ECON 3680HFA: Research in Environmental Economics

Location: Taubman 401, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Time: Fridays, 12:00-1:00pm

HKS Contacts (Main): Bryan Galcik, Kevin Rowe, Daniel Velez-Lopez
Contact e-mail: bryan_galcik@hks.harvard.edukrowe@g.harvard.eduvelezlopez@fas.harvard.edu

Economics Department Contact: Eric Unverzagt (eunverz@fas.harvard.edu)
Contact phone: 617-496-4798

Spring 2018 Schedule:

Friday, February 2 Aseem Mahajan "The Security Implications of Solar Geoengineering & Countergeoengineering"
February 9 Patrick Behrer "Heat, Labor, and Equity"
February 16 Daniel Stuart "The Impact of Temperature on Asylum Applications: A Reappraisal"
February 23 Will Rafey (MIT) "Market-Based Mechanisms for Climate Adaptation: Some New Evidence"
March 2 Giselle Montamat "Quasi-Experimental Estimates of the Transient Climate Response Using Observational Data"
March 9 Kevin Rowe "The Value of Electricity Reliability in India"
March 23 Matthew Lilley

"Renewable Energy in the Limit"

March 30 Torben Mideksa "Voluntary Prices vs. Voluntary Quantities"
April 6 Megan Bailey "What do we lose by picking clean energy winners? Evidence from EU patents"
April 13 Elizabeth Spink  "Piped Water Access and Customer Non-Payment: Evidence from Zambia"
April 20 Shefali Khanna "Measuring the Gains from Trade in a Market for Decentralized Renewable Energy"
April 27 TBA

 

Course Summary:

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