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🎉 Exciting news! We're bringing all AERE journal updates together in one place—right here at @AereOrg! 🥳 👉 Follow us for all things AERE, and 🔍 use #REEP or #JAERE to find journal-specific posts. 💬 Questions or feedback? Share your thoughts: buff.ly/cYtIGRz

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Shock Avoidance: High Bill Alert Programs and Energy Consumption" by Grant D. Jacobsen and James I. Stewart. 🖇️ Read it here: buff.ly/rgELclV

📉 The program didn't just lower average use; households most at risk of bill shock were precisely the ones who responded most. 💰 Whether private benefits exceed program costs depends critically on whether conserved energy was wasteful or valuable.

⚡ Are High Bill Alerts (HBAs) just more digital clutter, or can a simple email change how we use energy? A new #JAERE study finds that HBA programs reduce electricity 🔌 and natural gas 🔥 consumption by ~0.5% — and savings persist even after alerts stop. 📊 #JaereFigureFriday

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Public Economic Benefits of Agricultural Conservation: Evidence from Housing Markets" by Wei Zhang, Yanggu Li, and Pengfei Liu. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/FAefXbJ

📢 Out now in the 🌸May 2026 issue🌸 of #JAERE! 📢 "Regulatory Compliance in the Automobile Industry" by Bing Guo, Sarah Parlane and Lisa Ryan (@LryanEnergy). 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/dve9o9Z

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Droughts and economic activity: Do dams and groundwater mediate the impact?" by Sheila M. Olmstead (@SheilaOlmstead3) and Hilary Sigman. Read it here: buff.ly/sU3FGAi

🦫 Non-hydroelectric dams fully offset drought's economic harm during moderate-to-severe events, while accessible groundwater aquifers add another layer of protection. 🏞️ Better yet: upstream dams cause no drought-resilience spillovers downstream.

🌵 Droughts hurt local economies, but water infrastructure fights back. New #JAERE research shows that moderate-or-worse droughts reduce nighttime luminosity by ~2%, suggesting ~0.6% GDP decline, yet the right water infrastructure can offset the damage. 💪 📊 #JaereTableFriday

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "The Effects of Competition in the Retail Gasoline Industry" by Reid Taylor and Erich Muehlegger (@ErichMuehlegger). 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/r4MREgG

📢 Out now in the 🌸May 2026 issue🌸of #JAERE! 📢 "Comprehensive National Accounting for CO2 Emissions" by Geir B. Asheim and Rintaro Yamaguchi (@RintaroYamaguc5). 📎Read it here: buff.ly/yxLOMbO

📢 AERE@OSWEET returns this Friday, May 8th, at 11am PST / 2pm EST! Join us for three fantastic talks on the economics of climate change by: ✨Rimjhim Saxena (Geneva) @rimjhimster ✨Moumita Das (UC Santa Cruz) ✨Yuetong Zhang (UNC) Register here: buff.ly/9CMVXTA

💧 Water: Bolivia water access & data center siting 🌲 Forests: Deforestation, grain reserves & insecticide resistance 🧠 Behavioral: Energy labels, panic buying & social norms 💨 Pollution: Electricity subsidies, plastic waste trade & drought emissions

🌿 Heading to the EEA Annual Conference (May 6–9, La Romana, Dominican Republic)? Don't miss the four sessions organized by #AERE! ramapo.edu/eea/ See you in La Romana! #EEA2026

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Risky (Natural) Assets: Stochasticity, Nonconvexity, and the Value of Natural Capital" by Joshua K. Abbott, Eli P. Fenichel (@EliFenichel) and Seong D. Yun. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/Tx7F2po

📢 Out now in the 🌸May 2026 issue🌸of #JAERE! 📢 "The Social Cost of Fiscal Federalism and the Depletion of China’s Native Forests" by Haoyu Wang, Gregory S. Amacher, and Jintao Xu. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/pHRVrHe

📢 What’s current in #REEP? 📢 "Causal Inference for Biodiversity Conservation" by Kathy Baylis, Alberto Garcia, and Robert Heilmayr (@econ_servation). 📎Read this article here: buff.ly/zKIaAat

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Are we doing more harm than good? Using hypothetical bias reduction techniques in consequential decision settings" by Vasudha Chopra (@EconChopra) and Christian A. Vossler. 🖇️ Read it here: buff.ly/8ACWBax

When tested in a real-payment setting 💸, all three tools misfired: 🔺 Solemn oath increased WTP by 30%+ 📊 Certainty adjustments distorted demand downward ⚧️ Cheap talk created a WTP gap between men and women 🛠️ Screen for consequentiality beliefs first!

Are we accidentally "fixing" survey data that isn't broken? 📉 New research in #JAERE shows that standard hypothetical bias reduction techniques can backfire when respondents already perceive their choices as consequential 🔄. 📊 #JaereTableFriday

📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Random Forests for Benefit Transfer" by Robert J. Johnston and Klaus Moeltner. 📎Read it here: buff.ly/N2NMG8r