2026 Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics

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Welcome to the 2026 Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics, hosted this year at Boston College! This conference highlights the latest advances in energy and environmental economics, exploring key policy-oriented issues through the lenses of public economics, development economics, health economics, industrial organization, and macroeconomics.

May 8th-9th 2026 Hosted at Boston College听

Event Details

  • Dates:听Friday and Saturday, May 8th - 19th, 2026
  • Locations: , Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
  • 翱谤驳补苍颈锄别谤蝉:听Edson Severnini (粉红女郎 Economics) and Richard Sweeney (粉红女郎 Economics)
  • The closest hotel to campus is the . It's a ~20 minute walk to campus from there, and there are also 粉红女郎 shuttle buses.
  • Another convenient hotel is the . The Cleveland Circle shuttle bus is accessible after a short T ride from there.

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Program

Friday, May 8, 2026

9:30 AM听Welcome
9:40 AM

鈥淭he Energy Transition, Local Air Pollution, and Mortality鈥澨�

  • *Steve Cicala (Tufts University) & Joshua D. Gottlieb (University of Chicago)
10:25 AM

鈥淭he Value of Nature-Based Adaptation: Evidence that Tree Cover鈥澨�

  • *Andie Creel听听(Yale University)
10:50 AMCoffee
11:00 AM

鈥淭he Efficiency and Equity of New versus Used Electric Vehicle鈥�

  • Hunt Allcott (Stanford University), Levi Kiefer听(Stanford University), *Hyuk-soo Kwon (University of Chicago) & Tess Snyder听(Stanford University)
11:45 AM

Egg Timers (10 mins each)

鈥淟osing the Shield: How Political Connections Shape Environmental Enforcement,鈥澨�

  • *Sanjana Ghosh (Northwestern University) & Elena Stella (Northwestern University)听

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鈥淎verting Deforestation at Scale鈥�

  • *Hannah Rhodenhiser (Boston University)

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鈥淭rade Policy and Food Security,鈥�

  • Levi Crews (UCLA), Christian Hilgemann (Harvard University), *Ishan Nath (Harvard University), Alice Schmitz (UC Berkeley) & Stephanie Stewart (UC Davis)

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鈥淭he General Equilibrium Effects of Renewable Energy Policies,鈥澨�

  • H. Ron Chan (University of Manchester) & *Akshaya Jha (Carnegie Mellon University)

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鈥淓xtreme Heat and Directed Innovation鈥�

  • *Jack Ma (Cornell University)
12:45 PMLunch
2:00 PM

鈥淭he Global Allocative Efficiency of Deforestation鈥澨�

  • *Prakash Mishra (Dartmouth College)
2:45 PM

鈥淗idden Environmental Footprints of Large-Scale AI Training,鈥澨�

  • *Jun Ho Choi听(Columbia University)
3:10 PMCoffee
3:45 PM

鈥淪elf- and Social Signaling: Evidence from Solar Adoption in California鈥澨�

  • Bryan Bollinger (Dartmouth College),听Kenneth Gillingham (Yale University) & *Justin Kirkpatrick (Michigan State University)
4:10 PM

鈥淐an Place-Based Incentives Accelerate the Energy Transition?鈥�

  • Gaurav Doshi (Georgia Institute of Technology), Jancy Ling Liu (The College of Wooster), & *Xiaochen Sun (New Mexico State University)
4:35 PM

鈥淭he (Mis)Allocation Channel of Climate Change鈥�

  • Tianzi Liu (Cornell University) *Zebang Xu (Cornell University)
5:00听 PM听听Reception

Saturday, May 9, 2026

8:30 AM听Breakfast
9:00 AM

鈥淐utting Costs or Cutting Corners: Asset Reallocation in Oil and Gas Production鈥�

  • *Sarah Armitage (Boston University), Judson Boomhower (University of California) & Catherine Hausman (University of Michigan)
9:45 Am

鈥淧ropagation of Extreme Heat in Agriculture鈥�

  • *Guglielmo Zappala (Harvard University)
10:10 AM

鈥淐limate Change and Market Power鈥�

  • Enjie (Jack) Ma (Cornell University), *Hui Zhou听 (University of Rhode Island), Wangyang Lai (Peking University), Ivan Rudik (Cornell University) & Shanjun Li (Standford University)
10:35 AMCoffee
11:00 AM

鈥淐limate Matching, European Settlements and Long-run Development鈥�

  • Alessandra Nicolo (Bocconi University), Marco Tabellini (Harvard University) & *Charles Taylor (Harvard University)
11:45 AM

Egg Timers (10 mins each)

鈥淲ater Allocation and Social Unrest鈥�

  • *Magdalena Larreboure (Harvard University)

鈥淧roperty Insurance Availability and Housing Investment鈥�

  • Yichun Fan, *Abigail Ostriker (Boston University)

鈥淥ptimal Shared Micromobility Taxes with Distributional Concerns鈥澨�

  • Benjamin B. Lockwood (University of Pennsylvania), *Peter Lugthart (University of Pennsylvania), & Arthur A. van Benthem (University of Pennsylvania)

鈥淵ellow to Green: Subsidizing Adoption to Accelerate Learning in Electric School Buses鈥�

  • *Anirudh Pisharam (Boston College)

鈥淐onnection Policy Design for Electricity Access鈥�

  • *Eugene Tan (Columbia University),听Gabriel Gonzalez Sutil, Joel Mugyenyi & Vijay Modi
12:35 PMLunch
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