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Monday, August 31, 2020

Seminar talk on Spatial First Differences

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Hannah Druckenmiller and I wrote a paper on a new method we developed that allows you to do cross-sectional regressions while eliminating ...
Thursday, June 11, 2020

Public database of non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19

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This week we published the new paper The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic  which tries to estimate eff...
Sunday, March 8, 2020

COVID-19 reduces economic activity, which reduces pollution, which saves lives.

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COVID-19 is a massive global economic and health challenge, having caused >3500 global deaths as of this writing (Mar 8) and untold ec...
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019

On the efficacy of the "sniff test" for understanding climate impacts

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Economists (and other high-statured people) often pride themselves on having good noses.  When encountering a research finding, they can o...
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Monday, August 26, 2019

Do GDP growth rates have trends? Evidence from GDP growth data

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Over the years, there have a been a handful of critiques of some of our prior research on GDP growth centering on the concern that we model ...
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Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Congressional testimony on economic consequences of climate change

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Since it's basically a blog post, here's the oral testimony I gave last week to the House Budget Committee during the Hearing on ...
Monday, November 5, 2018

The SHCIT List

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Just like George Lucas, I write my literature reviews out of order. But I'm happy to say that after several years of messing around in t...
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Thursday, August 23, 2018

Let there be light? Estimating the impact of geoengineering on crop productivity using volcanic eruptions as natural experiments (Guest post by Jonathan Proctor)

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[This is a guest post by Jonathan Proctor , a Doctoral Fellow at the Global Policy Lab and PhD candidate in the Ag and Resource Econ depart...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Claims of Bias in Climate-Conflict Research Lack Evidence [Uncut Version]

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Marshall and I had an extremely brief Correspondence published in Nature last week. We were reacting to an article "Sampling bias in c...
Monday, December 4, 2017

New Damage Functions for the Agricultural Sector – Guest Post by Fran Moore

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Last week I had a new paper come out with some fantastic co-authors (Delavane Diaz, Tom Hertel, and Uris Baldos) on new damage functions...