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Andrew Wilson @ajsw.info · 22d

Mercifully averted @ivanhigueram.com's hypothetical LinkedIn version of this (... “Some look at the world as it is and ask why. We looked at environmental hazards and said… why not us?” 🌟 #ProudMoment #ChangeMakers #Humbled #ClimateWarriors #Innovation #Leadership #AtlasDrop). Check out the site!

Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · 22d

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University

Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being

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Kevin Carey @kevincareywb.bsky.social · Jul 30

Hsiang & Burke NYT op-ed on climate change (incl. citations]: "We predict that workers will become less productive, less happy & more prone to safety errors. Demands on public services will increase while the cost of servicing new debt will probably rise." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Opinion | We Study Climate Change. It Endangers You and Your Children.

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Andrew Wilson @ajsw.info · Jun 27

it is true, you have discovered my side gig

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Andrew Wilson @ajsw.info · Jun 24

Topically, OSHA is currently holding hearings about a proposed workplace heat exposure rule (www.osha.gov/heat-exposur...). Final rule will be out too late to protect people this summer, but weeks like this would be safer with a Federal backstop in the 43 states that don’t have their own standards.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · Apr 15

NEW: The Trump administration proposes nearly $1.7 billion in cuts to NOAA that, if passed, could decimate weather and climate research, including funding to nine California institutions.

The @sfchronicle.com has obtained a White House document detailing the proposed budget cuts. Read it here:

'Five-alarm fire': Read the Trump proposal that could decimate climate research

NOAA grants provide funding to nine cooperative institutions in California. Several branches of the agency could lose hundreds of millions of dollars.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Makoto Kelp @soa-mazing.bsky.social · Feb 24

🚨Preprint alert: Led by Karina Chung (an undergrad!), we develop a wildfire smoke risk index that accounts for historical burned area, fuel consumption, and customized land management in Google Earth Engine 🌎 A useful tool to weigh risk-outcome scenarios 🔥

eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

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Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · Jan 22

Reupping this trade model run on 25% MEX, 25% CAN, and 10% PRC cross sector import tariffs.

Because…they’re back!!!

Kyle Meng @kylemeng.com · Nov 26

Lots of takes on new Trump tariffs. Here's a quick general equilibrium analysis.

Grabbed an off-the-self quantitative trade model (multisector armington) calibrated to '22 global trade flows.

Fed in 25% MEX, 25% CAN, and 10% PRC tariffs across sectors.

What happens to U.S. consumer prices? 1/3

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Christopher Callahan @ccallahan45.bsky.social · Jan 15

NEW: Mass heat mortality events are coming. In our new preprint, we project tens of thousands of deaths per week in Europe, if the weather patterns that produced heat waves historically happen again at future -- or even current -- global temperatures.

eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

thousands of excess deaths resulting from extreme heat conditions at increasing levels of global temperature

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Emily Pontecorvo @emilypont.bsky.social · Jan 8

Wildfire smoke routinely exceeds national air quality stds. Officials can seek exemptions for smoke events, but thats getting more complicated as smoke becomes more commonplace. They can also make steeper cuts to other sources of pollution — but that may not work if smoke events continue to ⬆️.

Heatmap News @heatmap.news · Jan 8

Is wildfire smoke regulated?

It's complicated. @emilypont.bsky.social investigates below, feat. new research from @marshallburke.bsky.social:

The New Age of Wildfire Is Overwhelming America’s Clean Air

A pre-print study from smoke researcher Marshall Burke and others shows how fires are eating into air quality gains.

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Marshall Burke @marshallburke.bsky.social · Dec 10

New paper characterizing trends in wildfire smoke PM2.5 in the US, incl. updated daily dataset and implications for air quality regulation. Below is animation of 2023.
Paper: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
Data (BETA version): www.stanfordecholab.com/wildfire_smoke
Quick thread:

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Andrew Wilson @ajsw.info · Dec 8

Thanks, Judy!

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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · Dec 7

I was halfway home from the airport when this guerrilla poetry caught my eye on the M60 this evening. Fitting label for a city bus.

Photo from the inside of a city bus looking out, focused on the narrow windowsill, in which a label has been pasted reading “THIS MORTAL COIL” in all-caps. The label is red with raised white letters, like would be made from an old style label-maker one might have found at an elementary school in the 80s.

