Thrilled to be attending LAERE 2025 in beautiful Bogotá! Today at the keynote session by @bengroom.bsky.social, exploring practical ways to price biodiversity. Also, excited to reconnect with colleagues and especially happy to return to Uniandes after so many years. 💚

🆕 How does the loss of biodiversity impact economies and human well-being? 🔊

Today on VoxDevTalks, Eyal Frank (University of Chicago) discusses how the real-world impacts of biodiversity loss can be quantified: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Stricter environmental regulations on US ship exhaust significantly improved the health of newborn babies near coastal areas, say researchers at UC Davis and Vanderbilt. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious and complex issues in American politics. Is there space for common ground?

Dany Bahar provides 4 areas for constructive conversations on migration in the US. Read his suggestions for a path forward:

1/🚨New chapter in Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics: Spatial Environmental Economics

🌍 How do spatial forces affect the environment? How does enviro shape spatial outcomes?

Thread, chapter explore this nascent subfield via stylized acts, models, building blocks for rsrch. w Clare Balboni.

Excited to announce a new @pnas.org publication on the Social Cost of Carbon. We integrate evidence from the literature and expert survey to provide an SCC distribution inclusive of both parametric and structural uncertainties. Our mean 2020 value is $283 per ton CO2
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cool RCT on air purifiers -> test scores in China. Air purifiers on day of test improved scores by 0.1sd! Reduction in indoor PM2.5 from purifiers was ~20ug in their setting. So, effect would prob be smaller at avg US PM levels, but maybe larger on wildfire smoke day. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

New today: the final statement from the @CGDev
expert working group on lead poisoning

Lead exposure kills more people than HIV/AIDS or malaria, and its totally preventable.

Blog: cgdev.org/blog/why-end...

Statement: cgdev.org/publication/...