2026 Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics

“The Energy Transition, Local Air Pollution, and Mortality” 

• *Steve Cicala (Tufts University) & Joshua D. Gottlieb (University of Chicago)

“The Value of Nature-Based Adaptation: Evidence that Tree Cover” 

• *Andie Creel  (Yale University)

“The Economics of New versus Used Electric Vehicle Subsidies"

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

Egg Timers (10 mins each)

“Losing the Shield: How Political Connections Shape Environmental Enforcement,” 

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

“Averting Deforestation at Scale”

• *Hannah Rhodenhiser (Boston University)

“Trade Policy and Food Security,”

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

“The General Equilibrium Effects of Renewable Energy Policies,” 

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

“Extreme Heat and Directed Innovation”

• *Jack Ma (Cornell University)

“The Global Allocative Efficiency of Deforestation” 

• *Prakash Mishra (Dartmouth College)

“Hidden Environmental Footprints of Large-Scale AI Training,” 

• *Jun Ho Choi (Columbia University)

“Self- and Social Signaling: Evidence from Solar Adoption in California” 

• Bryan Bollinger (Dartmouth College), Kenneth Gillingham (Yale University) & *Justin Kirkpatrick (Michigan State University)

“Can Place-Based Incentives Accelerate the Energy Transition?”

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

“The (Mis)Allocation Channel of Climate Change”

• Tianzi Liu (Cornell University) *Zebang Xu (Cornell University)