Upcoming talks
3 December 2025
"Balancing Climate and Industrial Objectives when Pricing Dirty Upstream Goods"
Columbia Sustainable Development
Past talks
5 November 2025
"The Economic Incidence of Schedule Unpredictability in Hourly Work"
Columbia Sustainable Development
1 October 2025
"Does Greater Policy Intensity Improve Policy Effectiveness? Evidence from Seoul, South Korea"
Columbia Sustainable Development
3 September 2025
Internal meeting
2 April 2025
"LLMs for RCT Implementation: Building on Lessons from ORUS"
OpenResearch
5 March 2025
"Bitcoin Bites: Ambient Pollution and Labor Market Outcomes in Pennsylvania"
Douglas Almond and Junho Choi (jointly with Anna Papp)
Columbia University
6 November 2024
"Climate Variability and Labor Allocation: Evidence from Mexican Small-scale Fisheries"
University of Delaware
4 December 2024
"Unintended Environment and Health Consequences of Distortionary Fertilizer Subsidies"
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2 October 2024
"Institutions and Global Crop Yields"
Harvard Kennedy School
4 September 2024
"Chronic and Acute Water Pollution from Animal Feeding Operations"
University of Chicago
7 August 2024
No meeting
3 July 2024
No meeting
5 June 2024
No meeting
1 May 2024
Mini Practice Job Talks
Anna Papp, Marguerite Obolensky
Columbia University
3 April 2024
Mini Practice Job Talks
Nicolas Longuet Marx, Tristan Du Puy
Columbia University
6 March 2024
"Ocean Pollution and Transboundary Impacts on Fisheries and Human Health"
National University of Singapore
7 February 2024
"Loss and Damage Today" (+ whaling simulator)
University of Delaware
3 January 2024
No meeting
6 December 2023
"Outsourcing Wildlife Conservation: A Comparative Analysis of Private and Government Management of Protected Areas in Africa"
World Bank
1 November 2023
Practice Job Market Talk - "Complementarities in Labor Supply"
Columbia University
4 October 2023
Practice Job Market Talk - "Active Calculation of the Financial Consequences of Health Outcomes Improves Preventive Decisions"
Columbia University | UCLA
6 September 2023
Practice Job Market Talk - "Behavioural Spillovers Unpacked"
London School of Economics
2 August 2023
"Dodging Day Zero: Drought, Adaptation, and Inequality in Cape Town"
UC Santa Barbara
5 July 2023
No meeting
7 June 2023
"Global Coordination Challenges in the Transition to Clean Technology: Lessons from Automotive Innovation"
London School of Economics
3 May 2023
"Pollution for Growth? Unintended Consequences of the US-China Trade War"
Columbia University
5 April 2023
Sustainable Development PhD Student Talks
1 March 2023
“The Social Costs of Locust Outbreaks”
University of British Columbia
1 February 2023
“The Social Cost of Carbon”
Sol Hsiang, Tamma Carleton, and James Rising
4 January 2023
No meeting
7 December 2022
“Rain Follows the Forest: Land Use Policy, Climate Change, and Adaptation”
Columbia University
2 November 2022
“The Impact of the Tropical Cyclone Climate on Mortality in the United States”
Princeton University
5 October 2022
“Remotely-Sensed Market Activity as a High-Frequency Economic Indicator in Developing Countries”
Stockholm University
7 September 2022
“Microbiological Lessons for Economic Organization”
University of San Francisco
3 August 2022
“Estimating Flood Damages with the National Water Model”
King’s College London
6 July 2022
No meeting
1 June 2022
No meeting
4 May 2022
“Natural Disasters and Consumer Behavior”
Washington & Lee
2 April 2022
No meeting
2 March 2022
10–15 min. short talks
Emilio Dal Re (Zurich)
Eugene Tan (SDEV)
Florian Grosset (SDEV)
Tristan du Puy (SDEV)
2 February 2022
“The Economic Costs of Climate Change From Ecosystem Disruptions: Evidence From Forest Defoliation Outbreaks in the United States”
University of Chicago
5 January 2022
“Reversing Local Extinctions: The Economic Impacts of Reintroducing Wolves in North America”
Toulouse School of Economics
1 December 2021
“Innovation vs. Lobbying: Firms' Strategic Responses to the Threat of Regulation”
Andy Hultgren (post-doc)
University of Chicago
3 November 2021
“Cicadian Rhythm: Insecticides, Infant Health and Long-term Outcomes”
Charles Taylor (PhD cand.)
Columbia University
6 October 2021
“Atmospheric opacity has a nonlinear effect on global crop yields”
Jonathan Proctor (post-doc)
Harvard University
1 September 2021
“The Future of Coffee”
University of Delaware
4 August 2021
No meeting
7 July 2021
“Irrigation and the spatial patterns of structural transformation in India”
Tel Aviv University
2 June 2021
“The effects of aggressive policing on infant health: Evidence from Stop, Question, and Frisk in New York City”
University of Oregon
5 May 2021
“Direct estimates of heterogeneity by origin in the pollution–health response function”
Andrew Wilson (PhD cand.)
Columbia University
Jaecheol Lee (PhD cand.)
UC Berkeley
7 April 2021
“Flood in the Desert: Flood Variability Effects on Infant Mortality in the Inner Niger Delta in Mali”
New York University
3 March 2021
“The impacts of highway expansion on food prices in China”
Xiamen University
3 February 2021
“The global water footprint of distortionary agricultural policy”
University of California, Santa Barbara
6 January 2021
“Global evidence for ultraviolet radiation decreasing COVID-19 growth rates”
University of California, Santa Barbara
2 December 2020
“The Negative Externality of Prescriptions on Antibiotic Effectiveness”
Sandra Baquié (PhD cand.)
Columbia University
11 November 2020
“Machine Learning with Pre-Satellite Satellite Imagery”
Stockholm University
Hannah Druckenmiller (PhD cand.)
UC Berkeley