SI 2019 Environmental & Energy Economics
Meredith Fowlie and Christopher Costello, Organizers
July 22-23, 2019
Hotel Marlowe
Cambridge, MA
Summer Institute 2019 master schedule
| Monday, July 22 | ||||
| 8:30 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 9:00 am |
Gaurav Khanna, University of California, San Diego Wenquan Liang, Jinan University Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University and NBER Ran Song, National University of Singapore The Productivity Consequences of Pollution-Induced Migration in China
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| 10:00 am |
Daron Acemoglu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER Philippe Aghion, London School of Economics Lint Barrage, ETH Zurich David Hemous, University of Zurich Climate Change, Directed Innovation, and Energy Transition: The Long-run Consequences of the Shale Gas Revolution
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| 11:00 am | Break | |||
| 11:30 am |
Josh Blonz, Federal Reserve Board of Governors The Welfare Costs of Misaligned Incentives: Energy Inefficiency and the Principal-Agent Problem
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| 12:30 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:30 pm |
Clare A. Balboni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities
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| 2:30 pm |
Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER Garth Heutel, Georgia State University and NBER Nolan H. Miller, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER David Molitor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER Julian Reif, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NBER The Mortality and Medical Costs of Air Pollution: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction
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| 3:30 pm | Break | |||
| 4:00 pm | Egg Timer Presentations | |||
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• The Impact of Environmental Policy on Jobs in China. Jacquelyn Pless, MIT. • Distributional Impacts of Public Flood Insurance Reform. Laura Bakkensen, University of Arizona. • Can Technology Solve the Principal-Agent Problem? Evidence from Pollution Monitoring in China. Guojun He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. • Marginal Abatement Cost for US Criteria Air Pollutants. James Jones, Columbia University. • Heterogenous (Mis) Perceptions of Energy Costs: Implications for Measurement and Policy Design. Erica Myers, University of Illinois. • Yes, In Your Backyard: On Forced Technological Adoption and Spatial Externalities. Anouch Missirian, Columbia University. • The Distribution of Climate Damages: Occupational Temperature Exposure and the Returns to Labor. Jisung Park, UCLA. • Dam Spillovers: The Direct and Indirect Costs from Environmental Constraints on Hydroelectric Generation. James Archsmith, University of Maryland. • Equity and the Environment: The Role of Imperfect Information. Catherine Hausman, Univesity of Michigan. • The Food Problem and the Aggregate Productivity Consequences of Climate Change. Ishan Nath, University of Chicago. • From Water Cops to Smart Meters: An Experiment on Water Conservation Policy in the New Era of Automated Enforcement. Ludovica Gazze, University of Chicago. |
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| 5:00 pm | Adjourn | |||
| Tuesday, July 23 | ||||
| 8:00 am | Coffee and Pastries | |||
| 8:30 am |
Robin Burgess, London School of Economics Michael Greenstone, University of Chicago and NBER Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER Anant Sudarshan, University of Chicago Demand for Electricity in a Poor Economy
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| 9:30 am |
Matthew Kotchen, Yale University and NBER Katherine RH. Wagner, University of British Columbia Crowding In with Impure Altruism: Theory and Evidence from Volunteerism in National Parks
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| 10:30 am | Break | |||
| 11:00 am |
Hannah Druckenmiller, California Institute of Technology and NBER Solomon M. Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley and NBER Accounting for Unobservable Heterogeneity in Cross Section Using Spatial First Differences
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| 12:00 pm | Lunch | |||
| 1:00 pm |
Wesley Blundell, Washington State University Gautam Gowrisankaran, Columbia University and NBER Ashley Langer, University of Arizona and NBER Escalation of Scrutiny: The Gains from Dynamic Enforcement of Environmental Regulations
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| 2:00 pm |
Po Yin Wong, Queen Mary University of London Torfinn Harding, Norwegian School of Economics Karlygash Kuralbayeva, Kings College London Liana O. Anderson, National Center for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disaster Ana M. Pessoa, National Institute for Space Research Pay for Performance and Deforestation: Evidence from Brazil
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| 3:00 pm | Break | |||
| 3:30 pm |
Andrew B. Ayres, Public Policy Institute of California Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER Andrew Plantinga, University of California, Santa Barbara Can Property Rights Alleviate the Problem of the Commons? Evidence from California Groundwater Permits
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| 4:30 pm | Adjourn | |||