Elaine M. Liu, Professor of Economics and Data Science at the University of Houston, visited the NCID to give a seminar entitled "Externalities of Marijuana Legalization: Marijuana Use in Non-Legalizing States".
...
Elaine M. Liu, a Professor of Economics at University of Houston, visited the NCID to give as seminar entitled "Externalities of Marijuana Legalization: Marijuana Use in Non-Legalizing States".
The paper reveals that social media connections can impact marijuana use in states where it remains illegal. Researchers used data on Facebook friendships to investigate whether connections to states where recreational marijuana is legalized affect marijuana consumption in non-legal states.
The findings indicate that areas with more conn...
Ryan Kellogg, a Professor at University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, visited the NCID to give as seminar entitled "The End of Oil".
His paper predicts that global demand for crude oil will fall to near zero by the end of this century, driven by a combination of improvements in clean energy technologies and the adoption of increasingly stringent climate policies.
It analyzes what implications this decline in demand would have for global oil supply. One cause for concern is the well-known “green parado...