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How does agricultural policy reshape the economic consequences of climate change?

@allanhsiao.bsky.social (Stanford), Jacob Moscona (MIT) & Karthik Sastry (@princetonecon.bsky.social) on food policy in a warming world:

youtu.be/dWA3hhAibag

10.07.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Household carbon emissions differ across different places. Does this mean one way to lower emissions is for higher-emissions places to adopt the features of lower-emissions places?

Eva Lyubich (US Census) on the role of people vs. places:

youtu.be/Xx5J4aqDEi0

10.06.2025 15:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Do recessions impact mortality?

Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession:

youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g

13.05.2025 15:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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How replaceable is a low-wage job?

Evan Rose (UChicago) & Yotam Shem-Tov (UCLA) on the long-run consequences of low-wage job loss:

youtu.be/mXTuz4vb98o

22.04.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Since the 1980s, China has engaged in one of the largest and most systematic episodes of policy experimentation in recent history.

Shaoda Wang (UChicago Harris) & David Yang (@harvard.edu) on policy learning in this setting:

youtu.be/cE-RlzXhLXk

25.03.2025 14:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hundreds of millions worldwide live in areas controlled by criminal organizations. What can states do to regain control?

@afenizia.bsky.social (@gwu1821.bsky.social) & Raffaele Saggio (UBC) on combating the Mafia:

youtu.be/nfs5jVvFxOI

25.02.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Investments in universal pre-K have high returns, largely driven by the substantial effect on parents’ earnings.

From @johneric.bsky.social, Christopher Neilson, @xiaoyangye.bsky.social & Seth Zimmerman:

youtu.be/YxexiLODdHE

(Yale Economics, Yale Tobin Center, Yale SOM)

05.02.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What is the social cost of political corruption?

Meera Mahadevan (@gpsucsd.bsky.social) on corruption in the Indian electricity sector and its welfare consequences:

youtu.be/bSOvmbmDBkc

14.01.2025 17:01 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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India ranks among the worst countries for women’s health. Policy solutions have focused on subsidizing health care, but Pascaline Dupas (@princetonecon.bsky.social) & @radhikajain.bsky.social (@uclofficial.bsky.social) show these programs are plagued by gender inequality:

youtu.be/M3vscwPxEr8

10.12.2024 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Anti-scientific attitudes impose a substantial cost on society. Can science education help address this?

Benjamin Arold (University of Cambridge) on evolution vs. creationism in the classroom:

youtu.be/ZeZw4jqsMKY

22.11.2024 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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