Do Carbon Offsets Offset Carbon?
A new super interesting paper suggests no.
Many Clean Development Mechanism projects are inframarginal and offsets end up increasing CO2 emissions!
By Calel,
@JonathanColmer
, Dechezleprêtre, & Glachant.
The secret is out: Beginning this summer, I will be joining
@Columbia
as the endowed Professor of Energy Policy at
@ColumbiaSIPA
.
I’m eager to collaborate with the brilliant minds at Columbia and contribute to our shared mission of driving informed policy change.
I am beyond
Robert Metcalfe (
@RDMetcalfe
) joins SIPA as professor of international and public affairs, with a professorship of energy policy.
Metcalfe, who most recently was a professor of economics at the University of Southern California, studies applied microeconomics, with a focus on
So happy to see our paper "Measuring the Welfare Effects of Shame and Pride" finally in print at the American Economic Review, with
@lu_butera
,
@DTaubinsky
, & Billy Morrison.
Link:
For economists interested in welfare analysis and causal inference, I highly recommend reading
@nhendren82
& Finkelstein's latest JEP paper
The 'marginal value of public funds' framework is here to stay.
@AEAjournals
@TimothyTTaylor
When I was in grad school, I read many important
@JPubEcon
papers and one day hoped to publish in it. Now, it’s come full circle - I’m extremely lucky to become a co-editor of
@JPubEcon
. Thank you,
@nhendren82
,
@wwwojtekk
.
Please send your field experimental public econ papers!
New
@nberpubs
paper on estimating the Value of Time (VOT)
Prices and wait times on
@lyft
app were randomized across 14 million sessions in a dozen large US markets
with Goldszmidt, List, Muir, Smith, & Wang
ungated
\thread
Life update: happy to announce that I’m permanently moving to USC from BU. I’m sad to be leaving awesome colleagues at BU, but excited to be gaining new ones at USC.
One day, I’ll write a thread about the enormous amount of luck required and the difficulties faced by being a social class outsider in academia (both in the UK and the US).
The Journal of Public Economics is rockin'!! Impact factor over 8 and review times down to 8 weeks.
Great job
@nhendren82
&
@wwwojtekk
on taking
@JPubEcon
to new levels.
Public economics more relevant than ever. It is a pleasure to editor with you and the whole
@JPubEcon
team.
So glad to hear that Catherine Wolfram has been appointed as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics at the US Treasury Department. Outstanding choice and economist.
#econtwitter
16 years to the day where I had the idea for this paper while I was watching the first game of Euro 2008 and having a few beers. Should have been studying in grad school instead.
#EURO2024
starts today. That's bad news for students whose high-stakes tests overlap with the tournament.
@RDMetcalfe
documents a negative effect of international tournaments (World Cup and EURO) on exam performance. The odds of reaching the achievement benchmark fall by 12%.
An extremely interesting JMP by Karim Fajury
@USC_Econ
Little causal evidence as to whether higher income reduces the propensity to engage in corruption.
Karim painstakingly gathers a novel dataset on vote buying and uses a RDD on cash transfer program.
I'm excited to be hiring an economics pre-doc fellow next summer at
@USC_Econ
.
Projects include the welfare impacts of environmental and climate change policies, and the implementation and analysis of large-scale field experiments.
If you are interested in conducting a PhD in economics, with an interest in applied micro, I thoroughly recommend applying to
@USC_Econ
.
We have over 40 faculty who conduct research in or related to applied micro across many different fields across the school.
Excited to announce the 2022 Advances with Field Experiments conference in Chicago on June 8-9, 2022. It’s in person!!!!
Keynote speakers: Marianne Bertrand (Chicago), Nicholas Bloom (Stanford) Raj Chetty (Harvard)
#EconTwitter
Sign-up:
New
@nberpubs
working paper out today:
"Race and Redistribution in the United States: An Experimental Analysis"
with
@jesper_akesson
, Bob Hahn, & Itzhak Rasooly
#econtwitter
So, John and I have gone for it. We are announcing the Virtual Advances with Field Experiments Seminar Series. Every Wednesday at 12pm ET. Sign up here: Our inaugural speaker is
@sdellavi
presenting his great paper on "RCTs to Scale" with
@ElizabethLinos
To juniors: if you have great field experimental papers in public economics that you want quick decisions on, please send them to
@JPubEcon
as I’d love to see them.
I’ll do my best to turn them around quickly and fairly.
To all European econ masters students and research assistants applying to PhDs this year: please let me know if you’d like to discuss what an econ PhD in the US entails.
