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Paul Drye Mar 25, 2024

"Portrait of a Dead Witch" is a painting by John Yeadon. It shows WITCH, previously known as the Harwell Dekatron computer, which currently holds the record as the world's oldest functioning digital computer -- the witch having "got better", as they say.

The computer itself is in The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, while the painting is in private hands, hung on the wall of the Jam Street Café in Manchester (209 Upper Chorlton Road, if you'd like a look).

#RetroComputing #AERE

prabirkc Jan 4, 2023

From @vis_taraz
"How does #ClimateChange affect #education outcomes in the long-run? Co-author Maggie Liu will present "Climate Change and Intensification Effects: Evidence from Human Capital in India" (with Yogita Shamdasani) in an #AERE session at #ASSA2023
We find that higher temperatures reduce educational attainments in India; these effects are intensified over longer time periods; effects are concentrated in rural areas & are more pronounced for females"
#MastIndia
#DevEcon #EnvironEcon

Marit Kragt (she/her)Dec 20, 2022

Interesting new paper by Nicolai Kuminoff, Katherine Ciaramello et al. "New Evidence on #Diversity in Environmental and Resource Economics".
They show that women carry a heavier load in the #AERE society but author a lower % of publications in #JAERE.
There is plenty of evidence that women face higher barriers to publishing. Thus, using publications as evidence of merit enshrines inequity in the system.
#GenderEquity #WomenInEconomics @envecon

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722907

New Evidence on Diversity in Environmental and Resource Economics | Review of Environmental Economics and Policy

Abstract We describe new data on diversity within the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE), with a focus on association membership and publication in the association’s flagship journal, the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (JAERE). We use these data to provide an update on the status of women in AERE and to extend the scope of diversity measures to describe the professional position, employer, alma mater, degree year, and degree country of JAERE authors. We find that AERE’s female membership share was approximately 29 percent in 2020. Compared with membership, women served in AERE leadership roles at higher rates and accounted for a smaller share of JAERE authors. In terms of international diversity, 72 percent of JAERE authors were employed in the United States, 78 percent of authors with PhDs earned their degrees from US schools, and 15 percent of authors obtained undergraduate degrees from schools outside the United States, Canada, and the European Union. We also show that 25 percent of JAERE authors were affiliated with 10 employers and 40 percent of authors obtained their highest degrees from 10 schools.

Review of Environmental Economics and Policy