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Lab Seminar - Fishery subsidy in a limited-entry fishery of China

by Xiurou Wu
February 09, 2021

Fishery Economics

Kaiwen Wang shared his research on impact of subsidy programs. Subsidy programs are highly controversial in fishery management today. In China, a fuel subsidy program aimed in support of domestic fishing vessels starting from 2006 plays a crucial role in fishery production and vessel management ...

Lab Tutorial - Julia crash course

by Xiurou Wu
January 26, 2021

Mark Agerton gave an introduction to programming in Julia, which is a relatively new language for scientific computing. Mark walked us through three examples in Julia: estimation of a binary logit model, a discrete time nonrenewable resource model, and a random coefficient multinomial logit model...

Lab Seminar - Efficient avoidance of tipping points

by Xiurou Wu
January 12, 2021

Climate Change

Pierce Donovan presented his research on carbon pricing and emissions planning. The increased likelihood of breaching several potential climate tipping points is directly attributable to anthropogenic activity. Beyond these temperature and carbon-based thresholds ...

Lab Preprint - Spatial allocation of scarce vaccine and antivirals for COVID-19

by Xiurou Wu
December 23, 2020

COVID-19

François M. Castonguay and James N. Sanchirico, and coauthors, have a preprint on COVID-19 vaccine and antivirals allocation. Much of the discussion around pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 has focused on what segments of the population to prioritize for vaccines. Questions on how to allocate a vaccine across jurisdictions within a country and how to allocate other pharmaceutical interventions, such as antiviral drugs have received much less attention ...

Date of Bd-driven amphibian decline (DoD) in Costa Rica and Panama.

Lab Media - Joakim Weill interviewed for an Anthropocene article about research on amphibian collapse and malaria outbreaks

by Xiurou Wu
December 23, 2020

Joakim Weill was interviewed for an Anthropocene article and "Study ties amphibian collapses with increased malaria outbreaks" about the recent research with Michael Springborn on amphibian die-offs and human malarial infections.

Mill entry has potential to impact the amount of carbon stored on a forested landscape by decreasing rotation rates in regions close to the new mill.

Lab Seminar - Vicious or Virtuous: Estimating the effect of wood product demand shifts on U.S. forest carbon storage

by Xiurou Wu
December 19, 2020

Forestry Economics

Emily McGlynn updated her work on forest carbon storage. Following on her critique her critique of Aguilar et al. (2020), she describe her own proposed research to identify the effect of shifts in wood product demand on the amount of carbon stored in forests...

Junjun shows the spatial distribution of fishing effort of foreign vessels near Indonesia's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) after the moratorium.

Lab Seminar - The Spillover Effect of Indonesia’s Moratorium Policies against Foreign Illegal Fishing

by Xiurou Wu
December 11, 2020

Fishery Economics

Junjun Dong presented her work on fishing moratorium. Foreign illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing poses a major risk to food security, economic livelihood and fishery sustainability in Indonesia. As the world’s leading producer of tuna and the second largest producer of marine wild

Lab Seminar - Tax avoidance of vehicle registration in Mexico City

by Xiurou Wu
December 04, 2020

Environmental Economics

Pedro Liedo Orozco presented his work about environmental tax evasion. Environmental taxation is used to correct externalities and collect revenue. However, when agents game the system the results are ...

Lab Seminar - Antibiotic use in Chile's salmon aquaculture industry

by Xiurou Wu
November 21, 2020

Fishery Economics

Thomas Anderson presented his research about antibiotic use in Chile's salmon aquaculture industry. Chile is the world's second largest producer of salmon, accounting for 25% of global supplies. But the industry relies heavily on antibiotics to control outbreaks of infectious disease ...

An Enviva mill in Virginia manufactures wood pellets to export to Europe. A similar facility proposed in North Carolina was under scrutiny.

Lab Seminar - Identifying the impacts of wood pellet mills on forest carbon

by Xiurou Wu
November 13, 2020

Forestry Economics

Emily McGlynn talked about challenges in identifying the effects of new wood pellet demand on forest carbon. She discussed a recently published paper ...