Andrew Hobbs

Climate, development, and tech, especially drought + flood resilience. Assistant Professor at @USF_Economics.

[Andrew Hobbs @hobbservation]

Check out our new paper in Nature Reviews on using satellites to manage agricultural risk! @ebenami provides a great summary here:

[Elinor Benami @ebenami]

Many folks talk about how high tech satellites can help small scale farmers in developing regions. But do they actually work? In our new paper in Nature Reviews, we synthesize how tech has, hasn’t, and can aid in ag risk management. (1/8)

[Dan Stein @DanStein_econ]

Interested in using data and evidence to create social impact? After being tentative for most of 2020 due to COVID, @IDinsight is ramping up hiring, and we have A LOT of open positions posted. Check it out and tell your friends! https://t.co/z53Xuy7C4z

[Nathan Jensen @nd_jensen]

Come work with an excellent group of researchers in the SLS- @IBLI_Africa team at @ILRI, @CGIAR. It's a great opportunity to develop impactful research agendas, work in the field, run RCTs, and collaborate with folks from many different countries & fields. https://t.co/4klYFe4IUO

[Jacob 🏳️‍🌈 @OhHeyJacob]

A whole year of waiting for the right moment. Glorious.

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

Attn econ undergrads & their profs: The Hispanic Pre-Doctoral Economics Pipeline Conference is Nov 6!

Co-hosted by @TAMU Econ & @ASHE_ASSA. Keynote address by @J_C_Suarez.

Deadline to apply: Oct 5, 5pm PT.

Please RT! #EconTwitter @econ_ra @AEACSMGEP

https://t.co/Uop5bSTKiy

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Warming stripes: each stripe represents the average global temperature of a single year, ordered from the earliest available data (1850) to now https://t.co/8q5fWZRqPo

[Lisa A. Gennetian @Gen_Pov]

Dear #poverty scholars, it is time for a reckoning. It is long overdue. #Discrimination, #structuralinequality & the lived experiences of the poor is not a tangent, it is core to "mainstream" poverty scholarship.

[Seema Jayachandran @seema_econ]

New evidence that raising the minimum wage can boost workforce productivity. That means that paying workers more need not come at the cost of fewer jobs or lower profits. Consumers win too. My column in the NYT. https://t.co/31rsQBFJLy

[Andrew Hobbs @hobbservation]

@femonomics @KhoaVuUmn Bocar Ba: https://t.co/YoAL4PcTxJ

[Andrew Hobbs @hobbservation]

@kershizzle @handstandrine Do you still have that bed?!

[Belinda Archibong @belindaarch]

After weeks of teaching on Zoom and years of research on inequality, I’ve been thinking a lot about how Zoom essentially provides windows of inequality and literally highlights unequal backgrounds of our students. This is concerning for a few reasons: 1/n

[Julian Brave NoiseCat @jnoisecat]

This is big: Biden would rescind Keystone XL's cross-border permit, effectively killing the pipeline.

I know cynicism has a certain allure, but with the right inside-outside strategy, a Biden administration might even pleasantly surprise the naysayers.

[Elizabeth Wathuti , O.G.W 🇰🇪 @lizwathuti]

At least 237 Kenyans have now lost their lives due to the ongoing floods in Kenya, and another 161,000 families displaced since the onset of the heavy rains.

So sad. Signs that we are already in a new and more dangerous environmental era! We are not acting fast enough!

[Nathan Newman 🧭 @nathansnewman]

SHOTS FIRED

Biden - with coauthor Elizabeth Warren - sends warning to every Trump official to expect to be indicted for any corruption.

https://t.co/OnYN796P4Z

[Charlotte E. Rosen @CharlotteERosen]

retweet if you were previously going to write a bad dissertation but now, due the pandemic, have reconsidered and will be now be "buckling down" to write an "outstanding" one

[Dr. Trevon D Logan @TrevonDLogan]

Just so you know— around 70% of meat packing employees are black or Hispanic. Nearly 50% are immigrants. 15% lack health insurance. Forcing them to work in a pandemic has nothing to do with a “free market” but everything to do with ruthlessness and disregard for human life.

[Andrew Hobbs @hobbservation]

I graduated college into the Great Recession, applied to dozens of jobs, and got zero (0) interviews. Did a masters and it led to an interesting job, great friends, and lots of knowledge. Not right for everyone, but definitely worth considering imo.

[William A. Masters @wamasters]

Grad school this fall?

As job & promotion prospects evaporate, grad school should look a lot more attractive. Application deadlines have been extended.

Time for a thread.
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[Andrew Hobbs @hobbservation]

I'm very excited to share that I'll be starting this fall as an assistant professor at @USF_Economics @usfca. Looking forward to working with @peterlorentzen, @Cassar_Ale, @jesseXjesse, @BruceWydick, and the amazing students from @IDEC_usfca and the MS Applied Economics Program.

[University of San Francisco Economics Department @USF_Economics]

Climate change is one of the most important economic phenomena. Very pleased we were able to hire @hobbservation to join us as a tenure-track faculty member starting this fall!