IZA Workshop on Climate and Environmental Economics: Applied and Behavioral Perspectives

Program
+++ presentation: 30 min +++ Q&A: 10 min +++
Wednesday, May 14
12:30 - 13:00
Lunch & Registration
13:00 - 13:30
Welcome
13:30 - 15:00
Session A: Effective Policy Instruments for Climate Mitigation
Chair: Nico Pestel (Maastricht University and IZA)
Catharina Latka (University of Bonn), Kathy Baylis (UC Santa Barbara), Robert Heilmayr (UC Santa Barbara), Felipe Jordán (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Andrew J. Plantinga (UC Santa Barbara), et al. (UC Santa Barbara)
"Policy Design for Effective and Equitable Reductions in Deforestation Emissions"
Hitoshi Shigeoka (University of Tokyo and IZA), Mika Akesaka (Kobe University)
"Hotter Days, Wider Gap: The Distributional Impact of Heat on Student Achievement"
15:00 - 15:30
Break
15:30 - 17:00
Session B: Public Support and Policy Design for Climate Action
Chair: Nico Pestel (Maastricht University and IZA)
Sandra Bohmann (DIW Berlin), Lars Felder (DIW Berlin), Peter Haan (DIW Berlin and IZA), Laura Schmitz (DIW Berlin), Jürgen Schupp (DIW Berlin and IZA), Merve Kücük (Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC))
"Climate Dividends and Public Support for Carbon Pricing: The Role of Information and Policy Design"
Karolina Rütten (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Matthias Kalkuhl (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Maximilian Kellner (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Andreas Peichl (LMU Munich and IZA), Lisa Windsteiger (University of Salzburg)
"Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Climate Policy Mixes"
17:00 - 17:30
Break
17:30 - 19:00
Policy Roundtable: Harnessing Rigorous Research to Shape Climate Policy and Inform the Public Debate
More info and the registration link are available here.
19:00
Reception
Thursday, May 15
09:00 - 11:00
Session C: Heat, Health, and Public Adaptation
Chair: Julia Mink (University of Bonn and IZA)
Giulia Valenti (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), Filippo Pavanello (ifo Insitute)
"Mortality, Temperature, and Public Adaptation Policy: Evidence from Italy"
Francesco Savazzi (Center for Economics in Paris Saclay (CEPS)), Leonie Wenz (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Manuel Linsenmeier (Princeton University)
"Are Heat Warnings Effective? Mitigating Heat-Related Mortality Through Adaptation"
Tim Ruberg (University of Hohenheim), Lester Lusher (University of Pittsburgh and IZA)
"Unveiling the Unseen Illness: Public Health Warnings and Heat Stroke"
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 13:00
Keynote
Chair: Olivier Deschenes (UC Santa Barbara and IZA)
Tamma Carleton (UC Berkeley), Esther Duflo (MIT), Kelsey Jack (UC Berkeley and IZA), Guglielmo Zappalà (UC Berkeley)
"Adaptation to Climate Change"
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Session D: Climate Change, Education, and Social Behavior
Chair: Juan Palacios (Maastricht University and IZA)
Stefano Carattini (Georgia State University), Pamela Giustinelli (Bocconi University), Marcella Veronesi (Technical University of Denmark)
"Climate Change in the Classroom"
Alexander M. Danzer (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and IZA), Matthias Holzmann (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt )
"Excuse My Behavior: Social Norms and Moral Costs"
15:30 - 16:00
Break
16:00 - 17:30
Session E: Economic Externalities of Environmental Degradation
Chair: Juan Palacios (Maastricht University and IZA)
Lei Li (University of Göttingen and IZA), Xinming Du (NUS), Eric Zou (University of Michigan)
"Trade, Trees, and Lives"
Sandra Aguilar Gomez (Universidad de los Andes), Joshua Graff Zivin (UC San Diego), Matthew Neidell (Columbia University)
"Killer Congestion: Temperature, Healthcare Utilization and Patient Outcomes"
18:30
Dinner
Friday, May 16
09:00 - 11:00
Session F: Environmental Pollution and Human Capital
Chair: Julia Mink (University of Bonn and IZA)
Sarah Chung (University of Miami), Claudia L. Persico (American University and IZA), Jing Liu (University of Maryland and IZA)
"The Effects of Daily Air Pollution on Students and Teachers"
Claudia L. Persico (American University and IZA), Sarah Crittenden Fuller (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"The Cleaner the Air, the Better They Fare: The Effects of Air Filtration on Student Achievement"
11:00 - 11:30
Break
11:30 - 13:00
Keynote
Chair: Olivier Deschenes (UC Santa Barbara and IZA)
Robert Metcalfe (Columbia University), Robert Hahn (University of Oxford), Nathaniel Hendren (MIT), Ben Sprung-Keyser (University of Pennsylvania)
"A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change"
13:00
Lunch & Farewell
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