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

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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 (海角社区 Economics) and Richard Sweeney (海角社区 Economics)
  • The closest hotel to campus is the . It's a ~20 minute walk to campus from there, and there are also 海角社区 shuttle buses.
  • Another convenient hotel is the . The Cleveland Circle shuttle bus is accessible after a short T ride from there.
  • A more affordable hotel is听,听the Cleveland Circle shuttle bus is accessible after a T ride on the C-line.
  • The Commonwealth Ave听Boston College Shuttle bus听in Cleveland Circle can be accessed at either the听听Reservoir T stop or the Chestnut Hill Ave stop. For more information on the shuttle or for tracking details see the 海角社区 bus website.听

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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�

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

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

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

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

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

Egg Timers (10 mins each)

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

  • * (Northwestern University) & Northwestern University)听

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鈥淎verting Deforestation at Scale鈥�

  • * (Boston University)

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鈥淭rade Policy and Food Security,鈥�

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

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

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

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鈥淓xtreme Heat and Directed Innovation鈥�

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

鈥淭he Global Allocative Efficiency of Deforestation鈥澨�

  • * (Dartmouth College)
2:45 PM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • (Cornell University) * (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�

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

鈥淧ropagation of Extreme Heat in Agriculture鈥�

  • * (Harvard University)
10:10 AM

鈥淐limate Change and Market Power鈥�

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

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

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

Egg Timers (10 mins each)

鈥淲ater Allocation and Social Unrest鈥�

  • * (Harvard University)

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鈥淧roperty Insurance Availability and Housing Investment鈥�

  • (Duke), * (Boston University)

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鈥淥ptimal Shared Micromobility Taxes with Distributional Concerns鈥澨�

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

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

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鈥淐onnection Policy Design for Electricity Access鈥�

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