NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

 

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2008

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Workshop

 

Lawrence Goulder and Michael Greenstone, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Charles Suite, East Tower

40 Edwin H. Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

July 21-22, 2008

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, JULY 21: 

 

 

 8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:20 am

Welcome and Introductions

 

 

 8:30 am

ERICH J. MUEHLEGGER and HUNT ALLCOTT, Harvard University

 

Refning Equilibria in Counterfactual Simulations: An Application to Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards

 

 

 

Discussant:  MARK JACOBSEN, UC, San Diego

 

 

 

 

9:30 am

THOMAS KLIER, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

 

JOSHUA LINN, University of Illinois at Chicago

 

CAFE Regulation, New Vehicle Characteristics and Social Welfare

 

 

 

Discussant:  DAVID RAPSON, Boston University

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

ALAN FUCHS, UC, Berkeley

 

PAUL GERTLER, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

ORIE SHELEF, UC, Berkeley

 

CATHERINE WOLFRAM, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

Household Energy Use in Developing Countries: Anti-Poverty Programs and Appliance Acquisition

 

 

 

Discussant:  PEDRO CARNEIRO, University College London

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

RESEARCH SKETCHES

 

 

2:15 pm

Break

 

 

2:30 pm

MARTIN J. OSBORNE and MATTHEW TURNER, University of Toronto

 

Cost Benefit Analysis vs. Referenda

 

 

 

Discussant:  MAUREEN CROPPER, University of Maryland

 

 

3:30 pm

NIKHIL AGARWAL, CHANONT BANTERNGHANSA, AND LINDA T.M. BUI, Brandeis University

 

Toxic Exposure in America: Estimating Fetal and Infant Health Outcomes

 

 

 

Discussant:  LUCAS DAVIS, University of Michigan and NBER

 

 

 4:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 6:00 pm

Group Dinner – Royal Sonesta Hotel

 

 

TUESDAY, JULY 22:

 

 

 8:00 am

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:30 am

MICHAEL KREMER, Harvard University and NBER

 

EDWARD MIGUEL, UC, Berkeley and NBER

 

CLAIR NULL, UC, Berkeley

 

ALIX PETERSON ZWANE, Google 

 

Trickle Down: Diffusion of Chlorine for Drinking Water Treatment in Kenya

 

 

 

Discussant:  RAYMOND GUITERAS, MIT

 

 

9:30 am

ANDREW LEACH, University of Alberta

 

CHARLES F. MASON, AND KLAAS van’t VELD, University of Wyoming

 

Economic Co-optimization of Enhanced Oil Recovery and Carbon Sequestration

 

 

 

Discussant:  KAREN PALMER, Resources for the Future

 

 

10:30 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

DOUGLAS ALMOND, Columbia University and NBER

 

LENA EDLUND, Columbia University

 

MARTEN PALME, Stockholm University

 

Chernobyl's Subclinical Legacy: Prenatal Exposure to Radioactive Fallout and School Outcomes in Sweden

 

 

 

Discussant:  HOYT BLEAKLEY, University of Chicago

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch

 

 

1:00 pm

MARTIN WEITZMAN, Harvard University and NBER

 

On Modeling and Interpreting the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change

 

 

 

Discussant:  ROBERT PINDYCK, MIT and NBER

 

 

2:00 pm

Break

 

 

2:15 pm

MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER

 

JOHN LIST, University of Chicago and NBER

 

CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

The Interaction of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Firms’ Expansions and Contractions

 

 

 

Discussant:  DIEGO COMIN, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

3:15 pm

KEVIN K. TSUI, Clemson University

 

Resource Curse? A Theory of Contestable Political Markets with Endogenous Entry Barriers

 

 

 

Discussant:  PEDRO DAL BO, Brown University

 

 

4:15 pm

Adjourn