professor @UCLA researching | econ | climate change | human health | pregnancy | fertility | infants | energy policy | he/him
Los Angeles, CA
Joined October 2015
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Hotter summers lead to financial distress for the poor in the fall month via electricity disconnections. Great summary of our recent work @paulstainier @rjisungpark @NatureEnergyJnl axios.com/2022/12/01/heat-el…
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Reviewer 2 asked us to extend our study on telescopes to periscopes and microscopes. We are unable to do this and now discuss that these are beyond the scopes of the paper.
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Announcing my new book with @PrincetonUPress!
The empirical economics literature on climate impacts has exploded in recent years.
"Slow Burn" attempts an accessible synthesis, highlighting some of the more subtle human consequences of a warming world.
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Was just reminded of the youtube video of an economist saying "beef" 125 times in one lecture: youtu.be/KIi74DKWErA?si=f4Jo…
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One myth about econ PhD application. I often got email from prospective students, "Requesting to join your research group". Unlike other PhD programs in sci/eng, most econ professors in the US don't sponsor PhD students. Admission is centralized at dept level.
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5 post-doc fellowships!!
3 years each!!
Work on your own research (75%) + help @Arnold_Ventures analyze the effects of policies we're interested in (25%).
$120k (+ benefits if you're in the US)
With support from @Arnold_Ventures, we are pleased to announce 5 new postdoctoral fellowships to support the innovation and evaluation of more effective and equitable criminal justice policies.
Please read 🧵👇and share w/ colleagues!
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Hey #rstats #rstatses I am delighted to announce that my paper introducing tidyterra has been just accepted on @JOSS_TheOJ , check it out joss.theoj.org/papers/10.211…
One of my favorite R packages. Thank you!
Hey #rstats #rstatses I am delighted to announce that my paper introducing tidyterra has been just accepted on @JOSS_TheOJ , check it out joss.theoj.org/papers/10.211…
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One thing that particularly surprised me when researching this was seeing Econ PhD's disproportionate draw from (socioeconomically) elite undergrads:
15% of all US-born economics PhDs did their undergrad at one of 12 "Ivy Plus" schools.
In the top 6 econ PhD programs, 45% did
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Possibly the most important news of the year, which won’t make it to your news app: first vaccine approved to fight malaria cut deaths among young children by 13% over nearly 4 years. This is *massive*. science.org/content/article/…
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The world now has a 2nd vaccine against malaria. Incredible.
Malaria kills more than half a million people every year.
Over half of these deaths are in children younger than 5.
who.int/news/item/02-10-2023…
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This is potentially huge, huge news.
Malaria is a leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, and accounted for 5% of all deaths in the world in the 20th century by some academic estimates.
In 2020 alone, malaria killed an estimated 625,000 people
Breaking: A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization.
The vaccine has been developed by the University of Oxford and is only the second malaria vaccine to be developed. bbc.in/3PD7WGj
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🧵🆕 paper out in @PNASNews We document benefits from one-tenth of all Ecuadorian households getting an induction stove between 2015-2021 for greenhouse gas emissions and health. w/ @MarshallBBurke @darbyjack Alfredo Valarezo Lorena Bejarano @USFQ_Ecuador pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pn…
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During my sabbatical, I wrote a manuscript for the intro economic statistics course at UT-Austin. My main goal was to provide a free resource for our majors, but now that a draft is complete I'd like to also share it with other potential instructors. probstats4econ.com
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I’m excited to share American Stories, a new billion-scale dataset of structured texts/layouts from public domain newspapers (1780-1960) that we’ve built using our deep learning packages. #EconTwitter (1/13)
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2308.12477
Dataset: huggingface.co/datasets/dell…
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Saying to a new PhD student find the gap in the literature is a big ask.
It's like saying look for something that isn't there. How can you ever be sure you've found a gap? Maybe you just haven't looked long enough.
Some guidance from the supervisor could help a lot.
#EconTwitter What public data sets have variables linking parental education to child education?
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Super excited to announce my new book "Spatial Statistics for Data Science: Theory and Practice with R"
Completed chapters 👉 paulamoraga.com/book-spatial…
Feedback welcome!
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