There are plenty of pros and cons that I had zero idea about when I was an econ masters student in the UK.
Very excited to see our paper on the impact of management practices on productivity come out today at the Journal of Political Economy
@JPolEcon
with John List and
@Greergo
Thread to follow.
If you are applying to the
@USC_Econ
PhD program and are interested in applied micro (development, environmental, IO, labor, political economy, urban), please state what areas you'd like to work on and what professors you'd like to work with.
The Journal of Public Economics’ 2022 impact factor is 9.8!
@JPubEcon
is going from strength to strength.
Please submit your best experimental work in public economics.
@wwwojtekk
@nhendren82
As a 1st gen, I must say a lot of it is simply luck and persistence. I was very lucky to find incredible mentors that were willing to take a bet on me. I did not get into the profession the traditional way and I worry that the homogeneity of paths will lead to a narrower Econ.
First gen: Please do not give up. You are not alone. I'm first gen and so are many others that you would not expect. And don't let anyone ever tell you are "disadvantaged." That's BS. You bring so much to the table, our profession needs you.
We're thrilled to present our new paper, “A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change,” at the NBER Summer Institute this morning at 9am ET.
Catch it on a live stream on YouTube (Environmental & Energy):
[1/3]
The results from this vaccine on kids in the UK is quite incredible.
“The HPV immunisation programme has successfully almost eliminated cervical cancer in women born since Sept 1, 1995.”
📢Hiring alert!
I am seeking a pre-doc
@USC_Econ
to support a range of field experiments, and in particular a project with
@nhendren82
on improving the welfare measurement of public policies.
Join us in LA for an incredible environment of economists.
Please RT
@econ_ra
Job market update: we have just been giving the green light to hire a junior slot in Empirical IO
@USC_Econ
.
We will release the job ad very shortly. Please encourage your students whose primary or secondary field is empirical IO to apply.
#econtwitter
The
@nberpubs
Environmental and Energy Economics Summer Institute kicks off on Monday, with an incredible line-up of papers:
I'll be presenting our paper on flood risk on Tuesday morning (w/
@FairweatherPhD
,
@mattkahn1966
,
@S_Olascoaga
).
We just updated our persistence of social norms paper. New things added:
- full research design;
- robustness of results; and
- implications for the literature.
@Econ_4_Everyone
@pauljferraro
Do smart thermostats deliver energy savings?
Our field experiment suggests no.
Reason: Humans don't behave like engineers predict.
Watch
@ChrisMClapp
present our work right now:
We are hopeful that the Advances with Field Experiments conference will be in person on September 23-24, 2021
@UChi_Economics
SAVE THE DATE!
Three keynotes are:
Marianne Bertrand
Nick Bloom
Raj Chetty
But in the meantime, I’d like
say that my main stroke of professional luck has been meeting three inspirational first-gen mentors: John List, Bob Hahn, &
@profpauldolan
. They gave me a chance and I am so grateful for their interest in me and my research.
Celebrate the small wins!
Our social norms tax compliance paper finally reaches 1000 cites! Thanks to everyone who has cited this work.
There is impactful work outside of the top 5 journals.
Very glad that
@JPubEcon
took on this paper.
@Econ_4_Everyone
@mhallsworth
Incredibly excited to be releasing this working paper today with colleagues Bob Hahn,
@nhendren82
, and
@bsprungkeyser
.
We believe our framework captures the costs and benefits associated with climate change policy more fully than previous approaches.
Our goal is to offer
🚨*New Paper Alert*🚨
What are the most effective ways to fight climate change? What are the returns to subsidies for wind and solar? What about EV subsidies or energy efficient appliance rebates? How about raising revenue through fuel taxes or cap and trade auctions?
1/:
Dear PhD committees, please stop giving students exploding offers.
Most unis are signed up to the April 15 resolution and most students who are competitive are bound by it.
Context: one of my students got an aggressive one from a top European school.
***Fatalism, Beliefs, and Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic***
New paper, so comments are very much welcome!
We show that people's beliefs about the infectiousness of the virus (R0) affects people's willingness to socially distance.
/thread
Excited to announce that we are taking our field experiments conference to London! The 2024 Advances with Field Experiments (AFE) conference will take place at the London School of Economics, September 5-6, 2024.
@RDMetcalfe
and I were lucky to again secure outstanding keynote
Currently writing a few papers with clear null effects with mechanisms, so I'm interested in how previous authors have framed nulls.
