@stafs.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at University of Manitoba. I study Agricultural, Environmental, and Resource Econ. Interested in natural experiments. He/Him.
We are hosting virtual Replication Games on Friday November 13th, 2025 with @ukrepro.bsky.social ro.bsky.social. This is our 2nd year collaborating with UKRN. Psych, public health, pol sci and econ studies will be reproduced!
Register here: www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...
ABSTRACT This article examines how political messengers, and not the message, influence attitudes toward renewable energy infrastructure amid an increasingly polarized climate change debate. Focusing on wind power, a highly politicized issue, and solar energy, less contentious, we conducted an experimental survey in Germany. We assess how either a far-right or an environmentalist critic affect acceptance of renewables. Importantly, our analysis examines support for renewables in forest areas, focusing on a conflict between climate action and local environmental protection. Our findings reveal that the messenger impacts attitudes regarding wind energy. Criticism of wind turbine expansion by an environmentalist actor leads to greater rejection, while a similar critique by a far-right actor results in increased acceptance, i.e. a backlash effect. No such influence was found for solar energy. We explain these diverging findings by differences in politicization. Our findings have important consequences for understanding key dynamics of the public debate and political conflict over climate action.
New article!
Climate action versus environmental protection? How far-right and environmentalist messengers shape public attitudes towards renewable energy infrastructure in forests, by @manesweisskircher.bsky.social and Matthias Diermeier.
doi.org/10.1080/0964...
🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science!
The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.
Info 👇
This is a pretty remarkable paper and seems to suggest "grit" is not necessarily the driving force behind student achievement:
www.nber.org/papers/w3427...
📚 The latest edition of Weekly Reads from IFPRI is now online on LinkedIn!
🔗 Read more here: on.cgiar.org/470wovH
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I’ve got a new working paper with @danielavidart.bsky.social, hot off the press. We develop a new method for measuring the risk preferences of agents in the past, and apply it to the U.S. from 1890-1920.
Check it out! Feedback is welcome.
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/chcof...
A Swedish economist just dropped a paper where he used data from a quarter of a billion chess.com games to test a classic Q: do “hot hands” exist?
Finding:
✅ Wins predict wins
❌ But wins don’t cause wins
Using random piece assignment, he finds that win streaks exist; but they’re just noise.
Migrating to new economic opportunities in cities, rural Indian families don't mechanize, they downsize their farms. Their neighbors produce more as land and crops markets adjust, from @raamadhok.bsky.social, Noack, Mushfiq Mobarak, and Deschenes https://www.nber.org/papers/w33854
01.06.2025 11:00 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1(2) We have launched a new tool: Paper Skygest Bookmarks! This is a list of posts about papers that you have liked. You need to like the post *containing the url*; it doesn’t matter whether you like the post while using Skygest.
21.05.2025 18:33 — 👍 54 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 5Hi Skygesters! We have 2 updates.
(1) We are starting to do research to improve and study Skygest and want everyone on board! See our thread here for details regarding data and consent.
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Lives Versus Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare,” by Finkelstein, Notowidigdo (@profnoto.bsky.social), Schilbach, and Zhang: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
15.05.2025 15:13 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
All of my top 6 camping spots on the planet burned to the ground in out of control forest fires this week.
Climate change is here and the impacts are brutal.
You probably know that randomized controlled trials (RCTs)--wherein some randomly assigned treatment is compared to some randomly assigned control--play a huge role in science.
It's hard to imagine where we'd be without them.
But here are a few historical facts that you might not know about RCTs.
You've heard of the many analysts projects, right?
Scholars give the same dataset/question to a bunch of researchers & they still get different answers.
Why is that?
Data cleaning!
This is consistent with Gelman's "garden of forking paths." Small coding decisions often drive results.
