CRIW Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods: A National Accounts Perspective
Organized by Mary Bohman, Eli Fenichel, and Nicholas Z. Muller
Supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Bureau of Economic Analysis
March 16-17, 2023
Lorien Hotel (Liberty Room) 1600 King Street, Alexandria, VA and Zoom
The format for each paper will be a 20-minute presentation by the author, followed by one 15-minute discussion, and then another 15 minutes of general audience discussion.
Thursday, March 16
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am
Welcome
9:05 am

Heterogeneous Substitutability Preferences and the Value of Environmental Public Goods

Moritz A. Drupp, University of Hamburg
Jasper N. Meya, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)

Discussant:
Daniel Phaneuf, University of Wisconsin - Madison
9:55 am

Accounting for Environmental Activity: Measuring Public Environmental Expenditures and the Environmental Goods and Services Sector in the U.S. (slides)

Julie L. Hass, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Tina Highfill, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Dennis Fixler, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Kelly M. Wentland, George Mason University
Scott A. Wentland, Bureau of Economic Analysis

Discussant:
David Evans, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
10:45 am
Break
11:10 am

The Value and Configuration of Coastal Natural Capital

Ethan T. Addicott, University of Exeter Business School

Discussant:
Justin C. Contat, Federal Housing Finance Agency
12:00 pm
Lunch - Independence Room
1:25 pm
Keynote Speaker: Maureen Cropper, University of Maryland and NBER
Slides
2:25 pm

Tracing Sustainability in the Long Run Genuine Savings Estimates 1850 - 2018

Cristián Ducoing, Lund University
Eoin McLaughlin, Heriot-Watt University
Les Oxley, University of Waikato

Discussant:
Stefanie Sieber, Texas A&M University
3:15 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Building a Microdata Infrastructure to Study Environmental Risk and Inequality: The Census Environmental Impacts Frame

Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
Kendall A. Houghton, U.S. Census Bureau
Cameron Scalera, U.S. Census Bureau
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
Jennifer R. Withrow, The College of New Jersey
Eva Lyubich, U.S. Census Bureau

Discussant:
Corbett A. Grainger, University of Wisconsin - Madison
4:20 pm
Adjourn
Friday, March 17
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Welcome
8:35 am

Natural Capital Accounting on Forested Lands (slides)

Kenneth Bagstad Clyde F. Casey, US Geological Survey
Christopher Mihiar, USDA Forest Service
Charles Rhodes, US Geological Survey
Christopher Sichko, USDA
Travis W. Warziniack, USDA Forest Service

Discussant:
Juha Siikämaki, IUCN
9:25 am

Measuring for the Future, not the Past

Matthew K. Agarwala, University of Cambridge
Diane Coyle, University of Cambridge
Cristina Penasco, University of Cambridge
Dimitri Zenghelis, University of Cambridge

Discussant:
Nicholas Z. Muller, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
10:15 am
Break
10:30 am

Natural Capital Considerations for an Extension of the U.S. Marine Economy Satellite Account (slides)

Jeffrey Wielgus, NOAA
Monica Grasso, NOAA
Charles Colgan, Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Jennifer Zhuang, NOAA
Sarah Siegel, NOAA
Joseph Conran, NOAA
Tadesse Wodajo, NOAA

Discussant:
Andrew Scheld, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
11:20 am
Panel Discussion: Measuring and Accounting for Environmental Public Goods
Moderator: Nicholas Z. Muller, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Panelists: Eli Fenichel, Yale University
Al McGartland, Environmental Protection Agency
Stefanie Onder, World Bank
Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University and NBER
12:10 pm
Boxed Lunches
12:30 pm
Keynote Speaker: Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
1:30 pm
Adjourn