Environment and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Tatyana Deryugina and Matthew Kotchen, Organizers

March 8-9, 2018

NBER

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, March 8
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
Joint Session with the Future of Energy Distribution meeting
8:30 am

Price Regulation and Environmental Externalities: Evidence from Methane Leaks
Discussant: Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER
9:30 am

Are Residential Electricity Prices Too High or Too Low? Or Both?
Discussant: Lawrence H. Goulder, Stanford University and NBER
10:30 am
Break
Environment and Energy Program Meeting
11:00 am

Pass-through of Input Cost Shocks Under Imperfect Competition: Evidence from the U.S. Fracking Boom
Discussant: Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm

Smoked Out: The Effect of Wildfire Smoke on Labor Market Outcomes (slides)
Discussant: Fernando M. Aragon Sanchez, Simon Fraser University
2:00 pm

Individual Discount Rates During the Great Depression: Evidence from Firewood Prices in Portland, Oregon.
Discussant: Matteo Maggiori, Stanford University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm

The Economics of Marine Conservation
Discussant: Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
4:30 pm

Air Pollution, Health Spending and Willingness to Pay for Clean Air in China
Discussant: Shuang Zhang, Imperial College London
5:30 pm
Adjourn - Shuttle Vans (2) Depart from the NBER for the Royal Sonesta Hotel
6:30 pm
Group Dinner at Bambara Restaurant at the Hotel Marlowe, 25 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, March 9
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am

Long-Run Health Dynamics in the Wake of Disaster: Evidence from Hurricane Katrina
Discussant: Nicholas J. Sanders, Cornell University and NBER
9:30 am

Expectations and Adaptation to Environmental Risks
Discussant: Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am

Do Discrete Choice Approaches to Valuing Urban Amenities Yield Different Results than Hedonic Models? (slides)
Discussant: David Albouy, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER
12:00 n
Lunch
1:00 pm

To Drive or Not to Drive? A Field Experiment in Road Pricing (slides)
Discussant: Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
2:00 pm

Peer Effects in Water Conservation: Evidence from Consumer Migration
Discussant: Katrina Jessoe, University of California, Davis
3:00 pm
Adjourn