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Noah Zucker
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Assistant professor at Princeton • PhD Columbia • political economy, climate change • www.noahzucker.com
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3. How can governments compensate for lost expertise? Outsource! With rich procurement data, we show that private sector demand is a strong predictor of EPA demand for (environmental) consulting services. We illustrate a "de facto privatization" of climate governance.
Plot showing that rate of EPA procurement of consultants has grown faster than that for other agencies, mirroring growth in private sector demand for climate expertise.
December 10, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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Using data on the near universe of U.S. online job postings, we document two stark trends:

1. Private sector demand for skilled climate experts is way up over the last few years.

2. The private sector wage premium for climate experts has rapidly grown.
Left plot shows dramatic growth in firm job postings targeting climate experts over last 4 years or so. Right plot shows that private sector wage premium for climate experts has rapidly grown and converged with the premium apparent in other areas (~20%).
December 10, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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🚨 New working paper with @calvin-thrall.bsky.social + Simran Singh 🚨

Private sector demand for climate expertise is skyrocketing. Firms now compete with the government to hire top climate experts. How does this competition affect the state's capacity for climate governance? doi.org/10.31219/osf...
Title: Greener Pastures? A Labor Market Theory of Climate Governance By: Simran Singh, Calvin Thrall, and Noah Zucker Abstract: Climate governance requires access to climate experts: individuals with specialized knowledge of decarbonization and climate science. Here we model climate governance as the function of a competition between the state and private sector for a scarce pool of climate experts. Governments seek experts to develop and implement climate policies. Firms seek experts to affect policy choice, skirt enforcement, and measure climate risks to commercial interests. As firm interest in climate grows, the government’s ability to attract experts declines, making it more reliant on the private sector for climate governance. To support this argument, we measure private sector demand for experts with unique data on U.S. job postings, paired with administrative data on government bureaucrats and procurement. Our findings offer a novel labor-based account of climate politics, contributing to the study of labor markets in political science, the sources of bureaucratic expertise, and the net effects of corporate social responsibility.
December 10, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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I'm on the committee for this year's APSA Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award. Please send in nominations of excellent science/tech/environmental politics dissertations (including your own!) by March 1st!
Email nominations to Elizabeth Shanahan (Montana State), Noah Zucker (LSE), Matto Mildenberger (UC Santa Barbara)
February 3, 2024 at 1:26 PM
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Such a great choice:
Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin.
October 9, 2023 at 10:09 AM
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🚨 I highly recommend this workshop for anyone working on IR and race. Submit your abstract here by January 22nd! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Call for proposals for Workshop on Race and International Relations at the University of Notre Dame.
September 7, 2023 at 7:12 PM