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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC. 

SI 2016 Environmental & Energy Economics 

Michael Greenstone and Mar Reguant, Organizers 

July 25-26, 2016 

Royal Sonesta Hotel
Charles Suite
40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard
Cambridge, Massachusetts

PROGRAM

 

Monday, July 25

8:00 am

Coffee and pastries

8:20 am

Welcome

8:30 am

David Keiser, Iowa State University
Joseph S. Shapiro, Yale University and NBER
Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality

Discussant: Lucas W. Davis, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

9:30 am

Laura A. Bakkensen, University of Arizona
Lint Barrage, Brown University and NBER
Do Disasters Affect Growth? A Macro Model-Based Perspective on the Empirical Debate

Discussant: John Hassler, Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Research Sketches -- Egg-Timer Presentations

 

Alec Brandon, University of Chicago
Smart Thermostats and Social Norms: Distributional Evidence From a Field Experiment

 

Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
Weather, Labour Reallocation, and Industrial Production: Evidence from India

 

Renaud Coulomb, University of Melbourne
Yanos Zylberberg, CREI (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Rare Events and Risk Perception: Evidence from the Fukushima Accident

 

Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Alex MacKay
Julian Reif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Long-Run Price Elasticity of Electricity Demand

 

Ludovica Gazze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Price of a Safe Home: Lead Abatement Mandates and the Housing Market

 

Christos Makridis, Stanford University
The (Non)Separability of Air Quality: Evidence from Millions of Households Across the United States

 

Kim Liu, University of Melbourne
Leslie A. Martin, University of Melbourne
I'm Sitting This One Out: What Non-participants Reveal about Counterfactual Emissions

 

Eliana Carranza
Robyn Meeks, University of Michigan
Shedding Light: Understanding the Role of Externalities in Energy Efficient Technology Adoption

 

Kyle C. Meng, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER
Estimating Path Dependence in Energy Transitions

 

Jisung Park, Harvard University
Temperatures and Test Scores

 

Shinsuke Tanaka, Tufts University
Kensuke Teshima, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
Offshoring Health Risks: The Impact of the U.S. Lead Regulation on Infant Health in Mexico

 

James Rising, University of California, Berkeley
Economic Damage from Climate Change in the United States

 

Sol Hsiang, Princeton University
Economic Damage from Climate Change in the United States

12:00 n

Lunch

1:30 pm

Alan Barreca, Tulane University and NBER
Olivier Deschenes, University of California at Santa Barbara and NBER
Melanie E. Guldi, University of Central Florida
Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates

Discussant: Amir Jina, University of Chicago

2:30 pm

Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Joshua A. Lewis, University of Montreal
Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University
Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

Discussant: Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER

3:30 pm

Break

4:00 pm

Matilde Bombardini, University of British Columbia and NBER
Bingjing Li, UBC Vancouver School of Economics
Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China

Discussant: David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER

5:00 pm

Adjourn

Tuesday, July 26

8:00 am

Coffee and pastries

Morning parallel session

Session A

 

8:30 am

Erica Myers, University of Illinois
Are Home Buyers Myopic? Evidence From Housing Sales

Discussant: Hunt Allcott, New York University and NBER

9:30 am

Matthew Kotchen, Yale University and NBER
Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Perspective

Discussant: Scott Barrett, Columbia University

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Todd Gerarden, Harvard University
Spencer Reeder, Vulcan Philanthropy
James H. Stock, Harvard University and NBER
Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies

Discussant: Jim Bushnell, University of California, Davis and N

12:00 n

Lunch

Session B

 

8:30 am

Kathy Baylis, University of Illinois
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Payal Shah, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University
What Drives Forest Leakage?

Discussant: Treb Allen, Dartmouth College and NBER

9:30 am

Seema Jayachandran, Northwestern University and NBER
Joost de Laat, Porticus Foundation
Eric Lambin, Stanford University
Charlotte Stanton, Carnegie Institution for Science
Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation

Discussant: Kelsey Jack, Tufts University and NBER

10:30 am

Break

11:00 am

Evan D. Peet
Environment and Human Capital: The Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollutants in the Philippines

Discussant: Reed Walker, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

12:00 n

Lunch

1:00 pm

Mathias Reynaert, Toulouse School of Economics
James M. Sallee, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Self Regulation, Corrective Policy and Goodhart's Law: The Case of Carbon Emissions from Automobiles

Discussant: Mark Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego and NBER

2:00 pm

Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER
Takanori Ida, Kyoto University
Makoto Tanaka, GRIPS
Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice

Discussant: Meredith Fowlie, University of California at Berkeley and NBER

3:00 am

Break

3:30 pm

Fiona Burlig, UC Berkeley
Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Rapson, University of California at Davis
Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER
Catherine Wolfram, University of California at Berkeley and NBER
Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency

Discussant: Ignacia Mercadal, University of Chicago

4:30 pm

Adjourn