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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
Investments in universal pre-K have high returns, largely driven by the substantial effect on parentsβ earnings.
From @johneric.bsky.social, Christopher Neilson, @xiaoyangye.bsky.social & Seth Zimmerman:
youtu.be/YxexiLODdHE
(Yale Economics, Yale Tobin Center, Yale SOM)
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
India ranks among the worst countries for womenβs 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
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