http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/ Recent content on Mathias Weidinger Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/post/2026-03-19-deleting-temporary-files-from-memory/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/post/2026-03-19-deleting-temporary-files-from-memory/ The contents of this post fall squarely within the category of things I’d forget if I didn’t write them down. Recently I found myself in a bit of a pickle. I was computing 144 months worth of exposure to pollution from coal-fired power plants for every single 10 square-km pixel over land in India. This can be done rather painlessly in R using the sf (simple features) and terra packages. Still, with the amounts of data being processed, storage and RAM can run low. http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/contact/ Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/contact/ I’d love to hear from you. You can send me an email at mathias.weidinger@gmail.com or book a meeting if you prefer an in-person conversation. I’m always looking for interesting chats. Let’s brainstorm new ideas, challenge our assumptions, or scope the potential for collaboration over a cup of tea or coffee. I check my inbox and reply to emails 1-2 times a day, but sometimes life gets in the way. Please follow up if I haven’t replied within a couple of days. http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/post/2022-11-01-introducing-wbqueryr/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/post/2022-11-01-introducing-wbqueryr/ Let me set the scene. You find yourself studying graduate economics and are tasked to compile as much household expenditure data from low- and middle-income countries - or LMICs - as you can possibly muster.1 You think you are smart and immediately navigate to the World Bank’s Microdata Library to search, find, and download household expenditure data on countries from Algeria to Zimbabwe.2 Not long into your quest, however, you start to get side-tracked. http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/post/2021-12-13-directories-org/directories/ Mon, 20 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/post/2021-12-13-directories-org/directories/ Remember the times when, as a kid, you were only allowed to go out to play if you had cleared up the chaos in your room first? While we might not have appreciated our parents’ persistence on the matter all too much back then (I sure did not), I think most people would agree - once they’re adults, that is - that it helped them with building good habits. http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/about/ Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/about/ he/him they/them -- I am a first-year doctoral student at the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute and a member of St Edmund Hall. Before starting my DPhil (which is Oxford-speak for PhD), I worked as a Research Assistant in Climate Compatible Growth at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, where I remain an associate researcher. I hold additional affiliations with Oxford Net Zero and the Institute of New Economic Thinking at the Oxord Martin School. http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/teaching/ Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/teaching/ Graduate Teaching Assistant Spring 2022: Statistics 2 (Postgraduate: MSc ETH STP) core module for MSc Science, Technology, and Policy difference-in-difference methods, instrumental variable estimation, regression discontinuity designs, and randomized controlled trials Spring 2021: Version Control: Git for Economists (Postgraduate: Dual Career PhD) version control with git introduction to the terminal (unix shell) Spring 2021: Single Source Publishing (Postgraduate: Dual Career PhD) http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/research/ Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/research/ Abstract Access to finance remains a major constraint for many firms despite the potential of Sub-Saharan Africa's clean energy sector to the drive the continent's energy transition and access goals. This paper investigates the key factors influencing the bankability of clean energy projects in Ghana using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM). The study examines five latent variables: project readiness, financial structures, experienced project teams, risk mitigation, and alignment with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) criteria. http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/vita/ Sat, 18 Sep 2021 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/vita/ Short Bio Mathias Weidinger is a full-time research assistant in climate compatible growth at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. He received his B.A. in european studies from the Maastricht University in 2018, an M.Sc. in public policy and human development jointly awarded by UNU-MERIT and Maastricht University in 2021, and a research M.Sc. in economics from Maastricht University in 2023. His research focuses on environmental and ressource economics, development economics, and inferential methods for spatial data. http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/current-project/2026-02-20_renewables_ghana/renewables_ghana/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/current-project/2026-02-20_renewables_ghana/renewables_ghana/ (with Theophilus Acheampong, Dennis Asare, Amprofi Agyemang, and Bridget Menyeh) http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/current-project/2026-02-20_deforestation_swb/deforestation_swb/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/current-project/2026-02-20_deforestation_swb/deforestation_swb/ (with Stephan Dietrich Stafford Nichols) http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/current-project/2026-02-20_pass_through/pass_through/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/current-project/2026-02-20_pass_through/pass_through/ (with Fulvia Marotta and Jasper Verschuur) http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/current-project/2026-02-20_coal_india/coal_india/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://mathiasweidinger.github.io/current-project/2026-02-20_coal_india/coal_india/ (with Sam Fankhauser and Sugandha Srivastav)