Schedule
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Forests
When: Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Where: Zoom link.
Program:
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Environmental Policies That Shape Productivity: Evidence from Cattle Ranching in the Amazon Fanny Moffette (Wisconsin-Madison), Marin Skidmore (Wisconsin-Madison) and Holly K. Gibbs (Wisconsin-Madison) Discussant: Ryan Abman (San Diego State) |
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Efficient Forestation in the Brazilian Amazon: Evidence from a Dynamic Model Rafael Araujo (FGV EPGE/CPI), Francisco Costa (FGV EPGE/Delaware) and Marcelo Sant’Anna (FGV EPGE) Discussant: Torfinn Harding (Stavanger/NHH) |
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Is Global Deforestation under Lockdown? Santiago Saavedra (Universidad del Rosario) Discussant: Po Yin Wong (Hong Kong Monetary Authority) |
Past events
Environmental regulation
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
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Optimal Global Cost-Benefit Analysis—Policies That Save Lives Lara Aleluia Reis (RFF-CMCC EIEE), Laurent Drouet (RFF-CMCC EIEE), and Massimo Tavoni (Politecnico di Milano and RFF-CMCC EIEE) Discussant: Katherine Wagner (Stanford/UC Berkeley) |
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The Impact of Environmental Regulation on Product Quality: Evidence from Chinese Exporters Longzhou Wang (Calgary) Discussant: Shaoda Wang (Chicago) |
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Is Air Pollution Regulation Too Stringent? Joseph S. Shapiro (UC Berkeley) and Reed Walker (UC Berkeley) Discussant: Dana Andersen (Alberta) |
Climate impacts
Wednesday, 20 May 2020, 7AM-8:40AM PST
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Can Social Protection Reduce Environmental Damages? Teevrat Garg (UCSD), Gordon C. McCord (UCSD) and Aleister Montfort (World Bank) Discussant: Achyuta Adhvaryu (Michigan) |
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Global food prices, local weather and migration in Sub-Saharan Africa Lars Ludolph (LSE) and Barbora Sedova (MCC Berlin) Discussant: Joyce Chen (Ohio State) |
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Climate Contagion: Temperature and Growth in Spatial General Equilibrium Gary Lyn (Iowa State), Ariel Ortiz-Bobea (Cornell), Ivan Rudik (Cornell) Discussant: Joe Shapiro (UC Berkeley) |
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Heat and Health: A Tale of a Tropical City Vinicius Peçanha (UBC), Rudi Rocha (FGV), Dimitri Szerman (Mannheim) Discussant: François Coen (Oxford) |
Inequality in environmental access and outcomes
Wednesday, 06 May 2020, 7AM-9AM PST
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Long-term effects of weather during gestation on education and labor outcomes: Evidence from Peru Manuel Barrón (Universidad del Pacifico), Sam Heft-Neal (Stanford), and Tania Perez (Universidad del Pacifico) Discussant: Ludovica Gazze (Chicago/Warwick) |
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The Epidemic Effect: On the Politics and Economic Burden of Infectious Disease Belinda Archibong (Barnard/Columbia), Francis Annan (Georgia State), and Uche Ekhator-Mobayode (Pittsburgh Bradford) Discussant: S.K. Ritadhi (Reserve Bank of India) |
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Yellow Vests, Carbon Tax Aversion, and Biased Beliefs Thomas Douenne (PSE/Amsterdam) and Adrien Fabre (PSE/ETH Zürich) Discussant: Soren Anderson (Michigan State) |
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Inequality, Information Failures, and Air Pollution Catherine Hausman (Michigan) and Samuel Stolper (Michigan) Discussant: Jonathan Colmer (Virginia) |
How are environmental economists contributing to COVID-19 knowledge/solutions?
Wednesday, 22 April 2020, 7AM-9AM PST
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UV radiation decreases COVID-19 growth rate: Global causal estimates and seasonal implications Tamma Carleton (Chicago; UCSB), Jules Cornetet (PSE), Peter Huybers (Harvard), Kyle Meng (UCSB), and Jon Proctor (Harvard) Discussant: Frances Moore (UC Davis) |
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COVID-19, city lockdowns, and air pollution Guojun He (HKUST), Yuhang Pan (HKUST), and Takanao Tanaka (HKUST) Discussant: Shuang Zheng (Colorado) |
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Social distancing measures following the COVID-19 epidemic had positive environmental consequences Maurizio Malpede (Bocconi), Marco Percoco (Bocconi), and Valentina Bosetti (Bocconi; RFF-CMC) |
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Modeling of individual behavior in coupled economic-epidemiological models affects projections of disease dynamics, economic outcomes, and policy impacts Thomas Ash (USC), Ana Bento (Indiana), Antonio Bento (USC), Daniel Kaffine (Colorado), and Akhil Rao (Middlebury) |
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Using real cell phone data to model behavior in an economic-epidemiological model of COVID-19 Jude Bayham (Colorado State) and Eli Fenichel (Yale) Discussant: Juan Moreno Cruz (Waterloo) |