🚨New paper🚨

Understanding Support for Inefficient Environmental Policy Instruments

Why do governments use costly enviro standards, not more efficient pollution taxes or cap & trade?

Voters misunderstand some economic principles

joseph-s-shapiro.com/research/Env...

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Don’t Do Difference In Differences (DDDID), cheers, guido

Cool Cities: The Value of Urban Trees (Forthcoming Article) - As urban populations grow, more people face extreme heat, increasing demand for natural cooling. Urban trees offer various amenities, including cooling benefits, yet their economic value is hard to quantify. This paper estimates the implicit value of urban trees by exploiting the Emerald Ash Borer infestation caused by an invasive beetle that kills ash trees in Toronto as an exogenous shock. We find that a onepercentage- point increase in a postcode’s tree cover raises property prices by 1.13% and reduces exposure to extreme heat, pollution, and energy consumption. These findings underscore trees as a cost-effective, practical strategy for mitigating urban warming.

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Cool Cities: The Value of Urban Trees" by Lu Han, Stephan Heblich, Christopher Timmins, and Yanos Zylberberg.

Energy poverty: How long could the average person run an air conditioner every day? Horizontal bar chart showing how many minutes a typical 1000W single-room air conditioner could be powered by the average per capita residential electricity use in various countries. Values by country: India 44 minutes; Sri Lanka 39 minutes; Pakistan 37 minutes; Zimbabwe 25 minutes; Nigeria 13 minutes; Kenya 10 minutes; Haiti 8 minutes; South Sudan 4 minutes; Rwanda 3 minutes; Chad 1 minute. Key insight: large disparities in residential electricity access, with even the highest-listed country able to run a 1000W air conditioner less than one hour per day. Footer data source text: Data source: Calculated based on International Energy Agency and UN World Population Prospects. Chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data

✍️ New article: Billions of people have access to far less electricity per day than is required to run an air conditioner for just one hour.

For five months of the year, temperatures in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, climb above 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit).

Four minutes of air conditioning Billions of people have access to far less electricity per day than is required to run an air conditioner for just one hour.

'Four minutes of air conditioning'

The new, excellent essay by my colleague @hannahritchie.bsky.social on energy poverty.

ourworldindata.org/four-minutes...

Mortality, Temperature, and Public Adaptation Policy: Evidence from Italy

This paper by Pavanello & Valenti shows Italy’s heat warning system cut heat-related deaths by over 57%. Emphasizes the power of information in climate health policies. spkl.io/63322AWDhs #ClimateChange #PublicHealth #Heatwaves

why I have trust issues

Welcome Prof. Ian Sue Wing! 🎉 We’re excited to introduce him as a new network member. He conducts research and teaching on the economic analysis of energy and environmental policy. 🌍

His work: people.bu.edu/isw/
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ian-sue-w...
More details: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ne...

Welcome Dr. Jacqueline Adelowo! 🎉 We’re excited to introduce her as a new network member. Her research lies at the intersection of energy, environmental, and climate economics. 🌍 #Welcome

Learn more: www.jadelowo.com
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jadelowo/
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ne...

Introduction - Climate Adaptation Developing countries face the joint challenges of reducing poverty and adapting to a changing climate, while in some cases also needing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. From 1990 to 2015, the global extreme-poverty rate (as measured by the $2.14 per day benchmark) fell steadily, but in recent years this progress has slowed, and in some instances reversed (World Bank 2020). Currently, 60% of the world’s population lives in a place where a hotter year causes lower GDP growth, and by 2100, 75% will (Acevedo et al. 2017). Therefore, even if the ambitious global target of limiting...

Developing countries face the joint challenges of reducing poverty and adapting to a changing climate, while in some cases also needing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

Read our VoxDevLit on Climate Adaptation to learn more: https://ow.ly/4ejQ50Xu01g

🚨Hey #EconJobMarket
🚨We are hiring 2 Post-Doctoral Researchers🚨

See full posting here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026

I’m on the #EconJobMarket! I study labor, extreme weather adaptation, and inequality.

