A Serious Environmental Economics Conference at ASU
These are exciting days to work on environmental economics. Now that my son is a teenager, I'm feeling less guilt about attending more conferences. On a recent trip to China, I attended 3 conferences in 4 days and this weekend I participated in an environmental economics conference at ASU.
The Westwood Mormon Temple Adapts to Drought
I live close to a major Mormon Temple in Westwood Los Angeles. Take a look at the photo below.
The temple has ripped out its grass and is planting low water intensive plants. According to Google, this has been a major new item.
Lost in Translation?
In their 2006 JPE media paper, Gentzkow and Shapiro begin their piece by contrasting how the New York Times and Al Jazeera report on the same foreign policy event. I experienced something like this today because "The Conversation" just published a piece I wrote.
My New China Piece Published in The Conversation
I will leave it to my readers to decide if my new piece for The Conversation delivers academic rigor and journalist flair or whether it really represents journalist rigor with academic flair.
A Return to Blogging
My mother worries when I stop blogging for a while but I must admit that I haven't had anything to say. Here is a recent 6 minute video of me discussing my 2016 China book. The China Daily wrote an unusual piece about our book today.
Pro-Basketball Player Demand for the New Urban Lifestyle
Fifteen years ago, Amazon's Pat Bajari and I started to work together on an urban economics paper studying household choice of housing type (i.e number or rooms, building year built) and neighborhood within major metropolitan areas.
Slightly Imperfect Foresight
Back in 2005, I wrote down the names of 22 economists who I thought would win a Nobel Prize soon. Nine on the list have now won. My list must beat a random dart throw at the AEA's phone book? For the technical discussion of the 2016 winners' work read this.
The NY Times Reviews Biographies of Jane Jacobs and Richard Posner
Here is the Jane Jacobs biography review. Here is the Judge Posner book review. The Jacobs biography traces a "David vs.
Applied Climate Economics
Daniel Wilson of the Fed of San Fran has written a high quality panel paper available here.
A New Book Review of my 2008 Social Capital Book
Carl F. Robinson has just posted a thoughtful review of my 2008 Heroes and Cowards book (joint with Dora Costa).
Measuring Declining Trust in the Urban Police Using 911 Call Dynamics
Two sociologists have written an interesting Opinion Piece in today's NY Times. They provide an overview of their new event study paper. They argue that minority 911 calls declined sharply in the aftermath of the 2004 beating of Frank Jude.
