Thursday, March 7
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Long-Range Forecasts as Climate Adaptation: Experimental Evidence from Developing-Country Agriculture

Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
Amir Jina, University of Chicago and NBER
Erin M. Kelley, University of Chicago
Gregory V. Lane, University of Chicago and NBER
Harshil Sahai, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Maulik Jagnani, Tufts University
10:00 am

Transitional Costs and the Decline of Coal: Worker-Level Evidence

Eleanor E. Krause, University of Kentucky
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
Eva Lyubich, U.S. Census Bureau
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau

Discussant:
Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Break
11:30am

Campaigning for Extinction: Eradication of Sparrows and the Great Famine in China

Eyal G. Frank, University of Chicago and NBER
Shaoda Wang, University of Chicago and NBER
Xuebin Wang, Shanghai University
Qinyun Wang, Fudan University
Yang You, The University of Hong Kong

Discussant:
Eric Zou, University of Michigan and NBER
Lunch
1:30 pm

Cooking, Health, and Daily Exposure to Transient Air Pollution Peaks (slides)

Susanna B. Berkouwer, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Joshua T. Dean, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Edson R. Severnini, Boston College and NBER
2:30 pm

Is the Demand for Clean Air Too Low? Experimental Evidence from Delhi

Patrick Baylis, University of British Columbia
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER
Kenneth Lee, University of Chicago
Harshil Sahai, University of Chicago

Discussant:
Kelsey Jack, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Break
4:00pm

Homeward Bound: How Migrants Seek Out Familiar Climates

Marguerite Obolensky, Columbia University
Marco Tabellini, Harvard University and NBER
Charles A. Taylor, Harvard University

Discussant:
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Adjourn
Reception and Dinner - Parkview Room
Friday, March 8
Continental Breakfast
9:00am

Policy Uncertainty in the Market for Coal Electricity: The Case of Air Toxics Standards

Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER
Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
Wendan Zhang, Renmin University of China

Discussant:
Karam Kang, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
10:00am

An Empirical Analysis of the Interconnection Queue

Sarah Johnston, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Yifei Liu, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Chenyu Yang, University of Maryland

Discussant:
Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER
Break
11:30am

Gaining Steam: Technology Switching and Entrant Leapfrogging (slides)

Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
Shanon H. Hsu, University of Chicago
Anders Humlum, University of Chicago
Martin Rotemberg, New York University

Discussant:
Sarah C. Armitage, Boston University
12:30 pm

Costs of Climate Adaptation: Evidence From French Agriculture

Tristan Xavie. du Puy, Columbia University
Jeffrey G. Shrader, Columbia University

Discussant:
Andrew Hultgren, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Adjourn