SI 2016 Environmental & Energy Economics

Don Fullerton, Michael Greenstone, and Mar Reguant, Organizers

July 25-26, 2016

Royal Sonesta Hotel

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 25
8:30 am
David Keiser, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Consequences of the Clean Water Act and the Demand for Water Quality
9:30 am
Lint Barrage, ETH Zurich
Laura A. Bakkensen, University of Arizona

Do Disasters Affect Growth? A Macro Model-Based Perspective on the Empirical Debate
11:00 am
Jonathan M. Colmer, University of Virginia

Weather, Labour Reallocation, and Industrial Production: Evidence from India
11:01 am
Renaud Coulomb, University of Melbourne
Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol

Rare Events and Risk Perception: Evidence from Fukushima Accident
11:02 am
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Alex MacKay, Harvard University
Julian Reif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER

The Long-Run Price Elasticity of Electricity Demand
11:03 am
Ludovica Gazze, University of Warwick

The Price of a Safe Home: Lead Abatement Mandates and the Housing Market
11:04 am
Christos Makridis, Stanford University

The (Non)Separability of Air Quality: Evidence from Millions of Households Across the United States
11:05 am
Kim Liu, University of Melbourne
Leslie A. Martin, University of Melbourne

I'm Sitting This One Out: What Non-participants Reveal about Counterfactual Emissions
11:06 am
Eliana Carranza, The World Bank
Robyn Meeks, Duke University

Shedding Light: Understanding the Role of Externalities in Energy Efficient Technology Adoption
11:07 am
Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER

Path Dependence and Structural Change in U.S. Electricity Production
11:08 am
Jisung Park, University of Pennsylvania

Temperatures and Test Scores
11:09
Shinsuke Tanaka, University of Connecticut

Offshoring Health Risks: The Impact of the U.S. Lead Regulation on Infant Health in Mexico
1:30 pm
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

Maybe Next Month? Temperature Shocks, Climate Change, and Dynamic Adjustments in Birth Rates
2:30 pm
Matilde Bombardini, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
Bingjing Li, The University of Hong Kong

Trade, Pollution and Mortality in China
4:00 pm
Karen Clay, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Joshua A. Lewis, University of Montreal
Edson R. Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER

Canary in a Coal Mine: Infant Mortality, Property Values, and Tradeoffs Associated with Mid-20th Century Air Pollution
Tuesday, July 26
7:50 am
Erica Myers, University of Calgary and NBER

Are Home Buyers Myopic? Evidence From Housing Sales
7:51 am
Matthew Kotchen, Yale University and NBER

Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Perspective
7:52 am
Todd Gerarden, Cornell University
Spencer Reeder, Vulcan Philanthropy
James H. Stock, Harvard University and NBER

Federal Coal Program Reform, the Clean Power Plan, and the Interaction of Upstream and Downstream Climate Policies
7:53 am
Kathy Baylis, University of California at Santa Barbara
Don Fullerton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER
Payal Shah, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

What Drives Forest Leakage?
7:54 am
Seema Jayachandran, Princeton University and NBER
Joost de Laat, University of Utrecht
Eric Lambin, Stanford University
Charlotte Stanton, Carnegie Institution for Science

Cash for Carbon: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Deforestation
7:55 am
Evan D. Peet, Rand Corporation

Environment and Human Capital: The Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollutants in the Philippines
1:00 pm
Mathias Reynaert, Toulouse School of Economics
James M. Sallee, University of California, Berkeley and NBER

Self Regulation, Corrective Policy and Goodhart's Law: The Case of Carbon Emissions from Automobiles
2:00 pm
Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER
Takanori Ida, Kyoto University
Makoto Tanaka, GRIPS

Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice
3:30 pm
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

Learning from Schools about Energy Efficiency