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Andrew B. Martinez @andrewbmartinez.bsky.social · Dec 5

My chapter together with @ajsw.info
on "Forecasting the Macroeconomic Effects of Physical Climate Risk" has now been published in the Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Macroeconomic Forecasting

Edward Elgar Publishing @elgarpublishing.bsky.social · Nov 29

📣 NEW: Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in #Macroeconomic Forecasting by Michael P. Clements & Ana Beatriz Galvão

Chapter 14 is #OpenAccess at: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

More info: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

@mpfarrho.bsky.social @danilocascaldi.bsky.social #Econometrics

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · Dec 5

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We are hiring a full-time two-year RA! (or pre-doc?). Very excited about this position because you could be paired to work with many awesome economists at Batten (Ben Castleman, Andrew Simon, Derek Wu, Tim Layton) and myself!
More info down here 👇
jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R0...

Pre-Doctoral Associate, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Pre-Doctoral Associate, Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, University of Virginia job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Re...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Nov 30

Even if they weren't so deadly, climate change increasing the habitable area for mosquitoes is terrible because they are extremely annoying.

Infographic of The World's Deadliest Animals showing Number of people killed by animals per year. Mosquito is first at 725,000, followed by human at 475,000. Then it's snake (50,000), dog (25,000), and then a bunch of animals at 10,000 or below: tsetse fly, assassin bug, freshwater snail, ascaris roundworm, tapeworm, crocodile, hippo, elephant, lion, wolf, shark.

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Jonathan Colmer @jmcolmer.bsky.social · Nov 22

The Environmental Inequality Lab is hiring 2 new pre-docs to join our team! We do research in environmental economics but those with interests in labor/public/urban/spatial/development economics should def apply. Apply here: tinyurl.com/EIL-pre-doc

@AereOrg

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Res...

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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · Nov 21

Adjusting energy assistance programs to cover heat-protective spending as well as cold-protective spending is a no-brainer adaptation strategy

Journal of Environmental Economics and Management @jeem-econ.bsky.social · Nov 21

Recently accepted in #JEEM:

'The effect of extreme temperatures on evictions' by Dylan Brewer, Sarah Goldgar. #econsky
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Robert Metcalfe @rmetcalfe.bsky.social · Oct 23

To all economics PhD applicants, we would like to draw your attention to the PhD in Sustainable Development at Columbia University.

The PhD is for economists and scientists interested in issues related to the environment, climate change, energy, development, poverty, health, transport, inequality..

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Sep 25

120 CEA alumni urge congressional action to support the Current Population Survey.

Grateful to Bernanke, Boskin, Furman, Heckman, Hubbard, Stiglitz & so many others for speaking up.
📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣
www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2024...

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · Dec 21

The Center for Business and Public Policy at the Gies College of Business is hiring a post-doc in environmental/health economics. Come work with me and David Molitor!

Apply by Jan 15 for full consideration.

illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

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Danny Cullenward @ghgpolicy.org · Dec 20

Well, hydrogen friends waiting for the 45V guidance, I have some very bad news for you.

California is proposing to extend its biogas / RNG loopholes for hydrogen production through 2045.

See pp. 29-31 of the staff ISOR, available as part of the LCFS proposal that dropped yesterday.

Low Carbon Fuel Standard | California Air Resources Board

Accessibility Consistent with California Government Code section 7296.2, documents posted to this webpage may be made available in an alternate format or another language. Disability-related reasona...

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Peter Hull @instrumenthull.bsky.social · Dec 2

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Noah Kaufman @noahqkaufman.bsky.social · Nov 21

Briefing Book is an awesome new econ policy newsletter by former White House CEA staffers. I'm grateful they let me write a post about how the Circular A-4 update will improve analysis of climate regs, www.briefingbook.info/p/the-new-ci...

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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · Nov 16

Taylor Swift as Figure 29.14 (salmon)

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Eric Verhoogen @ericverhoogen.bsky.social · Nov 15

Hiring committees, take note!

David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Nov 15

Today's job market post by @floriangrosset.bsky.social conducts two experiments in Cote d'Ivoire to show how job take-up and retention is much higher when workers get offered a job with a friend with whom they can commute to work together blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...

Come Together: Employment Decisions and Joint Commuting in Urban Côte d’Ivoire: Guest Post by Flo...

The next in our job market series looks at whether workers are more willing to take a job if they can commute with a friend.

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