I predict: two years from now someone will present a paper in the EE session of the NBER summer institute that exploits Carmageddon as a natural experiment to estimate various acute effects of air pollution or some other consequence of reduced driving and congestion. Maybe someone will try to extrapolate their findings to estimate the social costs and benefits of roads.
I have far less confidence that I will receive an invitation to said meetings. Aw well...
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The other day Marshall and Sol took on Bjorn Lomborg for ignoring the benefits of curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed. But Bjorn, am...
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It's been a long haul, but my coauthor Wolfram Schlenker and I have finally published our article with the title of this blog post in th... -
The other day Marshall and Sol took on Bjorn Lomborg for ignoring the benefits of curbing greenhouse gas emissions. Indeed. But Bjorn, am...
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A couple months ago the New York Times convened a conference " Food for Tomorrow: Farm Better. Eat Better. Feed the World ." ...
Yup, we're working on it, at least from the air quality and emissions point of view. Perhaps you'd like to put a cost and benefit on it?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.airqual.cee.vt.edu
(a fellow Cal grad)