Research Economist @wb_research | Environmental + urban Econ | IO
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[Reading Group IP week 4] Last week, we discussed the 2025 article by D. Bartleme, A. Costinot, D. Donaldson, A. Rodríguez Clare, “The Textbook Case for Industrial Policy: Theory Meets Data.” They study the optimal design of industrial policy (sectoral subsidies) and trade policies, in the presence of external economies of scale, and quantify the welfare gains 1/5
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🌬️ Pollution Update for Kolkata
PM2.5 levels are at 35.05 µg/m³ today, surpassing the WHO daily standard of 15 µg/m³. Stay informed @ruozisong @abehrer @adla_amaresh
Check our website for more information: pollutionmonitors.climatesta…
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🌎 PhD students: apply to 2025 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental/Energy Economics! 🔗
Info + application link below 👇
🗓️Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley
w @auffhammer, @BorensteinS, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack, ...
Very insightful JMP!
Thanks to the @WorldBank Development Impact Blog for posting my JMP!
@YunyuShu (@Brown_Economics) studies how information shapes adaptation under input vs output subsidies in the context of shaded cocoa in Ghana 🇬🇭.
More insights here 👇
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impac…
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Are you applying to Econ PhDs? Join me and @Jeff_Weaver_ to learn more about our program at @USC_Econ! Life in LA is indeed great, and our department is thriving in all fields! Zoom link below 👇
Interested in a PhD in economics at @USC_Econ? Join @bassi_vittorio and I for a program overview+answering your q's on Wed Nov 13 at 7am PST/10am EST/3pm GMT/830pm IST/11pm China: usc.zoom.us/j/93660736254 . More on USC's PhD program: dornsife.usc.edu/econ/doctor… Life in LA is good!🌴🌞
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📝Submit papers to new research project on Energy Markets, Decarbonization, and Trade! Submission deadline 10/16.
🔗nber.org/calls-papers-and-pr…
Excited to organize w Natalia Ramondo. @SloanFoundation, @nberpubs generously supporting. Final conference Mar 20-21, 2025.
Pls r/t.
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Are you a grad student attending the EEA conference? Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the job market! The panel will feature:
✨ Ana Espinola-Arredondo (@Ana_Espinola)
✨ Isla Globus-Harris (@DrGlobusHarris)
✨ Ruozi Song (@RuoziSong)
✨ Nilesh Shinde (@nilesh_nshinde)
ALT Panel shows title of panel "Navigating the Environmental and Resource Economics Job Market" as well as images of each panelist and the time and location of the panel (Saturday, March 2, 5pm-6:20pm, Riverway)
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🚨🚨 Are you a female-identified or non-binary environmental economist working on Data, Information, and the environment broadly defined?
@andrealanauze and I are organizing a workshop for you!
When: Sep 30-Oct1 2024
Where: @warwickecon @cage_warwick
Details 👇
In conjunction with @ESRC and @CageCentre, we are pleased to announce a call for papers for a workshop hosted at @uniofwarwick on DATA, INFORMATION, AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
Papers will be encouraged to be submitted to a special issue in @JEEM_tweets.
See details below:
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Congratulations to @rajatkochhar
for releasing this coauthored paper. Rajat was my student at @USC_Econ. On Friday, I will hear him present his work with @RuoziSong at a NBER conference. #proud
nber.org/papers/w31831
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Our fantastic job market candidates this year.
Check out these awesome and diverse set of job market papers.
dornsife.usc.edu/econ/job-ma…
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The World Bank's Development Research Group (DECRG)'s JOE ad is now up. We are recruiting on the junior market again this year: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J…
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Hi #EconTwitter!
Curious about #economics Nobel prize @metrics52’s take on #MachineLearning for 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞?
Check out this 2022 JLE joint work with @BrighamFrandsen, where the focus is on lasso and 𝐈𝐕.
Very interesting #econometrics read!
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Esther Duflo and I are delighted to put our @MITEcon PhD. Micro Development Economics course, 14.771, online @MITOCW. All videos, syllabi, and lecture notes are free and open for all, including for use in your own classes.
ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-771-d…
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This forthcoming Econometrica paper, “Growing Like India” proposes a new method to structurally estimate productivity growth in service industries that circumvents the notorious difficulties in measuring quality improvements. egc.yale.edu/fan-peters-zili…
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Congratulations to @rajatkochhar for successfully defending his thesis at @USC_Econ. I am delighted that he will soon move to @uchi_economics to work with Michael Greenstone
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Happy International Women's Day!
USC Department of Economics hosted a mixer yesterday celebrating the incredible women in economics who are breaking barriers and making a difference in the field. And we were lucky to be joined by our youngest member yet... Can you spot her?
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TOP NATURE DOCUMENTARIES OF 2022 COUNTDOWN:
So many incredible documentaries came out this year, with the fight to protect our last ancient forests taking center stage.
Here’s a sneak peak at my top picks. Keep reading for the countdown: 🧵
ALT 4. Prehistoric Planet
ALT 3. Rematriation
ALT 2. Frozen Planet II
ALT 1. The Territory
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Check out my very talented student on the market this year!
Her job market paper is both innovative theoretically and on a topic of timely practical relevance--how should a platform trade-off the goals of producing the best-fitting matches without creating oversupply?
Jingyi Tian
JMP: "Trading off Qualities for Quantities in Matching for Bargaining"
Website: sites.google.com/usc.edu/jin…
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Climate change is an unfortunate reality. But how can farmers, who make up a considerable part of India's workforce, adapt to extreme heat events? Read more on this and other research on climate change adaptation by @rajatkochhar!
The UN is worried the world is not adapting fast enough to climate change. But what determines the pace of adaptation? In my #EconJMP, @RuoziSong and I study whether market competition aids or impedes farmer adaptation in India tinyurl.com/ybnmaybn
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The UN is worried the world is not adapting fast enough to climate change. But what determines the pace of adaptation? In my #EconJMP, @RuoziSong and I study whether market competition aids or impedes farmer adaptation in India tinyurl.com/ybnmaybn