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Jake Bradt

@jtbradt.bsky.social
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Environmental and energy economist. Assistant Professor UT Austin, McCombs. www.jacobbradt.com

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Tim Bresnahan @timobres.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Princeton Economics (short) obituary for Kate Ho, great researcher, teacher, mentor and all around right guy. economics.princeton.edu/news/honorin...
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Honoring the Life and Work of Kate Ho - Princeton University - Department of Economics
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Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
OMG. I never met her, but her work was incredibly brilliant and important. What a huge loss.
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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
📢 Out now in the 🍁November 2025 issue🍁of #JAERE! 📢 "Hotelling Meets Wright: Spatial Sorting and Measurement Error in Recreation Demand Models" by Jacob T. Bradt ( @jtbradt.bsky.social ). Read it here: buff.ly/3YiBhqQ 📈📉 #Econsky
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Matt Tarduno @tarduno.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Excited to have this WP out! We use a real-stakes survey experiment to measure misperceptions about air pollution/health impacts & test whether updating beliefs changes WTP for clean air We find large misperceptions, but not strong evidence that rectifying these would close Black-White WTP gaps
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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
“Floods are ‘acts of God,’ but flood losses are largely acts of man.” Gilbert White www.nytimes.com/2006/10/07/o...
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Gilbert F. White, 94, Expert on Floods and Nature, Dies (Published 2006)
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
The U.S. has seen a manufacturing boom since the Inflation Reduction Act, especially in the emerging Southeastern battery belt. But these projects and associated jobs are potentially at risk with proposed changes to tax credits.
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Forthcoming in the AER: "Power Flows: Transmission Lines, Allocative Efficiency, and Corporate Profits" by Catherine Hausman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Power Flows: Transmission Lines, Allocative Efficiency, and Corporate Profits
(Forthcoming Article) - Accelerated investment in electricity transmission could reduce total costs and enhance renewable integration. I document static allocative inefficiencies induced by incomplete...
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Jake Bradt @jtbradt.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Fun surprise seeing this on the @nber.org homepage as today’s featured WP!
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Industrial Organization Society @indorgsociety.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
I hope everyone is excited for #IIOC2025 at Drexel LeBow in Philadelphia starting Friday May 2! On Friday, we have the Rising Star Sessions at 5, followed by the Cocktail Party sponsored by Analysis Group. A whole lot of great sessions on Saturday and Sunday. See you there IOs!
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Always fun to step back from [waves hands around] to do a thread on new accepted research. Happy to share the release of our paper "Show me the Money! A Field Experiment on EV Charge Timing" in AEJ:Policy today. Co-authors: Megan Bailey, David Brown & Frank Wolak [thread]
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The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Colluding against Environmental Regulation," from Alé-Chilet, Chen, @jingli-econ.bsky.social and Reynaert: www.restud.com/colluding-ag... #EconSky #REStud #pollution #regulation #collusion
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JAERE @jaereaere.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
🆕 Just accepted 🆕 in JAERE: "The Distributional Consequences of Incomplete Regulation" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social) Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #EconSky 📈 📉
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Chris Adams @chrisadamsecon.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
May his memory be a blessing. #econsky obituaries.startribune.com/obituary/pat...
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Patrick L. Bajari - 2025 - Minnesota Star Tribune
Share Memories & Support the Family.
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AEA Information @aeainformation.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (@s-stantcheva.bsky.social) of @harvard.edu, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...
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Stefanie Stantcheva, Clark Medalist 2025
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Ashley Langer @alanger.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Recently the President ordered that coal generators don’t need to comply with the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard (MATS). My forthcoming JPE paper with Gautam Gowrisankaran and Wendan Zhang on uncertainty surrounding MATS, so it seems like it’s time for a thread! www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Regulatory Relief for Certain Stationary Sources to Promote American Energy
1.  Coal-fired electricity generation is essential to ensuring that our Nation's grid is reliable and that electricity is affordable for the
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 15/04/2025
Tamma Carleton, Esther Duflo, Kelsey Jack, & Guglielmo Zappalà explore the literature on two main forms of #climate adaptation (ex-post and ex-ante), outline how each can evaluate #policy, and consider how they can directly inform policy design and implementation. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Adapting to climate change – finding ways to prevent the harshest effects or deal with crises when they occur – is a first-order issue. But research on the economics of adaptation has offered little guidance for policy. This column reviews the existing literature on adaptation and considers how it can more directly inform policy design and implementation. The authors identify two distinct streams of adaptation literature, outline how each can be used to evaluate policy, highlight limitations and opportunities for public intervention in private adaptation markets, and provide guidance for future work.
