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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

The Economics of Environmental Protection in China

Joseph Fan, Matthew Kahn, and Randall Morck, Organizers

February 14-15, 2014

NBER
2nd Floor Conference Room
1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM


Participant List

Friday, February 14:

8:15 am

Depart from Sonesta by van

8:30 am

Depart from Sonesta by van

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Ivan Png, National University of Singapore
Yehning Chen, National Taiwan University
Junhong Chu, National University of Singapore
Climate Change in China: Communism is Cooler

10:00 am

Break


10:15 am


Shanjun Li, Cornell University
Better Lucky Than Rich? Welfare Analysis of Automobile License Allocations in Beijing and Shanghai

11:15 am

Break


11:30 am


Douglas Almond, Columbia University and NBER
Shuang Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder
Maigeng Zhou,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Air Pollution and Short-Term Mortality in Beijing

12:30 pm

Lunch


1:30 pm


Ruixue Jia,
University of California at San Diego
Pollution for Promotion

2:30 pm

Break


2:45 pm


Jing Wu, Tsinghua University
Yongheng Deng, National University of Singapore
Jun Huang, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
Randall Morck, University of Alberta and NBER
Bernard Yeung, National University of Singapore
Incentives and Outcomes: China’s Environmental Policy


3:45 pm


Siqi Zheng, Tsinghua University
Cong
Sun, Tsinghua University
Ming Lu, Fudan University, China

Congestion and Pollution as the Consequences of Cross-Zone Schooling in Beijing

4:45 pm

Adjourn

4:45 pm

Return to Sonesta by van

5:00 pm

Return to Sonesta by van

7:00 pm

Group Dinner
Bambara Restaurant
25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge
(across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)


Saturday, February 15:

8:15 am

Depart from Sonesta by van

8:30 am

Depart from Sonesta by van

8:30 am

Continental Breakfast


9:00 am


Dalia Ghanem, University of California at Davis
Junjie Zhang, University of California at San Diego
'Effortless Perfection:' Do Chinese Cities Manipulate Air Pollution Data?


10:00 am


Break

10:15 am

Maoyong Fan, Ball State University
Guojun He,
Harvard School of Public Health
Maigeng Zhou,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Effect of Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Mortality: Evidence from the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

11:15 am

Break


11:30 am


Lee Branstetter, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Ines Azevedo, Carnegie Mellon University
Long Lam, Carnegie Mellon University
The Unsustainable Rise of the Chinese Wind Turbine Manufacturing Industry

12:30 pm

Lunch and Adjourn



Format:  Authors should plan to speak for 40 minutes. There will be 20 minutes for open discussion.