R. Daniel (Danny) Bressler
@rdbressler.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics @BentleyU | Formerly Climate Staff Economist @WhiteHouseCEA, PhD @Columbia @SipaSusDev
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Heat disproportionately kills young people: Evidence from wet-bulb temperature in Mexico
Analysis of temperature exposure and microdata finds the majority of heat-related deaths are among people under 35 years old.
www.science.org
🚨"Heat disproportionally kills young people: Evidence from Wet-Bulb Temperature Exposure" My new paper co-lead with @ajsw.info is out today!
Using 20 years of nationwide mortality microdata + wet-bulb temperature, we uncovered fascinating new findings. Thread 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Using 20 years of nationwide mortality microdata + wet-bulb temperature, we uncovered fascinating new findings. Thread 👇
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Apparently this marks the end of a 13 year blogging hiatus. www.paulkelleher.net/blog/2025/12... @madisoncondon.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social
@lissaharris.bsky.social @lpeblog.bsky.social
@lissaharris.bsky.social @lpeblog.bsky.social
Coase, Invariance, and LPE – PK’s blog
www.paulkelleher.net
December 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Apparently this marks the end of a 13 year blogging hiatus. www.paulkelleher.net/blog/2025/12... @madisoncondon.bsky.social @alybatt.bsky.social
@lissaharris.bsky.social @lpeblog.bsky.social
@lissaharris.bsky.social @lpeblog.bsky.social
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This is a fascinating paper. It's the first (afaik) to actually document food&drink&retail scheduling unpredictability using actual firm data.
It illustrates v clearly why unpredictable scheduling makes these jobs so difficult:
It illustrates v clearly why unpredictable scheduling makes these jobs so difficult:
Check out Hannah awesome JMP on job schedule unpredictability and how minimum wage policy affects such unpredictability: hannahfarkas.github.io/files/The_Ec...
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 PM
This is a fascinating paper. It's the first (afaik) to actually document food&drink&retail scheduling unpredictability using actual firm data.
It illustrates v clearly why unpredictable scheduling makes these jobs so difficult:
It illustrates v clearly why unpredictable scheduling makes these jobs so difficult:
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Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year.
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
November 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Hi! I’m Mary and I’m on the #EconJobMarket this year.
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
Extreme heat doesn’t just affect students, it affects the people teaching them.
JMP 🧵:
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Analysis based on work by @rdbressler.bsky.social on the mortality consequences of climate change, including our co-authored paper on country-level climate damages
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Analysis based on work by @rdbressler.bsky.social on the mortality consequences of climate change, including our co-authored paper on country-level climate damages
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Here's a few things I learned digging into electricity affordability and decarbonization in Connecticut 🧵
November 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Here's a few things I learned digging into electricity affordability and decarbonization in Connecticut 🧵
Really well-done article by @fastlerner.bsky.social that estimated temperature-related mortality impacts from recent climate rollbacks, drawing in part on my 2021 Nature Comms paper and my job market paper (bsky.app/profile/rdbr...). Check it out!
NEW: How will Trump's climate rollbacks play out in the future?
Our analysis using modeled emissions and a peer reviewed metric shows the people most likely to die from the resulting additional GHGs will be in poor countries least prepared to cope with the heat
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Our analysis using modeled emissions and a peer reviewed metric shows the people most likely to die from the resulting additional GHGs will be in poor countries least prepared to cope with the heat
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump’s Anti-Green Agenda Could Lead to 1.3 Million More Climate Deaths. The Poorest Countries Will Be Impacted Most.
Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
www.propublica.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Really well-done article by @fastlerner.bsky.social that estimated temperature-related mortality impacts from recent climate rollbacks, drawing in part on my 2021 Nature Comms paper and my job market paper (bsky.app/profile/rdbr...). Check it out!
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Should the carbon price be the same across countries and sectors?
Four kinds of imperfections call for differentiated carbon prices:
1. Different growth rates
2. Market power in trade
3. The presence of country- or sector-specific distorsive taxes
4. A constraint preventing cross-country transfers
Four kinds of imperfections call for differentiated carbon prices:
1. Different growth rates
2. Market power in trade
3. The presence of country- or sector-specific distorsive taxes
4. A constraint preventing cross-country transfers
September 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Should the carbon price be the same across countries and sectors?
Four kinds of imperfections call for differentiated carbon prices:
1. Different growth rates
2. Market power in trade
3. The presence of country- or sector-specific distorsive taxes
4. A constraint preventing cross-country transfers
Four kinds of imperfections call for differentiated carbon prices:
1. Different growth rates
2. Market power in trade
3. The presence of country- or sector-specific distorsive taxes
4. A constraint preventing cross-country transfers
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A lot of Americans like to blame the Reagan Administration for the rise of market power and oligopoly in the US. But markups have been rising globally (except in South America) since 1980. Seems likely that other causes were at play:
drive.google.com/file/d/1W7A9...
drive.google.com/file/d/1W7A9...
