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Official BlueSky account of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Our journal posts are presented with #JAERE and #REEP.
💡A rural electrification push that ended up protecting forests?🌳 New research in #JAERE finds that rural electrification in Brazil slowed deforestation by nudging farmers 👨🌾 away from land-intensive cattle grazing 🐄 and into more land-efficient cropping🌾 📊 #JaereTableFriday 📈 #Econsky
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Energy Efficiency Dynamics and Climate Policy" by Gregory Casey, Yang Gao and Peter K. Kruse-Andersen @kruse-andersen.bsky.social. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/3IkpEjt 📈📉 #Econsky
📢 Out now in the 🏖️July 2026 issue🏖️ of #JAERE! 📢 "Droughts and Economic Activity: Do Dams and Groundwater Mediate the Impact?" by Sheila M. Olmstead ( @sheilaolmstead.bsky.social ) and Hilary Sigman. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/7V5AFoX 📈📉 #Econsky
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "The Impact of Offshoring and Import Competition on Carbon Emissions" by Jonathan Leisner, Jakob Roland Munch @jrmunch.bsky.social, August Twile Nielsen, and Georg Schaur. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/hrWxmVT 📈📉 #Econsky
📢 Out now in the 🏖️July 2026 issue🏖️ of #JAERE! 📢 "Irrigation and Climate Change: Long-Run Adaptation and Its Externalities" by Charles A. Taylor @ctaylor463.bsky.social. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/xHvTOXB 📈📉 #Econsky
And just like that, #WCERE2026 has come to an end! 🌍🎉 📸 A wonderful week of research and connection — thank you to everyone who shared their photos! 🌲 See you in Portland, Oregon, June 9–11, 2027 for the #AERE Summer Conference! 😊 📈 #EconSky
And what a way to end the day — a beautiful sunset to close things out! 🌅 Hard to believe tomorrow is already the last day of #WCERE2026! See you bright and early! 👋😊
2026 AERE Fellows: 🌡️ Robert Mendelsohn (Yale University) for nearly five decades of work across climate impacts, nonmarket valuation, and water quality, including his landmark 1994 paper on measuring climate impacts on agriculture while accounting for adaptation
2026 AERE Fellows: 🐟 Christopher Costello (UC Santa Barbara) for research on fisheries policy, ocean governance, and regulatory design, including his influential 2008 paper on catch shares and fisheries collapse (Science, 2008)
Publication of Enduring Quality Award: 🏝️ The Simple Economics of Easter Island: A Ricardo-Malthus Model of Renewable Resource Use — James Brander & Scott Taylor (AER, 1998) 🌊 Economic Impacts of Marine Reserves: The Importance of Spatial Behavior — Marty Smith & James Wilen (JEEM, 2003)
⚡ Cloé Garnache, Øystein Hernæs ( @oysteinhernaes.bsky.social ), and Anders Imenes received the Ralph C. d'Arge and Allen V. Kneese Outstanding Publication Award for "Demand-Side Management in Fully Electrified Homes" (JAERE, 2025).
🎓 Owen Kay (@owenkay.bsky.social, University of Michigan) received the Wallace E. Oates Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award for Essays on Optimal Energy Policy — praised for its elegant theoretical contributions and original approach to longstanding questions in taxation and energy policy.
Day 4 of #WCERE2026 has come to a close! 🌍🎉 One of the highlights today was the #AERE Awards Ceremony honoring outstanding contributions to environmental and resource economics. 🏆 📈📉 #Econsky
Day 3 of #WCERE2026 is done and dusted! 🌍🎉 Another great day at NOVA SBE campus 🏖️ — from an Early Career Networking Breakfast ☕ to sessions on environmental policy, agricultural emissions, and gasoline regulation. 🌱⚡ Looking forward to the #AERE Award Session tomorrow — see you there! 🏆👋 📈📉 #Econsky
Day 2 of #WCERE2026 is a wrap! 🌍🎉 The day opened with great speeches by Prof. Pedro Oliveira, Prof. Maria Antonieta Cunha e Sá, and other committee members. The rest of the day was filled with lively economics discussions, both in the conference rooms and by the beach! 🏖️ 📈 #Econsky 📉 #AERE
Day 1 of #WCERE2026 is in the books! 🌍🎉 Registration and the welcome reception were a great start, heat and all. Tomorrow research sessions kick off 📊 — and it's about to get hotter than the heatwave outside 🥵🌡️. See you bright and early! 👋😊 📈📉 #Econsky #AERE
Eight years between World Congresses and they picked a beachfront campus in Portugal to bring us back together — no complaints. 🌊🙌 See you at the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists! Tag #AERE when you post so we can all follow along! 📣😊 🌍 #WCERE2026 📈 #Econsky
🚌⚡ Do riders actually care whether their bus is electric? New research in #JAERE ran three studies during Singapore's real-world e-bus rollout and found a resounding yes — on all three margins: satisfaction, willingness to pay, and ridership. 📊 #JaereFigureFriday 📈 #EconSky
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "From Gross to Net: Carbon Dioxide Removal in an Analytic Climate Economy" by Felix Meier, Martin Quaas, Wilfried Rickels @wrickels.bsky.social and Christian Traeger @ctraeger.bsky.social. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/agS8chR 📈📉 #Econsky
📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "The potential of Carbon Border Adjustments to foster climate cooperation" by Timothé Beaufils @timbeaufils.bsky.social, Joschka Wanner @joschkawanner.bsky.social, and Leonie Wenz @leoniewenz.bsky.social. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/wYSfTox 📈📉 #Econsky