the Online Summer Workshop in Environment, Energy, and Transportation (Economics)
| What? |
One Friday each month, we will host an online seminar series with three short presentations (15 minutes each)—followed by a happy hour! Papers and videos will not be circulated. |
| Who? |
For presenters, we’re targeting graduate students, postdocs, and early-career assistant professors. We may adjust selection based upon supply. There will be no discussants, but we will provide a time for questions after each paper. We will try and cluster papers by topic. The organizers of [email protected] include Max Auffhammer (UC Berkeley); Sarah Jacobson (Williams); Ariel Ortiz-Bobea (Cornell); Ed Rubin (Oregon); Katherine Wagner (UBC). |
| When? |
Friday; see schedule below. |
| Where? |
Zoom. We will send out a Zoom link to presenters and audience members. |
| More? |
This workshop is a supportive and constructive environment to present research (but you still have to bring your own beer/coffee/snacks to happy hour). |
Interested? Please join the mailing list and/or apply to present! (And tell your friends.)
Upcoming events
Air Quality: 24 February 2023
Friday, 24 February 2023, 11AM-12PM Pacific (2PM–3PM Eastern), followed by happy hour
Register for the Zoom link.
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| 11:00AM PST (2:00PM EST) |
Air pollution and mental illness Soodeh Saberian (U Manitoba) |
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| 11:20AM PST (2:20PM EST) |
Non-market damages of wildfire smoke: evidence from administrative recreation data Jacob Gellman (UC Santa Barbara) |
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| 11:40AM PST (2:40PM EST) |
Still your grandfather’s boiler: Estimating the effects of the Clean Air Act’s grandfathering provisions Jack Gregory (UC Davis) |
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| 12:00PM PST (3:00PM EST) |
Happy hour! |
Past events
2022
Climate, organization, and ag: 2022/06/10
| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
The role of local institutions in climate resilience: Historical evidence from soil conservation districts in the post-dust bowl Great Plains region Aparna Howlader (Rhode Island) |
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| 1:20PM PST (4:20PM EST) |
Multinationals vs Mother Nature? The impact of multinational firms on the environment Frederik Noack (UBC) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
Internal migration and the organization of agriculture Raahil Madhok (UBC) |
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| 2:00PM PST (5:00PM EST) |
Happy hour! |
Energy: 2022/05/13
| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
Energy transition metals: Bottleneck for net-zero emissions? Lukas Boer (DIW Berlin) |
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| 1:20PM PST (4:20PM EST) |
Policy legacies and energy transitions: Greening policies under sectoral reforms in Argentina and Chile Santiago Cunial (UPenn) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
Price discrimination on choice frictions in residential electricity markets Jenya Kahn-Lang (UC Berkeley) |
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| 2:00PM PST (5:00PM EST) |
Happy hour! |
Env. & energy in India: 2022/04/29
| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
Burned agricultural biomass, air pollution, and crime Abubakr Ayesh (Michigan State) |
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| 1:20PM PST (4:20PM EST) |
Electricity market design and market-based environmental policy in India Shefali Khanna (Imperial College London) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
Economic and demographic effects of increased flood susceptibility: Evidence from rural India Osama Sajid (Cornell) |
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| 2:00PM PST (5:00PM EST) |
Happy hour! |
Justice and political economy: 2022/04/01
| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
Stubble burning and forest fires: Effect on child height in India Prachi Singh (EDF) |
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| 1:20PM PST (4:20PM EST) |
Visibility and vulnerability: Aid allocations after the 2015 Nepal earthquake Matthew Gordon (Yale) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
Does the media respond to political messaging? Evidence from local newspaper coverage of climate change Graham Beattie (Loyola Marymount) |
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| 2:00PM PST (5:00PM EST) |
Happy hour! |
Water and climate: 2022/03/18
| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
Regulator preferences and underinvestment in water infrastructure Chunyu Guo (SUNY Albany) |
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| 1:20PM PST (4:20PM EST) |
Regional water transfer and economic growth: A synthetic control case study Arpita Nehra (Utah State) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
Near-term climate damages under flexible adaptation times Maximilian Kotz (Potsdam) |
