Environment and Energy Economics Program Meeting
Organized by Tamma Carleton, Michael Greenstone, Nicolai V. Kuminoff, and Ishan B. Nath
April 30 - May 1, 2026
Royal Sonesta Hotel, Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA
Format: (1) 45 minutes for presenters with Q&A throughout, 10 minutes for discussants (2) 45 minutes for presenters with Q&A throughout
45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
Thursday, April 30
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Pollution Pricing in Equilibrium: Production, Reallocation, and Aggregate Impacts

Jackson Dorsey, University of Texas at Austin
R. Andrew Butters, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
Ivan Rudik, Cornell University and NBER

Discussant:
Devesh Raval, Federal Trade Commission
9:55 am

Cutting Costs or Cutting Corners: Capital Reallocation of Oil and Gas Wells

Sarah C. Armitage, Boston University
Judson Boomhower, University of California, San Diego and NBER
Catherine Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER

Discussant:
Richard L. Sweeney, Boston College
10:50 am
Break
11:20 am

Seeds of (Climate) Change: Private Adaptation and Subsidized Insurance in West Bengal

Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
Manzoor H. Dar, International Rice Research Institute
Xavier Giné, The World Bank
Erin M. Kelley, University of Chicago and NBER
Gregory Lane, University of Chicago and NBER
45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
12:05 pm
Lunch
1:05 pm

Governing Environmental Markets: Evidence from Irrigation in Water Markets

Maximiliano Garcia, Brown University
Belmar Jose, Inter-American Development Bank

Discussant:
Billy A. Ferguson, Stanford University
2:10 pm

Identifying Climate-Vulnerable Populations Using Satellite Imagery

Jonathan Proctor, University of British Columbia
Luke Sherman, Stanford University
Jeanette Tseng, Stanford University
Solomon Hsiang, Stanford University and NBER

Discussant:
Anna Papp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3:05 pm
Break
3:30 pm

Two Centuries of U.S. Innovation: Firms' Internal Networks and Resilience to Disasters

Mathias Kruttli, Indiana University
Noah Stoffman, Indiana University
Sumudu W. Watugala, Indiana University
45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
4:05 pm

Processing Power: The Effect of Data Centers On Wholesale Electricity Markets

Reid B. Taylor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Owen A. Kay, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Robert Reaser, University of California, Davis

Discussant:
Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER
5:00 pm
Adjourn
5:30 pm
Reception and Group Dinner - Location TBA
Friday, May 1
8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am

Range Anxiety

Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin - Madison and NBER
Shanjun Li, Stanford University and NBER
Tianli Xia, University of Rochester

Discussant:
Jing Li, Tufts University
9:55 am

High Returns, Low Adoption: Air Purifiers in Bangladeshi Firms

Teevrat Garg, University of California, San Diego
Maulik Jagnani, Tufts University
Nancy Lozano Gracia, The World Bank

Discussant:
Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
10:50 am
Break
11:05 am

The (Mis)Allocation Channel of Climate Change: Evidence from Global Firm-level Microdata

Tianzi Liu, Cornell University
Zebang Xu, Cornell University
45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
11:50 am

Unintended Environment and Health Consequences of Distortionary Fertilizer Subsidies

Gowthami Venkateswaran, Keystone
Kathy Baylis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrew Hultgren, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hemant K. Pullabhotla, Deakin University
45 Minute Presentations with Q&A
12:35 pm

Global Policy Spillovers: How Environmental Policies Propagate through Product Attributes

Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER
James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Jonathan (Andrew) Smith, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant:
Shanjun Li, Stanford University and NBER
1:30 pm
Adjourn