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Michael Oppenheimer and I have an   overview of the science of climate change in the new Children and Climate Change issue of the open-a...

Status and Solutions for the World’s Unassessed Fisheries Christopher Costello, Daniel Ovando, Ray Hilborn, Steven D. Gaines, Olivier Des...

Last year, I participated in a few workshops where we thought through some of the "worst case scenarios" as well as potential mec...

It's sometimes hypothesized that after a natural disaster, populations "Build Back Better," meaning that the reconstruction ...

Last week, Bjorn Lomborg wrote an opinion piece in the WSJ preemptively attacking the climate policies that he speculates Obama will endors...

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...

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...

In Nature Climate Change: Willingness to pay and political support for a US national clean energy standard Joseph E. Aldy, Matthew J. Ko...

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the first AGU Science Policy Conference in DC. One of the things I like the most about AGU eve...

Policy-makers often suggest that climate model projections remain too uncertain to base policy on, frequently blaming the quality of the mo...

I ran across a copy of this new journal in the lounge of the WWS.  It looks pretty interesting and boasts an  impressive editorial board . ...

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...

My colleagues and I have been pushing the idea that ENSO forecasts should be broadly integrated into economic, security and social policie...

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

Sol and I each recently come across empirical papers on child labor which, at least at first glance, seem to arrive at rather different conc...

The New York Times has a fascinating article on a recent radical decline in the prevalence of female genital cutting / mutilation in Senegal...

Last week, the Global Commission on Drug Policy published their Report  which argues that a "War on Drugs" policy is an inefficie...

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

I was just on the website of EARTH Magazine  (a magazine published by the American Geological Institute and whose target audience is the sci...

Some big news in educational economics came out this week with a team of economists including Raj Chetty and Emmanuel Saez releasing some...