✨Exciting News!✨We are thrilled to announce that Federica Meluzzi, a PhD candidate in Economics at #CREST #GENES, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 @EALE Young #LaborEconomist Prize! 🎓👏👏 #EconomicsResearch #GenderEquality Learn more about her research👇 linkedin.com/feed/update/ac…

🚨🚨🚨 Berkeley GSPP is looking to hire an assistant professor of public policy with a focus on climate, energy, environment, and development 🚨🚨🚨 aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04558

📝CALL FOR PAPERS! 📝 Workshop on ”The Next Era of Climate Policies: Alternatives to Carbon Pricing.” At SSE in Stockholm on Nov 25, 2024. We invite submissions from economics, political science, & related fields. Deadline for submission: Oct 14!

Very excited to release this paper today. By using a staggered roll-out of heat pumps in the UK, we find that: 1. Heat pumps reduce households’ total energy use by a whopping 40%, and carbon emissions by 36%, evidencing the real-world impact of their superior efficiency over

Great opportunity for young applied researchers to present (and enjoy the Alps)! ⛷️

Interested in doing a post-doc for two years in Environmental & Energy Economics or Climate Economics at Columbia Climate School with me and Gernot Wagner? If so, please apply! Columbia | SIPA Columbia Business School aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

How can researchers write accessible summaries of academic research? After editing ~350 VoxDev articles, I hopefully have something useful to say. Here are the key takeaways from editing first drafts of academics trying to write for policy audiences 🧵 1/10

Akanksha Vardani JMP: "A House for Two: Empowering Women with Property Rights" Website: akankshavardani.github.io

Help! For teaching, I'm looking for a good summary of policies implemented in European countries during the 2022/2023 energy crisis (such as price caps for gas and electricity bills). Ideally also discussing their effectiveness. Any hint? Papers, reports, any format welcome

🚨 Just published in nature w Gemma Dipoppa 🚨 We argue that reducing crop burning in South Asia, responsible for toxic air for 100s of millions, is not completely intractable. We show bureaucrats exert control when incentivized, w large consequences for pub health Details 👇

L'IPP recrute des économistes séniors (post-thèse) pour sept 2025 : econjobmarket.org/positions/11061 Y compris pour travailler avec Maxime To et moi sur un super projet sur pollution atmosphérique, inégalités et développement des enfants. Postulez nombreux.ses !

A new "Merchants of Doubt" story, or how the meat industry tried to influence science and food policy. Congratulations to the authors for this important study!

So very happy about EALE's choice! Léonard (Leonard Bocquet), Federica (Federica Meluzzi) and Carmen (Carmen Villa) are all brilliant and creative economists I've had the chance to have as former or current colleagues. Any department would be lucky to hire them!

Timely reminder : Bluesky is a nice alternative to X. It has grown a lot over the past months, esp. among academics. Folks have done starter packs allowing you to easily connect with interesting profiles from your field. It's only missing some more journalists & policy people

Having written extensively about how real wages have risen strongly for working class Americans since 2019, let me be clear about a few things, on both the facts, and how we should interpret them. 🧵

Economists interested in gender norms typically focus on norms that constrain the behaviour of women. But what about those that constrain men? Ieda Matavelli is spearheading this work on masculinity norms, and she is on the job market this year (iedamatavelli.com). A 🧵

NEW: Air pollution in England has halved since 2003 after falling substantially during the pandemic, but inequalities in exposure remain. Lucie Gadenne, Marion Leroutier, rodrigo toneto and Bobbie Upton’s new report examines how air pollution has changed in England over 20 years:

10 key insights from development economics research on VoxDev in 2024. Today I wrote about the standout takeaways from the broad range of research I have read this year. Here they are 🧵 1/11