Ben Gilbert

#econsky

How does renewable variability impact local emissions and operations of fossil fuel power plants? Which plants and communities are most impacted? A new paper by Mines researchers Kristina Pitman and Ben Gilbert (@bengilbertecon.bsky.social) answers this question: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Converting Brown Offices to Green Apartments Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Interesting study here develops criteria for which types of office buildings are good candidates for residential conversion. It’s about 11 percent of office buildings. Seems not trivial in a world with limited housing supply.

www.nber.org/papers/w31530

No shame in that ABV and calorie count! Not sure about the apricot but I’m a fruit on pizza guy so I can’t throw stones.

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It is always mind boggling at how massive @agu.org is every year. This is just one session of the poster room, which changes over twice daily for the duration of the conference. #AGU24

Incredible - almost performance art

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

Please help me spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with faculty is optional. Get paid to take classes that prepare you for PhD. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-adm...

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Inside me are two wolves:

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As a grant reviewer, what do you really wish people would do/not do?

Not big things, like find a significant question/innovative method/be consistent with aims

Little things, like bold each acronym the first time it’s used.

Add your pet peeves ⬇️
#HiddenCurriculum #Research

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Thank you both!

Thank you!

Expecting Climate Change: A Nationwide Field Experiment in the Housing Market Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Proud to share my first NBER working paper. 17.5 million Redfin users were randomly assigned to see or not see flood risk on home listing; the treated users went on to make offers on less risky homes. First casual evidence that homebuyers are adapting to climate change www.nber.org/papers/w33119

Occam's Razor

Next week will have to be Moonstruck and Face Off I guess. See how long it takes them.

Showed my kids Raising Arizona and National Treasure in the same week. They had no idea they were watching the same person.

Now I’m having a Mandela Effect moment

For linear demand the inelastic portion of the demand curve is the goodies for the monopolist. They don’t leave any of that on the table. If MC>0 they are pricing where demand is elastic (or creating scarcity to take advantage of all the inelasticity). So you should get e<-1.

WHO AM I?
2-4-6-0-OOOOONNNE!!!!

You joke, but few know that George Santos wrote those lyrics and was a personal friend of Freddie Mercury.

This is the second time you've helped me on this question. Thank you! At first glance this paper is exactly what I had in mind, and from some superb authors.

But maybe estimating survival probabilities is easier/more widely applicable across DID estimators? Could also account for censoring if some units were more likely to receive treatment after the sample window.