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 |
Antonio Bento, University of Southern California and NBER Kevin Roth, Laurits R. Christensen Associates Andrew R. Waxman, University of Texas at Austin Avoiding Traffic Congestion Externalities? The Value of Urgency
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| 10:00 am |
Stephan Heblich, University of Toronto and NBER Alex Trew, University of St. Andrews Yanos Zylberberg, University of Bristol 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 |
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and NBER Solomon M. Hsiang, Stanford University and NBER The Marginal Product of Climate
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| 2:30 pm |
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University On a World Climate Assembly and the Social Cost of Carbon
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm |
Ryan Kellogg, University of Chicago and NBER 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 |
Daniel S. Grossman, West Virginia University and NBER 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 |
Elaine L. Hill Lala Ma, University of Kentucky Does Shale Gas Development Impact Infant Health through Drinking Water?
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Ashley Vissing, University of Chicago 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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Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER Louis D. Preonas, University of Maryland Out of the Darkness and Into the Light? Development Effects of Rural Electrification
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Longfellow
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Laura A. Bakkensen, University of Arizona Lint Barrage, ETH Zurich Heterogeneous Climate Beliefs and U.S. Home Price Dynamics: Going Under Water?
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2:00 pm
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Robyn Meeks, Duke University Hope Thompson, University of Michigan Grid versus Off-grid in Nepal: Heterogeneity in Electricity Services and Enterprise Development
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Daniel M. Sullivan, JPMorgan Chase Institute 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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Juliano Assunção, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Molly Lipscomb, University of Virginia Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER Dimitri Szerman, University of Mannheim Agricultural Productivity and Deforestation in Brazil
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Longfellow
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Brett Close, University of Wisconsin Daniel Phaneuf, University of Wisconsin - Madison Valuation of Local Public Goods: Migration as Revealed Preference for Place
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| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |||