SI 2020 Environmental & Energy Economics

Christopher R. Knittel and Reed Walker, Organizers

July 20-21, 2020

on Zoom.us

Conference Code of Conduct

Monday, July 20
Format: 20 minutes for authors, 10 minutes for discussants, and 15 minutes for Q&A.
Participants should use the raise hand function during the Q&A period and ask the questions themselves after being called on. During the presentation participants are welcome to submit questions via chat and/or private messages.

10:30 am
Nicholas Ryan, Yale University and NBER
Anant Sudarshan, University of Chicago

Rationing the Commons
Discussant: Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and NBER
11:15 am
Susanna B. Berkouwer, University of Pennsylvania and NBER
Josh T. Dean, University of Chicago

Credit and Attention in the Adoption of Profitable Energy Efficient Technologies in Kenya
Discussant: Pascaline Dupas, Princeton University and NBER
12:00 pm
Break
1:00 pm
Katherine R.H. Wagner, University of British Columbia

Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance
Discussant: Benjamin R. Handel, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
1:45 pm
Will Rafey, University of California, Los Angeles and NBER

Droughts, Deluges, and (River) Diversions: Valuing Market-Based Water Reallocation
Discussant: Paul Scott, New York University
2:30 pm
Break
3:00 pm
Nick Hagerty, Montana State University

The Scope for Climate Adaptation: Evidence from Water Scarcity in Irrigated Agriculture (slides)
Discussant: Richard Hornbeck, University of Chicago and NBER
3:45 pm
Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago and NBER
Louis Preonas, University of Maryland
Matt Woerman, Colorado State University

Groundwater, Energy, and Crop Choice
Discussant: Michael J. Roberts, University of Hawaii at Manoa (slides)
4:30 pm
Breakout Rooms
5:00 pm
Adjourn
Tuesday, July 21
10:30 am
Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University and NBER
Gordon W. Leslie, Monash University

Dynamic Costs and Market Power: Rooftop Solar Penetration in Western Australia
Discussant: Mar Reguant, Northwestern University and NBER
11:15 am
Matthias Rodemeier, Bocconi University
Andreas Löschel, University of Münster

The Welfare Effects of Persuasion and Taxation: Theory and Evidence from the Field
Discussant: Dmitry Taubinsky, University of California, Berkeley and NBER
12:00 pm
Break
1:00 pm
Egg Timers
Ashwin Rode, Tamma Carleton, Michael Delgado, Michael Greenstone, Trevor Houser, Solomon Hsiang, Andrew Hultgren, Amir Jina, Robert Kopp, Kelly McCusker, Ishan Nath, James Rising, Justin Simcock, and Jiacan Yuan
Estimating a Social Cost of Carbon forGlobal Energy Consumption
Bard Harstad
The Conservation Multiplier
Christopher Severen and Arthur A. van Benthem
Formative Experiences and the Price of Gasoline
Danae Hernandez-Cortes and Kyle C. Meng
Do Environmental Markets Cause Environmental Injustice?
David P. Byrne, Lorenz Goette, Leslie A. Martin, Lucy Delahey, Alana Jones, Amy Miles, Samuel Schob, Thorsten Staake, and Verena Tiefenbeck
The Habit-Forming Effects of Feedback: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
Gautam Gowrisankaran, Michael Greenstone, Ali Hortacsu, Mengdi Liu, Caixia Shen, and Bing Zhang
Discharge Fees, Pollution Mitigation, and Productivity:Evidence from Chinese Power Plants
Jonathan Colmer and John Voorheis
The Grandkids Aren’t Alright: TheIntergenerational Effects of PrenatalPollution Exposure
Judson Boomhower
The Salience of Environmental Externalities in Generalist and Specialist Elections: Evidence from Fracking
Peter Christensen, Paul Francisco, Erica Myers, and Mateus Souza
Decomposing the Wedge Between Projected andRealized Returns in Energy Efficiency Programs
Robyn Meeks, Arstan Omuraliev, Ruslan Isaev, and Zhenxuan Wang
Enforcement in Electricity Services: Evidence from aRandomized Smart Meter Experiment
Ryan B. Edwards, Walter P. Falcon, Gracia Hadiwidjaja, Matthew M. Higgins, Rosamond L. Naylor, and Sudarno Sumarto
Fight Re With Nance? A Randomized Eld Experimentto Curtail Land-Clearing Re in Indonesia
Steve Cicala, David Hemous and Morten Olsen
Adverse Selection as a Policy Instrument:Unraveling Climate Change
2:00 pm
Break
2:30 pm
Yuanning Liang, Peking University

Do Safety Inspections Improve Safety? Evidence from the Safety Inspection Program for Commercial Motor Vehicles
Discussant: Paulina Oliva, University of Southern California and NBER
3:15 pm
Alec Brandon, Johns Hopkins University

Social Pressure and Self-Selection in Experimental Policy Evaluation
Discussant: Hunt Allcott, Stanford University and NBER
4:00 pm
Breakout Rooms
4:30 pm
Adjourn