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Chavon Rogers
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PhD Candidate|Economics|Macro|Development|Climate Change| The Caribbean is a region with socio-economic complexities not just a vacation destination.
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📢 Out now in the 🍁November 2025 issue🍁of #JAERE! 📢
"Who Heeds the Call to Conserve in an Energy Emergency? Evidence from Smart Thermostat Data" by Dylan Brewer and Jim Crozier.
Read it here: buff.ly/rZ3z5Ca
📈📉 #Econsky
December 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Surveying econometric innovations related to differences-in-differences estimators and event-study models with time-varying treatment effects, from Alberto Abadie, Joshua Angrist, Brigham Frandsen, and Jörn-Steffen Pischke www.nber.org/papers/w34550
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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I was disappointed with several elements of The @economist.com recent articles on minimum wages. To their credit, they've published my response.

Here are some links to the research I reference and to some other research which had to be cut from the published letter

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December 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Despite what you hear from fossil fuel-funded politicians, the U.K has just generated a record amount of clean, domestic wind energy.

Enough to power 23 million homes!

U.K decarbonisation policy is a recipe for energy security.
December 9, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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📢 Out now in the 🍁November 2025 issue🍁 of #JAERE! 📢
"Temperature and Mental Health: Evidence from Helpline Calls" by Benedikt Janzen ( @benjanz.bsky.social ).
Read it here: buff.ly/I8JFR1b
📈📉 #Econsky
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Every Green Book site tells a story of surviving Jim Crow. From barbershops to restaurants to hotels to gas stations, these places made travel safer. Add your memories to the Community Map to create collective history:
greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu

#GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky
October 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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🌬️ Can wind energy projects power local job growth?
📈 A new #JAERE study finds that when a new wind farm opens in Brazil, local employment rises by 7–15%, with gains concentrated in construction, transportation, and electricity-related jobs.
📊 #JaereFigureFriday
🌎 #EconSky
September 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM