2015 Occasional Workshop Schedule
Mosher Alumni House, UC Santa Barbara
October 2, 2015
7:45-8:25
Registration, coffee, light breakfast
8:25-8:30
Opening Remarks
Session 1. Environmental Policy and Behavior
Chair: Hendrik Wolff, University of Washington
8:30-9:00
Prices Versus Social Nudges For Motivating Energy Conservation
Laura Grant, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Discussant: Jonathan Kadish, UC Berkeley
9:00-9:30
The Not-so Marginal Value of Weather Warning Systems
Ben Miller, RAND Corporation
Economics of a Light Bulb: Experimental Evidence on CFLs and End-User Behavior
Robyn Meeks, University of Michigan
Estimating Returns to Lobbying Using Prediction Markets
Ashwin Rode, University of Chicago
9:30-10:00
Bans Versus Fees: Disposable Carryout Bag Policies and Bag Usage
Rebecca Taylor, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Kevin Roth, UC Irvine
10:00-10:30
A Global Experiment in Black Market Dynamics: The Effect of Legal Ivory Sales on Illegal Ivory
Production
Solomon Hsiang, UC Berkeley
Discussant: Andrew Plantinga, UC Santa Barbara
10:30-11:00
Break
Session 2. Resources
Chair: Gary Libecap, UC Santa Barbara
11:00-11:30
Distributional Effects of Changing Water Rights Institutions in Klamath County, Oregon
Karin Donhowe, UC Santa Barbara
Water Storage Capacities versus Water Use Efficiency: Substitutes or Complements?
Xie Yang, UC Berkeley
Mining and Quasi-Option Value
Charlie Kolstad, Stanford University
Session 3. Fisheries
Chair: Rebecca Toseland, Harvard University
11:30-12:00
An Empirical Model for Estimating State Transitions
Jude Bayham, CSU Chico
The Economic Gains to Accounting for Fisheries Induced Evolution
Amanda Faig, UC Davis
Empirical Evidence on the Economics of Stakeholder Opposition to Fishery Rationalization
Sara Sutherland, UCSB
12:00-1:30
Lunch
Session 4. Environment and Development
Chair: Ram Fishman, George Washington University and Tel Aviv University
1:30-2:00
Information Strategies for Energy Conservation: A Field Experiment in India
Magali Delmas, UCLA
Discussant: Peng Zhang, UC Santa Barbara
2:00-2:30
Deforestation in Malawi: The Role of Agricultural Subsidies and Ethnic Favoritism
Ryan Abman, San Diego State University
Public Health Effects of Ecosystem Degradation: Evidence from Deforestation in Indonesia
Teevrat Garg, London School of Economics
Out of the Darkness and Into the Light?: Development Effects of Rural Electrification in India
Fiona Wilkes, UC Berkeley
2:30-3:00
Infrastructure Development Can Benefit the Environment: Electrification, Agricultural Productivity
and Deforestation in Brazil
Ahmed Mobarak, Yale University
Discussant: Teresa Molina, USC
Session 5. Theory
Chair: Robyn Meeks, University of Michigan
3:00-3:30
Natural Resource Federalism
Daniel Kaffine, University of Colorado-Boulder
Global Reshuffling
Carol McAusland, University of British Columbia
When is a Backstop Not a Backstop?
James Roumasset, University of Hawaii
3:30-4:00
Break
Session 6. Energy
Chair: Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona
4:00-4:30
Path Dependence in U.S. Coal-fired Electricity
Kyle Meng, UC Santa Barbara
Discussant: Discussant: Matt Woerman, UC Berkeley
4:30-5:00
From Fossil Fuels to Renewables: The Role of Electricity Storage
Itzi Lazkano, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
From Plows to Horizontal Fracking: Anti-Commons and Unintended Consequences of Land
Privatization
Bryan Leonard, UC Santa Barbara
Projecting the Impact of Climate Change on U.S. Electricity Load
5:00-7:15
6:15-7:30
Catherine Hausman, University of Michigan
Evening Reception, Marine Science Institute, 2nd floor Deck (see p. for campus map)*
Depart to Santa Barbara*
October 3, 2015
7:45-8:30
Coffee, light breakfast (location: Mosher Alumni House)
Session 7. Adaptation to Climate Change
Chair: Andrew Plantinga, UC Santa Barbara
8:30-9:00
Estimating Adaptation Using Forecasts
Jeffrey Shrader, UC San Diego
Discussant: Hendrik Wolff, University of Washington
9:00-9:30
When Water Runs Out: Scarcity, Adaptation and Migration in Gujarat
Ram Fishman, George Washington University & Tel Aviv University
Climate, Insurance, and Innovation: The Case of the U.S. Agriculture
Ruiqing Miao, Auburn University
Ownership of the Commons and Informal Insurance Against Climate Shocks Insurance
Frederik Noack, UC Santa Barbara
Session 8. Climate Change Policy
Chair: Kyle Meng, UC Santa Barbara
9:30-10:00
The Climate Risk Premium
Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona
Discussant: Gernot Wagner, Environmental Defense Fund
10:00-10:30
The Fragility of Robustness: Climate Policy When Damages are Unknown
Ivan Rudik, Iowa State University
Dynamic Efficiency Costs of Non-Efficiency Objectives in Tradable Permit Programs
Kailin Kroetz, Resources for the Future
An Imperfect Storm: Fat-Tailed Hurricane Damages, Insurance, and Climate Policy
Marc Conte, Fordham University
10:30-11:00
Break
Session 9. Air Pollution and Weather Costs
Chair: Fernando Aragon, Simon Fraser University
11:00-11:30
Canary in a Coal Mine: Impact of Mid-20th Century Air Pollution on Infant Mortality and Property
Values
Edson Severnini, Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant: Christopher Severen, UC Santa Barbara
11:30-12:00
Quantifying the Effect of Extreme Heat on Cognitive Ability: Evidence from the California High
School Exit Exam
James Gillan, UC Berkeley
Strategic Placement of Ambient Pollution Monitors: How Local Regulators Comply with Federal
Rules
Corbett Grainger, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Air Pollution and Defensive Expenditures: Evidence from Particulate-Filtering Facemasks
Junjie Zhang, University of Chicago
Session 10. Climate Change, Agriculture, and Ecosystems
Chair: Eric Edwards, Utah State University
12:00-12:30
Assessing Local Vulnerability to Climate Change in Agriculture: An Application to the State of
Tocantis, Brazil
Miriam Juarez Torres, Bank of Mexico
Discussant: Olivier Deschenes, UC Santa Barbara
12:30-1:00
Farmers, Bats, and Pesticides Use: Using White Nose Syndrome To Learn About The Beneficial
Spillover Effects of Bats on Farmers
Eyal Frank, Columbia University
Harnessing Enforcement Leverage at the Border to Minimize Biological Risk from International Live
Species Trade
Amanda Lindsay, UC Davis
Learning About a Moving Target in Resource Management: Optimal Bayesian Disease Control
Michael Springborn, UC Davis
1:00-2:30
Lunch and Adjourn