My JMP addresses an under-studied aspect of the labor market: schedule unpredictability among hourly workers in the service sector.

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On the 2025/26 #EconJobMarket with my paper “Road to Net Zero: Carbon Policy and Redistributional Dynamics in the Green Transition”. I study how EU carbon pricing affects GDP, inflation and inequality in a two agent New Keynesian DSGE model.
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#EJM #EnvironmentalMacro
@iwh-halle.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers out now: CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics 2026

📆24 - 25 April 2026
⏳Submit by 6 January 2026
Organizer: @auffhammer.bsky.social
Keynote:
@carolynfischer.bsky.social (World Bank & @rff.org)

More info & submission link 👉 www.ifo.de/w/3aeed9b8

📣 Call for Papers out now: CESifo Junior Workshop on Energy and Climate Economics 2026

📆23 April 2026
⏳Submit by 6 January 2026
Organizer: @auffhammer.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social & Karen Pittel, ifo Institute

More info & submission link 👉 www.ifo.de/w/95d5e393

📢 We are excited to announce that Ian Sue Wing will be joining us as a guest researcher from November 9th to 15th!

🔍 For more information about his research on climate and environmental policy, visit his website: people.bu.edu/isw/

🔗 Learn more about his visit here: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/gu...

New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky

🚨 We are hiring a 4-year Post-Doctoral Researcher position 🚨

See full posting here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026

#EconJobMarket

✨ New IWH #DiscussionPaper ✨

📰 “Road to Net Zero: Carbon Policy and Redistributional Dynamics in the Green Transition”
🎓 By Alessandro Sardone (@sardonealessandro.com)
👉 Read the full paper here #freeAccess: www.iwh-halle.de/en/publicati...

#GreenTransition #Climate #ClimateChange #NetZero #EU

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

We are hiring assistant professors in Economics (any field)
@lmumuenchen.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social

Target date for applications: November 24!

More info at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

#EconSky #EconJobMarket #EJME

Taking the literature as a whole, the global consequences of unmitigated climate change are likely to be substantial, unequal, harmful in aggregate, and potentially destabilizing, from Solomon Hsiang www.nber.org/papers/w34357

Deviations from moderate temperatures kill hundreds of thousands each year in the US and EU, with limited evidence on which interventions work to reduce these burdens, from Burke, Wilson, Avirmed, Wallstein, Martins, Behrer, Callahan, Childs, Choi, French, Gould... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34313

Autopsy Lessons for editors

Some more words on Energy Economics open.substack.com/pub/richardt...

Why did air conditioning catch on so quickly in Mexico? Air conditioning adoption in Mexico has grown much faster than earlier forecasts, with nearly one million more units installed than predicted, largely due to falling electricity prices and rising energy efficiency that lowered the cost of cooling.

🆕 Why did air conditioning catch on so quickly in Mexico?

Today on VoxDev, Lucas Davis (Haas) & Paul Gertler (UC Berkeley School of Public Health) discuss how falling electricity prices and rising energy efficiency led to increased air conditioning adoption in Mexico: https://ow.ly/elql50X5qLZ

The Traffic Noise Externality: Costs, Incidence and Policy Implications Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Noise reduction benefits from EV adoption in the US estimated at $77.3 billion, concentrated among low-income families in urban areas

www.nber.org/papers/w34298

Please see below the Fall calendar of events of the Bologna Environmental Economics Group (BEEG).

All events are open to everyone—looking forward to seeing you there!

Out today in JAERE! We measure water pollution released at India's industrial clusters. Does it hurt agriculture? Surprisingly: Not by much

Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables

Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships

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Excellent coverage of our study out today on climate impacts on wildfire smoke and related health impacts.

Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being

We are excited to announce the release of the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, an effort to map ongoing and future environmental hazards and their impacts on society, and to provide up to date evidence on what policies and interventions work to reduce impacts: adaptationatlas.org. Quick thread

Fraud and cover-up Fraud and cover-up

All is not well at Elsevier richardtol.substack.com/p/fraud-and-...