📣WEBINAR INVITATION🎙️🌿

📅 Date: April 15, 2026
⏲️ Time: 9:00–10:15 AM (ET) / 2:00–3:15 PM (WAT)
🔗 Register here ➡️ duke.is/apr15seti

#EnergyTransitions #Gender #Sustainability

🚨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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Expanding Solar Irrigation Pump (SIP) adoption goes beyond tech & subsidies; it needs strong local support. IWMI is training KVK agents under #SoLAR (with Swiss Development & Cooperation) to boost uptake of SIPs and PM-KUSUM in Uttar Pradesh, India.

🔗 on.cgiar.org/4dvBinB

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The debate on replicability and robustness in the social sciences isn't just academic. Selective reporting - especially in leading journals - undermines evidence-based policy. We illustrate this for the literature on infrastructure and rural electrification. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NIDE Network of Irish-based Development Economists (NIDE)

NIDE Workshop on Development Economics will take place on 22 June 2026 at Trinity College Dublin. Submit your papers via NIDE website: sites.google.com/view/nideecon/

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I’m hiring for a full-time one-year Research Assistant (“pre-doc”) position

Come work at LSE doing research on energy markets and environmental economics. Great opportunity to build research skills ahead of applying to PhD programmes

Deadline March 27th, apply here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Join the launch of our new course: Policymaking for Climate Action & Circular Economy!
February 17, 1-2 PM CET, free, online

Meet:
Adil Najam, President, WWF International
Thomas Sterner, University of Gothenburg
Chantal Line Carpentier, (UNCTAD).
www.efdinitiative.org/events/launc...

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

Please enjoy this message from the Norwegian consumer protection council

www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

🚨 1 Week to Go! | #2026NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development

⏰Submit your paper by Feb 15, 2026!
🗓️ June 18–19 | Lisbon, Portugal

🎓 Keynotes: Abhijit Banerjee (@MIT), Isaac Mbiti (@NotreDame), Sandra Sequeira (#LSE)

🔗 Submit: bit.ly/4pKGkjs

#NOVAFRICA2026 #CallForPapers

EfD Nigeria secures $1m IDRC grant for climate finance project in Africa A consortium led by EfD Nigeria has received a grant of one million Canadian dollars from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to implement a research project titled

EfD Nigeria secures $1m IDRC grant for #climate #finance project in #Africa.
”The project aims to strengthen government #policies, #financial #systems, and #regulatory #frameworks to attract financing for climate action,” said Prof Nnaemeka Chukwuone.
www.efdinitiative.org/news/efd-nig...

The new Energy Economics & Policy course in our Data, Economics, & Design of Policy online MicroMasters program is open for enrollment! 🌱 Explore how policy & economics shape energy markets & climate outcomes. It's free to audit—enroll today: https://bit.ly/3L56NJz

The Weiss Fund has a great new initiative for development economists on the PhD job market to support those taking up research positions in LMICs, offering supplementary income + research funds. Please share!

Difference-in-Differences (DiD) | Training with Prof. Clément de Chaisemartin - YouTube Join Prof. Clément de Chaisemartin in this in-depth training on Difference-in-Differences (DiD) — a powerful econometric tool for causal inference and policy...

🎥 The recording of the Difference-in-Differences course by Prof. @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social , which I had the pleasure of organizing at @liser.lu , is now online!

📚 12 hours covering everything from the basics to advanced methods.

👉 Watch the course here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #EconSky

Finished teaching a new course on energy markets and the clean energy transition last month. Was a blast and have lots of thoughts for next year.

One takeaway is the value of going beyond academic journals/textbooks and incorporating media articles, podcasts, and video. Here's a few we covered... 🧵

📣 We’re hiring!

We're seeking a Country Office Administrator for the Zambia Evidence Lab in Lusaka.

If you’re an excellent organiser w/ strong communication skills apply now.

theigc.org/about/career...
🗓️Deadline: 15 Dec

#ZambiaJobs #Admin

Noise pollution from electric passenger rail harms babies' health.

