Conor Carney

Senior Instructional Professor | @UChiClimate & @UChi_Economics | Environmental, climate change, development economist | Husband, father, amateur pugilist

[Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth @UChiClimate]

Last fall, @UChicago students had the unique opportunity to learn from our Institute’s distinguished fellows—John Podesta, @HinaRKhar & Sue Biniaz—in a course part of our Chicago Curriculum on Climate and Sustainable Growth.

Explore the highlights: https://t.co/RH7hXSIdeA

[Conor Carney @CO_Carney]

Excited to be part of @UChiClimate! Can’t wait to engage students in the climate-growth challenge through a 360-degree lens shaped by the new Chicago Curriculum on Climate and Sustainable Growth.

[Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth @UChiClimate]

We are excited to welcome Professor Conor Carney (@CO_Carney) as a Senior Instructional Professor appointed in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics (@UChi_Economics). 🎊

Carney will lead our Institute’s undergraduate education programs.

More: https://t.co/wqITxjroOs

[Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth @UChiClimate]

As the 2025 academic year comes to a close, we’re proud to showcase how our new Institute has championed and meaningfully engaged with outstanding @uchicago students. Explore the highlights: https://t.co/ZcnlE0QD1v

[S. Grossbard edits Review of Econ of the Household @econoflove]

New in #REHO #caregiving
Young seniors often have elderly parents and grandchildren who would benefit from their care; they take care of grandchildren less when an elderly parent is still alive.
https://t.co/kfH0En5Ksi by @MEHCarney coordinating Ed: @LRocco1975 so far 2 cites

[Conor Carney @CO_Carney]

Bob was a great economist and a great mentor. He helped me so much when I worked with him at Chicago Partners and he wrote my LORs for grad school. It is always nice to be reminded of his pathbreaking work!

[Yiqing Xu @xuyiqing]

Special thanks to Bob LaLonde’s estate for allowing us to include the original tables in our paper. The influence of LaLonde (1986) on the field of causal inference is immeasurable. 7/8

[Clark Economics @ClarkuEcon]

Great talk at Clark yesterday by Conor Carney from the College of the Holly Cross on strategic grain reserves and deforestation!

[Monica Carney @MEHCarney]

Thrilled to have had Claudia Goldin at Holy Cross just a few weeks ago for a talk (“Why Women Won”) and dinner!! So grateful for her work on gender and the economy. @hc_econ_acct

[Hannah Ritchie @_HannahRitchie]

Do you know what is really bad for the environment?

Low crop yields. It means forest is cut down to make space for farmland.

Do you know one of the reasons for low crop yields?

Insufficient fertilizer/nutrients.

[Conor Carney @CO_Carney]

@rwaite84 @CaravanFootball @RiddellSports I forgot that Turnock accidentally kneed Venegoni in the back of the head after the last play! 😂

[Conor Carney @CO_Carney]

@PERCtweets @bryleonard Congratulations @bryleonard! Also, I love the UCSB contingent in the picture!

[Conor Carney @CO_Carney]

My favorite building in Chicago!

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Loos loved this. He was sick of Europe's superfluously ornamented, superficially artistic architecture.

Rather, he had fallen in love with the modern style of Sullivan and the Chicago School, like the Marquette Building, completed in 1895:

[Conor Carney @CO_Carney]

@rwaite84 @CaravanFootball @RiddellSports The hooded sweatshirt game!

[NAREA @NAREA_Economics]

Thank you @JCavigliaHarris for all you have done for the CAM program! #NAREA2022

[Conor Carney @CO_Carney]

@JaminSpeer I like using "Sliding Doors" to talk about casual inference and counterfactuals, but I stopped using it because I prefer not to spend a half hour of class explaining the plot of a mediocre Gwyneth Paltrow movie from 1998... they need to do a remake!

[Conor Carney @CO_Carney]

@djaimovi @WorldDevJournal @IFPRI @simonhhess @bill_easterly @elianalaferrara @EmilioDepetrisC @tedmiguel @globalforests @TobiasPfutze @info_mipp @fenutalca Great news Dany! We learned a lot from you and your coauthors’ work in The Gambia!

[emLab UC Santa Barbara @emLabUCSB]

“I’ve been thinking a lot about energy use in developing countries. I’m working on a project in Ghana focused on household decisions about cooking fuels & I’m excited about the potential for scalable interventions,” says Kelsey Jack in her #emLabSpotlight https://t.co/con1X0CTNM

[emLab UC Santa Barbara @emLabUCSB]

Just as the Fukushima accident put the risks of nuclear power at the top of the agenda, it's now the re-emergence of geopolitical threats highlighting anew the perils of imported fossil fuel dependence & complexity of designing an optimal energy transition https://t.co/XnyFarILil

[Conor Carney @CO_Carney]

Prof. Little was my favorite professor when I was a student at the College and he was instrumental in my pursuit of a PhD. His passion for learning is something to aspire to!

[College of the Holy Cross @holy_cross]

More than three decades after completing grad school, Professor John Little began taking classes at Holy Cross in 2013 with students half his age. Fast forward nine years, he is still learning and now has enough credits to earn a classics degree.

https://t.co/Fq8z4lt2nl