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    "text": "I live in Eugene, Oregon (USA) with my amazing wife, Shelley, and our awesome kids—Theo, Clara, and Wendell.\nI am an assistant professor of economics at the University of Oregon. I received my PhD from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley. Before studying at UC Berkley, I earned a B.S. in mathematics, an M.S. in statistics, and an M.S. in agricultural economics—all at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.\nIf not at school, I’m hopefully outside and/or playing with my family. I love people, data, trees, maps, Truth, Beauty, and good food. And bikes.\nmore\n\nmy favorite research tools;\nuseful/interesting links; \nmy research;\nsome recent photos.\n\ncontact\n\nemail: edwardr @ uoregon . edu\ninstagram: @edwardarubin"
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    "text": "Useful and/or interesting links for research/productivity/fun.\n\n20240221\n\nTabby  Super customizable, cross-platform termial app.\nWarp  Rust-based terminal with AI.\n\n20230323\n\nExpressions  App with (pretty) live preview of regular expressions.\n\n20220302\n\nDeckDeckGo  Interactive, web-based presentations. h/t\n\n20211025\n\nBrowse AI  Track websites. h/t\n\n20210924\n\nRectangle  Window management based on Spectacle.\n\n20210208\n\nCamo  Use your phone as a webcam. h/t\n\n20210208\n\nBeeper  A single app to unite all your messaging apps. h/t\n\n20210126\n\nggpomological  ggplot2 theme based upon the USDA’s pomological watercolor collection.\n\n20210122\n\ndisk.frame  R package that allows you to treat on-disk data as though it were in-memory (i.e., use data.table or tidyverse). Bonus blog from Bruno Rodrigues.\n\n20210121\n\nASCII Decorator  Sublime plugin for ASCII Decorations.\nMachine learning flashcards  Flashcards for ML concepts.\nlazyrmd  Lazy rendering of rmd.\n\n20201215\n\nxaringanExtra  Extra skills for the R package xaringan.\nxaringanthemer  More themes for xaringan.\n\n20201005\n\nvoice dream apps \n\nreader reads anything aloud (200+ voices in 30 languages).\nwriter helps you proofread out loud.\nscanner is for text recognition of scans.\n\nFreshwater Ecosystems Explorer  Data platform with accurate, up-to-date, high-resolution geospatial data depicting the extent freshwater ecosystems change over time.\n\n20200915\n\nSynergy  Control multiple computers with a single keyboard/mouse.\nBook: Dive into Deep Learning Online deep learning book.\nApache Arrow for R  R package for Apache Arrow in-memory platform. h/t\nWizard Zines Collection  Programming zines. h/t\n\n20200915\n\nButterick’s Practical Typography  Online book with practical advice on typography.\n\n20200915\n\ntweek  Online weekly planner. h/t\n\n20200914\n\nMail Merge for Thunderbird  A mail merge extension for Thunderbird.\n\n20200820\n\nCompiled ESS point datasets  Compendium of compiled Earth System Science point data sets.\n\n20200409\n\nStack  Browser built for multi-tasking. h/t\n\n20200409\n\ncodetime  Text-editor plugin for coding metrics and timing. h/t\ndescript  Record and edit audio as a transcript. h/t\nHypothesis  Annotate the web—and share it. h/t\nOnline conference options  There’s more for things bigger than Zoom:\n\nhopin\nRun the World\nVito h/t\n\n\n20200210\n\nOld Book Illustrations  A compendium of illustrations from “old books”.\nradian  An alternative console for R with multiline editing and rich syntax highlight. h/t\n\n20200106\n\nlearnr  R package to create Markdown-based, interactive tutorials.\n\n20191224\n\nConvertio  File conversion across 300+ formats.\n\n20191219\n\nArcane Office  In-cloud, private/secure/de-centralized, free office suite.\nCrosstalk  Cross-widget interactions in R.\npanelView  R package for visualizing treatment, missing-ness, and outcomes in panel data.\nspeaking.io  Public-speaking tips. h/t\nStandard ebooks  Curated, high-quality, free ebooks.\n\n20191203\n\ncally  Find common dates/locations for group events. h/t\nGantt.io  Easy, pretty, online Gantt charts. h/t\n\n20190923\n\ndevhints  A collection of cheatseets, e.g., bash, regex and vim.\n\n20190923\n\njQuery cheatsheet  Cheatseet for jQuery.\n\n20190821\n\nblastula  Send beautiful HTML emails from R.\n\n20190717\n\nReally Good Emails  Currated collection of beautiful, well-crafted emails. h/t\ntresorit  Secure cloud storage. h/t\n\n20190717\n\nIn-Browser Markdown Editors  - HackMD - StackEdit - Madoko\n\n20190715\n\nNoted  Integrated audio-recording and note-taking app.\n\n20190702\n\nTwizzy  Simple, clean flowchart tool. h/t\n\n20190620\n\nTwizzy  Twitter without the timeline (just message and tweet). h/t\n\n20190326\n\nrticle  LaTeX journal article templates for R Markdown.\n\n20190326\n\nMakepad  (Online) project management for single users—no team features.\n\n20190319\n\nFirefox Send  Send files up to 2.5GB (1GB without signing in). h/t\nTAYL  Turn text articles into podcasts. h/t\nWorkbench  Code-free data sharing and analysis platform.\n\n20190219\n\nMarvin  “Ultimate” productivity tool. h/t\n\n20190131\n\nButtondown  Simple, online, markdown-based newsletter app.\n\n20190115\n\nBackground Music  Audio utility to automatically pause music and/or mute specific applications.\n\n20181221\n\ndrake  R package for workflow management of data-driven tasks.\nfontawesome package  LaTeX package to access Font Awesome icons.\n\n20181207\n\nNES.css  NES-style CSS Framework.\nrayshader  R package for producing 2D and 3D hillshaded maps of elevation matrices. h/t\n\n20181205\n\niotools  R package for streaming and data parsing.