Measuring Scholarly Diversity in Environmental Economics, with Neha Khanna and Nick Kuminoff

Published: Jan. 23, 2023, midnight

b'In this week\\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with researchers Neha Khanna and Nick Kuminoff about the diversity of scholars in the field of environmental and resource economics. Khanna is a professor of economics at Binghamton University, and Kuminoff is an associate professor of economics at Arizona State University. Khanna and Kuminoff discuss the gender equity of authorship in environmental economics journals, equity in tenure-track academic jobs, how diversity in a research field contributes to the advancement of scientific knowledge, the state of the community of environmental economists, and prospects for early-career scholars.\\n\\nReferences and recommendations:\\n\\n\\u201cNew Evidence on Diversity in Environmental and Resource Economics\\u201d by Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Katherine E. Ciaramello, Hanna M. Dooley, Martin D. Heintzelman, Neha Khanna, Lea-Rachel Kosnik, Lynne Y. Lewis, and Eric Trimble; https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/722907\\n\\n\\u201cDon\\u2019t Look Up\\u201d film; https://www.netflix.com/title/81252357\\n\\n\\u201cIs Climate Change like Diabetes or an Asteroid?\\u201d by Ted Nordhaus; https://thebreakthrough.org/articles/is-climate-change-like-diabetes\\n\\n\\u201cThe Three-Body Problem\\u201d in the trilogy of novels called \\u201cRemembrance of Earth\\u2019s Past\\u201d by Liu Cixin; https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780765382030/thethreebodyproblem'