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NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Lucas Davis and Larry Goulder, Organizers

April 8-9, 2011

 

SIEPR

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, APRIL 8:

 

Joint Meeting with Public Economics Program

 

12:00 n

 

1:00 pm

Lunch

 

Yuyu Chen, Peking University

Avraham Ebenstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Michael Greenstone, MIT and NBER

Hongbin Li, Tsinghua University

The Long-Run Impact of Air Pollution on Life Expectancy: Evidence from China’s Huai River Policy

 

2:15 pm

H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University and NBER

B. Andrew Chupp, Illinois State University

Heterogeneous Harm vs. Spatial Spillovers: Environmental Federalism and U.S. Air Pollution

 

3:30 pm

 

3:45 pm

 

 

Break

 

Michael Anderson, UC, Berkeley

Maximilian Auffhammer, UC, Berkeley and NBER

Vehicle Weight, Highway Safety, and Energy Policy

 

5:00 pm

 

5:10 pm

Public Economics Program Meeting Adjourns

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting

Discussion of Funding Opportunities

Kerry Smith, Arizona State and NBER

Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University and NBER

Joshua Graff Zivin, UC, San Diego and NBER

 

5:30 pm

Adjourn

 

 

5:45 pm

Shuttle Vans Depart from SIEPR for California Café

 

 

6:15 pm

Group Dinner - California Café, 700 Welch Road, Palo Alto CA

 

 

8:30 pm

Shuttle Vans Depart from California Café for the Sheraton Palo Alto

 

 

SATURDAY, APRIL 9:

 

Environmental and Energy Economics Program Meeting (continued)

 

7:15 am

Shuttle Vans Depart from the Sheraton Palo Alto for SIEPR

7:45 am

Shuttle Vans Depart from the Sheraton Palo Alto for SIEPR

8:00 am

Continental Breakfast


8:30 am


Stephen P. Holland, UNC Greensboro and NBER

Jonathan E. Hughes, University of Colorado at Boulder

Christopher R. Knittel, UC. Davis and NBER

Nathan C. Parker, UC. Davis

Some Inconvenient Truths About Climate Change Policy

 

 

 

 

Discussant:  Soren Anderson, Michigan State University and NBER

 

 

9:30 am

Break

 

 

9:45 am

W. Reed Walker, Columbia University

The Transitional Costs of Policy: Evidence From the Clean Air Act and the Workforce

 

 

 

 

Discussant:  Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College and NBER

 

10:45 am

Break

 

 

11:00 am

Robert Deacon, UC, Santa Barbara

Dominic Parker, Montana State

Christopher Costello, UC Santa Barbara and NBER

The Efficiency Gains from Coordinating Use of a Shared Resource: Evidence from a Self-Selected Fishery Coop

 

 

 

 

Discussant:  Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University and NBER

 

 

12:00 n

Lunch


12:30 pm


Hunt Allcott, MIT

Sendhil Mullainathan, Harvard University and NBER

External Validity and Partner Selection Bias

 

 

Discussant:  Matt Harding, Stanford University

 

 

1:30 pm

Adjourn