\n\n20181128\n\npqR  A “pretty quick” version of R. h/t\n\n20181127\n\ncloudyr  A collection of R packages that connect R to cloud resources.\n\n20181120\n\nfst  Fast and easy serialization of data frames in R (and Julia).\nRStudio Server Amazon Machine Images  Louis Aslett provides a tremendous public service in hosting and updating (and providing basic instructions for) RStudio/R machine images for Amazon.\n\n20181015\n\nSpaceship Prompt  Minimalistic and flexible Zsh prompt.\ntrminal  Quickly opens a Mac Terminal (or iTerm 2) window for the current Finder directory. 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There are many more presentations available by Yihui Xie.\n\n20180830\n\nhey-pane  Atom extension for enlarging the active panel (includes keyboard shortcut).\ntyping.io  Typing practice for many programming languages.\n\n20180815\n\nDeclareDesign  Declaring and analyzing research designs in the social sciences. h/t\nR for Data Science  Online book about R for Data Science by Garrett Grolemund and Haldey Wickham.\n\n20180718\n\nBiblatex Cheat Sheet  A cheat sheet for Biblatex.\nWriting tools for Atom  linter-write-good lints English prose. Linter Just Say No helps you avoid using hedge words.\n\n20180718\n\nBib-it  Compendium of BibTeX entry and field types.\nCulture Concorde  Simple menu-bar curated-music player. h/t\nDotgrid  “Minimal vector drawing tool”. h/t\n\n20180524\n\nUberConference  Great, feature-rich meeting platform.\n\n20180516\n\nFigure it Out  Pretty Chrome extension (and website) to figure out time zones.\ngrasshopper  Free app that teaches coding.\ntxt.fyi  “This is the dumbest publishing platform on the web.” h/t\n\n20180510\n\nGradescope  Grading web service with really nice grading/rubric setup.\n\n20180430\n\nScreenFocus  Auto-dim (and auto-un-dim) when working with multiple monitors. h/t\n\n20180426\n\nClocker  OSX app to plan and organize through timezones.\nimdone  Atom package that provides a card- and list-based user interface for TODOs in your scripts.\nthemer  Generates color themes given a set of colors.\n\n20180419\n\nbinder  Turns a GitHub repo into a collection of interactive notebooks. h/t\n\n20180410\n\nGnotes  Simple markdown to Evernote. Somewhat like Marxico.\ngsynth  R package for generalized synthetic control methods.\n\n20180406\n\nSuperLearner  R package for a prediction-model ensembling method.\n\n20180403\n\nBeautiful AI  AI-powered presentations.\n\n20180329\n\nAcademic Sequitur  A website that tracks over 90 major economics and finance journals.\n\n20180320\n\nTeletype for Atom  An Atom package to collaborate in real time.\n\n20180315\n\nAppleHealthAnalysis  An R package to import and analyze data from the iOS Apple Health app.\n\n20180301\n\nregex-railroad-diagram package  A regular expression railroad diagram view for regular expression under cursor in Atom.\n\n20180301\n\nThings 3  Personal task manager. I’m switching from OmniFocus.\nWorkflow  Automation tool for iOS.\n\n20180213\n\nhiri  Clean, powerful email/calendar/task/contact app.\n\n20180202\n\nXML Sitemaps  Simple tool for creating XML sitemaps (along with other formats).\n\n20180129\n\nViridis in QGIS  Viridis color palettes (ramps) for QGIS.\n\n20180115\n\nLittleSnitch  View and manage internet connections from your Mac. (Also: MicroSnitch)\nSwiftText  Quick-access scratchpad for OSX.\nggthemr  Themes and palettes for ggplot2.\n\n20171227\n\nTypely  Free online proofreading.\n\n20171130\n\nResistbot  A bot who finds and contacts your Congressional representatives.\n\n20171129\n\nText Mining with R  An introduction to (tidy) text mining in R.\n\n20171122\n\nsf  Stellar package for spatial data analysis in R. More sf resources: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5\n\n20171115\n\nCheat sheets for regular expressions  The folks at RStudio provides cheat sheets for regular expressions and stringr (and many other cheat sheets).\n\n20171107\n\nAuthor  App to instantly create and publish documents to the web.\n\n20171030\n\nggforce  A package for R that aims to extend ggplot2 for explorative data visualization.\nggplot2 extensions  A helpful website that tracks extensions to R’s ggplot2 package.\n\n20171018\n\n3Blue1Brown  A YouTube channel that animates math.\n\n20171014\n\nGitFinder  A fast and lightweight Git client for Mac with Finder integration.\n\n20171010\n\nDrop  Beautiful color picker with Touch Bar support.\nIndex  Save and search your “stuff”.\nQbserve  Automatically tracks both productivity and work hours. h/t\nTripMode  Blocks apps from accessing the internet. h/t\nTyke  Scratch paper that lives in your menubar. h/t\n\n20171003\n\nPod  A “connected” calendar for iOS. h/t\n\n20170927\n\nTabagotchi  Fun browser extension that incentives fewer tabs.\n\n20170831\n\nCrime Data  The FBI has a great new crime data explorer. The Open Data Census project has a handy(-ish) summary of city-level crime datasets.\nPlain Email  Four-action email-processing app.\nRambox  Cross-platform messaging and emailing app.\nScienceFair  Search, collect, read and analyze scientific papers.\n\n20170828\n\nearth  A (beautiful) global map of wind, weather, and ocean conditions.\n\n20170825\n\nFree, open-source machine learning, statistics, and data-mining resources  A curated list of resources from Joseph Misiti.\nTemplate for R Markdown academic manuscript  Steven Miller offers a guide and template for academic manuscripts in R Markdown.\n\n20170824\n\nRegular expressions in R  stringr’s very helpful primer on regular expressions in R.