SI 2016 Environmental & Energy Economics
Organized by Don Fullerton, Michael Greenstone, and Mar Reguant
July 25-26, 2016
Royal Sonesta Hotel

Monday, July 25

8:30 am

Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality

David Keiser, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and NBER
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

9:30 am

Do Disasters Affect Growth? A Macro Model-Based Perspective on the Empirical Debate

Lint Barrage, ETH Zurich
Laura A. Bakkensen, University of Oregon

11:00 am

Weather, Labour Reallocation, and Industrial Production: Evidence from India

Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia

11:01 am

Rare Events and Risk Perception: Evidence from Fukushima Accident

Renaud Coulomb, University of Melbourne
Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol

11:02 am

The Long-Run Price Elasticity of Electricity Demand

Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Alex MacKay, University of Virginia
Julian Reif, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER

11:03 am

The Price of a Safe Home: Lead Abatement Mandates and the Housing Market

Ludovica Gazze, University of Warwick

11:04 am

The (Non)Separability of Air Quality: Evidence from Millions of Households Across the United States

Christos Makridis, Arizona State University

11:05 am

I'm Sitting This One Out: What Non-participants Reveal about Counterfactual Emissions

Kim Liu, University of Melbourne
Leslie A. Martin, University of Melbourne

11:06 am

Shedding Light: Understanding the Role of Externalities in Energy Efficient Technology Adoption

Eliana Carranza, The World Bank
Robyn Meeks, Duke University

11:07 am

Path Dependence and Structural Change in U.S. Electricity Production

Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER

11:08 am

Temperatures and Test Scores

Jisung Park, University of Pennsylvania

11:09

Offshoring Health Risks: The Impact of the U.S. Lead Regulation on Infant Health in Mexico

Shinsuke Tanaka, University of Connecticut

1:30 pm

Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates

Alan Barreca, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER
Olivier Deschenes, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
Melanie E. Guldi, University of Central Florida

2:30 pm

Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China

Matilde Bombardini, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Bingjing Li, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)

4:00 pm

Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution

Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Joshua A. Lewis, University of Montreal
Edson R. Severnini, Boston College and NBER

Tuesday, July 26

7:50 am

Are Home Buyers Myopic? Evidence From Housing Sales

Erica Myers, University of Calgary and NBER

7:51 am

Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Perspective

Matthew Kotchen, Yale University and NBER

7:52 am

Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies

Todd Gerarden, Cornell University
Spencer Reeder, Vulcan Philanthropy
James H. Stock, Harvard University and NBER

7:53 am

What Drives Forest Leakage?

Kathy Baylis, University of California at Santa Barbara
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Payal Shah, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

7:54 am

Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation

Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER
Joost de Laat, University of Utrecht
Eric Lambin, Stanford University
Charlotte Stanton, Carnegie Institution for Science

7:55 am

Environment and Human Capital: The Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollutants in the Philippines

Evan D. Peet, Amazon, Inc.

1:00 pm

Self Regulation, Corrective Policy and Goodhart's Law: The Case of Carbon Emissions from Automobiles

Mathias Reynaert, Toulouse School of Economics
James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

2:00 pm

Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice

Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER
Takanori Ida, Kyoto University
Makoto Tanaka, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

3:30 pm

Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency

Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
David Rapson, University of California, Davis
Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER
Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER