Susanna Berkouwer
@sberkouwer.bsky.social
Economics professor at Wharton (Penn) studying environment and development. NBER Fellow & Affiliate at JPAL, BREAD, IGC. PhD from Berkeley (ARE). They/them pronouns. From Holland and into biking, cheese, and being tall.
https://www.susannaberkouwer.com
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Read the VoxDev article on this by @sberkouwer.bsky.social & Joshua Dean: voxdev.org/topic/health...
September 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Read the VoxDev article on this by @sberkouwer.bsky.social & Joshua Dean: voxdev.org/topic/health...
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The latest JEP has an extraordinary set of papers on the economics of housing.
My favorite? The one showing that most people incorrectly believe that increasing housing supply won't lower housing costs.
Subsidizing home-buying is popular even though it raises costs. 🤦
www.aeaweb.org/issues/814
My favorite? The one showing that most people incorrectly believe that increasing housing supply won't lower housing costs.
Subsidizing home-buying is popular even though it raises costs. 🤦
www.aeaweb.org/issues/814
August 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The latest JEP has an extraordinary set of papers on the economics of housing.
My favorite? The one showing that most people incorrectly believe that increasing housing supply won't lower housing costs.
Subsidizing home-buying is popular even though it raises costs. 🤦
www.aeaweb.org/issues/814
My favorite? The one showing that most people incorrectly believe that increasing housing supply won't lower housing costs.
Subsidizing home-buying is popular even though it raises costs. 🤦
www.aeaweb.org/issues/814
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The thing that everyone said would happen is happening
Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
For @nbcnews.com:
www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...
Minnesota teen says server forced her to prove her gender in restaurant bathroom
The 18-year-old high school student alleged the server would not let her exit the Buffalo Wild Wings restroom until she unzipped her hoodie and showed she had breasts.
www.nbcnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The thing that everyone said would happen is happening
For a brief moment in July we put the world on pause to celebrate queer joy and love in abundance!
August 4, 2025 at 2:09 AM
For a brief moment in July we put the world on pause to celebrate queer joy and love in abundance!
I am looking for a version of this graph of global CO2 emissions by region, but projected out to 2050, for example using the @iea.org's World Energy Outlook or similar. Does anyone know if this exists?
Thanks in advance!
@ourworldindata.org
Thanks in advance!
@ourworldindata.org
January 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I am looking for a version of this graph of global CO2 emissions by region, but projected out to 2050, for example using the @iea.org's World Energy Outlook or similar. Does anyone know if this exists?
Thanks in advance!
@ourworldindata.org
Thanks in advance!
@ourworldindata.org
Wharton has not one but two environmental economists on the market this year! Benji's paper studies how the pricing of a scarce resource - water - affects housing markets in the U.S. Check out his great thread below!
🚨JMP Thread 🚨
🚰🏡Water scarcity is a global challenge, especially in the context of climate change. How do local water scarcity management policies affect housing markets, water use, and welfare? My job market paper explores these questions in the Front Range of Colorado.🧵
🚰🏡Water scarcity is a global challenge, especially in the context of climate change. How do local water scarcity management policies affect housing markets, water use, and welfare? My job market paper explores these questions in the Front Range of Colorado.🧵
November 26, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Wharton has not one but two environmental economists on the market this year! Benji's paper studies how the pricing of a scarce resource - water - affects housing markets in the U.S. Check out his great thread below!
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I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ
November 12, 2024 at 1:11 PM
I’ve made a Women in Econ starter pack (s/o @vinisingh.bsky.social for sparking the idea!). Share, follow, and comment below if you’d like to be added! go.bsky.app/LqBPkQZ
Hello #EnergySky #EconSky! I have a simple question:
How many different companies own transmission infrastructure in the U.S.?
The EIA has this handy graphic on distribution companies, and generation is similarly easy to find. Help would be great. Thanks!
How many different companies own transmission infrastructure in the U.S.?
The EIA has this handy graphic on distribution companies, and generation is similarly easy to find. Help would be great. Thanks!
November 1, 2024 at 3:32 PM
Hello #EnergySky #EconSky! I have a simple question:
How many different companies own transmission infrastructure in the U.S.?
The EIA has this handy graphic on distribution companies, and generation is similarly easy to find. Help would be great. Thanks!
How many different companies own transmission infrastructure in the U.S.?
The EIA has this handy graphic on distribution companies, and generation is similarly easy to find. Help would be great. Thanks!