\n\n20170807\n\nGifmock  Creates high-quality GIFs.\ntwist  A calmer Slack alternative.\n\n20170806\n\nHemingway  App that improves your writing.\n\n20170804\n\nrmapshaper  R package for “topologically-aware multi-polygon simplification” (for shapefiles). Related: mapshaper.org\n\n20170803\n\nManually re-index OSX Spotlight  A helpful guide. Hint: It’s really just sudo mdutil -E /.\n\n20170727\n\nColibri  A browser without tabs.\n\n20170722\n\neverydayCheck  A simple, pretty habit tracker. h/t\nOrai  AI-powered feedback for your speeches. h/t\n\n20170713\n\nVelox  Fast raster manipulation in R.\n\n20170608\n\nTabulizer  Extract tables from PDFs using R.\n\n20170606\n\n10 Minute Mail  Disposable email service.\n\n20170531\n\nWindscribe  VPN with a generous free allowance.\n\n20170528\n\nSplitShow  Tool for dual-head presentations on OSX.\n\n20170526\n\nTwo apps from Matthew Palmer:\nRocket  Mind-blowing (Slack-style) emoji on your Mac.\nVanilla  Hides menu bar icons on your Mac. h/t\n\n20170522\n\nMaterial Colors  A convenient website for accessing the colors of the material design palette.\n\n20170516\n\nAstro  Email app(s) powered by AI. h/t\nsip  Collects, organizes, and shares colors (and palettes). h/t\n\n20170515\n\nrJava error  A very helpful guide to fixing errors with rJava on OSX.\n\n20170507\n\nTextExpander  Expands custom keyboard shortcuts into frequently-used text and pictures.\n\n20170430\n\nkobra  Simple, real-time, code collaboration.\n\n20170426\n\nleaflet  Access Leaflet’s JavaScript library inside of R.\npacman An R package for easy package management in R—loading, unloading, etc.\n\n20170414\n\nPopular economics papers  Oxford University Press provides a list of the most popular economics papers from The Quarterly Journal of Economics (QJE) and The Review of Economics Studies (REStud).\n\n20170410\n\nUnpaywall  Read paywalled research papers for free.\n\n20170406\n\nVPN  In addition to having great names, CyberGhost and TunnelBear provide VPN services. Both services offer free options.\n\n20170331\n\nLaTeX, meet ggplot2  Port images out out of R and into LaTeX. h/t\n\n20170329\n\nComparing text files  Diffchecker and Text Compare! offer in-browser comparisons between text documents. In Atom, split-diff and compare-files offer between-document comparisons.\n\n20170324\n\nasciicinema  asciinema (formerly ascii.io) is a free and open source solution for recording terminal sessions and sharing them on the web.\nMarkdown online  Dillinger, StackEdit, and Markdown Live Preview offer three online Markdown editors/renderers. remark, Marp, swipe, and Deckset offer options for rendering Markdown into presentation slides (also, Rmarkdown with ioslides).\n\n20170312\n\nFocusList A daily planner and focus app based on Pomodoro. h/t\nGiphy Capture Create GIFs on your Mac. Other options: Gifox, Recordit, and Gyazo.\n\n20170227\n\npander An R Pandoc writer—for rendering R objects into Pandoc’s markdown.\n\n20170209\n\nTypora A live and minimal Markdown editor.\n\n20170206\n\nGGally Extends R’s ggplot2 with many helpful graphical functions.\n\n20170123\n\nLightTable Open-source text editor with in-line code evaluation.\n\n20170123\n\nRedkix Reat-time email app.\nTypeform Clean, online forms.\n\n20170123\n\nCodr A lightweight, collaborative pastebin (whiteboard) for code.\nSageMathCloud Collaboratively use open source math software/terminals in your browser.\nSubEthaEdit (4) Collaborative text editing.\n\n20170116\n\nMac Setup Helpful guide for setting up a Mac for most popular languages and programming/scripting tools.\n\n20170115\n\nStudies Flash cards for iOS and OSX.\n\n20170112\n\nNoizio White-noise generating app for OSX.\nWeTransfer Sends files.\n\n20170111\n\nDue Fast to-do list app with reminders.\nExist Track everything you do in one place.\n\n20170109\n\nTomatimer A loose and straightforward pomodoro timer for Atom.\n\n20170105\n\nMarkdown Quick Look Plugin Preview Markdown files in OSX Finder (through the Preview app). From the makers of the iPad Markdown text editor InkMark.\n\n20170101\n\nRead the Docs Create, host, and browse documentation.\n\n20161230\n\nCloudinary Image and video management in the cloud.\n\n20161228\n\nSpark A fast, personalizable email client.\n\n20161227\n\nPostImage Free image hosting and upload.\nSmall Victories Takes files in a Dropbox folder and turns them into a website.\n\n20161222\n\nTinyLetter A free personal newsletter service.\n\n20161219\n\nPandas Cheat Sheet A cheat sheet for data science with Python’s Pandas.\n\n20161215\n\nMapInSeconds.com Quickly turns spreadsheets into maps. h/t\n\n20161208\n\nR Markdown Websites A tutorial on building a website using R Markdown (like this one). h/t The rmdformats package offers additional themes (formats). More on R Markdown here. The bookdown package extends R Markdown to publishing books. The blogdown package extends R Markdown to publishing blogs (or general websites) using Hugo. The pkgdown package extends R Markdown to creating static html documentation.\n\n20161205\n\nDivvy Provides customized window management.\nBetterTouchTool Configure gestures for OSX.\n\n20161121\n\nSelector Gadget Point-and-click CSS selectors. Helpful when used in conjunction with R’s rvest package.\n\n20161118\n\nVivaldi A highly customizable browser.\n\n20161115\n\nGitKraken A GUI Git client, for Windows, Mac and Linux.\n\n20161107\n\nCalendly Simple, beautiful scheduling.\n\n20161106\n\nBear A flexible writing app for crafting notes and prose.\nOLS Notes Some nice notes on ordinary least squares from Michael Rosenfeld at Stanford.