Environment and Energy Economics Program Meeting

H. Spencer Banzhaf and Catherine Wolfram, Organizers

February 27-28, 2020

Royal Sonesta Hotel, Riverfront Room, 40 Edwin H. Land Blvd., Cambridge, MA

Conference Code of Conduct

Thursday, February 27
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:30 am
Lutz Sager, ESSEC Business School

The Global Consumer Incidence of Carbon Pricing: Evidence from Trade
Discussant: Brian Copeland, University of British Columbia
10:30 am
Break
11:00 am
Joseph E. Aldy, Harvard University and NBER
Sarah C. Armitage, Boston University

The Welfare Implications of Carbon Price Certainty (slides)
Discussant: Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch - Room Charles A
1:00 pm
Alex Hollingsworth, The Ohio State University and NBER
Ivan J. Rudik, Cornell University and NBER

The Social Cost of Leaded Gasoline: Evidence from Regulatory Exemptions
Discussant: Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, Amherst College and NBER
2:00 pm
Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University and NBER
Wolfram Schlenker, Harvard University and NBER

Coase, Hotelling and Pigou: The Incidence of a Carbon Tax and CO2 Emissions
Discussant: Soren T. Anderson, Michigan State University and NBER
3:00 pm
Break
3:30 pm
Avraham Ebenstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER

Childhood Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution, Human Capital Accumulation, and Income: Evidence from China
Discussant: Matthew J. Neidell, Columbia University and NBER
4:30 pm
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

The Environmental Bias of Trade Policy
Discussant: Garth Heutel, Georgia State University and NBER
5:30 pm
Adjourn
6:00 pm
Group Dinner - Bambara Restaurant at Hotel Marlowe (across the street from the Royal Sonesta Hotel)
Friday, February 28
8:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Christopher R. Knittel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
Shinsuke Tanaka, University of Connecticut

Driving Behavior and the Price of Gasoline: Evidence from Fueling-Level Micro Data
Discussant: Mark R. Jacobsen, University of California, San Diego and NBER
9:30 am
Justin Marion, University of California Santa Cruz
Jeremy D. West, University of California at Santa Cruz

Dirty Business: Principal-Agent Problems in Hazardous Waste Remediation
Discussant: Wayne B. Gray, Clark University and NBER
10:00 am
Break
11:00 am
Andres Gonzalez Lira, PUC-Chile
Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER

Slippery Fish: Enforcing Regulation under Subversive Adaptation
Discussant: Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
12:00 pm
Lunch - Room Charles A
1:00 pm
Jacquelyn Pless, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Are "Complementary Policies" Substitutes? Evidence from R&D Subsidies in the UK
Discussant: Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER
2:00 pm
Janet Currie, Princeton University and NBER
John L. Voorheis, U.S. Census Bureau
Reed Walker, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

What Caused Racial Disparities in Particulate Exposure to Fall? New Evidence from the Clean Air Act and Satellite-Based Measures of Air Quality
Discussant: Lala Ma, University of Kentucky
3:00 pm
Adjourn