Nathaniel Hendren

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What are the most effective ways to fight climate change? What are the returns to subsidies for wind and solar? What about EV subsidies or energy efficient appliance rebates? How about raising revenue through fuel taxes or cap and trade auctions?

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It's not that hard to find simple prompts that help learn as opposed to create slop:

There are many thoughtful critiques of this line of work. This is not one of them. Sad to see @margrev engage in this. Only upside is that the post clearly illustrates the need to have humans in the loop in social science...at least for now :)

So excited about this book! Also fun to teach the QJE version to my undergrads (who would have liked all the stories!)

OK, a personal @DAcemogluMIT story. Little known fact: Daron was my advisor. Surprising perhaps because I do public economics (I may be his only empirical PF student?). He shaped my understanding of how to do economics.