\nShodan Search engine for internet of things (and other things).\n\n20161031\n\nFacking Operator Mono Font in Atom A guide to building a font system in Atom similar to Operator Mono.\n\n\n20161028\n\nPomodoro Time and Tadam Pomodoro Time and Tadam are simple Pomodoro timers.\n\n20161019\n\nThenmap A repository of historical borders.\n\n20161007\n\nGeocodio (Reasonably) accurate, affordable, and unrestricted online geocoding (forward/reverse and batch/API). Connect with R through rgeocodio.\n\n20161006\n\nCanary Mail A “simple, smart, swift” email client for Mac with many nice features.\n\n20161004\n\nGithub Pages and Jekyll tutorial From UC Berkeley’s The Hacker Within, a nice tutorial on Github Pages and Jekyll.\npdftools A fast and portable PDF extractor for R (and others).\n\n20161003\n\nProducteev Team-oriented productivity software.\n\n20160930\n\nGhost Browser A browser that lets you isolate cookie jars into color coded tabs so you can run multiple sessions with multiple accounts on the same web site.\nHocus Focus Automatically hide inactive windows.\nNoisli In-browser white-noise generator with productivity and relax settings.\nStandard Resume One resume that works everywhere.\n\n20160928\n\nUnivariate Distribution Relationships Interactive chart for relationships between univariate distributions.\n\n20160926\n\nOpentest Seamless screen, mic and camera recording for Chrome.\n\n20160919\n\nHabitica Improve your habits by playing a game.\n\n20160906\n\nLinus screen Screen effectively allows signing on and off from interactive sessions on a server/Linux shell.\n\n20160822\n\nREVEAL.JS Javascript-backed HTML presentation framework.\n\n\n20160813\n\nQuickLookR OSX-based QuickLook plugin for R’s save() & saveRDS() files. h/t\n\n20160811\n\nMulti-File LaTeX projects ShareLaTeX’s guide to building LaTeX documents from multiple files.\nSMS Email Combine R’s sendmailR with this list of SMS email addresses to send text messages from R.\nStargazer Cheatsheet A cheatsheet for R’s stargazer package.\n\n20160810\n\nYakYak Desktop chat client for Google Hangouts.\n\n20160804\n\nScript Run scripts in Atom based on file name, a selection of code, or by line number.\nTerm2 Open Terminal tabs in Atom. 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We identify such strategies among coal-fueled power plants. First, we document that electricity generators locate near administrative borders. As water influences borders/siting, we develop a simple, non-parametric test that shows coal plants located to reduce downwind exposure. Natural-gas plants—facing lower regulatory pressure—do not exhibit this behavior. Using a state-of-the-art, particle-trajectory model, we illustrate coal pollution’s extreme mobility: within 6 hours, 50% of coal plants’ emissions leave their source states—99% depart source counties. These strategic responses emphasize the importance of federal oversight and transport-focused regulation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPre-print versions\n\nCustomer Discrimination in the Workplace: Evidence from Online Sales\nErin Kelley, Gregory Lane, Matthew Pecenco, and Edward Rubin. Forthcoming. Journal of Labor Economics.\n\n\n\n\n\nMany workers are evaluated on their ability to engage with customers. 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We infer this expectation from air quality alerts—public advisories based on local governments’ own pollution forecasts—and test whether monitors’ sampling rates fall when these alerts occur. We first use this method to test an individual pollution monitor in Jersey City, NJ, suspected of a deliberate shutdown during the 2013 “Bridgegate” traffic jam. Consistent with strategic shutdowns, this monitor’s sampling rate drops by 33% on pollution-alert days. Building on large-scale inference tools, we then apply the method to test over 1,300 monitors across the U.S., finding 14 metro areas with clusters of monitors showing similar strategic behavior. We discuss imputation methods and policy responses that may help deter future strategic monitoring.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNBER Working Paper No. 28735 | Pre-print version\n\nQuantifying heterogeneity in the price elasticity of residential natural gas\nEdward Rubin and Maximilian Auffhammer. 2024. 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Using data from over 13,000 vacant-land transactions that occurred within or near critical habitat for two important species in California (red-legged frog and Bay checkerspot butterfly), we show that critical-habitat designation resulted in a large and statistically significant decrease in land value. The estimated impact of critical-habitat designation is heterogeneous: the largest decreases occur within designated urban-growth boundaries.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBringing Satellite-Based Air-Quality Estimates Down to Earth\nMeredith Fowlie, Edward Rubin, and Reed Walker. 2019. “Bringing Satellite-Based Air Quality Estimates Down to Earth.” AEA Papers and Proceedings, 109: 283-88. DOI: [10.1257/pandp.20191064\n\n\n\n\n\nWe use state-of-the-art, satellite-based PM2.5 estimates to assess the extent to which the EPA’s existing, monitor-based measurements over- or under-estimate true exposure to PM2.5 pollution. 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    "text": "Greetings, fellow nerds! Here are the tools I most commonly use…\n\nText editing\n\nGeneral scripting/coding: VS Code but increasingly NvChad on ghostty\nLaTeX writing: Overleaf or VS Code with LaTeX Workshop\nSlides: Migrating to Quarto from xaringan\n\n\n\nTerminal\n\nghostty\nWarp\nOh My Zsh\nradian\nNeovim and NvChad\ndoi2bib\nlf\nSometimes a little tmux\n\n\n\nData work/analysis\n\nR in VS Code with radian\nR in NvChad with radian in ghostty, Warp, or Tabby\n\n\n\nProductivity\n\nNote taking: Obsidian\nTask management: Things 3 and Github Projects\nCalendar: Fantastical\nCalculator: Numi\nPasswords: Dashlane\nFTP: Transmit\nEmail: Spark\nRecipes: Mela\n\n\n\nComputer ease\n\nRectangle on OSX and gTile on Linux.\nAlfred\nNotability and PDF Expert\nBetterDisplay\n\n\n\nBrowser and extensions\n\nBrowser: Arc (and occasionally Brave)\nVPN: ProtonVPN"