What is everyone's favorite paper where the null is the main result and is contrary to people's priors?
Any prospective PhD students interested in public and environmental/resource economics, you should apply to
@USC_Econ
.
We have tremendous financial and social support, and you get to live in the best city in the world. Even
@GarethBale11
agrees!
Rising global GHG emissions is the reason that I work on the microeconomics of climate adaptation. As
@USC_Econ
invests in upgrading our PHD program, we will recruit more students to work with me,
@RDMetcalfe
and Paulina Oliva on adaptation.
We just finished the program for
#afe2022
.
@Econ_4_Everyone
& I are incredibly excited to be hosting 200(!!!) field experiment papers at
@UChi_Economics
We have sessions in behavioral, cognition, consumer finance, crime, development, digital markets,
Abhijit Banjeree using our paper to showcase the way field experiments can help us understand the effectiveness of climate technologies.
@JPAL
@JPAL_Europe
@Econ_4_Everyone
We recently completed a field experiment showing how fake reviews impact on consumer demand and welfare.
For every dollar spent, fake reviews reduce consumer welfare by $.12.
Paper:
Very grateful and excited to be the chief economist of
@CentreNetZero
@OctopusEnergy
to design and implement a better energy market for societies around the world.
@OctopusEnergy
and
@g__j
are changing the energy landscape for the better!
📣 Delighted that
@RDMetcalfe
has joined CNZ as our Chief Economist! Rob is a leading global expert in behavioural science & field experiments
🔎 Want to join our growing team? We're
#Hiring
:
#DataEngineer
👉
#DataScientist
👉
We have 82 papers in five minute videos given by the authors. Check them out, they are excellent. 410 minutes of field experiments!!
#afe2020
#EconTwitter
EIGHTY TWO 5 minute videos presenting results from recent field experiments can now be found on youtube via the
#AFE2020
conference:
Whatay contribution to the public good!
@RDMetcalfe
For anyone who uses or teaches cost-benefit analysis (CBA) or welfare analysis, I thoroughly recommend reading
@nhendren82
&
@bsprungkeyser
's new working paper comparing CBA to the Marginal Value of Public funds approach.
Any economists interested in joining our team, specializing in designing and implementing field experiments with public and private partners?
@Tbehaviouralist
have a few positions open for talented and purpose-driven economists. If interested, plz contact
@jesper_akesson
This was the perfect short paper to handle at
@JPubEcon
.
Important question, clean and credible ID strategy, punchy results, and public policy implications.
That can all be done in under 6000 words and the paper can be turned around quick.
"Job displacement costs of phasing out coal", with
@mikesimmonsecon
@GerhardToews
@fernandomaragon
. We use the dramatic collapse of the UK coal industry to estimate the long-term employment outcomes on displaced miners w/ lessons for the energy transition. Soon
@JPubEcon
🧵👇
Biggest twitter news of 2021:
John List is on twitter!!
@Econ_4_Everyone
is definitely worth following.
John is truly an extraordinary friend, mentor, & colleague.
And he has an incredible track record of making economics more exciting, rigorous, & diverse.
Very excited to announce that
@orianabandiera
,
@lkatz42
, and Ulrike Malmendier will be our keynotes for the Advances with Field Experiments conference at
@UChi_Economics
on September 23-24, 2020. Please save the date!
One of my first jobs was working in the warehouse of a Walmart (called Asda in the UK) to help shelf stacking during the night.
It’s now awesome to come full circle to work with
@Econ_4_Everyone
to run experiments in Walmart to increase productivity and social welfare.
(1/2)
In perhaps the worst kept secret, I have been named
@Walmart
's first Chief Economist. Of course, my home remains
@UChi_Economics
, but I will build an economic team for Walmart. Join me to deepen our economic understanding of markets and change the world with field experiments!
Experimental studies usually get a great deal of criticism on the external validity margin. Here, John List goes after this criticism with Non est Disputandum de Generalizability
@UChi_Economics
Given the recent interest in comparing and contrasting the two great papers on contact theory by
@salma_mousa_
and
@hmmlowe
, we decided to have a special advances with field experiments seminar on Sept 9th with both papers.
I'm excited to be hiring an economics pre-doc fellow next summer at
@USC_Econ
.
Projects include the welfare impacts of environmental and climate change policies, and the implementation and analysis of large-scale field experiments.
Due to popular demand, I will hold a zoom Q&A on the US-Euro PhD system/life differences 8am PT (4pm UK time) on Oct 18th.
