@sberkouwer.bsky.social
Economics professor at Wharton (Penn) studying environment and development. NBER Fellow & Affiliate at JPAL, BREAD, IGC. PhD from Berkeley (ARE). They/them pronouns. From Holland and into biking, cheese, and being tall. https://www.susannaberkouwer.com
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Arthur Van Benthem and I are hiring a full-time predoctoral researcher to work in environmental economics starting July 2026. Prior RAs have gone on to top economics PhDs.
Review is rolling: www.susannaberkouwer.com/hiring.pdf
#econsky
Read the VoxDev article on this by @sberkouwer.bsky.social & Joshua Dean: voxdev.org/topic/health...
It's interesting that Ghana, Kenya, Cote d'Ivoire, and Nigeria all have seen increases in kWh per capita since 1980, yet Africa trends down. Is this driven by countries with high population growth yet low electricity access?
Also perhaps worth noting the time frame. Is this kWh per month or year?
The latest JEP has an extraordinary set of papers on the economics of housing.
My favorite? The one showing that most people incorrectly believe that increasing housing supply won't lower housing costs.
Subsidizing home-buying is popular even though it raises costs. 🤦
www.aeaweb.org/issues/814
The thing that everyone said would happen is happening
For a brief moment in July we put the world on pause to celebrate queer joy and love in abundance!
Awesome - thanks!
I am looking for a version of this graph of global CO2 emissions by region, but projected out to 2050, for example using the @iea.org's World Energy Outlook or similar. Does anyone know if this exists?
Thanks in advance!
@ourworldindata.org
Wharton has not one but two environmental economists on the market this year! Benji's paper studies how the pricing of a scarce resource - water - affects housing markets in the U.S. Check out his great thread below!
I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ
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!
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Profs Van Benthem, Lockwood, Low, Rees-Jones, Kessler and I are hiring 3 predoctoral researchers (in environmental, behavioral, and public econ) to start July 2025. Prior RAs got into Berkeley, Princeton and Brown (econ PhDs).
Rolling review:
sberkouwer.github.io/BEPPhiring.pdf
Can cookstove subsidies reduce CO2 emissions?
@joshtdean.bsky.social and I wrote an overview of our research demonstrating that @BurnMfg's Jikokoa/EOCA Char stoves cut 3.5 tons of CO2 - and save $120 in fuel - per household per year.
Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/activi...
A friend is looking for a history of structural adjustment and the backlash to African decolonization that specifically focuses on agriculture: who farmed what, how, when, and why. Ideas?
#marxsky
Job market update: we have just been given the green light to hire a junior slot in Empirical IO at USC.
We will release the job ad very shortly. Please encourage your students whose primary or secondary field is empirical IO to apply.
We will also consider people a few years out from the market.
We are opening two tenure-track positions
(please repost!)
Human Evolutionary Social Science
Computational Social Science
Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France!
Deadline Jan 31st
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
If you are ever offered an opportunity to get the Shingles vaccine, by god, take it.
Again, if your understanding of “campus politics” focuses on powerless left wing students and not influential right wing donors, you don’t have an understanding of “campus politics”
www.programmablemutter.com/p/who-really...
Considering a PhD in #BehavioralScience? Want the perfect stepping stone? We’re hiring 2 full-time RAs at Wharton at the research center I co-direct with Angela Duckworth:
1) RA: bit.ly/RC-BCFG
2) RA & Comms Coordinator: bit.ly/RCC-BCFG
No matter how incompetent and cowardly you imagine the cops were at Uvalde, tonight's Frontline goes minute by minute to illustrate they were so much worse.
🚨📢Job Alert 🚨📢 We are looking to hire a Fellow (~postdoc) in Energy Economics and Policy to join our team of environmental economists at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
This is a stunning detail about the Uvalde shooting from incredible reporting by The Texas Tribune and @propublica.bsky.social
www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/u...
Texas won't let Kate Cox get an abortion even though her fetus has a fatal genetic anomaly and she is suffering agonizing, ongoing pain. She just sued in state court demanding the right to terminate the failed pregnancy immediately. reproductiverights.org/wp-content/u...
My cousin Kees Greven is a *phenomenal* pianist and just released his first album of piano compositions on Spotify. Give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/album/4Lgvr2...
+1 for The San Antonio Express News lmao
Gifted link to my piece in the NY Times about Trump's plausible plan to convert the administrative state into the authoritarian state.
1. More MAGA appointees
2. Gut civil service protections
3. Hire govt lawyers who will enable Trump's authoritarian tendencies
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/27/o...
There is no other job where you can accidentally kill a random person for no reason and have this happen and they still never shut the fuck up about how they’re under siege