jacob gellman
@jacobgellman
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Postdoc @uaanchorage. Research: Econ of natural disasters, climate adaptation, public lands. PhD from @ucsantabarbara. He/him.
Anchorage, AK
Joined January 2018
What are the economic effects of wildfire smoke? @mwibbenmeyer and I recently reviewed the impacts on health, mortality, labor markets, and measures of general well-being. Just published in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP):
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RT @TeidRaylor: Would need to find a new home for the NFIP, the only source of flood insurance for the vast majority of Americans.
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RT @RDMetcalfe: If you want to read one paper to understand wildfire insurance markets in CA, it’s this one. It is an absolute fantastic r…
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Preventive management, prescribed burns, vegetation treatment, buffers around communities, building codes, and not building in high risk areas to begin with...
I’m genuinely asking: what’s the solution to a wildfires with 80 mph winds? Is it physically possible to stop it?
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The business school at UAA is hiring and they are open to economists, especially data science types. It's one floor up from the Econ Department, which is a strong group of research-oriented faculty. Plus Alaska is a great place to live.
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RT @JustinWolfers: Yes, the ultimate incidence of a tariff depends on elasticities, so understanding the incidence requires empirical work.…
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RT @kyle_c_meng: Lots of takes on new Trump tariffs. Here's a quick general equilibrium analysis. Grabbed off-the-self quantitative tra…
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Estimating that *twenty-one* percent of people are trans is crazy for an *average* poll response.
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"The Value of Statistical Life for Seniors" by Ketcham, Kuminoff, and Saha (posted today) derives new VSLs that are specific to age, health, income, education. Immediately relevant for any paper estimating mortality from e.g. Medicare data.
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So the week after the election Hochul brought back congestion pricing.
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Project 2025 describes NOAA as a primary component "of the climate change alarm industry" and said it "should be broken up and downsized." It calls for "commercializing forecast operations."
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RT @DarioTrujano: I am excited to go to the market this year. My JMP studies the WTP for actual headlines in an experiment. I found that…
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These are the kinds of event study charts researchers dream about. From today's NBER digest. "Do Mergers and Acquisitions Improve Efficiency? Evidence from Power Plants" by Demirer, Karaduman.
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