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| 2:00PM PST (5:00PM EST) |
Happy hour! |
Food and waste: 2022/03/04
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| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
Household responses to a corrective tax and climate change mitigation: Evidence from food waste tax Seunghoon Lee (MIT) |
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| 1:20PM PST (4:20PM EST) |
Market potential for domestic herbs: A new variant of “consequentiality” for valuing contingent private goods Twinkle Roy (Georgia) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
Rethinking recycling? The effects of China’s waste-import ban on pollution relocation in the U.S. Shan Zhang (Oregon) |
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| 2:00PM PST (5:00PM EST) |
Happy hour! |
Tech. adoption: 2022/02/18
| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
Split incentives and endogenous inattention in home retrofits uptake: A story of selection on unobservables? Stefano Cellini (Surrey) |
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| 1:20PM PST (4:20PM EST) |
Early warning systems, mobile technology, and cholera aversion: Evidence from rural Bangladesh Emily Pakhtigian (Penn State) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
Using targeting to optimize program design: Evidence from an energy conservation experiment Muxi Yang (Cornell) |
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| 2:00PM PST (5:00PM EST) |
Happy hour! |
Energy: 2022/02/04
| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
Optimal energy subsidies with multiple policy instruments: The case for finite-time-horizon policies Owen Kay (Michigan) |
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| 1:20PM PST (4:20PM EST) |
Capital versus output subsidies with an inconsistent regulator Asa Watten (EPA) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
Decomposing the effect of renewables on the electricity sector Paige Weber (UNC) |
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| 2:00PM PST (5:00PM EST) |
Happy hour! |
Pollution and driving: 2022/01/21
| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
Does it measure up? A comparison of pollution exposure assessment techniques applied across hospitals in England Dheeya Rizmie (Imperial College London) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
Peer Effects in Electric Vehicle Adoption: Evidence from the Swedish Vehicle Market Sebastian Tebbe (IIES) |
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| 2:00PM PST (5:00PM EST) |
Happy hour! |
2021
Perception and conservation: 2021/12/13
| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
The role of information in the Rosen-Roback framework Ran Song (Yale-NUS) |
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| 1:20PM PST (4:20PM EST) |
Do subjective perceptions shape adaptation to climate change? Evidence from Bangladesh Guglielmo Zappala (Paris School of Economics) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
The cost of saving the Amazon Rabail Chandio (Ohio State) |
Behavior: 2021/11/12
| 1:00PM PST (4:00PM EST) |
Choice architecture 2.0: Embedding reflection in nudges to promote low carbon diets Sanchayan Banerjee (LSE) |
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| 1:20PM PST (4:20PM EST) |
Mental scarcity and collective action Todd Guilfoos (University of Rhode Island) |
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| 1:40PM PST (4:40PM EST) |
Role of gender identity on conservation practice choice in an agricultural land leasing context: A lab experiment Diya Ganguly (University of Nebraska–Lincoln) |
Air and externalities: 2021/10/29
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Strategic local regulators and the efficacy of national pollution standards Ruohao Zhang (Northwestern) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Environmental externalities and social contact: Evidence from refinery pollution in the U.S. Xinming Du (Columbia) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Local inequalities generated by fracking, remote sensing of neighborhood transformation Arman Khachiyan (UCSD) |
Transportation: 2021/10/08
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Uncertainty in preferences for recharging electric vehicles Gracia Bruchmann (Bern) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Effects of public transit fares increases on gasoline consumption: High-frequency evidence from China Yuchen Wang (Pitt) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
For whom the bridge tolls: Congestion, air pollution, and second-best road pricing Matthew Tarduno (UC Berkeley) |
Enviro: 2021/09/24