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Global dams, environmental impacts, and agricultural adaptation Evie (Shan) Zhang (Old Dominion)\n\n\nPost-Paris Agreement emissions per capita: Cross-country evidence on fossil fuel and mineral dependency Davgadorj Puntsag (Tokyo)  Climate adaptation, risk shifting, and digital platforms Anna Papp (MIT/UCSB)  Market power, innovation, and the green transition Rik Rozendaal (Tilburg)\n\n\nMandated adaptation to air pollution in the workplace Max Snyder (UC Berkeley)  Environmental externalities of urban growth: Evidence from the California wildfires Stephanie Kestelman (Harvard)  Temperature and intimate partner violence in Bolivia Julieth Saenz-Molina (Fordham)\n\n\nLake desiccation and infant health Lena Harris (Rochester)  Natural capital and human welfare: The social impacts of mangrove loss in Indonesia Xinde James Ji (Florida)  Assessing the impact of China’s river chief system on surface water quality Chunjie Zhao (Clark)\n\n\nMulti-pollutant cap-and-trade systems with heterogeneous firms Justin Johnson Kakeu (Univ. of PEI)  Perverse incentives in CCUS policy design Joseph Stemmler (Oxford)  Using support vector and decision trees to predict mortality related to traffic, air pollution, and meteorological exposure in Norway Cong Cao (CalTech)\n\n\nNow It’s personal: A field experiment on the demand for wearable air quality sensors with US early adopters Alexander Dangel (Heidelberg)  Place-based environmental regulation and labor market dynamics Özgen Kıribrahim Sarıkaya (Arizona State)  Do subway expansions improve urban air quality by reducing traffic congestion? Evidence from China Chunjie (Kathy) Zhao (Clark)\n\n\nNetwork determinants of cross-border media coverage of natural disasters Prashant Garg (Imperial College)  Strategic complementarity in NGO advocacy: Evidence from the European commission Rosanne Logeart (Copenhagen Business School)  Political bias in disaster aid: Evidence from administrative data and from space Hannah Farkas (Columbia)\n\n\nMoral hazard in timber auctions: Evidence from the mountain pine beetle outbreak Ken Jung (Yale)  Economic importance of hunting for rural households amidst shocks: Evidence from 23 countries Prachi Jhamb (Georgia)  Donkey business: Trade, resource exploitation, and crime Lucas Corrêa-Dias (EESP-FGV)\n\n\nThe Forest-infrastructure tradeoff: Local distributional impacts of clearing forests for infrastructure Sunny Mitra (UC Berkeley)  Labour vs. coal: Input substitution in the Indian manufacturing sector Raavi Aggarwal (ISI)  Shifts in agricultural practices: Evidence from India Shreya Mishra (IIML)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAir Pollution: 2024/12/06Air Pollution: 2024/11/08Agriculture: 2024/10/11Enviro+Health: 2024/09/13Energy: 2024/08/09Infrastructure: 2024/06/07Resources: 2024/05/03Ag and the environment: 2024/04/05Local and Global Pollution: 2024/03/08Forests & Air: 2024/02/02\n\n\nDisaster and disparity: The heterogeneous effects of hurricanes on Louisiana’s rental market Haishan Yang (Minnesota)  Urban redevelopment and gentrification: Evidence from Atlanta BeltLine Yixuan Wang (Ohio State)  Levees and levies: Local financing of climate infrastructure maintenance and housing market dynamics Yichun Fan (MIT)\n\n\nWork-residence pollution exposure gap in the United States Devika Chirimar (Georgetown)  Cargo ships and coastal smog Philip Economides (Texas Tech)  Air pollution and avoidance behavior: Evidence from daily activities in the US Xinhui Sun (UIUC)\n\n\nIrrigation infrastructure and agricultural development in the long run: Evidence from the Senegal River Valley Joel Ferguson (Stanford)  Understanding the drivers of cover crop adoption in the US Midwest using satellite data Na Zhang (UIUC)  Compensation mechanism, program scale, and the efficiency of payment for ecosystem services programs Micah Cameron-Harp (Kansas State)\n\n\nAdulterated spice: Lead poisoning, crime, and fertility Xinming Du (Columbia)  Noise pollution and mental health Kaiyi Wen (Binghamton)  Effects of community sanitation behavior on women anemia: Evidence from ten Sub-Saharan African Countries Ammazia Hanif (Tsukuba)\n\n\nGold Plate or Glint? Identifying the Effect of Competition on Capital Investment in US Power Plants Madeline Yozwiak (Indiana)  The Tragedy of the Common Heating Bill Harald Mayr (Zurich)  Effect of contract design in renewable energy auctions Anshuman Bhakri (Boston College)\n\n\nExpansion of piped water and sewer networks: The effects of regulation Carolina Tojal R. dos Santos (Michigan)  Bridging economic disparities: The role of bike lanes in enhancing low-income accessibility Hugo Cordeau (Toronto)  Bottle redemption, wealth transfers, and informal wages Maya Norman (Columbia)\n\n\nEstimating the indirect costs of floods: Evidence from high-tide flooding Seunghoon Lee (Missouri)  Subsidizing technology