Yongtae (Aaron) Kwon
@aayk.bsky.social
Environmental and Energy Economics, Environmental Justice || Public Policy PhD Student at UT Austin
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June 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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About 1 in 6 people who are eligible for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) don’t use it in large part because of the complex application process.
www.census.gov/library/stor....
www.census.gov/library/stor....
May 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
About 1 in 6 people who are eligible for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) don’t use it in large part because of the complex application process.
www.census.gov/library/stor....
www.census.gov/library/stor....
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The world has probably passed “peak air pollution”
January 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
The world has probably passed “peak air pollution”
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies" by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Adrien Fabre, Tobias Kruse, Bluebery Planterose, Ana Sanchez Chico, and Stefanie Stantcheva. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper explores global perceptions and understanding of climate change and policies,
examining factors that influence support for climate action and the impact of different...
www.aeaweb.org
January 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "Fighting Climate Change: International Attitudes Toward Climate Policies" by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Adrien Fabre, Tobias Kruse, Bluebery Planterose, Ana Sanchez Chico, and Stefanie Stantcheva. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type...
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Federal Environmental Justice Tracker – Environmental and Energy Law Program
eelp.law.harvard.edu
January 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The new White House has already deleted dozens of environmental justice websites and reports. Worry not, they’re all backed up on various independent university websites. eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker-type...
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Pouring through the Day 1 climate and energy EOs.
Still processing details but here are the ones that stand out. 1/
#energysky #climatesky
Still processing details but here are the ones that stand out. 1/
#energysky #climatesky
January 21, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Pouring through the Day 1 climate and energy EOs.
Still processing details but here are the ones that stand out. 1/
#energysky #climatesky
Still processing details but here are the ones that stand out. 1/
#energysky #climatesky
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Get the local climate action plan searchable tables too www.epa.gov/inflation-re...
January 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Get the local climate action plan searchable tables too www.epa.gov/inflation-re...
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**NERC's Long-Term Reliability Assessment is Out. Remain Calm.**
There's a lot of *risk*. Which means there's a lot of *opportunity*! ⚡
Update your models accordingly
Key takeaways Below:
#EnergyInfrastructure #BESS #DataCenters #NERC
There's a lot of *risk*. Which means there's a lot of *opportunity*! ⚡
Update your models accordingly
Key takeaways Below:
#EnergyInfrastructure #BESS #DataCenters #NERC
December 17, 2024 at 10:11 PM
**NERC's Long-Term Reliability Assessment is Out. Remain Calm.**
There's a lot of *risk*. Which means there's a lot of *opportunity*! ⚡
Update your models accordingly
Key takeaways Below:
#EnergyInfrastructure #BESS #DataCenters #NERC
There's a lot of *risk*. Which means there's a lot of *opportunity*! ⚡
Update your models accordingly
Key takeaways Below:
#EnergyInfrastructure #BESS #DataCenters #NERC
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Senator John Hickenlooper and Congressman Scott Peters are on a mission to update and streamline the patchwork energy transmission system in the U.S. with their legislation, the Building Integrated Grids With Inter-Regional Energy Supply (BIG WIRES) Act.
https://buff.ly/45PvPSR
https://buff.ly/45PvPSR
December 9, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Senator John Hickenlooper and Congressman Scott Peters are on a mission to update and streamline the patchwork energy transmission system in the U.S. with their legislation, the Building Integrated Grids With Inter-Regional Energy Supply (BIG WIRES) Act.
https://buff.ly/45PvPSR
https://buff.ly/45PvPSR
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"Sooner or later we are going to have to have a serious meetings of minds about not building in certain places because it just won’t get insurance.”
source: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
source: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How climate risks are driving up insurance premiums around the US – visualized
‘Tight correlation’ between premium rises and counties deemed most at risk from climate crisis, experts say
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2024 at 5:10 PM
"Sooner or later we are going to have to have a serious meetings of minds about not building in certain places because it just won’t get insurance.”
source: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
source: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The way PJM (and other non-ERCOT RTOs) processes ERIS doesn't really provide much of a timeline benefit. In part because they still study contingency conditions that are too restrictive. From @tnorris.bsky.social's great research: nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/sites/defaul...
