Course Syllabus
Fall 2021 | Fridays 12:00 - 1:00 pm ET | Hybrid: HKS T-401 and Zoom
Course Description: Participants discuss recent research in environmental and natural resource economics and present their own work in progress. Students must complete both parts of this course (parts A and B) within the same academic year in order to receive credit.
Format: Unless specified otherwise, meetings will be held in a hybrid format. Participants will be able to attend meetings in-person at Harvard Kennedy School, Room T-401, or virtually via Zoom. The Zoom link and passcode are available in the PDF schedule below and will be sent to the Workshop email list. NOTE: the 9/3 faculty panel will be fully virtual.
Speaker Schedule:
Date | Speaker 1 | Speaker 2 | Title |
September 3 | -- | -- |
VIRTUAL Faculty Panel with Professors Clare Balboni (MIT), Rema Hanna (Harvard), Rob Stavins (Harvard), and Jim Stock (Harvard) |
September 10 | Parinitha Sastry (MIT) | -- | "Underwater Underwriting: Bank Screening and Credit Rationing in Flood Zones" |
September 17 | Sarah Armitage (Harvard) | -- | "Technology Transitions and the Timing of Environmental Policy: Evidence from Efficient Lighting" |
September 24 | Frank Pinter (Harvard) | -- |
"Regulatory Mandates and Electric Vehicle Product Variety" (with Sarah Armitage) |
October 1 | Eleanor Krause (Harvard) [30 min] | Stephanie Kestelman (Harvard) [30 min] |
Krause: "Where does air quality matter? New evidence from the housing market" (joint with Tridevi Chakma) Kestelman: “More than misallocation: environmental costs of housing supply restrictions” |
October 8 | Aseem Mahajan (Harvard) | -- |
"Public Adaptation and the Politics of Land Use: Evidence from the Massachusetts Vulnerability Preparedness Program" |
October 15 | Kelsey Larson (MIT) | -- | "Preserving the Right Places: Conservation Easement Tax Incentives and Land Quality" |
October 22 | Max Vilgalys (MIT) | -- | “Semiparametric Estimation of Damages from Extreme Heat: Simulation Results” |
October 29 | Tridevi Chakma (Harvard) [30 min] | Jacob Bradt (Harvard) [30 min] |
Chakma: "Racial disparities in heat exposure" Bradt: "Sorting and Endogenous Travel Cost: An Application to the Clean Air Act" |
November 5 | Karl Aspelund (MIT) | -- | "Who Gets the Fish? Allocative Efficiency in the Commons" |
November 12 | Marcos Barrozo (Harvard) | -- | "Geography, Market Power, and Supply Chain Regulation in the Amazon" |
November 19 | -- | -- | TBA |
December 3 | Elizabeth Spink (Harvard) | -- | "Household Willingness to Pay for Piped Water Service Quality: Evidence from Zambia" |
Course Summary:
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