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
Catherine Hausman, University of Michigan and NBER
Lucija Muehlenbachs, University of Calgary

Price Regulation and Environmental Externalities: Evidence from Methane Leaks
Discussant: Steve Cicala, Tufts University and NBER
9:30 am
Severin Borenstein, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
James B. Bushnell, University of California, Davis and NBER

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
Erich Muehlegger, University of California, Davis and NBER
Richard Sweeney, Boston College

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
Mark J. Borgschulte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Molitor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Eric Zou, University of Michigan and NBER

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

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
Robin Burgess, London School of Economics
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER

The Economics of Marine Conservation
Discussant: Christopher Costello, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
4:30 pm
Panle Jia Barwick, University of Wisconsin-Madison and NBER
Shanjun Li, Cornell University and NBER
Deyu Rao, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Nahim B. Zahur, Queen's University

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
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
David Molitor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER

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

Expectations and Adaptation to Environmental Risks
Discussant: Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Paramita Sinha, Research Triangle Institute
Martha L. Caulkins, University of Maryland
Maureen L. Cropper, University of Maryland and NBER

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

To Drive or Not to Drive? A Field Experiment in Road Pricing (slides)
Discussant: Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
2:00 pm
Bryan Bollinger, New York University
Jesse Burkhardt, Colorado State University
Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University and NBER

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