# Past PhD Lunches ## expand\_more **Environmental Economics Research Lunch** Students present their research in environmental and natural resource economics. The lunch is open to PhD students, post-doctoral researchers, and faculty from Boston area universities. **Spring 2021 Virtual via Zoom Presentation Schedule** February 12: Elizabeth Spink February 19: Jake Bradt February 26: Johnny Tang March 5: Shweta Bhogale March 12: Frank Pinter March 19: Tridevi Chakma (30 min); Chika Okafor (30 min) March 26: Sarah Armitage April 2: Eleanor Krause (30 min); Kristen McCormack (30 min) April 9: Daniel Stuart April 16: Max Vilgalys (30 min); **OPEN** (30 min) April 23: Marcos Barrozo April 30: Karl Aspelund **Fall 2020 All presentations will be held via Zoom using the link .** **Presentation Schedule** **September 4**: Faculty panel (Joe Aldy, Jim Stock, Rema Hanna, Clare Balboni (MIT)) **September 11**: Kenneth Norris **September 18:** Max Vilgalys (MIT) (30 minutes); Chika Okafor (30 minutes) **September 25:** Elizabeth Spink **October 2:** Shefali Khanna **October 9:** Eleanor Krause (30 minutes); Shweta Bhogale (30 minutes) **October 16:** Allan Hsiao (MIT) **October 23:** Sagar Saxena (30 minutes); Minghao Qiu (MIT) (30 minutes) **October 30:** Sarah Armitage **November 6:** Frank Pinter **November 13:** Jacob Bradt **November 20:** Daniel Stuart **December 4:** Marcos Barozzo **Taubman 401 - 12:00 - 1:00 pm Virtual (Zoom) 12:00 - 1:00 pm** **Spring 2020** February 7: Allan Hsiao February 14: Elizabeth Spink February 21: Jake Bradt (25min); Daniel Stuart (25min) February 28: Sarah Armitage March 6: Shweta Bhogale (25min); Yichun Fan (25min) March 13: Megan Bailey March 27: Shefali Khanna April 3: Marcos Barrozo (25min); Eleanor Krause (25min) April 10: Frank Pinter April 17: Will Rafey April 24: Patrick Behrer May 1: Mariia Belaia (25min); Max Vilgalys (25min) **Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.** **Fall 2019** September 6: Faculty panel September 13: Kevin Rowe September 20: No meeting (HEEP workshop) September 27: Megan Bailey October 4: Will Rafey October 11: Elizabeth Spink October 18: OPEN October 25: Jacob Bradt (30 min); 30 min slot is OPEN November 1: Sarah Armitage November 8: Max Vilgalys (30 min); Aseem Mahajan (30 min) November 15: Patrick Behrer November 22: Dan Stuart November 29: No meeting (Thanksgiving holiday) December 6: Frank Pinter (30 min); Kristen McCormack (30 min) **Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.** **Spring 2019** February 8th - Daniel Stuart February 15th - Julie Nguyen February 22nd - Elizabeth Spink March 1st - TBD March 8th - Megan Bailey March 15th - Will Rafey March 29th - Frank Pinter April 5th - Sarah Armitage April 12th - Kevin Rowe April 19th - Shefali Khanna April 26th - Patrick Behrer May 3rd - Mariia Belaia **Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.** **Fall 2018** September 7th - Faculty Panel: Rob Stavins, Rema Hanna, and Joe Aldy September 14th - Zhaoyingzi Dong September 21st - Jacquelyn Pless September 28th - Daniel Velez-Lopez October 5th - Sarah Armitage October 12th - Elizabeth Spink October 19th - Jayash Paudel November 2nd - Megan Bailey November 16th - Shefali Khanna November 30th - Kevin Rowe December 7th - Matthew Lilley **Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.** **Spring 2018** February 2nd - Aseem Mahajan February 9th - Patrick Behrer February 23rd - Will Rafey March 2nd - Giselle Montamat March 9th - Kevin Rowe March 23rd - Matthew Lilley March 30th - Torben Mideksa April 6th - Megan Bailey April 13th - Aseem Mahajan (30 min) and Shefali Khanna (30 min) April 27th - Stuart Iler **Spring 2014** February 21: Trevor O'Grady, "Consequences of External Intervention in Communal Resource Management: Evidence from Napoleon's Intervention in the Italian Alps." February 28: Rich Sweeney, "The Impact of Environmental Regulation on US Oil Refineries." March 7: Cuicui Chen, "How Do Live Plant Firms Respond to Border Inspection Changes? Evidence from the Propagative Material Release Program." March 14: Sabrina Howell, "Financing Innovation: The Role of Government Grants and Private Equity in Funding Clean Energy Technology Startups." March 28: Gabe Chan, "Financing wind energy deployment in China through the Clean Development Mechanism: additionality and technology diffusion" (half hour). Emmanuelle Lavaine, "The Capacity of Hedonic Pricing Analysis to Reflect The Economic Benefits Of Air Quality" (half hour). April 4: Lilei Xu, "An Examination of Over-Investment: Evidence from Natural Gas-Fired Electricity Generators, 2000 - 2005." April 11: Jonathan Baker, "The impacts of groundwater pumping and other fluidic ideas: some (very) preliminary research results and a few ideas for moving forward." April 18: CANCELLED April 25: Maria Acevedo, "The Effect of Rainfall Shocks on Labor Market Outcomes." May 2: Janhavi Nilekani, "Evaluating Potential Particulate Matter Control Policies in India" (half hour). Sam Stolper, "Exploring the Impact of Renewable Portfolio Standards in the U.S. Electricity Sector" (half hour). THIS MEETING HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE FACULTY DINING ROOM (L-163) For more information about the lunch schedule, please contact Sam Stolper or Liz Walker. \-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.** **Fall 2013** September 13: Welcome lunch and faculty panel on research in environmental economics September 20: Jisung Park September 27: Sonia Jaffe October 4: CANCELLED October 11: Gabe Chan October 18: Rohit Chandra October 25: Jisung Park November 1: Lilei Xu November 8: Liz Walker November 15: Trisha Shrum November 22: Sabrina Howell December 6: Rich Sweeney For more information about the lunch schedule, please contact Sam Stolper or Liz Walker. \-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.** **Spring 2013** February 22: Nick Ryan March 15: Rich Sweeney March 29: Thom Covert, "Learning about hydraulic fracturing in the North Dakota Bakken Shale." April 5: Sam Stolper, "Connecting Water Pollution to Health: A Study of Indian Rivers." April 12: This lunch has been CANCELLED. Liz Walker April 19: Gabe Chan, "Evaluating the Benefits of Licensing Agreements for Technology Diffusion at the U.S. National Labs." April 26: Lilei Xu / Anil Somani (11:30 - 1:00) May 3: Thom Covert & Rich Sweeney / Sabrina Howell & Lilei Xu, "Consumer Preferences for Automobiles in China and Policies to Promote Alternative Fuels." (11:30 - 1:00) For more information about the lunch schedule, please contact Rich Sweeney. \-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.** **Fall 2012** October 12: Jisung Park and Tom Gole, "Planetary Geo-Engineering and Climate Change: A Free-Driver Problem?" October 19: Anil Somani, "Market policies to control health effects of outdoor air pollution in India." October 26: Rich Sweeney, "Environmental Regulation and Market Structure." November 2: Gabe Chan - TBD November 9: Sabrina Howell - TBD November 16: Joe Shapiro, "Trade and the environment." November 23: No meeting - Thanksgiving Break November 30: Elizabeth Walker - TBD December 7: Evan Herrnstadt - TBD For more information about the lunch schedule, please contact Rich Sweeney. \-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.** **Spring 2012** March 23: Robyn Meeks, "Economics of a Lightbulb: Experimental Evidence on CFLs and End-User Behavior." March 30: Matt Ranson, "Crime, Weather, and Climate Change." April 6: Thom Covert, "Learning and Experimentation in the Bakken Shale." April 13: Rich Sweeney, "Environmental Regulation of US Oil Refineries." April 20: Evan Herrnstadt - TBD April 27: Marta Vicarelli - TBD (Research lunch will be held in Littauer 382 this day) May 4: Gabe Chan, "Innovation at National Labs." For more information about the lunch schedule, please contact Rich Sweeney. \-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Taubman 401 from 12:00-1:00 p.m.** **Fall 2011** September 9: Matt Ranson (job market) - "Discontinuities and Identification in Forward-Looking Hedonic Models" September 16: Kate Sims - “Forest Conservation and Slippage: Evidence from Mexico’s National Payments for Ecosystem Services Program.” September 30: Robyn Meeks (job market) - "The impact of drinking water infrastructure on time allocation and farm production: evidence from the Kyrgyz Republic." October 7: Olga Rostapshova - "Disentangling Drivers of Cooperation: Public Good Experiments and Water in Rural Kenyan Communities" October 14: Liz Walker - TBD October 21: Nick Ryan - "Is There an Energy-Efficiency Gap? Experimental Evidence from India." October 28: Arturo Aguilar (job market) - "El Nino and Mexican children: Medium-term effects of early-life weather shocks on cognitive and health outcomes" November 4: Sam Stolper - "Negative Externalities of Urbanization: Water Pollution and Infant Health in India" November 18: Anil Somani - "Dynamic Economy-Energy-Environment model of India" December 2: Thom Covert - TBD For more information about the lunch schedule, please contact Rich Sweeney.