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Do Tuition Subsidies Raise Political Participation?" by Daniel Firoozi and Igor Geyn. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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✨ Just accepted ✨ in JAERE:
"Group size and threshold uncertainty in common-pool resource dilemmas" by Philip Brookins and Weston Watts
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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🆕 Just accepted 🆕 in JAERE:
"The Distributional Consequences of Incomplete Regulation" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social)
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Camp Resources XXXI Call for Abstracts We invite graduate students and young professionals to submit research abstracts to Camp Resources XXXI, which will be held August 3-5, 2025 at the Cambria Downtown Asheville Hotel. The workshop will begin with a reception on Sunday evening, August 3rd, with presentations starting early Monday morning, August 4th and concluding mid-afternoon on Tuesday, August 5th. Presentation Formats & Travel Support Camp Resources is a workshop designed for graduate students and young professionals to present their research in a relaxed but serious environment. We do not expect a paper. However, a clear, well-organized, twenty-minute presentation describing a completed or emerging research project has been standard fare. We also include shorter, 8-minute research sketches that are ideal for students in the early stages of dissertation work. Through the generous support of NC State’s Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Resources for the Future, Industrial Economics, and Georgia Tech’s School of Economics, we will partially defray travel expenses for those giving regular presentations and, in a more limited way, those giving research sketches. All graduate students, young professionals, and faculty are invited to attend, although we cap attendance at 70 people. A modest registration fee will be charged. Submission Information Short abstracts not more than 500 words may be submitted at: https://go.ncsu.edu/camp_resources. To receive full consideration, you must submit by Friday, May 23, 2025. You will be asked to include a short, 2-page vita with your abstract. We will notify presenters of accepted abstracts by June 9th. Questions? Contact enviro_econ@ncsu.edu or Roger von Haefen at roger_von_haefen@ncsu.edu.
JEEM is happy to be a sponsor of Camp Resources XXXI in Asheville, NC. #econsky
Graduate students and young professionals, be sure to submit your abstracts by May 23.
Details here: cenrep.ncsu.edu/events/camp-...
🌬️ Just accepted 🇧🇷 in JAERE:
"The Effects of Renewable Energy Projects on Employment: Evidence from Brazil" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social) and Sophie Mathes (@s-mathes.bsky.social)
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Latest pre-print:
Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Wolf [Mahihkan (Cree), Tha (Denesuline), Amaruk (Inuktitut), Canis lupus] Occurrences on the Summer Range of the Eastern Migratory Cape Churchill Caribou Population in the Hudson Bay Lowlands of Manitoba
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Direct and Indirect Effects of Vaccines: Evidence from COVID-19" by Seth Freedman, Daniel W. Sacks, Kosali Simon, and Coady Wing. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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💵 Just accepted 💵 in JAERE:
"Anticipatory cash transfers in the context of weather disasters" by Lukas Mogge (@lukasmogge.bsky.social), Julian Roeckert, and Kati Kraehnert
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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One consequence of restrictive development in urban cores:
Most of the employment growth in the western US since 1990 has taken place in high wildfire hazard areas.
Via Joiner, Walls, Wibbenmeyer 2025.
media.rff.org/documents/Re...
🌡️ Just accepted 🌡️ in JAERE:
"Who heeds the call to conserve in an energy emergency? Evidence from smart thermostat data" by Dylan Brewer and Jim Crozier
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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AERE@OSWEET returns *this Friday* April 11th at 2pm Eastern (11am Pacific) with 3 terrific talks on politics, media, & the environment!
Presenters:
✨ Prashant Garg (@prashantgarg.bsky.social)
✨ Rosanne Logeart (@rosannelogeart.bsky.social)
✨ Hannah Farkas
Register: buff.ly/JhWGo59
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The zero-sum mindset seems more and more relevant in the current environment. Thank you @harvardmagazine.bsky.social
for the video where I explain our research on why zero-sum thinking is so important and where it comes from.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=e16o...
🐦 Just accepted 🐦 in JAERE:
"Infrastructure, Institutions, and the Conservation of Biodiversity in India" by Raahil Madhok (@raamadhok.bsky.social)
Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Why are we not doing more to fight climate change? New study surveys 40k people in 20 countries to understand 1/ what drives support/opposition to important climate policies 2/ how much people know about climate change & 3/ how info can change perceptions socialeconomicslab.org/internationa...
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