adoption under treatment effect heterogeneity: The case of rainwater harvesting in Mexico City Javier Alejandro Lopez-Aguilar (Maryland)  Large-scale mining and local impacts: Evidence from Mongolia Odmaa Narantungalag (Denver)\n\n\nPostharvest losses from weather and climate change: Evidence from 1.2 million truckloads Sarah Smith (UC Davis)  Weather stations and agricultural productivity: Evidence from historical data in the US Vaibhav Anand (St. John’s)  Efficiency and redistribution in environmental policy: An equilibrium analysis of agricultural supply chains Tomas Dominguez-Iino (Chicago Booth)\n\n\nEstimating the Social Cost of Methane with the GIVE Model Lisa Rennels (UC Berkeley)  How to Better Predict the Effect of Urban Traffic and Weather on Air Pollution? Norwegian Evidence from Machine Learning Approaches Cong Cao (Caltech)  International Climate Finance: Carbon Mitigation, Welfare Effects, and Optimal Allocation Naixin Huang (Harvard)\n\n\nThe equilibrium effects of anti-deforestation policies: Evidence from Brazil Veronica Salazar Restrepo (LSE)  When growth stumbles, pollute? Trade war, environmental enforcement, and pollution Xinming Du (National University of Singapore)  Cleaning the air? The causal effects of traffic restrictions Maurizio Malpede (Verona)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEnergy & Poltical Economy: 2023/12/08Air: 2023/10/27Enviro-Labor: 2023/09/22Water: 2023/08/25Climate and energy: 2023/07/28Climate change and risk: 2023/06/30Ag and the environment: 2023/05/26Equity & justice: 2023/04/28Climate & adaptation: 2023/03/31Air quality: 2023/02/24\n\n\nCorruption and energy reliability evidence from US electricity Labanya Roy (Middle Tennessee State)  Evaluating power sector emissions under China’s regional carbon ETS pilots: A view from space Ruoyu Chen (Windsor)  Policy trade-offs due to complimentary resource consumption: PV adoption and residential water use Alecia Cassidy (Alabama)\n\n\nToxic Recycling: Used lead-acid battery processing’s negative effect on test scores in Mexico Erin Litzow (UBC)  The persistent health effect of defoliating Vietnam Nguyen Vuong (Wisconsin)  Restricting trade for the environment? Evidence from import restrictions on used vehicles in China Hui Zhou (Rhode Island)\n\n\nThe value of weather forecasts: Labor responses to accurate and inaccurate temperature forecasts in China Yuqi Song (Harvard)  The distributional impacts of climate change across U.S. local labor markets Emmett Saulnier (Oregon)  The hidden costs of recycling: Lead exposure and the learning crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa Gerald Ipapa (Delaware)\n\n\nImpact of maternal exposure to PFAS on infant health outcomes Robert Baluja (Arizona)  Dust, drought and farmland values: Evidence from California Siddharth Kishore (UC Riverside)  Water, dust, and environmental justice: The case of agricultural water diversions Danae Hernandez-Cortes (Arizona State)\n\n\nLocal institutions, resource management, and climate resilience: Evidence from federally supported conservation districts in the USA Aparna Howlader (Chatham)  Do homebuyers value energy efficiency? Evidence from an information shock Brendon McConnell (Southampton)  Stranded oil: Measuring companies’ reserve sensitivity to the oil price Diego Cardoso (Purdue)\n\n\nPricing physical climate risk in the cross-section of returns Glen Gostlow (LSE)  Inattention to the coming storm? Rising seas and sovereign credit risk Atreya Dey (Edinburgh)  The effects of extreme wildfire and smoke events on household financial outcomes Nitzan Tzur-Ilan (Dallas Fed)\n\n\nLocal crop diversity and pest diffusion Tristan du Puy (Columbia SIPA)  Impacts of local research centers on agricultural productivity, resilience, and innovation Shweta Bhogale (JPAL/MIT)  When clouds go dry: An integrated model of deforestation, rainfall, and agriculture Rafael Araujo (Climate Policy Initiative)\n\n\nBurying the lead: Effects of public lead service line replacements on blood lead levels and property values Michelle Marcus (Vanderbilt)  Who benefits from park funding? Analyzing five decades of the Land and Water Conservation Fund Andie Creel (Yale School of the Environment)  Policy-induced environmental inequality: Firm behaviors and consequent health and labor outcomes Ran Song (National University of Singapore)\n\n\nHeat stress in rails Xinming Du (Columbia)  Does market power in agricultural markets hinder farmer climate change adaptation? Rajat Kochhar (USC)  Occupational mobility and climate adaptation in France Paul Stainier (UCLA)\n\n\nAir pollution and mental illness Soodeh Saberian (U Manitoba)  Non-market damages of wildfire smoke: evidence from administrative recreation data Jacob Gellman (UC Santa Barbara)  Still your grandfather’s boiler: Estimating the effects of the Clean Air Act’s grandfathering provisions Jack Gregory (UC Davis)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClimate, organization, and ag: 2022/06/10Energy: 2022/05/13Env. & energy in India: 2022/04/29Justice and political economy: 2022/04/01Water and climate: 2022/03/18Food and waste: 2022/03/04Tech. adoption: 2022/02/18Energy: 2022/02/04Pollution and driving: 2022/01/21\n\n\nThe role of local institutions in climate resilience: Historical evidence from soil conservation districts in the post-dust bowl Great Plains region Aparna Howlader (Rhode Island)  Multinationals vs Mother Nature? The impact of multinational firms on the environment Frederik Noack (UBC)  Internal migration and the organization of agriculture