"I estimate that the annual cost of noise pollution due to harms to health at birth is $9.8 billion."

Black, Hispanic, and the poorest Americans disproportionately bear these costs.

This is such a cool paper!

On the (Mis) Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator Data that span multiple units and time periods allow controlling for time-invariant heterogeneity correlated with the covariates. While researchers can do this in different ways, the fixed effects es....

"On the (Mis) Use of the Fixed Effects Estimator"

(by @dlmillimet.bsky.social and Marc F. Bellemare)

published in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Most of us don't realize how many objects (payloads and debris) are in orbit around Earth.

orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/protection/

GitHub - BenjaminGor/Latex_Notes_Tutorial: Latex Book/Note Writing Tutorial Latex Book/Note Writing Tutorial. Contribute to BenjaminGor/Latex_Notes_Tutorial development by creating an account on GitHub.

How to Reproduce this Book Exactly with LaTeX - great resource for writing Latex #linkoftheday
github.com/BenjaminGor/...

Postdoctoral Scholar in Electricity Economics, Demand Flexibility, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, ... Postdoctoral Scholar in Electricity Economics, Demand Flexibility, Faculty of Arts in Calgary, ...

Postdoc 2: Demand Flexibility

Working with Erica Myers and Blake Shaffer

A mix of independent research and also being part of a team implementing multiple field experiments on electricity demand flexibility.

Details and apply here: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1706288...

Title page of Research Group Handbook

Poster on building community through a reserach group handbook, presented at the 2025 All-Island Research Culture Network Conference in Belfast.

UCD Graduate Studies and I have produced a Research Group Handbook template for supervisors and researchers.
The template outlines core topics, resources, and policies that groups can adapt to their needs.

➡️ Template and details: www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...

@ucddublin.bsky.social
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Using Time Use Data to Investigate Gender Inequalities: Enduring Patterns and New Dimensions Research on the gender revolution highlights the slowing convergence between men and women in paid and unpaid work time. This review considers both seminal studies from the 2000s and more recent anal....

How can time-use data help us better understand gender inequalities? Our latest article in Sociology Compass answers this question — have a look! dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4... Yucheng Wu, Muzhi Zhou #timeuse

The CRAN Spatial Task View just got a proper table of contents (thanks to Krzysztof Dyba) -- easier to navigate all those R spatial packages now. 🌍

> https://cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial

#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat

The Traffic Noise Externality: Costs, Incidence and Policy Implications: Enrico Moretti; Harrison Wheeler

What does co-creation really mean for agroecological transitions?

Exploring theory and practice at the annual members forum meeting of the Agroecology TPP.

Read more: 🔗 https://bit.ly/47osWcJ

#aeTPP #Trees4Resilience

New publication: Designing Carbon Pricing Policies Across the Globe with Robert Schmidt and @moritzdrupp.bsky.social in Environmental and Resource Economics!

We present the largest international expert survey on carbon pricing design (400+ participants, ~40 countries). Some highlights.

Chart showing United States energy transitions over 200+ years per energy source.

It is interesting to see how horse fodder and food was as much a part of our energy mix (20%) in 1820 as coal is today. In 1920 coal was up at 70%. Note these are percentages not quantities.
visualizingenergy.org/americas-ene...

Heat Pump Performance for Normal People | Energy Stats UK Heat pump performance for normal people. A simple guide to how heat pumps work, why they feel different to gas, and how to run them efficiently at home.

New Article: Heat Pump Performance for Normal People

A simple guide to how heat pumps work, why they feel different to gas, and how to run them efficiently at home.

energy-stats.uk/heat-pump-pe...

📢 Out now in the September 2025 issue of #JAERE! 📢
"Microeconomics of the Solar Rebound Under Net Metering" by Matthew E. Oliver, Juan Moreno-Cruz ( @jmorenocruz.bsky.social ), and Kenneth T. Gillingham.
Read it here: buff.ly/v7T2nxE
📈📉 #Econsky