Energy and Environment
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Yellen discusses Russian sanctions at SIEPR Economic Summit
From the policy front line: Treasury secretary addresses invasion of Ukraine
March 04, 2022
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Op-Ed: Work life will never be the same. We need some in-person days and some remote
"The pandemic is the biggest shock to American working life since the shift to military production during WWII," writes SIEPR's Nick Bloom for The Los Angeles Times.
February 08, 2022
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As carbon removal gains traction, economists imagine a new market to save the planet
As the issue of climate change becomes more pressing and the lack of real political progress grows more apparent, research by SIEPR's Susan Athey is paving the way for change.
January 11, 2022
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CBO director meets with SIEPR scholars, students
CBO director meets with SIEPR scholars, students
November 12, 2021
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Climate inaction costlier than net zero transition: Reuters poll
A recent Reuters poll of climate economists shows that hitting the Paris Agreement goal of net-zero carbon emissions will require sizable investments in a green transition.
October 25, 2021
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Enter third-wave economics
Research by SIEPR's Susan Athey and Nicholas Bloom is cited in "The Economist": Has the pandemic has given economists a new lease of life?
October 23, 2021
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Jonathan Levin to advise Biden
Jonathan Levin has been tapped to join the White House advisory panel on science and technology.
September 30, 2021
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Dangerous air: As California burns, America breathes toxic smoke
Emerging research by SIEPR's Marshall Burke unveils a broad threat to human health posed by wildfires and toxic smoke: “There's no magic threshold under which we're OK." [...]
September 28, 2021
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Policy Forum: Contrasting economic policy in California and Texas
SIEPR’s fall Policy Forum went beyond the rhetoric of the rivalry between the Golden and Lone Star states to provide a closer examination and lively discussion.
September 27, 2021
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As more Californians head to Texas, how do the states really stack up?
As the debate about California-to-Texas migration pits low-cost, anti-regulation Texas against higher-income, socially liberal California, San Francisco Chronicle cites [...]
September 24, 2021
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‘It’s a reality’: Biden calls for urgency in California as climate crisis fuels wildfires
“All evidence suggests a business as usual scenario where we don’t rapidly scale up our efforts to get fuels out of the forest, we’re going to see a lot more extreme wildfire[...]"
September 13, 2021
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A new breed of crisis: War and warming collide in Afghanistan
As unrest puts some of the world's most vulnerable to the test, Marshall Burke discusses how #climatechange acts as “a finger on the scale that makes underlying conflict worse.”
August 30, 2021
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People and Climate: Navigating a Two-Way Street
Knowledge on the impact of climate change on our lives is growing each day. SIEPR's Charles Kolstad discusses the variables entering estimates of climate damage [...]
August 12, 2021
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July's extreme weather events highlight climate's long shadow
2021's record-setting summer of heatwaves, drought, wildfires, floods and hurricanes is forcing many to confront the realities of clime change [...]
July 18, 2021
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SIEPR seeks Director of Partnerships
SIEPR's new Director of Partnerships will play an instrumental role in working with external groups and organizations to engage our community of faculty, visitors, students [...]
May 20, 2021
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Economists: A US carbon tax would be progressive
Lawrence Goulder addresses environmental justice concerns and makes the that "a carbon tax is inherently progressive, narrowing the income gap between rich and poor households."
April 28, 2021
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Why federal regulation is not the answer
SIEPR Senior Fellow Frank Wolak contends there are ways for Texas to improve its power system without abandoning its underlying market structure.
March 09, 2021
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Algorithmic approaches for assessing pollution reduction policies can reveal shifts in environmental protection of minority communities, according to Stanford researchers
Daniel Ho and his colleagues at Stanford's RegLab show how the use of machine learning could benefit a U.S. EPA initiative to reduce violations of the Clean Water Act.
March 08, 2021
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'It's a black eye for Texas': Power outages hinder state's image as business utopia
"If Texas is already straining, think about all the strain on the horizon," SIEPR Director Mark Duggan says.
February 20, 2021
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Study: Wildfires produced up to half of pollution in US West
In this news story on his research on the cost of wildfires, SIEPR’s Marshall Burke describes how catastrophic fires are visible outcomes of climate change.
January 11, 2021