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Profs Van Benthem, Lockwood, Low, Rees-Jones, Kessler and I are hiring 3 predoctoral researchers (in environmental, behavioral, and public econ) to start July 2025. Prior RAs got into Berkeley, Princeton and Brown (econ PhDs).
Rolling review:
sberkouwer.github.io/BEPPhiring.pdf
Profs Van Benthem, Lockwood, Low, Rees-Jones, Kessler and I are hiring 3 predoctoral researchers (in environmental, behavioral, and public econ) to start July 2025. Prior RAs got into Berkeley, Princeton and Brown (econ PhDs).
Rolling review:
sberkouwer.github.io/BEPPhiring.pdf
October 8, 2024 at 4:55 PM
📢Please retweet📢
Profs Van Benthem, Lockwood, Low, Rees-Jones, Kessler and I are hiring 3 predoctoral researchers (in environmental, behavioral, and public econ) to start July 2025. Prior RAs got into Berkeley, Princeton and Brown (econ PhDs).
Rolling review:
sberkouwer.github.io/BEPPhiring.pdf
Profs Van Benthem, Lockwood, Low, Rees-Jones, Kessler and I are hiring 3 predoctoral researchers (in environmental, behavioral, and public econ) to start July 2025. Prior RAs got into Berkeley, Princeton and Brown (econ PhDs).
Rolling review:
sberkouwer.github.io/BEPPhiring.pdf
Can cookstove subsidies reduce CO2 emissions?
@joshtdean.bsky.social and I wrote an overview of our research demonstrating that @BurnMfg's Jikokoa/EOCA Char stoves cut 3.5 tons of CO2 - and save $120 in fuel - per household per year.
Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/activi...
@joshtdean.bsky.social and I wrote an overview of our research demonstrating that @BurnMfg's Jikokoa/EOCA Char stoves cut 3.5 tons of CO2 - and save $120 in fuel - per household per year.
Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/activi...
January 24, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Can cookstove subsidies reduce CO2 emissions?
@joshtdean.bsky.social and I wrote an overview of our research demonstrating that @BurnMfg's Jikokoa/EOCA Char stoves cut 3.5 tons of CO2 - and save $120 in fuel - per household per year.
Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/activi...
@joshtdean.bsky.social and I wrote an overview of our research demonstrating that @BurnMfg's Jikokoa/EOCA Char stoves cut 3.5 tons of CO2 - and save $120 in fuel - per household per year.
Read more here: linkedin.com/posts/activi...
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A friend is looking for a history of structural adjustment and the backlash to African decolonization that specifically focuses on agriculture: who farmed what, how, when, and why. Ideas?
#marxsky
#marxsky
January 10, 2024 at 2:45 PM
A friend is looking for a history of structural adjustment and the backlash to African decolonization that specifically focuses on agriculture: who farmed what, how, when, and why. Ideas?
#marxsky
#marxsky
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Job market update: we have just been given the green light to hire a junior slot in Empirical IO at USC.
We will release the job ad very shortly. Please encourage your students whose primary or secondary field is empirical IO to apply.
We will also consider people a few years out from the market.
We will release the job ad very shortly. Please encourage your students whose primary or secondary field is empirical IO to apply.
We will also consider people a few years out from the market.
January 9, 2024 at 10:24 PM
Job market update: we have just been given the green light to hire a junior slot in Empirical IO at USC.
We will release the job ad very shortly. Please encourage your students whose primary or secondary field is empirical IO to apply.
We will also consider people a few years out from the market.
We will release the job ad very shortly. Please encourage your students whose primary or secondary field is empirical IO to apply.
We will also consider people a few years out from the market.
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We are opening two tenure-track positions
(please repost!)
Human Evolutionary Social Science
Computational Social Science
Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France!
Deadline Jan 31st
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
(please repost!)
Human Evolutionary Social Science
Computational Social Science
Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France!
Deadline Jan 31st
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
January 7, 2024 at 8:37 AM
We are opening two tenure-track positions
(please repost!)
Human Evolutionary Social Science
Computational Social Science
Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France!
Deadline Jan 31st
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
(please repost!)
Human Evolutionary Social Science
Computational Social Science
Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France!
Deadline Jan 31st
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
If you are ever offered an opportunity to get the Shingles vaccine, by god, take it.
