Environmental Economics
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Category: navel gazing
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More cuts er…non-renewals for the EPA Board of Scientific Counselors: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt continues to clean house at a key advisory committee, signaling plans to drop several dozen current members of the Board of Scientific Counselors (BOSC), according to an email yesterday from a senior agency official. All board members…
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From the inbox: I just read your article in REEP with the survey of environmental economists. I look forward to using it in my class next term – I usually start class off with a survey of the students, and it will be fun now to compare their answers to those of the profession. Thanks…
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Jonathan Rees: Earlier this year, word broke that the University of California system secretly established a way by which it could monitor and read faculty emails. It defies belief that the UC system is the only one to do so. As is the case with any employer these days, your college or university can read…
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Here are the daily page views at env-econ.net using Typepad data. The cubic trend line (the cubic fits best) and 300 day forecast is in orange (I don't feel comfortable forecasting beyond 300 days). Outliers have not been removed.
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… that I'm a very famous sports economist*: This study shows that fans and people living in the region of 28 Football Bundesliga teams from all three divisions are willing to support their team financially. Survey respondents were asked for their willingness-to-pay to avoid a negative outcome (e.g., relegation) and to achieve a positive outcome…
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Matt Kahn (currently ranked #6 in the 1993 cohort … not bad but it wouldn't get you into the College Football Playoff): REPEC's performance metrics turn everyone in the profession into a single scalar value. Here is the current ranking of the world's class of 1993. I am eagerly waiting for my retroactive Restud Tour…
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