3rd IZA Workshop: Labor Market Effects of Environmental Policies

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Thursday, August 27:

09:00	-	09:15		Registration
09:15	-	09:30		Welcome Olivier Deschenes (University of California, Santa Barbara and IZA) Alexander Spermann (IZA)
				Session A: Temperature, Human Capital and Income
09:30	-	10:15		Joshua Wilde (University of South Florida), Benedicte Apouey (Paris School of Economics), Toni Jung (University of California, Davis)
				"Heat Waves at Conception and Later Life Outcomes"
10:15	-	11:00		Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois), Solomon Hsiang (University of California, Berkeley)
				"Does the Environment Still Matter? Daily Temperature and Income in the United States"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:15		Maya Rossin-Slater (University of California, Santa Barbara), Adam Isen (Office of Tax Analysis, Department of the Treasury), Reed Walker (UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business)
				"Heat and Long-Run Human Capital Formation"
				Session B: Environmental Regulation, Sectoral Employment and Circular Economy
12:15	-	13:00		Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona), Charles He (University of Arizona and Amazon.com), Eric A. Lutz (University of Arizona), Jefferey L. Burgess (University of Arizona)
				"Productivity, Safety, and Regulation in Coal Mining: Evidence from Disasters and Fatalities"
13:00	-	14:00		Lunch / Restaurant Hotel Westin Grand
14:00	-	14:45		Francesco Vona (Sciences Po, Paris), Giovanni Marin (IRCrES-CNR, Italy and OFCE-Sciences Po, France), Davide Consoli (Ingenio CSIC-UPV, Spain), David Popp (Department of Public Administration and International Affairs, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University and NBER, US)
				"Green Skills"
14:45	-	15:30		Jens Horbach (University of Applied Sciences Augsburg) and Alexander Spermann (IZA) “Circular Economy: Good News for the Environment and the Labor Market?"
15:30	-	16:00		Coffee Break
16:00	-	16:45		Katrin Sommerfeld (ZEW), Andreas Löschel (Münster University and ZEW), Benjamin Lutz (ZEW)
				"Size Does Matter: Firm Size Effects from Environmental Regulation on Employment using Quantile Regression"
16:45	-	17:30		Mark Curtis (Wake Forest University)
				"The Employment Impact of Tightening the Ozone Non-Attainment Standards: Evidence from the 2004 Expansion"
17:30	-	18:15		Ann Ferris (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency), Alex Marten (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
				"Welfare Impacts and Labor Market Effects of Environmental Regulations"
19:30				Dinner / Restaurant "Brasserie am Gendarmenmarkt"

Friday, August 28:

				Session C: Environmental Pollution, Human Capital and Productivity
09:30	-	10:15		Reed Walker (University of California, Berkeley and IZA), Joseph S. Shapiro (Yale University)
				"Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Trade, Regulation, Productivity, and Preferences"
10:15	-	11:00		Edson R. Severnini (Carnegie Mellon University and IZA)
				"Nuclear Shutdown, Coal Power Generation, and Infant Health: Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the 1980s"
11:00	-	11:30		Coffee Break
11:30	-	12:15		Dave E. Marcotte (American University and IZA)
				"Something in the Air? Air Quality and Children’s Cognitive Development and Functioning"
12:15	-	13:00		Haoming Liu (National University of Singapore and IZA), Teng Li (National University of Singapore), Alberto Salvo (National University of Singapore)
				"Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity"
13:00	-	14:00		Lunch / Restaurant Hotel Westin Grand
14:00	-	14:45		Tom Chang (University of Southern California), Joshua Graff Zivin (University of California, San Diego), Tal Gross (Columbia University), Mathew Neidell (Columbia University)
				"Pollution, Productivity, and Sorting: Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China"
14:45	-	15:30		Ronald Shadbegian (National University of Singapore), Ann E. Ferris (U.S. EPA - National Center for Environmental Economics), Sue Helper (Case Western Reserve), Alexandre Mas (Princeton University, NBER and IZA)
				"Can Increases in Local Air Quality Lead to Higher Labor Productivity?"
15:30	-	16:15		Annabelle Krause-Pilatus (IZA), Shyamal Chowdhury (University of Sydney), Klaus F. Zimmermann (IZA and University of Bonn)
				"Arsenic Contamination of Drinking Water and Mental Health"
16:15	-	16:45		Closing Remarks

Tom Chang (University of Southern California)
Mark Curtis (Wake Forest University)
Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois)
Olivier Deschenes (University of California, Santa Barbara and IZA)
Ann Ferris (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)
Gautam Gowrisankaran (University of Arizona)
Jens Horbach (University of Applied Sciences Augsburg)
Annabelle Krause (IZA)
Andreas Lichter (IZA)
Haoming Liu (National University of Singapore and IZA)
Dave E. Marcotte (American University and IZA)
Olga Nottmeyer (IZA)
Nico Pestel (IZA)
Maya Rossin-Slater (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Edson R. Severnini (Carnegie Mellon University and IZA)
Ronald Shadbegian (National University of Singapore)
Katrin Sommerfeld (ZEW)
Alexander Spermann (IZA)
Francesco Vona (Sciences Po, Paris)
Reed Walker (University of California, Berkeley and IZA)
Joshua Wilde (University of South Florida)

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