If you are interested, please sign-up:
I will be joined by three special guests:
-
@bassi_vittorio
-
@ABergeron_econ
-
@mmorl89
To all European econ masters students and research assistants applying to PhDs this year: please let me know if you’d like to discuss what an econ PhD in the US entails.
There are plenty of pros and cons that I had zero idea about when I was an econ masters student in the UK.
So good to be giving a seminar in person again!
And great to be giving a field experimental paper at the site of the first “field” experiment in the US!
The Morrow Plots at
@Illinois_Alma
🚨🚨🚨 Call for papers for the 2024 Advances with Field Experiments conference at
@LSEnews
on Sept 5-6.
The keynote speakers are
@Susan_Athey
,
@orianabandiera
, & Noam Yuchtman (University of Oxford).
The deadline for registration and submission is April 1, 2024. Authors will
Day two teaching field experiments.
These are the awesome books I recommend to students to stimulate ideas on the range of interesting questions that field experiments can help answer.
@Econ_4_Everyone
@mike_luca
@BazermanMax
@JPAL
Another great paper using rideshare data showing the discrimination by the police on stopping non-white drivers.
Novel design where speed, journey, and race are accurately measured.
with
@Econ_4_Everyone
@pradhiaggarwal
@7hoenix
@_ThomasYu
et al.
🚨🚨Awesome economics pre-doc jobs available at
@USC_Econ
🚨🚨
Come to USC for the glorious environment ☀️, exciting and high-quality economics research, and collegial and friendly community.
Apply by Nov 30, 2021. Start date August/Sept 2022.
@econ_ra
#EconTwitter
Huge thanks to
@sdellavi
for being the first speaker on our virtual Advances with Field Experiments seminar series. His work with
@ElizabethLinos
will definitely help shape our thinking of scaling up interventions. We will post the video of the talk soon on the AFE website.
We're excited to announce the creation of a new Short Paper submission option at the Journal of Public Economics!
AERI rules apply, submissions are now open!
See details here:
Very excited to have
@Susan_Athey
give tomorrow's virtual advances with field experiments seminar. The talk is titled "Designing Adaptive Field Experiments".
The Voltage Effect is out today! Congrats
@Econ_4_Everyone
This book is a perfect companion for:
- any course about causal inference and/or generalizability;
- any organization trying to understand why some products or policies succeed or fail at scale.
Wonderful hire! I am so very proud of
@RDMetcalfe
and everything that he has accomplished so far.
I still remember vividly the random email I received from that Wales student way back when! Thanks for allowing me on your magic carpet ride Rob...keep changing the world!
Very excited to be teaching the next go-to textbook in Experimental Economics by
@Econ_4_Everyone
@UChi_Economics
next week.
This textbook is much needed in the field.
Experimental economics and science should be taught to all econ (and probably social science) grad students
Next week is our inaugural Chicago School in Experimental Economics!
My team and I are beyond thrilled to host our brilliant participants. We will spend the week diving into my forthcoming book Experimental Economics: Theory and Practice where I cover everything from
Want to present your field experimental paper and get awesome feedback from fellow smart, kind, and insightful experimentalists?
Then you should submit your paper to the Advances with Field Experiments 2023 conference at
@UChi_Economics
jointly with
@Econ_4_Everyone
#afe023
Absolute blockbuster of a paper.
Hugely policy relevant as we move away from carbon-intensive industries that supply an important share of labor to communities.
And growing up in a part of the UK that experienced this exact job displacement, I can tell you that it is
Ten years ago to the day, I gave my first academic presentation on US soil. The conference was 'Advances with Field Experiments’
@UChi_Economics
I was nervous and inexperienced, but I met influential economists—like...
I couldn’t agree more with this.
And I really enjoy working with and mentoring students who come from non-traditional backgrounds. They usually have interesting and novel ideas and perspectives.
There are a few of us out there.
Reminder that research potential is extremely hard to measure at the PhD admissions stage, and many great researchers come from outside ‘top’ departments.
Some of the many reasons why I joined USC econ. The excitement, ambition, and quality of research is excellent here. If there are any interested ambitious students in applied micro, DM me.
In late May 2021, the top 5 U.S Economics Departments according to REPEC are; Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, Chicago and Princeton and USC is now ranked
#17
. Sunshine + $ + ambition + good governance => progress
#convergence
'Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position - unique position in the entire world - in having privileged access not just to the UK market… but also the EU single market'
'Nobody else has that. No one. Only you guys, only here’
Rishi Sunak hails his Brexit deal