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Disentangling the many-to-many mapping of natural capital and ecosystem services Ethan Addicott (Yale) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Technology transitions and the timing of environmental policy: Evidence from efficient lighting Sarah Armitage (Harvard) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Cost-effectiveness and robustness of conservation measures in agricultural landscapes facing climate change Charlotte Gerling (TU Berlin) |
Ag + Climate: 2021/09/10
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Can recycled water cure all? Coastal agriculture’s battle with seawater intrusion and groundwater overdraft Molly Sears (UC Berkeley) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Cicadian rhythm: Insecticides, infant health, and long-term outcomes Charles Taylor (Columbia) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Is working at home a way of adaptation to climate change? Wensu Li (Trinity) |
Disasters: 2021/08/27
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
The dynamic impacts of floods on households: The case of Nigeria in 2012 Mook Bangalore (LSE) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
The impact of drought on structural transformation in India Sayahnika Basu (UCSD) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
People use park with people: evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic Andie Creel (Yale) |
Water, energy, behavior: 2021/08/13
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Beware of side effects? Spillover evidence from a hot water intervention Harald Mayr (ETH Zurich) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Incentives for the energy transition: Feed-in tariffs, rebates, or a hybrid design? Marta Talevi (Yale) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Culpable consumption: Residential response to price and non-price drought measures James Sears (UC Berkeley) |
Agriculture: 2021/07/02
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Engaging Farmers Through Tailored Information Collin Weigel (California Air Resources Board) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
The Promise of Crop Substitution Programs James Sayre (UC Berkeley) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Climate Change, The Food Problem, and the Challenge of Adaptation through Sectoral Reallocation Ishan Nath (Chicago) |
Energy: 2021/06/11
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
The First to Bear the Brunt: China’s Energy Program Evaluation Xiangyu Meng (Georgia State) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
CAFE Standards or Gasoline Taxes: A Structural Study of Fuel Saving Under Different Policies Siqi Liu (Brandeis) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Policy Design and the Effects of Heavy-Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy Standards Stephanie Weber (Yale) |
Pollution: 2021/05/28
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Environmental regulation and firm size Muhammad Haseeb (Geneva) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
COVID-19 pandemic reveals persistent disparities in NO2 pollution Gaige Kerr (George Washington) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
The distributional consequences of environmental regulation Danae Hernandez-Cortez (UC Santa Barbara) |
Energy & extraction: 2021/05/07
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Downwind and out: The strategic dispersion of power plants and their pollution John Morehouse (Oregon) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Do credit constraints explain the energy efficiency gap? Evidence from the U.S. new vehicle market Kevin Ankney (Georgetown) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Mining, deforestation and the global commodity boom Victoria Wenxin Xie (Santa Clara) |
Transportation: 2021/04/23
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
The effect of shale drilling on Native lands: An IV approach Anna Malinovskaya (Cornell) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Adaptation and mitigation of air pollution: evidence from air quality warnings Sandra Aguilar-Gómez (Columbia) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
The time-of-day travel demand elasticity paradox Cody Nehiba (LSU) |
Energy: 2021/04/09
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Wind power penetration impacts on wholesale electricity market prices: Evidence from quantile regression approach Bolarinwa Ajanaku (West Virginia) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Short- and long-run effects of electricity grid expansion Gaurav Doshi (Wisconsin) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Theoretical and empirical evaluation of a competitive energy rebate program Chi Ta (Illinois) |
Climate: 2021/03/26
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
The Social Costs of NIMBYism: Evidence from Renewable Energy Projects in the United Kingdom Stephen Jarvis (Mannheim) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Optimal Timing of Electric Vehicle Subsidies Qingran Li (Duke) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Linking Carbon Markets with Different Initial Conditions Matt Woerman (UMass Amherst) |
