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Fight Entropy: Disasters and religiosity
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The Global Environment and Economic Development. Has a new version of her working paper on disasters (mostly earthquakes) and religiosity:. Acts of God: Religiosity and Natural Disasters Across Subnational World Districts. Religiosity affects everything from fertility and labor force participation to health. But why are some societies more religious than others? Posted by Jesse Anttila-Hughes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sustainable Development at Columbia. Follow Fight Entropy by Email. Plot pol...
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"2% per degree Celsius . . . the magic number for how worker productivity responds to warm/hot temperatures" - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science. Laquo; Uri Simonsohn is speaking at Columbia tomorrow (Mon). More studies on the economic effects of climate change. 8220;2% per degree Celsius . . . the magic number for how worker productivity responds to warm/hot temperatures”. On 17 September 2012, 9:29 am. Solomon Hsiang shares some bad news:. Persistently reduced labor productivity may be one of the largest economic impacts of anthropogenic climate change. . . . In my 2010 PNAS paper.
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Fight Entropy: Weekend Links
http://www.fight-entropy.com/2015/04/weekend-links_17.html
The Global Environment and Economic Development. 1) Why does rabies still kill 60,000 people a year? 3) A "modularity" explanation of the Cambrian explosion. 4) Endogenous stratification on treatment. 5) Rainfall risk and religious membership. 6) International Space Station captures images of super-typhoon Maysak. 7) Chrome now has a Google Scholar Button add-in. 8) "If [Planet Labs] can get between 150 and 200 Doves in orbit, it will be able to take a daily snapshot of the entire planet.". Standard erro...
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Fight Entropy: Data-driven causal inference
http://www.fight-entropy.com/2015/04/data-driven-causal-inference.html
The Global Environment and Economic Development. Distinguishing cause from effect using observational data: methods and benchmarks. From the arxiv.org blog. There's been a lot of research in stats on "causal discovery" techniques, and the paper in essence is running a horse race between Additive-Noise Methods and Information Geometric Causal Inference, with ANM winning out. Some nice overview slides providing background are here. Posted by Jesse Anttila-Hughes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). A new m...
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Fight Entropy: On giving a great applied talk
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The Global Environment and Economic Development. On giving a great applied talk. Jesse Shapiro* has some excellent slides. On giving a good applied micro talk that are both specific enough to be of use for students prepping job market talks, as well as general enough to simply provide good fodder for thinking about how one presents one's work to any audience. I highly recommend them. (via Kyle Meng. Yet another Stuyvesant High School graduate. Posted by Jesse Anttila-Hughes. Follow Fight Entropy by Email.
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Fight Entropy: Social welfare
http://www.fight-entropy.com/2015/04/social-welfare.html
The Global Environment and Economic Development. Meanwhile, in excellent ways to end an abstract:. The policy] would also generate a significant welfare gain from the ex-ante standpoint of a newborn under the veil of ignorance.". The original paper is here. Posted by Jesse Anttila-Hughes. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Is an Assistant Professor of Applied Econometrics at the University of San Francisco. Is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Fight Entropy: Weekend Links
http://www.fight-entropy.com/2015/04/weekend-links.html
The Global Environment and Economic Development. 1) The Elements of Data Analytic Style. Pay-as-you-like pdf, via Eyal. 2) Kerry Emmanuel on what we currently know about how tropical cyclones will be affected by climate change. 3) CO2 emissions from shipping lanes, among other point sources. 4) Great ocean temperatures visualization from Los Alamos National Labs. 5) Why you should take notes by hand. 6) Andrew Gelman's ideal seminar speaker March Madness ends this week. Student essays due April 14th.
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Fight Entropy: Weekend Links
http://www.fight-entropy.com/2015/07/weekend-links.html
The Global Environment and Economic Development. 1) Quantifying renewable groundwater stress with GRACE. 2) Dummies for Dummies. 3) Freedmens' Bureau data were released in full online this past (150th anniversary) Juneteenth. 4) Dani Rodrik: "Is the Nation State the Enemy of Global Equality? 5) On critiquing models. 6) Visualizing different forcings on global average temperature since 1880 (via Anthony Leboisittier. 7) Recent developments in tidal power generation. Posted by Jesse Anttila-Hughes. Standar...
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Fight Entropy: Ecotourism and poverty
http://www.fight-entropy.com/2014/03/ecotourism-and-poverty.html
The Global Environment and Economic Development. This is a hard problem to answer well, but its certainly an interesting question. Quantifying causal mechanisms to determine how protected areas affect poverty through changes in ecosystem services and infrastructure. Paul J. Ferraroa and Merlin M. Hanauer. Posted by Solomon Hsiang. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Is an Assistant Professor of Applied Econometrics at the University of San Francisco. Sustainable Development at Columbia. When evidence doe...
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Fight Entropy: Complexity and rent-seeking in the non-productive industry
http://www.fight-entropy.com/2010/11/returns-to-complexity-in-parasitic.html
The Global Environment and Economic Development. Complexity and rent-seeking in the non-productive industry. The New Yorker has an Annals of Economics article this week on finance's role in the American economy titled " What good is Wall Street? I'm glad that the concept of financial work as a fundamentally rent-seeking activity is getting more mainstream. I'd be happier if this were running in USA Today instead of The New Yorker, but still. I know several people who would probably love to post-doc there.
