🚨New paper🚨 Effects of “Buy American”: Electric Vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act Summary: IRA EV credits probably benefit US, not home run Paper joseph-s-shapiro.com/research/EVT...nytimes.com/2024/10/07/b... w/ HuntAllcott, ReignerKane, maxmaydanchik, FelixTintelnot
Which rivers and wetlands does the Clean Water Act regulate? Depends who's in White House and on Supreme Court. New in Science (my first research article there!) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... we use machine learning to predict what Clean Water Act protects. With star econ/CS/enviro coauthors
A machine learning model improves estimates of the extent of protection by the US Clean Water Act and the effects of deregulation.
Why? 🤔Earmarks, and Safe Drinking Water Act investments, target drinking water systems serving large, dense populations; low-income and minority populations are more common in cities.🌇
w @davidkeiserecon.bsky.social@brantjwalker.bsky.social 📊For example, US communities with higher poverty rates🏘️💵 receive more drinking water earmarks; also more subsidized loans through the Safe Drinking Water Act 🛠️
🚨New Paper Alert!🚨 US drinking water earmarks target low-income, Black, Hispanic communities.🌊 Important b/c earmarks are criticized for targeting wealthy/politically connected communities. 💧 Drinking water important esp. due to Flint MI. www.nber.org/papers/w3205...
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
🚨Seeking pre-doctoral research fellow in environmental economics (summer/fall 2024) 🚨 👉 tinyurl.com/cvjzufsk 🌎Research pollution, trade, water, labor, climate, machine learning, energy, health... 💡Predoc community with mentoring/training ✳️Please r/t, apply! (first ever bluesky post here!)