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Jonathan Kadish was awarded a grant to study land use and transportation technologies by the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics.
NYT Editorial Board cites GPL research on ivory regulation /
The New York Times Editorial Board cited recent GPL research on the effect of ivory legalization on elephant poaching as a basis for their opinion on proposed future sales.
Credit: Ben Curtis/Associated Press
Paper: Effects of legalization on black markets /
Solomon Hsiang and Nitin Sekar have a new NBER Working Paper Does legalization reduce black market activity? Evidence from a global ivory experiment and elephant poaching data.
Publication: Potentially extreme migration and population concentration in the tropics /
Adam Sobel and Sol Hsiang have a new paper Potentially Extreme Population Displacement and Concentration in the Tropics Under Non-Extreme Warming in Scientific Reports.
Sol describes the paper on the G-FEED blog here.
Publication: Conflict in a changing climate /
Tamma and Sol, along with co-author Marshall Burke at Stanford, published a review of the climate and violence literature in a Special Topics issue of the European Physical Journal.
The review focuses on how to use empirical evidence from historical climate-conflict relationships to make projections about the future. We present new evidence suggesting that income mitigates the impact of temperature on crime and conflict, implying that future projections may be improved by incorporating income-based adaptation. Check out a more detailed blog post about the publication on the blog G-FEED here.
Kadish awarded urban economics grant /
Jonathan Kadish was awarded a 1 year grant by the Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics to study energy use in cities!
CBO cites two GPL publications in national hurricane report /
The Congressional Budget Office used calculations in Hsiang & Jina (2014) and The American Climate Prospectus to inform their recent report on Potential Increases in Hurricane Damage in the United States: Implications for the Federal Budget. See a summary of the report by Politico here.
Hurricane Katrina
DS421 summer interns join lab /
The Lab is excited to welcome three summer interns from the DS421 program: Valerie Vasquez, Matt Kling, and Ian Bolliger!
Video: Empirical climate damages at the National Academy of Science /
Michael Greenstone recently presented new results from the Climate Impact Lab at the National Academy of Sciences. This work (and the talk) follow logically from Sol's talk to the same NAS group back in November. The work Michael presented represented a major team effort that included [amazing] contributions by Tamma Carleton, James Rising, and Megan Landin here at GPL.
Climate Impact Lab web launch /
We launched the Climate Impact Lab website. The Impact Lab is a collaboration with team members at University of Chicago, Rutgers, and Rhodium Group to construct an empirically founded basis for the global social cost of carbon.
This collaboration produced the American Climate Prospectus in 2014.
see more here
Publication: Climate Econometrics /
Sol has a new review article out on Climate Econometrics, the new collection of techniques used to measure the effects of climate on societies and economies. The paper is forthcoming in the Annual Reviews of Resource Economics.
Sol summarized the paper in a blog post at G-FEED.
Carleton awarded EPA STAR Fellowship /
Tamma Carleton was awarded a 3-year Science To Achieve Results (STAR) graduate fellowship by the EPA to support her doctoral dissertation research!
Baylis to Stanford and UBC /
Patrick Baylis has accepted a post-doc at Stanford FSE and an assistant professorship at University of British Columbia Economics Department!
Temperature-growth findings listed as one of Altmetric's top 100 articles of 2015 /
Based on its global media coverage, Almetric listed Hsiang's paper Global Nonlinear Effect of Temperature on Economic Production as one the top 100 research findings of 2015. See the article's metrics here and some of its global coverage here.
Op-Ed in the LA Times: What do we actually know about conflict and climate /
In response to claims by Bernie Sanders and Prince Charles (and resulting inquiries from journalists), Marshall Burke and Solomon Hsiang published an Op-Ed in the LA Times explaining what we do and do not know about linkages between climate and social conflict.