Susanna Berkouwer

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

Policymakers can support sustainable development by providing subsidies or financing for energy efficient technologies among low-income households. The Jikokoa cookstove costs $40 but saves $120 per year in fuel savings, generating a large return on investment. 3.5 tons is the potential amount of CO2e the stove reduces each year from the production, transport, and burning of charcoal.

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.

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

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...

Research Coordinator, Behavior Change for Good, Wharton School University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...

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

Inside the Uvalde Response Drawing on real-time, firsthand accounts and using official bodycam and audio, FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reconstruct the chaotic response to the Uvalde school shooting and examine

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...

Ms. Cox’s physicians explained that some families with a trisomy 18 diagnosis choose to continue their pregnancies, while others choose abortion. She was told that in her case, there was virtually no chance that their baby would survive to birth or long afterwards, so Ms. Cox asked about termination. Ms. Cox was shocked when her physician told her that due to Texas’s abortion bans, as long as her baby had a heartbeat, she would not be able to obtain an abortion in Texas. All they could do was continue to monitor the baby for cardiac activity. If the baby’s heartbeat stopped, they could offer her a labor induction, but because of her prior C-sections, induction carries a serious risk of uterine rupture. If the baby survived to term, Ms. Cox could receive an induction or C-section, but it was clear to Ms. Cox that C-section was the safer option for her health because of the risk of uterine rupture with induction given her prior two C-Sections. Yet Ms. Cox’s physicians also explained that

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...

A screenshot of a tweet from San Antonio’s local newspaper, The Express News (@ExpressNews). The text reads, “Sen. Rafael Edward Cruz, who uses the preferred name Ted, has introduced a bill to limit the use of preferred names and pronouns.” Below the text is a link card featuring a photo of the aforementioned Cancun-loving demagogue, holding a microphone up to his undeniably punchable face.

+1 for The San Antonio Express News lmao

Opinion | Trump Has a Master Plan for Destroying the ‘Deep State’ We should all be paying careful attention to the former president’s plans for a second term.

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

Allcott and Gentzkow (2017 JEL)
Allcott, Gentzkow, Yu (2019)
Gentzkow and Shapiro (2011)
Baysan (2022 AER)
Naman Garg's JMP
Kevin Carney's JMP

📢📢 PSA 📢📢

Face droop, half-body paralysis, and slurred speech are symptoms of stroke. ***IMMEDIATELY*** go to the hospital.

Relatedly, things I learned today:
- Brains are important, vulnerable, and really like oxygen
- Access to healthcare is life- and limb-saving and I am so grateful for it.

Link for 1⃣:
pdri-devlab.upenn.edu/announcement...

Link for 2⃣ & 3⃣:
casi.sas.upenn.edu/postdoctoral...

📢Job announcement📢
@Penn has 3 (!) amazing post-docs for the following research areas:

1⃣ Migration, human trafficking, climate change (PDRI @pdri-devlab.bsky.social)
2⃣ Environment, society, cities, climate change in India (CASI)
3⃣ Contemporary India (CASI)

Links below👇
#EconTwitter #EconSky

🚨JMCs doing behavioral Econ or discrimination 🚨

I’d love to see your papers.

Tag me in a post with a link to your paper and I will boost it.