December 5, 2024 at 5:47 PM
The way PJM (and other non-ERCOT RTOs) processes ERIS doesn't really provide much of a timeline benefit. In part because they still study contingency conditions that are too restrictive. From @tnorris.bsky.social's great research: nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/sites/defaul...
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Great talk by @janrosenow.bsky.social for Oxford Energy Network on 'What to do with the gas grid when we no longer need it'. Talk recorded will be online in a few days www.energy.ox.ac.uk. 💡
Oxford Energy | One of the Oxford Networks for the Environment
Oxford is addressing the major technical, social, economic and policy challenges of providing secure, affordable and sustainable energy for all. Work on different aspects of the energy challenge, whi...
www.energy.ox.ac.uk
December 3, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Great talk by @janrosenow.bsky.social for Oxford Energy Network on 'What to do with the gas grid when we no longer need it'. Talk recorded will be online in a few days www.energy.ox.ac.uk. 💡
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New @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social blog from @severinborenstein.bsky.social on large loads connecting to the grid (data centers, cryto miners etc). This topic has definitely been on my mind lately so it's nice to see some careful thinking that looks past the hype. 🔌💡
Is there a “Duty to Serve” Hyperscale Loads?
If we don’t rethink the paradigm for new large electricity customers, they could end up burdening existing ratepayers. Nationally, and in California, electricity demand from the grid has been flat …
energyathaas.wordpress.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:46 PM
New @ucenergyinstitute.bsky.social blog from @severinborenstein.bsky.social on large loads connecting to the grid (data centers, cryto miners etc). This topic has definitely been on my mind lately so it's nice to see some careful thinking that looks past the hype. 🔌💡
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Matteo has a great explainer blog post matteocourthoud.github.io/post/contami... for those who haven’t seen it yet. And we have an open issue in pyfixest to add support for a multe method github.com/py-econometr... Might turn into my Christmas break project =)
Understanding Contamination Bias | Matteo Courthoud
Problems and solutions of linear regression with multiple treatments
In many causal inference settings, we might be interested in the effect of not just one treatment, but many mutually exclusive trea...
matteocourthoud.github.io
November 30, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Matteo has a great explainer blog post matteocourthoud.github.io/post/contami... for those who haven’t seen it yet. And we have an open issue in pyfixest to add support for a multe method github.com/py-econometr... Might turn into my Christmas break project =)
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Totally agree with @shengwuli.bsky.social.
The broader point is that I think we need to directly address the elephant in the room: the *huge* impact of context--i.e., seemingly irrelevant factors--on choice and beliefs.
🧵 on the behavioral economics of context, with some new data at the end.
The broader point is that I think we need to directly address the elephant in the room: the *huge* impact of context--i.e., seemingly irrelevant factors--on choice and beliefs.
🧵 on the behavioral economics of context, with some new data at the end.
November 29, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Totally agree with @shengwuli.bsky.social.
The broader point is that I think we need to directly address the elephant in the room: the *huge* impact of context--i.e., seemingly irrelevant factors--on choice and beliefs.
🧵 on the behavioral economics of context, with some new data at the end.
The broader point is that I think we need to directly address the elephant in the room: the *huge* impact of context--i.e., seemingly irrelevant factors--on choice and beliefs.
🧵 on the behavioral economics of context, with some new data at the end.
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Coal output didn't begin falling until around 2010, mainly because of fracking and to some extent renewables. But by then there were already very few miners (the personal training industry employs about 20X as many people as coal) 3/
November 30, 2024 at 12:54 PM
Coal output didn't begin falling until around 2010, mainly because of fracking and to some extent renewables. But by then there were already very few miners (the personal training industry employs about 20X as many people as coal) 3/
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Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks
Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"
1/ (Twitter rerun!)
Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"
1/ (Twitter rerun!)
The December 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 12) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/785.
American Economic Review
Vol. 114 No. 12 December 2024
aeaweb.org
November 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM
Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks
Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"
1/ (Twitter rerun!)
Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"
1/ (Twitter rerun!)
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1/ Is a climate policy without losers possible? 🤔
We propose a mechanism ensuring weak Pareto improvements across income groups, homeowners & generations—with low informational requirements. doi.org/10.25932/pub.... Here's how it works:
We propose a mechanism ensuring weak Pareto improvements across income groups, homeowners & generations—with low informational requirements. doi.org/10.25932/pub.... Here's how it works:
November 22, 2024 at 2:31 PM
1/ Is a climate policy without losers possible? 🤔
We propose a mechanism ensuring weak Pareto improvements across income groups, homeowners & generations—with low informational requirements. doi.org/10.25932/pub.... Here's how it works:
We propose a mechanism ensuring weak Pareto improvements across income groups, homeowners & generations—with low informational requirements. doi.org/10.25932/pub.... Here's how it works:
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Countries vary in the adoption of sticks and carrots in climate policy. This is often attributed to differences in political will. In a new comment, J. Meckling & A. Benkler argue that variation in climate policy instruments may also be due to differences in institutional capacity and fiscal space.
State capacity and varieties of climate policy - Nature Communications
Multiple policy mechanisms exist to create climate policy. In this comment, the authors discuss the institution capacity and fiscal space that shape national policies around sticks and carrots mechani...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:56 PM
Countries vary in the adoption of sticks and carrots in climate policy. This is often attributed to differences in political will. In a new comment, J. Meckling & A. Benkler argue that variation in climate policy instruments may also be due to differences in institutional capacity and fiscal space.
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November 20, 2024 at 1:42 AM
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Relatedly, @hannahritchie.bsky.social just did a nice post in which she noted that the energy intensity of computation is down by more than 99% since 2008.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-...
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-...
November 20, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Relatedly, @hannahritchie.bsky.social just did a nice post in which she noted that the energy intensity of computation is down by more than 99% since 2008.
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-...
www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/ai-energy-...
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Back from the dead! New York’s transit agency approves a $9 congestion toll in Manhattan. The new toll is set to increase to the originally proposed $15 charge by 2031. Congestion pricing will finance billions in transit infrastructure www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 🔌💡
New York’s Transit Agency Approves $9 Congestion Pricing Toll
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved a revised congestion pricing plan for Manhattan that President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to terminate once he takes office.
www.bloomberg.com
November 18, 2024 at 10:27 PM
Back from the dead! New York’s transit agency approves a $9 congestion toll in Manhattan. The new toll is set to increase to the originally proposed $15 charge by 2031. Congestion pricing will finance billions in transit infrastructure www.bloomberg.com/news/article... 🔌💡
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My coauthor Martin Simmler shows that also a substantial share of green energy subsidies end up in the pockets of landowners: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wind electricity subsidies — A windfall for landowners? Evidence from a feed-in tariff in Germany
Subsidies for renewable energy sources are increasing around the globe and amounted to more than 100 billion euro in 2013. This study aims to answer w…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:10 AM
My coauthor Martin Simmler shows that also a substantial share of green energy subsidies end up in the pockets of landowners: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Featured in the latest Bulletin on Health: "Health Consequences of Wildfire Smoke"
https://www.nber.org/bh/20243/health-consequences-wildfire-smoke
https://www.nber.org/bh/20243/health-consequences-wildfire-smoke
November 19, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Featured in the latest Bulletin on Health: "Health Consequences of Wildfire Smoke"
https://www.nber.org/bh/20243/health-consequences-wildfire-smoke
https://www.nber.org/bh/20243/health-consequences-wildfire-smoke