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The   Global Policy Lab   at  UC Berkeley  is now hiring multiple positions for a major research project at the nexus of  environmental res...

David Evans' coverage of last month's Annual Bank Conference on Africa  is a great overview of some fascinating recent applied rese...

Amir Jina and I were recently discussing the multiple literature reviews that have come out on environment and development topics lately, ...

Typhoon Haiyan as seen from space, Copyright 2013 JMA/EUMETSAT Last spring Sol and I finished up the working paper version of our paper...

There's a new working paper by Michael Greenstone and Kelsey Jack that's of obvious interest to FE readers: Envirodevonomics: A ...

Jesse and I both come from the Sustainable Development PhD Program at Columbia  which has once again turned out a remarkable crop of job mar...

Jesse and I both come from the Sustainable Development PhD Program at Columbia , which has once again turned out a remarkable crop of job m...

... you just might not realize it from the title. Or the text... The Free Rider Problem: a Dynamic Analysis Marco Battaglini, Salvatore ...

Or, more aptly, ask 40 of the top economists alive what they think about a given policy statement . I found out about the IGM Forum's E...

The Annual Reviews have come out with a new journal (a few issues old) that will be extremely useful resource for many FE readers:  Annua...

We had an excellent session at AGU last week , thanks to everyone who contributed. Here's a video of the talks, which are succinct, inte...

Environmental Accounting for Pollution in the United States Economy Nicholas Z. Muller, Robert Mendelsohn and William Nordhaus Abstract: ...

Over a year ago, I pointed readers to this paper after seeing it at WCERE and thinking it was important, so I'm happy to hear that i...

Sponsored by Fight-Entropy! (not really...)  The full preliminary program is here . Jan 07, 2012 2:30 pm , Swissotel, Vevey 1   Associati...

Here's a simple, elegant and important point about the economics of climate change, but it applies to other environmental changes equal...

Here's another gem from the lab of Norman Mackworth  (which in my head is looking increasingly like the Dharma Initiative ): " High...

My own work has focused on whether economic productivity can be influence by temperature through its impact on worker productivity. I recen...

While reflecting on my loss of sleep this past weekend, I found this working paper from a few years ago: Does Daylight Saving Time Save En...

Jesse and I have been working hard and haven't posted anything in a while. I don't have much time to offer comments, but this is a r...

[A shorter (and more heavily copy-edited) version of this post was published in EARTH Magazine, read it  here .] My paper  Temperatures an...