7th IZA Workshop on Environment and Labor Markets

Wednesday, May 08:

08:45	-	09:15		Registration
09:15	-	09:30		Welcome Remarks
				Session A: Effects of Environmental Policies
09:30	-	10:15		Stefan Lamp (Toulouse School of Economics), Andreas Gerster (University of Mannheim)
				"Electricity Taxation, Firm Production and Competitiveness: Evidence from German Manufacturing"
10:15	-	11:00		Elisabeth Isaksen (London School of Economics), Misato Sato (London School of Economics), Piero Basaglia (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM))
				"Carbon pricing, compensation, and competitiveness: Lessons from UK manufacturing"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:15		Jacquelyn Pless (University of Oxford), Yangsiyu Lu (University of Oxford)
				"The Impact of Environmental Policy on Jobs in China"
12:15	-	13:00		Nico Pestel (IZA), Florian Wozny (IZA)
				"Low Emission Zones for Better Health: Evidence from German Hospitals"
13:00	-	14:00		Lunch
				Session B: Short- and Long-term Impacts of Environmental Pollution I
14:00	-	14:45		Alessandro Palma (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Joanna Kopinska (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Matilde Giaccherini (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
				"When a (Particulate) Matter Strikes the City. Social Disparities and Health Costs of Air Pollution"
14:45	-	15:30		Claudia L. Persico (American University), Joanna Venator (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
				"The Effects of Local Industrial Pollution on Students and Schools"
15:30	-	16:00		Coffee Break
16:00	-	16:45		Mariola Pytlikova (CERGE-EI and IZA), Stepan Mikula (Masaryk University)
				"Air Pollution and Migration – Exploiting a Natural Experiment from the Czech Republic"
				Session C: Energy Markets and Labor Market Outcomes
16:45	-	17:30		Grant Jacobsen (University of Oregon), Dominic Parker (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Justin Winikoff (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
				"The Effects of Resource Booms on People (not Places)"
19:00				Dinner

Thursday, May 09:

				Session D: Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Environmental Pollution II
09:00	-	09:45		Corbett Grainger (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Mingxuan Fan
				"The Impact of Air Pollution on Labor Supply in China"
09:45	-	10:30		Juan Palacios (Maastricht University and IZA), Nico Pestel (IZA), Steffen Künn (Maastricht University and IZA)
				"The Impact of Indoor Climate on Human Cognition: Evidence from Chess Tournaments"
10:30	-	11:00		Coffee Break
				Keynote Presentation
11:00	-	12:30		Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago)
				"Childhood Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wages: Evidence from China"
12:30	-	13:30		Lunch
				Session E: Temperature, Health, and Human Capital
13:30	-	14:15		Joshua Graff Zivin (University of California, San Diego), Yingquan Song (Peking University), Qu Tang (Jinan University), Peng Zhang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
				"Temperature and High-Stakes Cognitive Performance: Evidence from the National College Entrance Examination in China"
14:15	-	15:00		Martin Karlsson (University of Duisburg-Essen and IZA), Nicolas Ziebarth (Cornell University and IZA), Emil Nörmark Sörensen (University of Southern Denmark), Christian Möller Dahl (University of Southern Denmark)
				"Cold and Mortality in a Cross-Sectional and Lifecycle Perspective: Evidence from Competing Models"
15:00	-	15:45		Concluding Remarks and Farewell Coffee