DLE_global.pdf
drive.google.com
August 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A lot of Americans like to blame the Reagan Administration for the rise of market power and oligopoly in the US. But markups have been rising globally (except in South America) since 1980. Seems likely that other causes were at play:
drive.google.com/file/d/1W7A9...
drive.google.com/file/d/1W7A9...
We build on the small literature on this topic, e.g., the pioneering work of John Broome www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... wwnorton.com/books/climat... to discuss where population ethics issues will show up in benefit-cost analysis, and to explore what analysts might do to address them.
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
June 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We build on the small literature on this topic, e.g., the pioneering work of John Broome www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... wwnorton.com/books/climat... to discuss where population ethics issues will show up in benefit-cost analysis, and to explore what analysts might do to address them.
The paper doesn't have all the answers. Our goal is to identify and discuss major issues in this new frontier of regulatory benefit-cost analysis.
June 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The paper doesn't have all the answers. Our goal is to identify and discuss major issues in this new frontier of regulatory benefit-cost analysis.
We show that, as benefit-cost analysis is increasingly used to assess phenomena that impact life and death many years in the future, such as climate change, making choices around how to deal with critical population ethics issues becomes unavoidable.
June 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
We show that, as benefit-cost analysis is increasingly used to assess phenomena that impact life and death many years in the future, such as climate change, making choices around how to deal with critical population ethics issues becomes unavoidable.
Population ethics poses a number of difficult questions that have been largely ignored in the practice of regulatory benefit-cost analysis.
June 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Population ethics poses a number of difficult questions that have been largely ignored in the practice of regulatory benefit-cost analysis.
🚨New Paper🚨
Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics"
My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics"
My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics
Policies subject to BCA sometimes prevent premature deaths. If survivors would later have children, those policies not only prevent deaths; they cause…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
🚨New Paper🚨
Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics"
My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Valuing statistical absences? Why benefit-cost analysis cannot avoid population ethics"
My new paper with regulatory legal scholar extraordinaire Andy Stawasz is out in Ecological Economics!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We had an all-star group of job market candidates this year and an all-star job market coordinator @rmetcalfe.bsky.social . Great set of placements in a really tough year. Proud to be a part of this group!
Thrilled to share the fantastic placements of our eight Sustainable Development PhD job market candidates this year!
Anna Papp – Postdoc: MIT Econ | AP: UCSB Bren
Danny Bressler – AP: Bentley Econ
Gabriel Gonzalez Suntil – Economist: Amazon
Isabella Smythe – ML Engineer: Rhizome
Anna Papp – Postdoc: MIT Econ | AP: UCSB Bren
Danny Bressler – AP: Bentley Econ
Gabriel Gonzalez Suntil – Economist: Amazon
Isabella Smythe – ML Engineer: Rhizome
May 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
We had an all-star group of job market candidates this year and an all-star job market coordinator @rmetcalfe.bsky.social . Great set of placements in a really tough year. Proud to be a part of this group!
"The uncertainty that is baked into this crisis is all the more reason to take urgent and decisive action to address it."
Remember how Y2K was going to lead to blackouts, bank runs and worse?
Well, it didn't. We had a deadline. We invested somewhere from $300 to $500 billion(!), and things turned out fine.
Climate change has no Y2K deadline. That's what makes it even harder to deal with
www.salon.com/2025/05/01/c...
Well, it didn't. We had a deadline. We invested somewhere from $300 to $500 billion(!), and things turned out fine.
Climate change has no Y2K deadline. That's what makes it even harder to deal with
www.salon.com/2025/05/01/c...
Chaos is the essence of climate change
The next climate disaster is sure to come. When and where is the question
www.salon.com
May 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"The uncertainty that is baked into this crisis is all the more reason to take urgent and decisive action to address it."
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NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Carbon majors and the scientific case for climate liability - Nature
A transparent and reproducible scientific framework is introduced to formalize how trillions in economic losses are attributable to the extreme heat caused by emissions from fossil fuel companies, whi...
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
NEW: Fossil fuel firms like Chevron and Exxon owe the world trillions of dollars. Today in @nature.com, @jsmankin.bsky.social and I show economic losses from rising heat waves directly traceable to these firms, providing scientific support for climate accountability.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thank you, Jake!
April 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Thank you, Jake!
Yes! Let me know when you’re in town!
April 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Yes! Let me know when you’re in town!
Haha deal! Sounds intriguing…
April 23, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Haha deal! Sounds intriguing…
Thank you, Manuel!
April 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Thank you, Manuel!
Yes! My new department head!
April 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Yes! My new department head!
Thank you, Fran!
April 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Thank you, Fran!
Job Market Done ✅ I'm thrilled to announce that I will be an Assistant Professor in Economics at Bentley University this fall.
I'm excited to join a great group of colleagues and to move back to Boston!
I'm excited to join a great group of colleagues and to move back to Boston!
April 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Job Market Done ✅ I'm thrilled to announce that I will be an Assistant Professor in Economics at Bentley University this fall.
I'm excited to join a great group of colleagues and to move back to Boston!
I'm excited to join a great group of colleagues and to move back to Boston!
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New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
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Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start!
Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall).
Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768
Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!
Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall).
Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768
Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!
March 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start!
Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall).
Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768
Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!
Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall).
Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768
Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!