Inequality: 2021/03/12
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Credit and attention in the adoption of profitable energy efficient technologies in Kenya Susanna Berkouwer (Penn Wharton) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Air pollution, health, and racial disparities: Evidence from ports Pei Huang (ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Can mining change regressive cultural norms? Evidence on acceptance of domestic violence and shared decision-making in india James Ji (Brandeis) |
Agriculture: 2021/02/26
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Nutritional Impact of Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) in Rural China Wumeng He (Duke) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Sustainable Agriculture, Residue Burning, and Urban Infant Mortality: Evidence from Mexico Joel Ferguson (UC Berkeley) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Spillovers to Manufacturing Plants from Multimillion Dollar Plantations: Evidence from the Indonesian Palm Oil Boom Sebastian Kraus (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change) |
Floods: 2021/02/12
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Draining the swamp: Wetlands, flood mitigation, and the Clean Water Act Hannah Druckenmiller (UC Berkeley) |
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| 1:30PM PDT (4:30PM EDT) |
Inundated by change: The effects of land use on flood damages Wesley Howden (UCSD) |
Air quality: 2021/01/22
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Exploring the impacts of air pollution on sleep Dheeya Rizmie (Imperial College London) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Pollution Monitoring, Strategic Behavior, and Dynamic Representativeness Lin Yang (Cornell) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
The Grandkids Aren’t Alright: The Intergenerational Effects of Prenatal Pollution Exposure Jonathan Colmer (Virginia) |
2020
Pollution and environmental policy: 2020/12/11
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Earth, Wind, and Fire: The impact of anti-poverty efforts on Indian agriculture and pollution Patrick Behrer (Stanford) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Free Power, Irrigation, and Groundwater Depletion: Impact of the Farm Electricity Policy of Punjab, India Disha Gupta (Delhi School of Economics) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Strategic Shutdowns of Air Quality Monitors: Evidence from Jersey City and Across the U.S. Eric Zou (Oregon) |
Water and disasters: 2020/11/13
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Local public finance dynamics and hurricane shocks Rhiannon Jerch (Temple) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
The health effects of floods on the urban poor Michelle Escobar (Monash) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Infrastructure Upgrades and Lead Exposure: Do Cities Face Trade-Offs When Replacing Water Mains Ludovica Gazze (Warwick) with Jennifer Heissel |
Electricity markets: 2020/20/30
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Levelized Full System Costs of Electricity: A Novel Approach to Evaluate Intermittent Generation Robert Idel (Rice) |
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| 1:20PM PDT (4:20PM EDT) |
Large-Scale Wind Power Investment’s Impact on Wholesale Electricity Markets Omer Karaduman (Stanford) |
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| 1:40PM PDT (4:40PM EDT) |
Bunching in Residential Electricity Consumption Laura Grant (Claremont McKenna College) with Becka Brolinson |
Climate/adaptation: 2020/10/16
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
The Ins and Outs of Employment: Labor Market Adjustments to Carbon Taxes Chi Man Yip (Calgary) |
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| 1:15PM PDT (4:15PM EDT) |
The problem with pricing “carbon”: exploring forest-driven albedo effects in DICELAND Emily McGlynn (UC Davis) |
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| 1:30PM PDT (4:30PM EDT) |
Water Availability and Heat-Related Mortality: Evidence from South Africa Kelly Hyde (Pittsburgh) |
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| 1:45PM PDT (4:45PM EDT) |
Adaptation and Adverse Selection in Markets for Natural Disaster Insurance Katherine Wagner (Stanford/UC Berkeley) |
Policy/spillovers: 2020/10/02
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Effect of Nuclear Power Plants on Local Crop Yields Daniyar Zhumadilov (NC State) |
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| 1:15PM PDT (4:15PM EDT) |
Women Leaders Improve Local Environmental Outcomes Meera Mahadevan (UC Irvine) |
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| 1:30PM PDT (4:30PM EDT) |
Cap-and-trade vs. Carbon Taxes: Efficiency Implications of Emissions Price Volatility in the Power Sector Felipe Gómez Trejos (ASU) |
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| 1:45PM PDT (4:45PM EDT) |
