I'm pleased to share my recent column in Project Syndicate.
⚙️ I argue that we can think of Europe’s climate leadership as a policy flywheel.
Europe Must Not Abandon Its Climate Ambitions by Catherine Wolfram @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/KliboFD
📢 Out now in the ❄️January 2026 issue❄️of #JAERE! 📢
"Global Impact of a Unilateral Waste Trade Regulation" by Prakrati Thakur ( @prakrati.bsky.social ).
Read it here: buff.ly/UrIbxDk
📈📉 #Econsky
My manuscript "The Economics of Noncompete Clauses" is now out in the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
Few topics have garnered more debate and policy attention over the last few years. This article brings us up to speed on the debate and the current answers.
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
Documenting trends in joint exposure to environmental stressors for 168 US cities finds persistent, yet narrowing, multi-exposure gaps, from Glenn Sheriff, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, TC Chakraborty, and Theresa DeConcini www.nber.org/papers/w34739
Event-study plots in DiD are incredibly persuasive—but, honestly, not always honest.
Why?
If parallel trends or no anticipation fail, DiD estimates are biased. Testing against a zero-effect null then becomes misleading.
🚨New 📄: arxiv.org/abs/2512.06804
#CausalInference #EconSky #StatsSky #rstats
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢
"Glyphosate Use, Water Contamination, and Neonatal Health in the United States" by Tzu-Hui J. Chen.
Read it here: buff.ly/PhCSHrH
📈📉 #Econsky
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Flood Risk Mapping and the Distributional Impacts of Climate Information" by Joakim A. Weill. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
There’s a paradox around remote work. Jamie Dimon says it will kill productivity, while startups are hiring for remote roles. Who is right?
With Abhinav Gupta and Elena Simintzi we try to resolve this dispute
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Substack: arpitrage.substack.com/p/remote-wor...
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability" by Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman, and Eleonora Patacchini. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
📢 #CallForPapers 15th Energy & Climate Economics #Conference
📍@tse-fr.eu | 📆4-5 June
Submissions on any aspect of the economics of energy and climate change are invited.
Deadline: 28 February
Organisers: @ambec.bsky.social & Mathias Reynaert
cepr.org/events/tse-e...
#EconSky #EconConf
Parents’ traits can bias reports of children’s non-cognitive skills. Using parent and teacher measures of child skills in a dynamic model, we show that this bias tends to mask maternal influence and can distort evaluations of childhood interventions. buff.ly/H8Oi42O
The AEA has posted eight "Recent Developments" lectures exploring highly topical issues in economics, presented by the best scholars in the field:
www.aeaweb.org/conference/w...
Well worth a watch!
Mein Mitgefühl gilt zB den Kolleg:innen aus Bosnien, die vor dem Krieg nach Ö flüchteten, hier seit Jahrzehnten als Leistungsträger:innen in Pflege, Spitälern, Handel oder Industrie arbeiten, Steuern zahlen, ihre Kinder großziehen und dann so etwas lesen müssen. Entschuldigung! Wir sind nicht so.
For someone who grew up in (the top decile of the income distribution of) a developing country, it is hilarious to see what Americans think is the bare minimum for a middle-class life. Kids sharing a bedroom? Oh, the indignity…
This looks like a must-read for diff-in-diffs folks.
www.nber.org/papers/w34550
Our "Dodging Day Zero" paper is out in JEEA. We uncover how Cape Town avoided 2017's catastrophic drought. But in doing so, created longer term sustainability challenges and weakened the fiscal viability of public water. A lesson for the 1B living in drought vulnerable cities.
#climatesky #econsky
Households face annual costs of roughly $400–$900 from climate change—mainly from disasters, higher insurance, and energy costs—with lower-income families and certain regions hit disproportionately, from @kclausing.bsky.social, Knittel, and @cwolfram.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w34525
This is wild!
Seven-day-ahead weather forecasts in high-income countries are more accurate than one-day-ahead weather forecasts in low-income countries.
Here's my thread of this year's new scholars in Economics of Education and Education Policy.