Raahil Madhok (UBC)\n\n\nEnergy transition metals: Bottleneck for net-zero emissions? Lukas Boer (DIW Berlin)  Policy legacies and energy transitions: Greening policies under sectoral reforms in Argentina and Chile Santiago Cunial (UPenn)  Price discrimination on choice frictions in residential electricity markets Jenya Kahn-Lang (UC Berkeley)\n\n\nBurned agricultural biomass, air pollution, and crime Abubakr Ayesh (Michigan State)  Electricity market design and market-based environmental policy in India Shefali Khanna (Imperial College London)  Economic and demographic effects of increased flood susceptibility: Evidence from rural India Osama Sajid (Cornell)\n\n\nStubble burning and forest fires: Effect on child height in India Prachi Singh (EDF)  Visibility and vulnerability: Aid allocations after the 2015 Nepal earthquake Matthew Gordon (Yale)  Does the media respond to political messaging? Evidence from local newspaper coverage of climate change Graham Beattie (Loyola Marymount)\n\n\nRegulator preferences and underinvestment in water infrastructure Chunyu Guo (SUNY Albany)  Regional water transfer and economic growth: A synthetic control case study Arpita Nehra (Utah State)  Near-term climate damages under flexible adaptation times Maximilian Kotz (Potsdam)\n\n\nHousehold responses to a corrective tax and climate change mitigation: Evidence from food waste tax Seunghoon Lee (MIT)  Market potential for domestic herbs: A new variant of “consequentiality” for valuing contingent private goods Twinkle Roy (Georgia)  Rethinking recycling? The effects of China’s waste-import ban on pollution relocation in the U.S. Shan Zhang (Oregon)\n\n\nSplit incentives and endogenous inattention in home retrofits uptake: A story of selection on unobservables? Stefano Cellini (Surrey)  Early warning systems, mobile technology, and cholera aversion: Evidence from rural Bangladesh Emily Pakhtigian (Penn State)  Using targeting to optimize program design: Evidence from an energy conservation experiment Muxi Yang (Cornell)\n\n\nOptimal energy subsidies with multiple policy instruments: The case for finite-time-horizon policies Owen Kay (Michigan)  Capital versus output subsidies with an inconsistent regulator Asa Watten (EPA)  Decomposing the effect of renewables on the electricity sector Paige Weber (UNC)\n\n\nDoes it measure up? A comparison of pollution exposure assessment techniques applied across hospitals in England Dheeya Rizmie (Imperial College London)  Peer Effects in Electric Vehicle Adoption: Evidence from the Swedish Vehicle Market Sebastian Tebbe (IIES)\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPerception and conservation: 2021/12/13Behavior: 2021/11/12Air and externalities: 2021/10/29Transportation: 2021/10/08Enviro: 2021/09/24Ag + Climate: 2021/09/10Disasters: 2021/08/27Water, energy, behavior: 2021/08/13Agriculture: 2021/07/02Energy: 2021/06/11Pollution: 2021/05/28Energy & extraction: 2021/05/07Transportation: 2021/04/23Energy: 2021/04/09Climate: 2021/03/26Inequality: 2021/03/12Agriculture: 2021/02/26Floods: 2021/02/12Air quality: 2021/01/22\n\n\nThe role of information in the Rosen-Roback framework Ran Song (Yale-NUS)  Do subjective perceptions shape adaptation to climate change? Evidence from Bangladesh Guglielmo Zappala (Paris School of Economics)  The cost of saving the Amazon Rabail Chandio (Ohio State)\n\n\nChoice architecture 2.0: Embedding reflection in nudges to promote low carbon diets Sanchayan Banerjee (LSE)  Mental scarcity and collective action Todd Guilfoos (University of Rhode Island)  Role of gender identity on conservation practice choice in an agricultural land leasing context: A lab experiment Diya Ganguly (University of Nebraska–Lincoln)\n\n\nStrategic local regulators and the efficacy of national pollution standards Ruohao Zhang (Northwestern)  Environmental externalities and social contact: Evidence from refinery pollution in the U.S. Xinming Du (Columbia)  Local inequalities generated by fracking, remote sensing of neighborhood transformation Arman Khachiyan (UCSD)\n\n\nUncertainty in preferences for recharging electric vehicles Gracia Bruchmann (Bern)  Effects of public transit fares increases on gasoline consumption: High-frequency evidence from China Yuchen Wang (Pitt)  For whom the bridge tolls: Congestion, air pollution, and second-best road pricing Matthew Tarduno (UC Berkeley)\n\n\nDisentangling the many-to-many mapping of natural capital and ecosystem services Ethan Addicott (Yale)  Technology transitions and the timing of environmental policy: Evidence from efficient lighting Sarah Armitage (Harvard)  Cost-effectiveness and robustness of conservation measures in agricultural landscapes facing climate change Charlotte Gerling (TU Berlin)\n\n\nCan recycled water cure all? Coastal agriculture’s battle with seawater intrusion and groundwater overdraft Molly Sears (UC Berkeley)  Cicadian rhythm: Insecticides, infant health, and long-term outcomes Charles Taylor (Columbia)  Is working at home a way of adaptation to climate change? Wensu Li (Trinity)\n\n\nThe dynamic impacts of floods on households: The case of Nigeria in 2012 Mook Bangalore (LSE)  The impact of drought on structural transformation in India Sayahnika Basu (UCSD)  People use park with people: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic Andie Creel (Yale)\n\n\nBeware of side effects? Spillover evidence from a hot water intervention Harald Mayr (ETH Zurich)  Incentives for the energy transition: Feed-in tariffs, rebates, or a hybrid design? 