The Spillover Effects of Pollution: How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom Ludovica Gazze (Warwick) |
Climate: 2020/09/18
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Adaptation to Natural Disaster through Better Information: Evidence from Home Seller Disclosure Requirement Seunghoon Lee (Chicago) |
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| 1:15PM PDT (4:15PM EDT) |
Climate and Irrigated Agriculture: Evidence from Cash Rents Nicholas Potter (Washington State) |
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| 1:30PM PDT (4:30PM EDT) |
Climate Change and Adaptation in Global Supply-Chain Networks Nora Pankratz (UCLA) |
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| 1:45PM PDT (4:45PM EDT) |
Reactive Adaptation to Temperature Extremes: The Remarkable Decline in Temperature-Yield Relationship in Chinese Agriculture Over 1981–2010 Di Wang (UC Santa Barbara) |
Transportation: 2020/09/04
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Optimal Carbon Tax in Oligopolies: An Application to Commercial Aviation Diego Cardoso (Cornell) |
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| 1:15PM PDT (4:15PM EDT) |
What Drives Battery Electric Vehicle Adoption? Christina Gore (Ohio State) |
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| 1:30PM PDT (4:30PM EDT) |
Do Safety Inspections Improve Saftey? Evidence from the Saftey Inspection Program for Commercial Motor Vehicles Yuanning Liang (Cornell) |
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| 1:45PM PDT (4:45PM EDT) |
Double Marginalization and the Paths of Natural Gas Gathering Pipelines Richard DiSalvo (Princeton) |
Resources: 2020/08/21
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Scenes from a Monopoly: Renewable Resources and Quickest Detection of Regime Shifts Neha Deopa (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) |
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| 1:15PM PDT (4:15PM EDT) |
Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru’s Anchoveta Fishery Gabriel Englander (UC Berkeley) |
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| 1:30PM PDT (4:30PM EDT) |
Forest Landowner Harvest Decisions in a New Era of Conservation Stewardship and Changing Markets in Maine USA Jianheng Zhao (Maine) |
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| 1:45PM PDT (4:45PM EDT) |
The Texas Grand Slam: Robbed by Red Tides? Jesse Backstrom (Chicago) |
Agriculture: 2020/08/07
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Size-Based Regulations and Environmental Quality: Evidence from the U.S. Livestock Industry Chen-Ti Chen (Iowa State University) |
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| 1:15PM PDT (4:15PM EDT) |
Beyond Lights: The Changing Impact of Rural Electrification on Indian Agriculture Sudatta Ray (Stanford) |
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| 1:30PM PDT (4:30PM EDT) |
The Economic Impact of Schistosomiasis Daniele Rinaldo (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) |
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| 1:45PM PDT (4:45PM EDT) |
Agricultural Labor Exits Increase Crop Fires: Regression-Discontinuity Evidence from a Rural Road-Construction Program in India Hemant Pullabhotla (Stanford) |
Air quality: 2020/07/24
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Pollution and Mortality: Estimating Damages Using Pollutant-Specific Abatement Technologies Casey Rozowski (NC State) |
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| 1:15PM PDT (4:15PM EDT) |
Pollution and Acquisition: The Environmental Justice Effects of Mergers Irene Jacqz (Harvard) |
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| 1:30PM PDT (4:30PM EDT) |
What Driving Bans Tell Us About the Lasting Health Legacy of Diesel Pollution Hannah Klauber (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change) |
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| 1:45PM PDT (4:45PM EDT) |
Hurricane Induced Discharges from Superfund Sites: A Hedonic Price Analysis of Local Real Estate Market Responses Mehrnoosh Asadi (Florida International University) |
Energy: 2020/07/10
| 1:00PM PDT (4:00PM EDT) |
Strategies, Renewables and Pass Through Costs in the German Day-Ahead Electricity Market Gloria Colmenares (The University of Münster) |
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| 1:15PM PDT (4:15PM EDT) |
The Effect on Total Electricity Consumption of Behavioral Changes in Response to Time-Varying Pricing in the Residential Sector Tabaré Capitán (University of Wyoming) |
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| 1:30PM PDT (4:30PM EDT) |
Contracting for Electricity in Low Income Countries: the Role of Liquidity Constraints and Transaction Costs Megan Lang (UC Berkeley) |
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| 1:45PM PDT (4:45PM EDT) |
Optimization and Pricing of Ancillary Services in Low-Carbon Electricity Grids Luis Badesa (Imperial College London) |