Environmental Valuation with Discrete Choice Experiments in R This open access book offers advice and practical guidance for conducting discrete choice experiments (DCEs) in environmental valuation.

This book is a free download, get on it
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Bless you for posting this. We have to drive to IAD for a flight on Saturday and I didn’t even think of the traffic

Curious what the World Cup force majeure clause states.

Better ask #engineersky

I don’t know what to say but sorry. This really sucks.

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

www.science.org/content/arti...

Are any universities allowing impact statements or tenure clock extensions for the Trump research funding cuts like we had with Covid? #econsky

Piling on folks who aren’t economists discovering how tariffs work in real time and sharing their experiences doesn’t seem good

I will be the 2 of diamonds

D.B. Cooper

If any Econ or Ag Econ department chairs want to join a group chat in Signal, DM me

Did less parents complain about their kids playing time?

Aficionados of Scotch or golf?

Remastered Number of the Beast

Fun new article on impact of byproduct marketing on SO2 scrubber efficiency:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1k6QCbZee2...

We used a structural stochastic frontier model in a unique application where the theoretical frontier was known.

Real-Time Pricing and the Cost of Clean Power (November 2024) - Solar and wind power are now cheaper than fossil fuels but are intermittent. The extra supply-side variability implies growing benefits of using real-time retail pricing (RTP). We ev...

Just published a paper with @mikejrob.bsky.social and Imelda showing the benefits of using dynamic pricing of electricity to help balance high-renewable systems. This could lower costs and help incorporate more renewables. Win-win!

(adding GreenSky tag 🔌💡)
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Vince Carter to be first Raptors player to have jersey retired: How he got here and what to expect - The Athletic

I was gonna write what I’ve been seeing all day, and decided not a good idea. Then I was gonna write the adjacent letters to the two letter acronym I keep seeing and that was an even worse idea. Alas I have resigned myself to not knowing.

I've been looking at cover letters / job packets for a bunch of econ PhD folks going on the job market, esp those interested in liberal arts colleges. Love it! I realize, though, that I believe so strongly in one piece of advice that I want to shout it from this particular rooftop:
Use mail merge.

Mom and dad are about 45 minutes south at Moss lake. Same story there with all the docks under water about 6 feet.

Hey Casey which lake is this?

The Impact of Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana on Indian Househ This study critically evaluates the impact of the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana (PMUY) on LPG accessibility among poor households in India. Using Propensity Score Matching and Difference-in-Difference

Nabeel's master's thesis was accepted in Economic Analysis and Policy.

If you're looking for a PhD candidate in dev econ, he's your man.

ideas.repec.org/p/arx/papers...

Elsevier? ECU cut it b/c it was 50% of the library budget and didn’t want to negotiate a subset of the journals if I remember correctly.

Someone is feisty this morning. Did we leave anyone out?

So curious to know who has been buying Acid Rain permits under the names John Galt, Pierre Delecto, and Carl Spackler

Tell me if you have a leak!

Me too! I tried to recommend ones that our daughter watches over and over