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Monday, July 24 | |
8:30 am |
Coffee and pastries
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8:50 am |
Introductions
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9:00 am |
Avoiding Traffic Congestion Externalities? The Value of Urgency
Discussant:
Hendrik Wolff, Simon Fraser University |
10:00 am |
East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting
Discussant:
Edward L. Glaeser, Harvard University and NBER |
11:00 am |
Break
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11:30 am |
Research Sketches — Egg-Timer Presentations
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Ashley Langer
University of Arizona Buy It Now! Subsidizing New Technologies Over Time Catherine Hausman University of Michigan and NBER Shock Value: Bill Smoothing and Sticky Prices in Utility Retail Rates Daniel Karney Ohio University Climate Policy and Scarcity Rents: Evidence from the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election David Keiser Iowa State University Economic Effects of Environmental Crises: Evidence from Flint, Michigan Eric Zou University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Unwatched Pollution: The Effect of Intermittent Monitoring on Air Quality Eyal Frank Princeton University The Right Information in the Wrong Hands: How Information Shocks on Species Extinction Risks Cause Wildlife Trade Spikes Jackson Dorsey University of Arizona Harnessing the Power of the Sun: Competition, Pricing, and Online Bids in the Rooftop Solar Market Jonathan Colmer University of Virginia The Effects of Air Pollution on Infant Health in High-Income, High-Pollution Hong Kong Marc Hafstead Resources for the Future Environmental Policy, Full Employment Models and Employment: A Critical Analysis Shinsuke Tanaka Tufts University Mind the Gap! Tax Incentives and Incentives for Manipulating Fuel Efficiency in the Automobile Industry Tamma Carleton University of California at Berkeley Crop-Damaging Temperatures Increase Suicide Rates in India Teevrat Garg University of California at San Diego Effects of Heat Stress on Physiology and Livelihoods: Implications for Human Capital Accumulation |
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12:30 pm |
Lunch
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1:30 pm |
The Marginal Product of Climate
Discussant:
Robert S. Pindyck, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER |
2:30 pm |
On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon
Discussant:
Charles D. Kolstad, Stanford University and NBER |
3:30 pm |
Break
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4:00 pm |
Gasoline Price Uncertainty and the Design of Fuel Economy Standards
Discussant:
Jing Li, Tufts University |
5:00 pm |
Adjourn
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Tuesday, July 25 | |
8:00 am |
Coffee and pastries
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08:30 am |
The Effect of an Increase in Lead in the Water System on Fertility, Pregnancy, and Birth Outcomes: The Case of Flint, Michigan
Discussant:
Matthew J. Neidell, Columbia University and NBER |
9:30 am |
Does Shale Gas Development Impact Infant Health through Drinking Water?
Discussant:
Prashant Bharadwaj, University of California, San Diego and NBER |
10:30 am |
Break
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11:00 am |
One-to-Many Matching with Complementary Preferences: An Empirical Study of Market Power in Natural Gas Leasing
Discussant:
Nikhil Agarwal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER |
12:00 pm |
Lunch
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AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS
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1:00 pm |
Out of the Darkness and Into the Light? Development Effects of Rural Electrification
Discussant:
Taryn Dinkelman, University of Notre Dame and NBER |
Heterogeneous Climate Beliefs and U.S. Home Price Dynamics: Going Under Water?
Discussant:
Alvin Murphy, Arizona State University |
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2:00 pm |
Grid versus Off-grid in Nepal: Heterogeneity in Electricity Services and Enterprise Development
Discussant:
Kelsey Jack, University of California, Berkeley and NBER |
Residential Sorting and the Incidence of Local Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Air Pollution
Discussant:
Kelly Bishop, Arizona State University |
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3:00 pm |
Break
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3:30 pm |
Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation in Brazil
Discussant:
Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER |
Valuation of Local Public Goods: Migration as Revealed Preference for Place
Discussant:
Nicolai V. Kuminoff, Arizona State University and NBER |
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4:30 pm |
Adjourn
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