keep thinking about my student last year from asheville who read that investors were buying up property there in expectation of it becoming a climate migration destination and she wrote her final paper about how that doesn't seem quite right given its flood risk history and maps like this one
Natural hazards exacerbated by climate change pose serious risks to property markets in the United States. Ignoring these risks could create instability in housing values. This research shows the magn...
Painful irony w/Helene's colossal damage in Asheville: the city recently placed #3 on a list of US cities most likely to experience "climate migration". Asheville summers are cool by Southeastern standards, and annual avg precip (~36") is low for the region. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...
Migration due to climate change may land Asheville a lot of new residents in coming years according to a sustainable real estate expert.
I've been looking at cover letters / job packets for a bunch of econ PhD folks going on the job market, esp those interested in liberal arts colleges. Love it! I realize, though, that I believe so strongly in one piece of advice that I want to shout it from this particular rooftop: Use mail merge.
I was feeling a bit agitated this week but a workshop in southern France can fix your mood real quick
Banger of an AER issue! Vultures! Cars! Electricity! Sanitation! Equity! Corruption! Environment good! Energy important! #EconSky#EnergySkywww.aeaweb.org/issues/778
Americans can order Covid tests from the government again, at no cost, starting today —> covidtests.gov
I’m staying at a hotel for a workshop and whoever is in the room next to me needs a CPAP machine desperately. It’s 4:45 am and my walls are shaking.
Posting for a demographer at the assistant or early associate professor level: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...
The always-great Economic Demography Workshop is accepting submissions for their 2025 conference:
Giving smallholder farmers access to warrantage (storing their crops and, when they choose so, using that as a collateral to obtain credit) helps them invest more in human and farm capital. Sharing our recent experimental evidence from Burkina Faso #econsky
Warrantage is an innovative model of rural finance which improves access to credit and crop storage. In Burkina Faso, warrantage increased farmers’ sales revenues, which they spent on education, healt...