2026 Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics

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On May 8th - 9th, Boston College hosted the 2026 Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics. This conference highlighted the latest advances in energy and environmental economics, and explored key policy-oriented issues through the lenses of public economics, development economics, health economics, industrial organization, and macroeconomics.

Event Details

  • Dates:听Friday and Saturday, May 8th - 9th, 2026
  • Locations: , Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
  • 翱谤驳补苍颈锄别谤蝉:听Edson Severnini (51动漫 Economics) and Richard Sweeney (51动漫 Economics)

Program

Friday, May 8, 2026

9:30 AM听Welcome
9:40 AM

淭he Energy Transition, Local Air Pollution, and Mortality澨�

  • * (Tufts University) & (University of Chicago)
10:25 AM

淭he Value of Nature-Based Adaptation: Evidence that Tree Cover澨�

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

淭he Economics of New versus Used Electric Vehicle Subsidies"

  • (Stanford University), 听(Stanford University), * (University of Chicago) & 听(Stanford University)
11:45 AM

Egg Timers (10 mins each)

淟osing the Shield: How Political Connections Shape Environmental Enforcement,澨�

  • * (Northwestern University) & Northwestern University)听

听

淎verting Deforestation at Scale�

  • * (Boston University)

听

淭rade Policy and Food Security,�

  • (UCLA), (Harvard University), * (Harvard University), (UC Berkeley) & (UC Davis)

听

淭he General Equilibrium Effects of Renewable Energy Policies,澨�

  • (University of Manchester) & * (Carnegie Mellon University)

听

淓xtreme Heat and Directed Innovation�

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

淭he Global Allocative Efficiency of Deforestation澨�

  • * (Dartmouth College)
2:45 PM

淗idden Environmental Footprints of Large-Scale AI Training,澨�

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

淪elf- and Social Signaling: Evidence from Solar Adoption in California澨�

  • (Dartmouth College),听 (Yale University) & * (Michigan State University)
4:10 PM

淐an Place-Based Incentives Accelerate the Energy Transition?�

  • * (Georgia Institute of Technology), (The College of Wooster), & (New Mexico State University)
4:35 PM

淭he (Mis)Allocation Channel of Climate Change�

  • (Cornell University) * (Cornell University)
5:00听 PM听听Reception

Saturday, May 9, 2026

8:30 AM听Breakfast
9:00 AM

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

  • * (Boston University), (University of California) & (University of Michigan)
9:45 Am

淧ropagation of Extreme Heat in Agriculture�

  • * (Harvard University)
10:10 AM

淐limate Change and Market Power�

  • (Cornell University), *听 (University of Rhode Island), (Peking University), (Cornell University) & (Standford University)
10:35 AMCoffee
11:00 AM

淐limate Matching, European Settlements and Long-run Development�

  • (Bocconi University), (Harvard University) & * (Harvard University)
11:45 AM

Egg Timers (10 mins each)

淲ater Allocation and Social Unrest�

  • * (Harvard University)

听

淧roperty Insurance Availability and Housing Investment�

  • (Duke), * (Boston University)

听

淥ptimal Shared Micromobility Taxes with Distributional Concerns澨�

  • (University of Pennsylvania), * (University of Pennsylvania), & (University of Pennsylvania)

听

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

听

淐onnection Policy Design for Electricity Access�

  • * (Columbia University),听听(Amazon), 听(Columbia University) & 听(Columbia University)
12:35 PMLunch
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