SI 2017 Environmental & Energy Economics
Christopher Timmins and Catherine Wolfram, Organizers
July 24-25, 2017
Charles Room
Royal Sonesta Hotel
| Monday, July 24 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and pastries | |||
| 8:50 am | Introductions | |||
| 9:00 am |
Avoiding Traffic Congestion Externalities? The Value of Urgency
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| 10:00 am |
East Side Story: Historical Pollution and Persistent Neighborhood Sorting
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| 11:00 am | Break | |||
| 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 | |||
| 1:30 pm |
The Marginal Product of Climate
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| 2:30 pm |
On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Gasoline Price Uncertainty and the Design of Fuel Economy Standards
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 25 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and pastries | |||
| 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
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| 9:30 am |
Does Shale Gas Development Impact Infant Health through Drinking Water?
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
One-to-Many Matching with Complementary Preferences: An Empirical Study of Market Power in Natural Gas Leasing
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |||
| AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS | ||||
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1:00 pm
Charles
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Out of the Darkness and Into the Light? Development Effects of Rural Electrification
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Longfellow
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Heterogeneous Climate Beliefs and U.S. Home Price Dynamics: Going Under Water?
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2:00 pm
Charles
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Grid versus Off-grid in Nepal: Heterogeneity in Electricity Services and Enterprise Development
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Longfellow
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Residential Sorting and the Incidence of Local Public Goods: Theory and Evidence from Air Pollution
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
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3:30 pm
Charles
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Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation in Brazil
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Longfellow
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Valuation of Local Public Goods: Migration as Revealed Preference for Place
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| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |||