Associate Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University | Fields: Environmental, Labor and Public https://nitter.cf/t.co/UUu9YOzQZP
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🚨Come join us! The Department of Economics at Wake Forest is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor. We’re a young and dynamic department eager to grow, and we welcome candidates specializing in Urban/Regional - Apply by Nov 15th! 1/n aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J…
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Since people keep asking us, “Is JEEM top 6? Is JEEM top 6?”
We want to clear the air and say: statistically, yes, we are.
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One more paper on environmental regulation by you to be presented too! This is your week. ;)
Busy presentation day! You can check out @rjisungpark present our paper on Worker Transitions at @iza_bonn or you can see me present research with @real_eric_ohrn and @danacandersen on Stimulus Policies and Emissions to @uscensusbureau at 10:30 EST( zoom link on request)
🗓️Save the date: on April 25th 2nd IZA/OECD Workshop, this time on climate change and the labour market w @S_Stantcheva @rjisungpark @Selma_Mahfouz @stescarpetta @stephancarcillo @AndreaBassanini @AlexanderHijzen
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Excited to be presenting @MarkCurti @laylaokane and my paper on Workers and the Clean Energy Transition in tomorrow's the IZA/OECD Workshop on Climate Change and the Labor Market! @iza_event
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Come work with us @StanfordGSB by helping direct exciting research on housing policy, urban economics, business taxation, and environmental regulation!
.@J_C_Suarez and I are hiring an executive director for our labs. If you'd like to be involved building out our labs and overseeing research on cities, housing, taxation, and inequality apply here: careersearch.stanford.edu/jo…
Look what arrived in the mail!
Congrats @rjisungpark, look forward to reading it!
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We're hiring an assistant professor in Development! We're especially interested in someone excited and well-equipped to teach an advanced undergrad course in econometrics. Please apply! bit.ly/3PDfMkq
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10) Order dessert! H/t David Autor. Everyone else probably wants dessert, so if you order first, they'll follow you. Plus, you'll have dessert (and soon, you'll have a job). Win-win-win!
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We are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction in the history of the planet. What are the social costs of losing a particular species?
@Eyal_Frank (@HarrisPolicy) & @anantsudarshan (@warwickecon) on the decline of vultures in India:
youtu.be/HwbhEL-6zCU
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How will the clean energy transition affect workers? Exploring transitions into and out of green and dirty jobs using data from over 130 million online work profiles, from @MarkCurti, Layla O'Kane, and @rjisungpark nber.org/papers/w31539
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A study in @nberpubs by SP2’s @rjisungpark & coauthors @markcurti of @WakeForest & Layla O’Kane of @LightcastData shows the #GreenEnergy transition may leave some workers behind. Analysis shows both potential & unequal opportunity in #GreenJobs market. bit.ly/3Yz4gte
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🚨🚨 Working Paper Alert! 🚨🚨
Excited to share new @nberpubs WP with @MTranchero -- we examine the impact of access to confidential admin data via @uscensusbureau data centers on economics research.
A short 🧵 with key findings ...
I heard Spencer tell this story 10 years ago when I took his env Econ PhD class. I loved it and have re-told it to every undergrad environ Econ class I have ever taught.
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The final draft of Spencer Banzhaf's forthcoming book "Pricing the Priceless" is online, and it's the best history of valuation and pricing in 20th century mainstream environmental econ I've read
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Today on my Substack:
Around 1 in 270 people in India die from snakebites by the age of 70.
Here's why that statistic is so surprising, and why it's a sign of one of the most underrated problems in global health: missing data.
salonium.substack.com/p/14-h…
Related: Here's some new(er) results from myself and coauthors showing purchases of capital have limited productivity effects but do lead to higher employment levels at firms. nber.org/system/files/workin…
"So-so technologies" replace workers but do not yield big gains in productivity. As examples, Daron Acemoglu cites self-checkout kiosks in grocery stores and automated customer service over the phone.
nytimes.com/2022/01/11/techn…
Congrats to Spencer and @NCStateCEnREP!!!
We are excited to welcome Spencer Banzhaf as the new CEnREP Director!
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Mark Curtis retweeted
We are excited to welcome Spencer Banzhaf as the new CEnREP Director!
cals.ncsu.edu/agricultural-a…