Teevrat Garg

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Made it to Delhi. Air Quality is…oof!

Exposure to air pollution in England, 2003–23 | Institute for Fiscal Studies We set out how air pollution (PM2.5) has changed across England and explore inequalities by ethnicity, income deprivation, region and age.

Our IFS report on air pollution is out! Good news first: air pollution (PM2.5) has HALVED in England since 2003, with a big drop during Covid. There's no rebound post Covid, somewhat puzzlingly. We use DEFRA data, monitoring station data shows the same thing. (1/7)
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Job Opening: Postdoctoral Scholar – Renewable Energy Trade between India and China Postdoctoral Scholar – Renewable Energy Trade between India and China The 21st Century India Center at UC San Diego invites applications for a postdoctoral scholar to conduct research on the renewable...

📢 We are hiring! @teevrat.bsky.social and I @GPS_UCSD are looking for postdoc on clean energy trade relationship between China and India. We are analyzing:
- trade (HS8) / global value chains data
- localization policies
- global competitiveness
For more info: pwrlab.org/2024/11/15/j...

Tenure Track Faculty Opening at Carnegie Mellon in Decarbonization, Climate Change Adaptation, & Related Fields. Please share airb your networks or consider applying. One reason I left a think tank for CMU is because CMU has a lot of folks working on energy & climate. 🔌💡 apply.interfolio.com/154848

Hello #EnergySky #EconSky! I have a simple question:

How many different companies own transmission infrastructure in the U.S.?

The EIA has this handy graphic on distribution companies, and generation is similarly easy to find. Help would be great. Thanks!

Dual misbeliefs and technology adoption: Evidence from air purifiers in Bangladesh Households in Bangladesh hold inaccurate beliefs about indoor air pollution and the effectiveness of air purifiers. Correcting both beliefs is necessary to increase the adoption and use of air purifie...

Two misconceptions about air quality and air purifier efficacy hold back adoption of a beneficial technology.

Nice summary on @voxdev.bsky.social of Chaudhury, @teevrat.bsky.social, @maulikjagnani.bsky.social, @martinmattsson.bsky.social working paper. voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Reducing the cost of capital to finance the energy transition in developing countries - Nature Energy Fair finance in the energy sector is modelled in five climate–energy–economy models. The results show that convergence costs of capital could improve energy availability, affordability and sustainabil...

Interesting-looking new global #energytransition study in Nature Energy. Cost of capital varies strongly among countries but much global modeling does not take this into account. This new study does 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Submission: 7th Annual NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research

Two weeks left to submit your papers/abstracts to the 7th Annual NBER Conference + Publication on Environmental & Energy Policy and the Economy!

Submissions are due October 15.

Upload here & read on for more details on this unique initiative: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Electric Vehicles and the Energy Transition: Unintended Consequences of a Common Retail Rate Design Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

🚨NEW PAPER🚨

Excited to share our new working paper (w Megan Bailey, David Brown, Erica Myers and Frank Wolak) that uses a field experiment to find unintended consequences of an increasingly popular policy—time of use pricing—with flexible and high powered EV charging.

www.nber.org/papers/w32886

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Here is Vol. 1 of the Bluesky Energy & Environmental Economics starter pack.

If your account is still active at the Nazi Bar, feel free to share there to help get new feeds primed--there are a lot of people here!

Let me know if you'd like to be included in the next batch!

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Nothing is more important than
"The Political Economics of Environmental Sustainability"
the title of the conference at Stanford that I am co-organizing with legendary Partha Dasgupta.
Submit your groundbreaking research before Nov. 1:
www.gsb.stanford.edu/events/polit...

⚡ Just accepted ⚡ in @jaereaere.bsky.social:

"Optimal subsidies for green hydrogen production" by Harrison Fell, Stephen P. Holland, and Andrew James Yates

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

📣 Out now 📣 in the Mar '24 issue of @jaereaere.bsky.social:

"California’s Cap-and-Trade Program and Emission Leakage in the Western Interconnection: Comparing Econometric and Partial Equilibrium Model Estimates" by Chiara Lo Prete, Ashish Tyagi & Qingyu Xu

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Checking in on solar power Jenny Chase has led a team analyzing the business of solar power for almost 20 years now; she's also the author of a fantastic introductory book on the subject. I called her to check in on the state o...

Today on Volts: @solarchase.bsky.social has been analyzing the solar power industry for almost 20 years now & is about to release the second edition of her wonderful introductory book on the subject, so I had her on the pod to check in on the state of solar power.

Improving air quality in the workplace. Evidence from South Asia Air purifiers have the potential to mitigate the adverse effects of air pollution in the workplace. However, it's crucial to understand that air purifiers, when installed solely at the workplace, can ...

New #RCT evidence showing air quality improvements (~37%) from air purifiers in textile factories in Dhaka improve worker productivity by 27%. 24-hour average indoor air pollution levels in study factories are ~70mg/m3.

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