Thursday, May 19
9:30 am
Registration
10:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:15 am

Decomposing Trends in U.S. Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity (slides)

Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Arizona State University and NBER
Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Paige E. Weber, University of California, Berkeley
11:00 am

Green Energy Jobs in the US: What Are They and Where Are They?

Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University
Ioana Marinescu, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
11:45 am
Lunch
12:00 pm
Lunch with Panel Discussion:
The Social Cost of Carbon: Recent Economic and Policy Developments
Richard Revesz, New York University
Richard Newell, Resources for the Future
1:15 pm
Break
1:30 pm

Unequal Treatments: Federal Wildfire Fuels Projects and Socioeconomic Status of Nearby Communities (slides)

Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Andrew Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara
Matthew Wibbenmeyer, Resources for the Future
2:15 pm

Carbon Pricing, Clean Electricity Standards, and Clean Electricity Subsidies on the path to Zero Emissions

Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:15 pm

Trade, Leakage, and the Design of a Carbon Tax (slides)

David Weisbach, University of Chicago
Samuel S. Kortum, Yale University
Michael Wang, Northwestern University
Yujia Yao, International Monetary Fund
4:00 pm

The Distributional Impacts of a VMT-Gas Tax Swap

Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University and NBER
4:45 pm
Adjourn