Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Olivier Deschenes and.Don Fullerton, Organizer

Royal Sonesta Hotel

40 Edwin Land Boulevard

Cambridge, Massachusetts

April 17, 2009

NBER

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, Massachusetts

April 18, 2009

PROGRAM

Friday, April 17
At the Royal Sonesta, starting with four Labor Studies papers, members of EEE are invited

8:00 am	Continental Breakfast, Royal Sonesta Hotel

8:30am	DAVID AUTOR, MIT and NBER
	ALAN MANNING, London School of Economics
	CHRISTOPHER SMITH, MIT
	The Minimum Wage's Role in the Evolution of US Wage Inequality over Three Decades

9:25 am	Break

9:30 am	TILL VON WACHTER, Columbia University and NBER
	JAE SONG, Social Security Administration
	JOYCE MANCHESTER, Congressional Budget Office
	Long-Term Earnings Losses due to Mass Layoffs During the 1982 Recession: An Analysis Using U.S. Administrative Data from 1974 to 2004

10:25 am	Break

10:35 am	MIREILLE JACOBSON, UC, Irvine and NBER
	HEATHER ROYER, Case Western Reserve University
	Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services

11:30 am	Break

11:35 am	JUSTIN McCRARY, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	JOHN DiNARDO, University of Michigan and NBER
	MATIAS BUSSO, University of Michigan
	New Evidence on the the finite sample properties of propensity score matching and reweighting estimates

12:30 pm	Lunch

1:30-5pm	Joint session of LS and EEE

1:30 pm	AVRAHAM Y. EBENSTEIN, Harvard University
	Water Pollution and Digestive Cancers in China

	Discussant: JANET CURRIE, Columbia University and NBER

2:30 pm	Break

2:45 pm	ROBIN BURGESS, and NBER
	OLIVIER DESCHENES, UC, Santa Barbara and NBER,
	DAVE DONALDSON, London School of Economics
	MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER
	Weather and Death in India: Mechanisms and Implications of Climate Change

	Discussant: JESSICA REYES, Amherst College and NBER

3:45 pm	Break

4:00 pm	ARIK LEVINSON, Georgetown University and NBER
	Valuing Air Quality Using Happiness Data

	Discussant: ERZO LUTTMER, Harvard Univeristy and NBER

5:00 pm	Adjourn

6:00 pm	Reception and Dinner, Restaurant Dante at the Royal Sonesta Hotel


Saturday, April 18, 2009:
At the NBER, four EEE papers, members of LS are invited

7:30 and 7:45	Shuttle Buses from Royal Sonesta Hotel to NBER

8:00 am	Continental Breakfast, NBER, 1050 Massachusetts Ave.

8:30 am	ROBERT S. PINDYCK, MIT and NBER
	Uncertainty, Extreme Outcomes, and Climate Change Policy

	Discussant: CHARLES KOLSTAD, UC, Santa Barbara and NBER

9:30 am	Break

9:45 am	JAMES BUSHNELL, UC, Berkeley and NBER
	YIHSU CHEN, UC, Merced
	Regulation, Allocation, and Leakage in Cap-and-Trade Markets for CO2

	Discussant: ANDREAS LANGE, University of Maryland

10:45 am	Break

11:00 am	SOREN T. ANDERSON, Michigan State University
	The Demand for Ethanol as a Gasoline Substitute

	Discussant: ERIN MANSUR, Yale University and NBER

12:00 noon	Lunch

12:45 pm	LUCAS W. DAVIS, University of Michigan and NBER
	MATTHEW E. KAHN, UC, Los Angeles and NBER
	International Trade in Used Vehicles: The Environmental Consequences of NAFTA

	Discussant: M. SCOTT TAYLOR, University of Calgary and NBER

2:00 pm	Adjourn

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