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Mentorship and Gender Gap in Academia by Anders Kjelsrud and Sahar Parsa

Synthesis of evidence yields high social cost of carbon due to structural model variation and uncertainties | PNAS Estimating the cost to society from a ton of CO2—termed the social cost of carbon (SCC)—requires connecting a model of the climate system with a re...

Excited to announce a new @pnas.org publication on the Social Cost of Carbon. We integrate evidence from the literature and expert survey to provide an SCC distribution inclusive of both parametric and structural uncertainties. Our mean 2020 value is $283 per ton CO2
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Happy to be on Bluesky. For my first post, let me put an economic stake in the ground - President Biden will be handing off an exceptionally strong economy to President-elect Trump.

Bluesky has 'em shook

Low-income students have been a ridiculously tiny share of elite college enrollment for a century

FCC issues final denial of $885M Starlink subsidy | TechCrunch The FCC has made a final denial of Starlink's application for $885 million in public funds to expand its orbital communications infrastructure to cover

since James Carr as Trump's FCC commissioner is likely to bring back Elon Musk's $885M Starlink contract, it is worth noting what is at issue. The contract was to provide high-speed Internet to underserved rural areas techcrunch.com/2023/12/12/f...

The Fiscal Challenges Facing the Next President - Mankiw YouTube video by Macmillan Learning

Easily digestible and highly informative presentation and Q&A by Greg Mankiw on fiscal challenges facing the US. Recorded before the election but still highly relevant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtLQ...

Do you know if there will be a recording of this discussion that is going to be available publicly? If so, where would one look for it?

BREAD-IGC Virtual PhD course on urban economics This virtual PhD-level course is designed to provide a comprehensive review of the economic questions relevant to urbanisation and the economics of cities in low and middle-income countries.

The IGC is doing a virtual PhD course on Urban Economics and all the lectures and materials are available free of charge. You should check it out: www.theigc.org/events/bread... #EconSky

Map of IRA investments

The stickiness of the IRA is a feature, not a bug. More than 3/4 of announced IRA clean energy investment is going to Republican districts. In a close house, it won't take many votes to thwart a repeal of manufacturing tax credits.

A graph of GDP growth in the G7, visualizing the data in the tweet

UK & Japanese Q3 GDP numbers are in, which means another update to my G7 GDP growth chart!

Here's each country's cumulative increase in real GDP, since just before the pandemic:

🇺🇸 +12.2%
🇨🇦 +5.8% (thru Q2)
🇮🇹 +5.1%
🇫🇷 +3.5%
🇬🇧 +3.0%
🇯🇵 +0.2%
🇩🇪 +0.1%

I saw someone suggest Bleat, and I am kind of partial to that suggestion.

Regardless of your take on Biden's major bills (IRA, CHIPS, Infrastructure), a curious twist is that much of the funding targets Republican-leaning areas. If Trump tries to roll them back, GOP lawmakers may face backlash from constituents who benefit.