Vanshika Fotedar
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Energy/ Urban Economist, Emerging clean electricity x urban regulations, Phd @USC_Econ
Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2011
airport lounge worship is for dorks who are bad at timing. the optimal airport experience is walking directly from security onto the plane.
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Very proud of our @USC_Econ students on the job market this year. A short thread. https://t.co/ZPs7GrJGGz
dornsife.usc.edu
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Kickstarted #USC PhD-WiE events for the year with our mentors, Marianne and @mmorl89! Shoutout to @econcaroline for making this possible 🙌🏻 @USC_Econ 1/3
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It's wild that we think it's normal for urban planners to arbitrarily decide how many parking spaces every moth breeding business must have.
What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?
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LACEA's Urban Econ Network LAUrban is back with a call for papers for its 3rd Annual Meeting, now in Mexico City on Dec 5-6, 2024. the Keynote Speakers will be Paulina Oliva (@USC_Econ) and Matthew Turner (@BrownUniversity), organized with @Banxico as our local partner.
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We're thrilled to present our new paper, “A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change,” at the NBER Summer Institute this morning at 9am ET. Catch it on a live stream on YouTube (Environmental & Energy): https://t.co/2Ntd1WmfzZ [1/3]
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I left America for 3 years and traveled to every corner of the globe. Stayed on every continent. Visited my 60th country. I seriously contemplated living abroad long-term, but eventually the decision became clear: I would move back to the USA. The reason was simple: As an
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16 years to the day where I had the idea for this paper while I was watching the first game of Euro 2008 and having a few beers. Should have been studying in grad school instead.
#EURO2024 starts today. That's bad news for students whose high-stakes tests overlap with the tournament. @RDMetcalfe documents a negative effect of international tournaments (World Cup and EURO) on exam performance. The odds of reaching the achievement benchmark fall by 12%.
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Congratulations to Max Auffhammer on being named a 2024 AERE Fellow. Colleagues praise his pathbreaking scholarship, relevance for environmental economics, always giving back, and fostering a culture welcoming to those new/underrepresented in the field! @auffhammer @NatureAtCal
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When cheap parking can be found at home and at work, don’t be surprised if the highway in between is also a parking lot. #ParkingTips
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🚨We are still looking for French-speaking RAs for research projects in the DR Congo focusing on state capacity and development. Apply and come work with us! Predoc: https://t.co/fDeo91ivIO Research Associate: https://t.co/yWnPMaeql5 Research Intern:
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You are at the beach and want a beer. Local ordinances allow for only one beer vendor on the beach. Turns out, a lot of beach goers also want a beer. The line is long. The price was $20 a beer but seeing the long line, the beer vendor raises the price to $25 a beer. People
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An environmental group successfully blocked the last miles of a nearly complete 102 mile transmission line that would connect 160 renewable sites to the Midwest. Brutal.
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***Warning - long rant on struggles of being an immigrant with a "weak" passport*** With my new job, I switched statuses in the US from being a student to a worker - new visa & visa category - I need a new visa stamp for which I need to return to home country...
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amazing how much a community thrives, as soon as you take the cars away 🤷♀️
We *LOVE* it we streets are turned into PARKS! @CicLAvia @SMSpoke #CicLAvia #OpenStreets #StreetsForAll #StreetsForPeople #StreetsIntoParks
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Hometown @CicLAvia on Venice Boulevard. We are traffic. Today anyway. Wish this much energy went into making biking safe and pleasurable every day in LA.
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Being located in LA, not only do we generate large positive externalities from fostering a community of incredibly smart women, we get to have THE best tacos while doing that!
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A HUGE shout out to @USC_Econ, @econcaroline for their support for this event, and also to @taneja_saloni and Madison Sievers for stellar organisation! Watch this space for so much more to come 🎈
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