[Reading Group IP week 4] Last week, we discussed the 2025 article by D. Bartleme, A. Costinot, D. Donaldson, A. Rodríguez Clare, “The Textbook Case for Industrial Policy: Theory Meets Data.” They study the optimal design of industrial policy (sectoral subsidies) and trade policies, in the presence of external economies of scale, and quantify the welfare gains 1/5
🌬️ Pollution Update for Kolkata
PM2.5 levels are at 35.05 µg/m³ today, surpassing the WHO daily standard of 15 µg/m³. Stay informed @ruozisong@abehrer@adla_amaresh
Check our website for more information: https://t.co/Gawbo1rDkF
🌎 PhD students: apply to 2025 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental/Energy Economics! 🔗
Info + application link below 👇
🗓️Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley
w @auffhammer, @BorensteinS, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack, ...
Thanks to the @WorldBank Development Impact Blog for posting my JMP!
@YunyuShu (@Brown_Economics) studies how information shapes adaptation under input vs output subsidies in the context of shaded cocoa in Ghana 🇬🇭.
More insights here 👇
https://t.co/8KG3OS7Hfi
Are you applying to Econ PhDs? Join me and @Jeff_Weaver_ to learn more about our program at @USC_Econ! Life in LA is indeed great, and our department is thriving in all fields! Zoom link below 👇
📝Submit papers to new research project on Energy Markets, Decarbonization, and Trade! Submission deadline 10/16.
🔗https://t.co/dRrYVR0wfn
Excited to organize w Natalia Ramondo. @SloanFoundation, @nberpubs generously supporting. Final conference Mar 20-21, 2025.
Pls r/t.
Are you a grad student attending the EEA conference? Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the job market! The panel will feature:
✨ Ana Espinola-Arredondo (@Ana_Espinola)
✨ Isla Globus-Harris (@DrGlobusHarris)
✨ Ruozi Song (@RuoziSong)
✨ Nilesh Shinde (@nilesh_nshinde)
🚨🚨 Are you a female-identified or non-binary environmental economist working on Data, Information, and the environment broadly defined?
@andrealanauze and I are organizing a workshop for you!
When: Sep 30-Oct1 2024
Where: @warwickecon@cage_warwick
Details 👇
Congratulations to @rajatkochhar
for releasing this coauthored paper. Rajat was my student at @USC_Econ. On Friday, I will hear him present his work with @RuoziSong at a NBER conference. #proud
https://t.co/iimDBynjCL
The World Bank's Development Research Group (DECRG)'s JOE ad is now up. We are recruiting on the junior market again this year: https://t.co/BvLmzslJD1
Esther Duflo and I are delighted to put our @MITEcon PhD. Micro Development Economics course, 14.771, online @MITOCW. All videos, syllabi, and lecture notes are free and open for all, including for use in your own classes.
https://t.co/C222hV6Ffx