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    "text": "Teaching\nEC607: Econometrics (III): Causal inference\n\nUniversity of Oregon: Spring 2026,Spring 2025, Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2020, Spring 2019\nDoctoral course; advanced causal-inference methods.\n\nEC524: Econometrics (II): Prediction and machine learning\n\nUniversity of Oregon: Winter 2026, Winter 2025, Spring 2024, Winter 2023, Winter 2022, Winter 2021; Winter 2020\nMasters course; key machine learning methods across diverse prediction contexts.\n\nEC421: Introduction to Econometrics (II)\n\nUniversity of Oregon: Spring 2026, Winter 2026, Winter 2025, Spring 2023, Winter 2023, Spring 2022, Winter 2022, Winter 2021; Spring 2020; Winter 2020; Spring 2019; Winter 2019\nUndergrad. course; foundational topics in regression, visualization, time-series, causal-inference methods.\n\nARE 212: Econometrics - Multiple Equation Estimation\n\nUniversity of California, Berkeley: Spring 2017, Spring 2018\nDoctoral course; taught recitation section and built section website/notes.\n\nSTAT 380: Statistics and Applications\n\nUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln: Summer 2012, Fall 2012, Spring 2013\nUndergraduate course; intermediate statistics.\n\nSTAT 218: Introduction to Statistics\n\nUniversity of Nebraska–Lincoln: Spring 2011, Summer 2011, Fall 2011\nUndergraduate course; introductory statistics."
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    "text": "Grants, awards, etc.\n2025 JAERE Excellence in Refereeing Award\n(Grant) International Growth Centre with Anshuman Tiwari and Shefali Khanna, The Heterogeneous Impacts of Air Pollution on Workers, £18,842\n(Grant) Arnold Ventures with Benjamin Hansen, Marijuana and the Minimum Legal Purchase Age, 2025–2027 , $298,951\n(Grant) US EPA with Meredith Fowlie, A Retrospective Analysis of Indirect Air Quality Benefits from Power-Sector Emissions Reductions, 2021, $24,919\n(Grant) Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The Workshop for Environmental Economics and Data Science, 2020–2022, $30,000\n(Grant) University of Oregon Data-Science Initiative Seed Funding, The Workshop for Environmental Economics and Data Science, 2019–2020, $9,989\n(Grant) University of Oregon (Program Grant), The Workshop for Environmental Economics and Data Science, Fall 2019, $2,000\nUS EPA EmPOWER Air Data Challenge Winner with Meredith Fowlie, Economic and Environmental Trade-offs Associated with Carbon Mitigation Co-Benefits An Empirical Study Leveraging Declines in Power Plant Emissions and Advances in Data Analytics, 2019–2020\n(Grant) Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) (Exploratory Research Grant) with Erin Kelley, Gregory Lane, and Matthew Pecenco, Can online marketplaces reduce barriers to growth for small firms? 2018–2019, £31,000\nOutstanding Graduate-Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, 2018\n(Grant) Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) (Exploratory Research Grant) with Erin Kelley and Matthew Pecenco, The Impact of Consumer-Side Discrimination on Firm Productivity in East Africa, 2017–2018, £13,000\n(Grant) Giannini Foundation (Mini-Grant) with Maximilian Auffhammer, 2017–2018\n(Grant) UC Berkeley ARE Summer Grant, 2016\nGAANN Fellowship 2013–2015"
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    "text": "Academic service\n\nAdvising\n\nPhD committee chair: Andrew Dickinson (co-chair); Mary Kopriva (Wade) (co-chair); Connor Lennon (co-chair); Emmett Reynier (co-chair); Garrett Stanford (chair)\nPhD dissertation committee: Christie Downs (Finance); Claire Lepault (Paris School of Economics); Steven (Marcus) Holloway; Sichao Jiang; Woocheol Kim (Marketing); Kyu Matsuzawa; Robert McDonough; Max Mindock; John Morehouse; Jenni Putz; Meysam Rabiee (Operations and Analytics); Brietta Russell; Steven Walton (Computer Science); Kyle Wilson; Micaela Wood; Dante Yasui (in progress)\nMasters thesis: Pilar Mullican\nUndergraduate thesis: Joseph Andersen (department; advisor), Zoë Arnaut (honors; reader); Eleanor Franks (honors; reader); Lorissa Hughes (in progress; chair); Kara Krnacik (honors; chair); Aidan Potts (honors; chair); Sam Schroeder (honors; chair)\n\n\n\nAdditional\n\nCo-founded/organize TWEEDS (The Workshop in Environmental Economics and Data Science)\nCo-founded/organize OSWEET (Online Student Workshop in Environmental, Energy, and Transportation)\nCo-founded/Organized GoSee (Global Open Series in Environmental Economics)\nCo-organize applied microeconometrics workshop at UO\nReferee: Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), American Economic Review: Insights (AERI), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy (AEJ Policy), Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE), Journal of Public Economics (JPubE), Journal of Health Economics (JHE), Economic Inquiry, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (JEEM), Land Economics, Resource and Energy Economics (REE), Energy Policy, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM), Water Economics and Policy (WEP), Nature Communications: Earth & Environment, Economics Letters\nGrant reviewer: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Stanford University Sustainability Accelerator\nCoordinated Environmental, Energy, and Resource Economics Seminar (UCB)\nOrganized biweekly (twice per week) departmental lunches (UCB)\nOrganized third-year research workshop (UCB)\nOrganized departmental coffee hour (UCB)\nMentored first-year graduate students (UCB)"
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