and Oxford. talkingtomachines.org/projects/ime...

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 15d

🆕 Does subsidising cleaner cookstoves backfire? Lessons from Rwanda

Today on VoxDev w/ Anicet Munyehirwe (IB&C Rwanda), @jrgptrs.bsky.social (@rwi.bsky.social), Maximiliane Sievert, Erwin Bulte (@w-u-r.bsky.social) & Nathan Fiala (UConn): voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Does subsidising cleaner cookstoves backfire? Lessons from Rwanda

Energy-efficient biomass cookstoves cut fuel use and, in Rwanda, do not trigger significant local rebound effects – consumption, fuel collection time, and prices remain largely unchanged for those not...

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 15d

In essence, virtually all replicated scholars imply that, unless the replication confirms their results. Is it fragility or really a lack of skills? We don't know, we are lacking a benchmark to judge. Harry Collins coined the term "experimenter's regress" for that paradox.

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 16d

More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/24/m...

More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 17d

12,000 views

not quite Jimmy Kimmel

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Fraud and cover-up

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 17d

I occasionally read econometric instrumental variables (IV) literature, and I am always struck by the mismatch between the premise of these econometricians that IVs are used to generate knowledge and the truth that IVs are actually used to generate interesting results for highly ranked publications.

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Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · 20d

Reiche gegen höhere Erbschaftssteuer#Erbschaftssteuer#Reiche

Reiche gegen höhere Erbschaftssteuer

Wirtschaftsministerin Reiche sieht in Steuererhöhungen "Gift" für den Standort Deutschland.

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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 23d

“Is Economics Self-Correcting?” The authors say no.

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Is economics self‐correcting? Replications in the American Economic Review

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