Economist, Prof at Columbia University.
Chief Economist: Centre for Net Zero (Octopus Energy Group).
Co-editor: Journal of Public Economics.
1st gen, 🏴
https://www.rmetcalfe.net/
Robert "Bob" Melancton Metcalfe is an American engineer and entrepreneur who contributed to the development of the internet in the 1970s. He co-invented Ethernet, co-founded 3Com, and formulated Metcalfe's law, which describes the effect of a telecommunications network. Metcalfe has also made several predictions which failed to come to pass, including forecasting the demise of the internet during the 1990s. .. more
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JMP: "The Economic Incidence of Schedule Unpredictability in Hourly Work"
Website: hannahfarkas.github.io
Interests: Environmental Econ, Labor Econ
(She exploits weather and minimum wage variations.)
JMP: Does Greater Policy Intensity Improve Policy
effectiveness? Evidence from Seoul, South Korea
Website: sites.google.com/view/hayeonj...
Interests: Environmental Econ, Behavioral Econ
Reposted by Christian Odendahl
JMP: "The Economic Incidence of Schedule Unpredictability in Hourly Work"
Website: hannahfarkas.github.io
Interests: Environmental Econ, Labor Econ
We have two exceptional scholars on this year’s AP market — both bring awesome and policy-relevant research agendas to the market.
www.sipa.columbia.edu/sipa-educati...
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It has been an incredibly enriching experience to immerse myself in this thriving academic community — and the kind, curious, and passionate researchers at SIPA made it easy to enjoy every day of my research stay.
Reposted by Paul Lehmann, Robert Metcalfe
"42% reduction in household electricity demand during peak hours, with 100% of this demand shifted to low-cost, low-emission off-peak periods."
Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Robert Metcalfe, Stuart Shapiro
CNZ ran the world’s largest AI-managed EV charging trial with 13,000 UK households. Check out the results 👇
Summary & working paper 🔗 www.centrefornetzero.org/papers/ai-in...
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New paper from Perez-Truglia, Li & Cullen
www.restud.com/whats-my-emp...:
#econsky
#REStud
Reposted by Robert Metcalfe, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
CNZ ran the world’s largest AI-managed EV charging trial with 13,000 UK households. Check out the results 👇
Summary & working paper 🔗 www.centrefornetzero.org/papers/ai-in...
Reposted by Robert Metcalfe
"Frictions in recovering unclaimed property: Evidence from a large-scale natural field experiment"
By Alejandro Zentner & Justin Holz
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
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🖊️ CNZ’s Chief Economist @rmetcalfe.bsky.social wrote to @economist.com about the root causes of high UK energy prices
👇 Check out this week’s print edition or see link in 🧵
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Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Robert Metcalfe, Clark Gray
"Climate and migration in the United States"
By @patrickbaylis.bsky.social, Prashant Bharadwaj, Jamie T. Mullins, & Nick Obradovich
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
Reposted by Robert Metcalfe, Valerie Mueller
"Women leaders improve environmental outcomes: Evidence from crop fires in India"
By Maulik Jagnani & Meera Mahadevan
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
Reposted by Caroline Krafft, Jesse Rothstein, Robert Metcalfe , and 10 more Caroline Krafft, Jesse Rothstein, Robert Metcalfe, Joshua Goodman, Valerie Mueller, Miles Corak, Kathleen J. Mullen, Lauren Hersch Nicholas, Dominique Meurs, Scott A. Imberman, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Martin Kreidl, Simon Wiederhold
mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...
Reposted by James M. Bullock, Robert Metcalfe, Barrett , and 1 more James M. Bullock, Robert Metcalfe, Barrett, Jesper Wulff
![CRISPR as a microbial immune system
In 2003, Mojica wrote the first paper suggesting that CRISPR was an innate microbial immune system. The paper was rejected by a series of high-profile journals, including Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Microbiology and Nucleic Acids Research, before finally being accepted by Journal of Molecular Evolution in February, 2005.[3][4]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73aicoale2mqwrap63rdzwep/bafkreibu3dburfn527r3sbu2ov6y7gebv6zopaznagnfytjtsn6y4k7cs4@jpeg)
Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Juan Cole, Robert Metcalfe , and 1 more Brendan Nyhan, Juan Cole, Robert Metcalfe, Francesco Nicoli
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Someone has to beat the two-time champion @proflivingston.bsky.social
Signup here: fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto...
League Code: vl9rhl
@hhsievertsen.bsky.social @danielepaserman.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social
Reposted by Robert Metcalfe
"Intergenerational mobility in socio-emotional skills"
By Orazio P. Attanasio, @paulaaureo.bsky.social, & Alessandro Toppeta
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
@ucleconomics.bsky.social @uclpolicylab.bsky.social
@sofi.su.se
Reposted by Aaron Sojourner
Reposted by Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Egypt , and 5 more Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Egypt, Robert Metcalfe, Michael Kevane, Robert Wolfe, Erica L. Groshen, Glen O’Hara
Reposted by Stephen M. Walt, Kim L. Scheppele, Richard S.J. Tol , and 21 more Stephen M. Walt, Kim L. Scheppele, Richard S.J. Tol, Colin F. Camerer, Rosemary A. Joyce, Martin Gaynor, Brazil, Robert Metcalfe, Joshua Goodman, Shelly Lundberg, Iikka Korhonen, Robert C. Richards, David R. Miller, Jacob T. Levy, Scott A. Imberman, Amy W. Ando, Todd Pugatch, Dean Eckles, W Grant, Augustine, Simon Lester, Kimberly A. Clausing, Antonio Fatás, Stuart Shapiro
But E.J. Antoni is completely unqualified to be BLS Commissioner. He is an extreme partisan and does not have any relevant expertise.
He would be a break from decades of nonpartisan technocrats.
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Someone has to beat the two-time champion @proflivingston.bsky.social
Signup here: fantasy.premierleague.com/leagues/auto...
League Code: vl9rhl
@hhsievertsen.bsky.social @danielepaserman.bsky.social @johnlist.bsky.social
Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Robert Metcalfe, Paul Nightingale
archive.ph/AFWfc#select...
Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Caroline Krafft, Robert Metcalfe
"The impact of economic opportunity on criminal behavior: Evidence from the fracking boom"
By @brittanystreet.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics
Different welfare measures tell different stories—and lead to different policy conclusions depending on temperature.
The findings might sound intuitive, but they challenge some widely held views that heat pumps and heat flexibility become less useful in cold snaps.
