Tatiana Zárate-Barrera

Thrilled to be attending LAERE 2025 in beautiful Bogotá! Today at the keynote session by @bengroom.bsky.social, exploring practical ways to price biodiversity. Also, excited to reconnect with colleagues and especially happy to return to Uniandes after so many years. 💚

🆕 How does the loss of biodiversity impact economies and human well-being? 🔊

Today on VoxDevTalks, Eyal Frank (University of Chicago) discusses how the real-world impacts of biodiversity loss can be quantified: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Maritime emissions and infant health Do stricter regulations improve health outcomes for newborns?

Stricter environmental regulations on US ship exhaust significantly improved the health of newborn babies near coastal areas, say researchers at UC Davis and Vanderbilt. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

Is US Migration Policy Too Polarizing an Issue to Find Common Ground On? Four Ways Forward Four areas with potential for some common ground, and hopefully the basis for better and more constructive conversations, when it comes to the migration debate in the US.

Immigration policy is one of the most contentious and complex issues in American politics. Is there space for common ground?

Dany Bahar provides 4 areas for constructive conversations on migration in the US. Read his suggestions for a path forward:

1/🚨New chapter in Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics: Spatial Environmental Economics

🌍 How do spatial forces affect the environment? How does enviro shape spatial outcomes?

Thread, chapter explore this nascent subfield via stylized acts, models, building blocks for rsrch. w Clare Balboni.

Synthesis of evidence yields high social cost of carbon due to structural model variation and uncertainties | PNAS Estimating the cost to society from a ton of CO2—termed the social cost of carbon (SCC)—requires connecting a model of the climate system with a re...

Excited to announce a new @pnas.org publication on the Social Cost of Carbon. We integrate evidence from the literature and expert survey to provide an SCC distribution inclusive of both parametric and structural uncertainties. Our mean 2020 value is $283 per ton CO2
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#EconConf

Reducing Indoor Particulate Air Pollution Improves Student Test Scores: A Randomized Double-Blind Crossover Study Short-term exposure to air pollution is associated with a decline in cognitive function. Standardized test scores have been employed to evaluate the effects of air pollution exposure on cognitive perf...

Cool RCT on air purifiers -> test scores in China. Air purifiers on day of test improved scores by 0.1sd! Reduction in indoor PM2.5 from purifiers was ~20ug in their setting. So, effect would prob be smaller at avg US PM levels, but maybe larger on wildfire smoke day. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

New today: the final statement from the @CGDev
expert working group on lead poisoning

Lead exposure kills more people than HIV/AIDS or malaria, and its totally preventable.

Blog: cgdev.org/blog/why-end...

Statement: cgdev.org/publication/...