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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 1d

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

press.princeton.edu

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 3d

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 · 3d

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.

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 3d

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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Moritz Drupp @moritzdrupp.bsky.social · Sep 1

🌍📈 Paper “The Economics of Inequality and the Environment” out today in the Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social, joint with Jasper Meya, Lutz Sager & Ulrike Kornek.

See short summary and PM by PIK linked below, and the paper here
👉 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

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Frikk Nesje @frikknesje.bsky.social · 6d

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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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 4d

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

Autopsy

Lessons for editors

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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 4d

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 · 5d

Das kann doch kein Zufall sein.

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SETI Energy @setienergy.bsky.social · 7d

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

tinyurl.com/2pnwxztj

Studies reviewed the effectiveness of rural energy access programs

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

tinyurl.com

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 9d

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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David Brady @davebrady72.bsky.social · 21d

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

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 12d

🆕 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 · 13d

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 · 14d

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

statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 15d

12,000 views

not quite Jimmy Kimmel

richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...

Fraud and cover-up

richardtol.substack.com

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

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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Armin Schaefer @arminschaefer.bsky.social · 17d

No pun intended!

Tagesschau Bot @tagesschau.bsky.social · 18d

Reiche gegen höhere Erbschaftssteuer#Erbschaftssteuer#Reiche

Reiche gegen höhere Erbschaftssteuer

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

www.tagesschau.de

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · Apr 1

Disappointing follow-up results from a landmark RCT on gender norms in India. The curriculum changed norms in the short-term, but after six years had no impact on women's schooling, employment, or age of marriage

custom.cvent.com/4E741122FD8B...

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · Aug 30

Coding errors in data processing are more likely to be ignored if the erroneous result is in line with what we want to see. The theoretical prediction made in this paper is very plausible - testing it empirically is perhaps a bit more challenging. But still, interesting. arxiv.org/pdf/2508.20069

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · 22d

I4R Replication Games coming to Münster! @i4replication.bsky.social @aufdroeseler.bsky.social @fialalenka.bsky.social

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Marianne Saam @mariannesaam.bsky.social · 24d

Come to the #VfS panel on #OpenScience with Severine Toussaert, @leventneyse.bsky.social @jrgptrs.bsky.social @larsvil.bsky.social . Looking forward to the discussion.

Verein für Socialpolitik e.V. @vfsecon.bsky.social · Sep 5

[2] 15/09 | 5:00 PM — Panel: Open Science – Increasing Research Transparency in Economics
Featuring ZBW, Jörg Ankel-Peters, Jan Marcus, Severine Toussaert, Lars Villhuber, Levent Neyse
#OpenScience #VfS_Conf2025
@wisocologne.bsky.social

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Ryan Briggs @ryancbriggs.net · 28d

The pretty draft is now online.

Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

The social sciences face a replicability crisis. A key determinant of replication success is statistical power. We assess the
power of political science research by collating over 16,000 hypothesis tests from about 2,000 articles in 46 areas of the
discipline. Under generous assumptions, we show that quantitative research in political science is greatly underpow-
ered: the median analysis has about 10% power, and only about 1 in 10 tests have at least 80% power to detect the
consensus effects reported in the literature. We also find substantial heterogeneity in tests across research areas, with
some being characterized by high power but most having very low power. To contextualize our findings, we survey
political methodologists to assess their expectations about power levels. Most methodologists greatly overestimate the
statistical power of political science research.

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