January 3, 2024 at 2:56 PM
If you are ever offered an opportunity to get the Shingles vaccine, by god, take it.
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Again, if your understanding of “campus politics” focuses on powerless left wing students and not influential right wing donors, you don’t have an understanding of “campus politics”
The story at UPenn is only getting worse. Check out the list of questions that the donor spurring the resignations sent to the Board.
"While recognizing the complete academic freedom of the faculty and the freedom afforded administrators as individuals...."
www.inquirer.com/education/ma...
"While recognizing the complete academic freedom of the faculty and the freedom afforded administrators as individuals...."
www.inquirer.com/education/ma...
Penn faculty fear the donor who started the effort to oust Liz Magill is attempting to set the agend...
Marc Rowan, who co-leads Wharton’s board of advisors, is asking questions about instruction, faculty hiring, free speech, and political orientation.
www.inquirer.com
December 13, 2023 at 1:31 PM
Again, if your understanding of “campus politics” focuses on powerless left wing students and not influential right wing donors, you don’t have an understanding of “campus politics”
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December 13, 2023 at 1:37 PM
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Considering a PhD in #BehavioralScience? Want the perfect stepping stone? We’re hiring 2 full-time RAs at Wharton at the research center I co-direct with Angela Duckworth:
1) RA: bit.ly/RC-BCFG
2) RA & Comms Coordinator: bit.ly/RCC-BCFG
1) RA: bit.ly/RC-BCFG
2) RA & Comms Coordinator: bit.ly/RCC-BCFG
Research Coordinator, Behavior Change for Good, Wharton School
University Overview The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school co...
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December 6, 2023 at 12:53 AM
Considering a PhD in #BehavioralScience? Want the perfect stepping stone? We’re hiring 2 full-time RAs at Wharton at the research center I co-direct with Angela Duckworth:
1) RA: bit.ly/RC-BCFG
2) RA & Comms Coordinator: bit.ly/RCC-BCFG
1) RA: bit.ly/RC-BCFG
2) RA & Comms Coordinator: bit.ly/RCC-BCFG
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No matter how incompetent and cowardly you imagine the cops were at Uvalde, tonight's Frontline goes minute by minute to illustrate they were so much worse.
Inside the Uvalde Response
Drawing on real-time, firsthand accounts and using official bodycam and audio, FRONTLINE, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reconstruct the chaotic response to the Uvalde school shooting and examine
www.pbs.org
December 6, 2023 at 12:53 AM
No matter how incompetent and cowardly you imagine the cops were at Uvalde, tonight's Frontline goes minute by minute to illustrate they were so much worse.
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🚨📢Job Alert 🚨📢 We are looking to hire a Fellow (~postdoc) in Energy Economics and Policy to join our team of environmental economists at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
December 5, 2023 at 2:58 PM
🚨📢Job Alert 🚨📢 We are looking to hire a Fellow (~postdoc) in Energy Economics and Policy to join our team of environmental economists at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics. jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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This is a stunning detail about the Uvalde shooting from incredible reporting by The Texas Tribune and @propublica.bsky.social
www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/u...
www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/u...
December 5, 2023 at 2:49 PM
This is a stunning detail about the Uvalde shooting from incredible reporting by The Texas Tribune and @propublica.bsky.social
www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/u...
www.texastribune.org/2023/12/05/u...
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Texas won't let Kate Cox get an abortion even though her fetus has a fatal genetic anomaly and she is suffering agonizing, ongoing pain. She just sued in state court demanding the right to terminate the failed pregnancy immediately. reproductiverights.org/wp-content/u...
December 5, 2023 at 5:28 PM
Texas won't let Kate Cox get an abortion even though her fetus has a fatal genetic anomaly and she is suffering agonizing, ongoing pain. She just sued in state court demanding the right to terminate the failed pregnancy immediately. reproductiverights.org/wp-content/u...
My cousin Kees Greven is a *phenomenal* pianist and just released his first album of piano compositions on Spotify. Give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/album/4Lgvr2...
open.spotify.com/album/4Lgvr2...
December 1, 2023 at 2:54 PM
My cousin Kees Greven is a *phenomenal* pianist and just released his first album of piano compositions on Spotify. Give it a listen!
open.spotify.com/album/4Lgvr2...
open.spotify.com/album/4Lgvr2...
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+1 for The San Antonio Express News lmao
December 1, 2023 at 1:40 AM
+1 for The San Antonio Express News lmao