These PhD students and postdocs are on the job market, so take a look (and spread the word to others who might benefit from exposure).
And now onto the scholars... 👇
TOMORROW (19 Nov) AYEW Education Workshop! Join us at 10am GMT(9pm AEDT) to listen to Mincer Chou (UChicago), @stnavdeev.com(@uva.nl),@kaveendravasu.bsky.social (@monashuniversity.bsky.social) & @subarnabanerjee.bsky.social (@uni-goettingen.de).
Sign up for Zoom link: monash.edu/business/imp...
🚨New working paper #econsky
🚗🇩🇪 What happens when CEOs express political ideology?
In our new paper, Sebastian and I investigate how Elon #Musk’s endorsement of Germany’s far-right #AfD in Dec 2024 polarized #Tesla sales across political lines.
62 Prozent der Wähler haben sich für eine Olympia-Bewerbung von München ausgesprochen. Der Deutsche Sportbund wird 2026 entscheiden, ob er sich mit der Stadt bewirbt.
🚨 @andrealanauze.bsky.social & I are organizing the 2nd women & femme-id ppl in enviro econ workshop ♀️🌱📈
#EconTwitter
Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3
Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy
Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support
Link in 🧵 👇
Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.
Reminder!
Deviations from moderate temperatures kill hundreds of thousands each year in the US and EU, with limited evidence on which interventions work to reduce these burdens, from Burke, Wilson, Avirmed, Wallstein, Martins, Behrer, Callahan, Childs, Choi, French, Gould... https://www.nber.org/papers/w34313
A research agenda for incorporating the effects of biodiversity loss and nature degradation into financial economics, from Stefano Giglio, Theresa Kuchler, Johannes Stroebel, and Olivier Wang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34286
Instagram Screenshot der Heinrich-von-Kleist-Schule. Sharepic mit dem Text: "Sprache ist immer im Wandel. Manchmal sind es nicht wir, die diesen Wandel bestimmen, aber wir bleiben inhaltich konsequent bei dem, was uns wichtig ist." Text unter dem Bild: "Sehr geehrte Damen, Herren und alle dazwischen und außerhalb, vielleicht habt ihr es schon bemerkt: Auf unserem Account sind viele ältere Posts verschwunden. Grund dafür ist ein Erlass des Hessischen Ministeriums für Kultus, Bildung und Chancen, der Schulen verpflichtet, in offiziellen Texten auf Sonderzeichen beim Gendern – wie Sternchen, Unterstrich oder Doppelpunkt – zu verzichten. Deshalb mussten wir auf Anweisung des Hessischen Ministeriums für Kultus, Bildung und Chancen alle bisherigen Beiträge offline nehmen und sie Schritt für Schritt in angepasster Form neu hochladen. Wir betonen: Unsere Inhalte bleiben die gleichen. Wir stehen weiterhin für Vielfalt, Respekt und Offenheit. Die sprachliche Anpassung geschieht ausschließlich aufgrund der Vorgaben. Natürlich braucht es auch eine gewisse Gründlichkeit, um Instagram-Profile nach Sonderzeichen zu durchforsten – eine Frage der Prioritätensetzung, bei der man sich wünscht, die Zeit könne in sinnvolle Herausforderungen der Bildung in Hessen investiert werden. In den nächsten Tagen erscheinen die bekannten Beiträge nach und nach wieder in eurer Timeline. Danke für euer Verständnis und danke, dass ihr uns weiterhin begleitet. Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch mit euch. Euer Schulleitungsteam"
In Hessen scannen Mitarbeiter*innen des Kultusministeriums Social-Media-Accounts von Schulen, ob dort mit Sonderzeichen gegendert wird und weist die Schulen dann darauf hin, dass die verboten sei. Alles normal.
Out today in JAERE! We measure water pollution released at India's industrial clusters. Does it hurt agriculture? Surprisingly: Not by much
Come for how we published a paper of null results & with no regression tables
Stay for new ways to proxy for crop yields & map hydrological relationships
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We failed the drone test so he’s trying something else.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