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Jake Bradt @jtbradt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
This is very big deal! Removing info of both intrinsic AND instrumental value: Yang and coauthors found the GHG Reporting Program reduced emissions at regulated plants by 7%! www.nber.org/system/files...
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Jake Bradt @jtbradt.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I’m probably biased, but I’m a big fan of this paper! Fantastic evidence on a very timely subject AND a very approachable intro to estimating dynamic games. #econsky
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The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Recently accepted to @reveconstudies.bsky.social, "Industrial Policy Implementation: Empirical Evidence from China’s Shipbuilding Industry" from Barwick, Kalouptsidi and Bin Zahur: www.restud.com/industrial-p...
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Raahil Madhok @raamadhok.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Happy my JMP is (finally) coming out! The JAERE review process was wonderful and improved the paper a lot. Thank you to all who helped see this project through.
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Jake Bradt @jtbradt.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Just released an updated version of our working paper w/ Joe Aldy looking at Army Corps levees: 🏘️Protected home values ⬆️3-4% 🌊Risk transfer: nearby home values ⬇️1-5% ⚖️Racial sorting on flood risk post-construction 🏛️Appropriation process likely affects distribution of impacts Comments welcome! 👇
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Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
1/19: Seems timely to share a paper which explores how people perceive & understand trade and trade policies. Which factors shape the support for different trade policies? Thread below with the key takeaways #EconTwitter 🧵, and full paper here: socialeconomicslab.org/understandin...
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Jake Bradt @jtbradt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Excited to see this paper coming out in JAERE! The idea for this came from casual conversations very early in the PhD, so it's nice to see it find such a wonderful home! JAERE's review process was super helpful. Alternative title: "Why your recreation demand model probably needs a price instrument"
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NBER @nber.org · 26/03/2025
Half of all new US EV registrations, 2012–2023, went to the top 10 percent most Democratic counties, from Lucas W. Davis, Jing Li, and Katalin Springel www.nber.org/papers/w33591
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Alex MacKay @amackay.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy: We find that consumer product markups increased more than 25 percent from 2006 to 2019. One contribution is an approach to estimate IO-style models at scale, yielding flexible consumer preferences and estimates of marginal costs.
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Emily Grubert @gruberte.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I have consistently taught my (pretty international!) students that one reason I use US examples all the time is because we have unusually fantastic data through EIA. EIA staff are some of the most responsive in the biz. This is very stupid.
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Akshaya Jha @akshayaj.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Gordon Leslie and I are thrilled to see this paper in print. A summary in three posts: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Start-up Costs and Market Power: Lessons from the Renewable Energy Transition
(February 2025) - Firms expect to recover the fixed costs required to start production by earning positive operating profits in subsequent periods. We develop a dynamic competitive benchmark that acco...
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children*
Abstract. This paper examines the impact of denying a wanted abortion on women and children in Colombia using high-quality administrative microdata and cre
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 28/01/2025
Guys talk about getting the sign wrong on policy!!! Government R&R accounted for 1/5 of total TFP growth since wwii!!!
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Bitsy Perlman @bitsyperlman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
It's such a weird thing to hear the news and think "that's bad, but also I have a paper about (an aspect) of that" Funding delays are really not great for people who work in science. Funding delays of > 30 days lead to: - 40% increase in scientists exiting US labor force - 20% decrease in wages
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Ben Keys @benkeys.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Really enjoyed talking with @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social and @jessedjenkins.com on the insurance context of the CA wildfires and the likely struggles for insurance affordability and access going forward. Super smart questions led to a deep convo. Thanks for having me @heatmap.news SHIFT KEY!
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Jacob Gellman @jacobgellman.com · 10/01/2025
What are the economic effects of wildfire smoke? Matt Wibbenmeyer and I recently reviewed the impacts on health, mortality, labor markets, and measures of general well-being. Just published in Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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UT-Austin Economics @utaustinecon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We are thrilled to officially announce that @econsandy.bsky.social will be returning to UT-Austin as a faculty member this fall! Welcome back Professor Black!
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Jesse M. Keenan @jessemkeenan.com · 07/12/2024
See our research cited here in re climate risk in GSE portfolios. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...
