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Krugman (Working From Home and Realizing What Matters): First things first: The reduction in commuting time is a seriously big deal. Before the pandemic, the average American adult spent about 0.28 hours per day, or more than 100 hours a year, on work-related travel. (Since not all adults are employed, the number for workers was…
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We started blogging again this year and it has been fun. I've managed to keep up with my quantity expections (quality is an issue) … until I took two trips in April. I've found that I can't do everything anymore. Actually, I can't do hardly anything anymore, it seems, but keep up with my classes.…
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This is the first in-person SBCA conference since 2019 following a cancelled 2020 conference and online conferences in 2021 and 2022. I organized two sessions on environmental nonmarket valuation and, in my opinion, they turned out great. The sessions were put together following a "call for papers" on Twitter. Five guys were interested and with…
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From the inbox: The SSRN Processing Team has added the following comment to your submission, Count Data Models and the Problem of Zeros in Recreation Demand Analysis (Abstract ID 3559768): This submission has been removed from SSRN at the request of Wiley-Blackwell, copyright holder of the work. The publisher will allow authors to submit a…
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Peter Coy on the ASSA meetings (How the Coachella of Economics Can Survive Covid) (emphasis added): The annual three-day meeting is the Coachella of economics. It’s a be-in and a teach-in. In place of music, art and other earthly delights, there are PowerPoint presentations featuring innovations in econometrics. Nobel laureates rub shoulders with future ones.…
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There are 70 papers in 14 regular sessions, 17 papers in 4 graduate student sessions and the (first ever) AERE keynote session. The keynote speaker is AERE immediate past president Laura Taylor. She will present "Reflections on the Credibility Revolution in Nonmarket Valuation". Here is the link to all of the sessions: https://www.southerneconomic.org/current-year-program/?conferenceId=5&organizationId=2 We had…
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There are 17 sessions with 5 papers each (no discussants), 3 student sessions (with discussants, organized by Elaine Frey) and 1 panel discussion (the last session so attendance will be lower than our usual "tips" session): Tips for Students and Newish Economists Moderator: Elaine F. Frey, California State University, Long Beach Panelists: Jill L. Caviglia-Harris,…
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From NBC.com: This community voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump. But now his immigration changes are killing its livelihood — legendary crabs that are a mainstay of the local economy and a regional delicacy. For decades, Hoopers Island, known for its crabbing industry, has relied on a federal seasonal work program — known as H-2B visas…
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From the website: The Department of Economics and the Center for Economic Research & Policy Analysis at Appalachian State University will hold the 2018 Appalachian Experimental and Environmental Economics Workshop on April 27-28, 2018 at the BRAHM in Blowing Rock NC. This workshop is part of a regular series of workshops hosted by Appalachian State that brings together…
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The Southern Economic Association Annual Meetings will be held November 18-20, 2018 in Washington, D.C.: https://www.southerneconomic.org/conference/ Submit your abstract for presentation in an AERE session at the 2018 SEA here: http://www.mymeetingsavvy.com/aere-sea/login.aspx You will be asked to enter relevant author information and upload a pdf document with your paper's title, author names and an abstract of…
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