Seminars
Occasional Empirical Environmental Group
This environmental economics seminar is designed for PhD students, post-docs and teaching researchers at the Paris School of Economics and CREST. It provides a friendly, informal setting for presenting empirical papers on environmental issues. As its name suggests, it is not intended to be a regular event.
If you would like to make a presentation during the year, please contact Hélène Ollivier (helene.ollivier at psemail.eu) and Geoffrey Barrows (geoffrey-masters.barrows at polytechnique.edu).
Administrative manager: No Rakotovao
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Archives
- Friday 31 May 2024 15:00-16:30
- R1-15
- WEBER Paige (UC BERKELEY) : Will cleaning up the local environment narrow or widen inequality?
- AbstractIf cleaning up a local environment also raises prices, does that widen or narrow inequality? We combine an equilibrium sorting model characterizing location choices with a new approach to causally estimate the impact of a cleaner environment on location utility to answer this question. We estimate the model leveraging a plausibly exogenous change in the local environment due to shale gas propensity, together with spatially-granular bilateral migration, air quality, and emissions data. Our preliminary results characterize relative welfare changes by racial groups under the observed environmental quality improvements, as well as simulated changes under counterfactual environmental policies. The results aim to quantify the connection between equity-oriented place-based environmental policies and residential location choices.
- Monday 8 September 2014 12:00-13:00
- HINZ Julian (PSE) : Occasional Empirical Environmental Group