
Akshaya Jha
@jha_economics
Associate Professor (w/out tenure) at CMU; I study the costs and benefits of economic and environmental policies impacting fossil fuels and electricity markets.
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http://www.akshayajha.com 13-04-2015 04:17:50
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📢 Huge congrats to @stephenjarvis_ Olivier Deschenes Akshaya Jha coauthors of The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out, which has been awarded the JEEA 2024 Hicks Tinbergen Award Full info: eeassoc.org/news/hicks-tin…


Thanks so much for these kind words and for your excellent handling of our paper Bård Harstad We’re all so thrilled to have won this award!

This is one of my favorite recent papers. Environmental economics at its best, by some of my favorite peeps!!! Congrats @stephenjarvis_ Akshaya Jha, so well-deserved 🎉

📢Please retweet!📢 Susanna Berkouwer and I are hiring a pre-doc in environmental economics: energy efficiency, fuel economy, carbon markets, infrastructure construction, solar, etc. Deadline to apply: June 14. Start date: July 1 More info here: shorturl.at/alyY2 Econ RA Listings

📢Please retweet!📢 Arthur van Benthem and I are hiring a pre-doc in environmental economics (energy efficiency, fuel economy, carbon offsets, infrastructure construction, solar subsidies, etc.). Deadline: rolling review Start date: July 1 More info👇 sberkouwer.github.io/Job%20Descript…


🌡️ With this summer's record-breaking heat, 'peaker' plants are in demand, but at a cost to the environment. 🌍 Akshaya Jha explores how we can cut down on their use and find better alternatives. 🚀 Read more here! bit.ly/47c2hzn

Important piece on the lack of philanthropic activity devoted to improving air quality: nytimes.com/2024/09/19/opi… Thanks @sciencerely for citing my work with Andrea La Nauze on the decreases in pollution from simply tweeting information on air quality from US embassy monitors

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…


There are several exciting #predoc RA opportunities in applied microeconomics at The Wharton School, including working with Susanna Berkouwer and me. Please apply here: rb.gy/eu18wz and share this widely. Econ RA Listings

📢Please retweet📢 Arthur van Benthem, Benjamin Lockwood, Corinne Low, and I are hiring 3 predoctoral researchers (in environmental, behavioral, and public econ) to start July 2025. Prior RAs got into Berkeley, Princeton and Brown (all econ PhDs). Rolling review: sberkouwer.github.io/BEPPhiring.pdf


