NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

SUMMER INSTITUTE 2004

 

Workshop on Public Policy and the Environment

Lawrence Goulder and Michael Greenstone, Organizers

 

Royal Sonesta Hotel

5 Cambridge Parkway

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

August 2-3, 2004

 

PROGRAM

 

MONDAY, AUGUST 2:

 

 

 8:00 a.m.

Coffee and Pastries

 

 

 8:20 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

SEBASTIAN GALIANI, Universidad de San Andres

 

PAUL GERTLER, UC Berkeley and NBER

 

ERNESTO SCHARGRODSKY, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella

 

Water for Life:  The Impact of the Privatization of Water Services on Child Mortality

 

 

 

Discussant: JANET CURRIE, UCLA and NBER

 

 

9:30 a.m.

JARED CARBONE and V. KERRY SMITH, North Carolina State University

 

Average Substitution and Non-Market Effects in Second-Best Policies

 

 

 

Discussant: LAWRENCE GOULDER, Stanford University and NBER

 

 

10:30 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:00 APM

LOUIS KAPLOW, Harvard University and NBER

 

On the (Ir)Relevance of Distribution and Labor Supply Distortion to Government Policy

 

 

 

Discussant: ROBERTON C. WILLIAMS III, University of Texas, Austin and NBER

 

 

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 p.m.

RESEARCH SKETCHES

 

 

 2:15 p.m.

Break

 

 

 2:30 p.m.

MICHAEL GREENSTONE, MIT and NBER

 

JUSTIN GALLAGHER, MIT

 

Does Hazardous Waste Matter? 

 

Evidence from the Housing Market and the Superfund Program

 

 

 

Discussant: TED GAYER, Georgetown University and American Enterprise Institute

 

 

3:30 p.m.

MATTHEW J. KOTCHEN, Williams College

 

MICHAEL R. MOORE, University of Michigan

 

Conservation Behavior:  From Voluntary Restraint to a Voluntary Price Premium

 

 

 

Discussant:  FELIX OBERHOLZER-GEE, Harvard University and NBER

 

 

 4:30 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 6:00 p.m.

Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 3:

 

 

 8:00 a.m.

Coffee and Doughnuts

 

 

 8:30 a.m.

ERIN MANSUR, Yale University

 

Environmental Regulation in Oligopoly Markets: 

 

A Study of Electricity Restructuring

 

 

 

Discussant: CHAD SYVERSON, University of Chicago and NBER

 

 

9:30 a.m.

YE FENG, University of Texas, Austin

 

DON FULLERTON, University of Texas, Austin and NBER

 

LI GAN, University of Texas, Austin

 

Vehicle Choices, Miles Driven, and Pollution Policies

 

 

 

Discussant:  KENNETH TRAIN, UC Berkeley

 

 

10:30 a.m.

Break

 

 

11:00 a.m.

EDWARD BARBIER, University of Wyoming

 

Frontier Expansion and Resource-Based Development with Spillovers

 

 

 

Discussant:  M. SCOTT TAYLOR, University of Calgary and NBER

 

 

12:00 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

 1:00 p.m.

SUZI KERR and JOANNA HENDY, Motu, New Zealand

 

SHUGUANG LIU, EROS Data Center

 

ALEXANDER PFAFF, Columbia University

 

Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies

 

 

 

Discussant:  KENNETH RICHARDS, Indiana University

 

 

 2:00 p.m.

RONALD SHADBEGIAN, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth

 

WAYNE GRAY, Clark University and NBER

 

CYNTHIA MORGAN, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

 

The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments: Who Got Cleaner AirBand Who Paid for It?

 

 

 

Discussant: DENNY ELLERMAN, MIT

 

 

 3:00 p.m.

Break

 

 

 3:15 p.m.

Two-Paper Session: 

 

 

 

MITCH KUNCE and STEVE HAMILTON, University of Wyoming

 

SHELBY GERKING, University of Central Florida

 

Marketable Permits, Low-Sulfur Coal, and the Behavior of Railroads

 

 

 

MEGHAN BUSSE, UC, Berkeley

 

NATHANIEL KEOHANE, Yale University

 

Who Gained from Environmental Regulation? The 1900 Clean Air Act

 

 

 

 

 

Discussant: SPENCER BANZHAF, Resources for the Future

 

 

 4:45 p.m.

Adjourn

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/11/04