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Fannie and Freddie, the Big Mortgage Backers, Face Climate Risks
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac know increasing floods and wildfires are a problem. Dealing with them, however, would require trade-offs.
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Jeva Lange 🫎 @jeva.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Do you have a climate/energy/nature/environment book coming out in 2025 that @heatmap.news readers should know about? The time for shameless self-promotion is NOW; drop that link! (And please boost — I don't want to leave anyone out!)
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Anna Papp @annapappp.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I'm on the job market! My #EconJMP examines climate adaptation inequality in labor markets (see ⬇️). This is part of my research on the effects of climate change/plastic pollution on workers & society - often with unique data & an interdisciplinary lens. Learn more: pappanna.github.io
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UT-Austin Economics @utaustinecon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
We have a great group of PhD students on the job market this year! Check them out, and contact placement director @mikegeruso.bsky.social with any questions. liberalarts.utexas.edu/economics/ph...
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College of Liberal Arts | The University of Texas at Austin
Liberal Arts at UT offers over 40 majors and many top-ranked graduate programs in the social sciences and humanities taught by 750 faculty.
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UT-Austin Economics @utaustinecon.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We've made it to Bluesky! Please re-post so others can follows us... 🤘
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Jeff Gortmaker @jeffgortmaker.com · 18/11/2024
Hey #EconSky, I'm on the job market with an #EconJMP about open source software. OSS is a global public good, widely used and provided by the private sector, but the target of recent industrial policy. Paper: jeffgortmaker.com/files/Open_S... 1/
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NBER @nber.org · 03/11/2024
Clean energy spending resulting from the Inflation Reduction Act could exceed $1 trillion, depending on political and regulatory systems, innovation, and how investment interacts with current energy networks, from Joseph E. Aldy www.nber.org/papers/w33092
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Andrew Pritchard @skydrama.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
The reason folks think we don’t need the EPA is because we have the EPA.
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Jake Bradt @jtbradt.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
This seems like a very big deal. Policy can now match the feeling on the ground that 100yr event of today is a thing of the past
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Ariel Ortiz-Bobea @arielob.bsky.social · 04/10/2024
Cornell is hiring an environmental/energy/resource economist (open-rank). Join our vibrant academic community working on the major sustainability challenges facing the world today... & have the option to make this part of your daily commute :) Plz share! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28657
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Jake Bradt @jtbradt.bsky.social · 20/09/2024
Haven’t read yet but a fascinating result with big implications for many IRA provisions…
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Energy Markets & Planning at Berkeley Lab @berkeleylabemp.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
We are on Blue Sky! The Energy Markets & Policy (EMP) department of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab seeks solutions to existing and emerging global energy challenges through objective and timely research and technical assistance. Follow us and tell your friends! Find more at emp.lbl.gov
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Home | Energy Markets & Policy
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Stephen Jarvis @stephenjarvis.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
A new RFF podcast just popped up in my feed and it’s @catiehausman.bsky.social talking about her cool paper on grid integration :) I’ve found podcasts work great alongside the papers/books I assign for students. This one will definitely be going on the reading list for one of my classes this year.
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Power Flows: Understanding the Barriers to Electricity Transmission, with Catherine Hausman
Catherine Hausman discusses the benefits of building new electricity transmission lines, the costs of not building new transmission, and why more transmission is not being built in the United States.
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Jake Bradt @jtbradt.bsky.social · 02/01/2024
A (very early) job market update: I'm thrilled to be joining UT Austin's McCombs School of Business in 2024 as an assistant professor! This came far earlier than expected, but today seemed like a fitting day to share this news 🤘 (1/3)
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
The Biden administration has proposed rules governing the hydrogen tax credit, one of the thorniest and most generous subsidies in the IRA. The new rules could do much more than shape the young industry — they could remake how the whole power grid works: heatmap.news/politics/hyd...
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Biden’s New Hydrogen Rules Are Here. They’re Way Bigger Than Hydrogen.
To qualify for lucrative tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act, would-be hydrogen producers will have to power themselves with “clean electricity” — and that’s not easy.
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Emma Rackstraw @emmarackstraw.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
(1/many) #EconSky My job market paper investigates what police propaganda and its effects can teach us about the institution of policing. t.co/5bzHCTdmR2
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When Reality TV Creates Reality: How “Copaganda” Affects Police, Communities, and Viewers
Television shows with police officer protagonists are ubiquitous on American television. Both fictional shows and reality shows portray a world where criminals
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