When #NASCAR cut its use of leaded gasoline test scores went up for 3rd - 5th grade students within 50 miles of racetracks. @njsanders Alex Hollingsworth Ivan Rudik & Mike Huang (@Cornell Indiana University) explain in @econofactorg econofact.org/educational-be… @econofactorg

The PERC Grad Fellow program is a great opportunity to work on and present a paper, receive feedback, and meet other researchers. Bonus- you get to spend the summer in Bozeman! Applications for summer 2023 are open!

The Social Value of Predicting Hurricanes | Renato Molina Ivan Rudik | #EconTwitter #cesifoworkingpapers cesifo.org/en/publication…

... excited that Paula Bustos, ​Jevan Cherniwchan​, ​Heitor Pellegrina, ​Adrien Bilal will present this yr... Grateful to last year participants/coauthors who helped us initiate it: Allan Hsiao, Ishan Nath, José-Luis Cruz, Tomás Domínguez-Iino, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Ivan Rudik -didn't find the rest on twitter

I'm excited to be hiring an economics pre-doc fellow next summer at USC Economics.

Projects include the welfare impacts of environmental and climate change policies, and the implementation and analysis of large-scale field experiments.

'Catastrophic climate risks should be neither understated nor overstated'. My comment, with The Honest Broker & Justin Ritchie on the recent 'Climate Endgame' paper. 1/
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Come work with me as a Research Professional. You will have an opportunity to work on projects related to the spatial economic consequences of climate change, the structure of cities, mobility, international trade, and more. Information below:

Its been an incredible run since 2017 for landfalling Cat 4 & 5 hurricanes along the USA Gulf coast. 5 have been retired due to historic aspects of each one. Ian is obviously pending and will likely be retired after the season. Thank you Meagan Massey for making this for me.

Attention early career artists: we're hiring!! Apply by Oct 1 for our Bartels Science Illustration Program. Full-time, paid, temporary positions to create beautiful, informative art for sci papers, journalism & outreach. Details: bit.ly/3UDqzLX #scicomm

JPAM on the cutting edge of nascar economics. Pathbreaking.

We are happy to announce that Alex Hollingsworth of O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs has just joined the JPAM as a co-editor. Welcome to the team, Alex!

Opportunity for grad students:

The San Francisco Fed is hosting a virtual workshop on climate economics Oct 17 during which PhD candidates can present and get feedback on their JMPs from San Francisco Fed economists.

To apply:
Send papers to [email protected] by Sep 19

Just a week left until our first virtual job market workshop! Come learn about general preparation strategies and different markets (e.g., government positions). More details & registration link here: econ4ua.org/job-market-wor…

Looking for a research team fluent in English and Tamil for my pilot study (funded by Einaudi Center at Cornell) in Sept-Nov '22. Please see and share the posting for translator, interviewer and field supervisor on my website! taranachauhan.com/field-work
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Anyone out there with ideas on how to make an academic reading group more engaging and spark more discussion among grad students?

(Reading group = group meeting weekly to discuss a paper to give everyone a deeper understanding of key developments of a specific literature)

I have created a concise guide for how individuals can help Ukraine. There's something for everyone.

Please share with any 'I wish I could help but I don't know how' people in your life!

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Refineries are maxed out on capacity use, and margins ('crack spreads') are higher now than they've been for 15 years. As Jason Furman writes, this means that the main beneficiaries of federal gas tax relief will be refiners, not drivers twitter.com/jasonfurman/st…

It might seem like Ukraine is getting all the weapons it wants, but in reality it has only gotten a fraction of what it asked for. We have an opportunity to bring drones and thermal vision devices directly to Ukrainian defenders.

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#econtwitter is there a crosswalk out there that lets you link EU company registration numbers to something like CUSIP? Trying to figure out if it's possible to merge EU-ETS data with something like compustat Jonathan Colmer Lutz Sager

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