2008 AERE Summer Workshop

June 21 - 23, 2008

Berkeley, California

The theme of the 2008 AERE Workshop was health and the environment. Workshop papers covered a wide range of topics, including the health impacts of climate change, clean water, indoor air pollution, diesel emissions and estimate of willingness-to-pay to avoid health damages due to environmental factors.

The papers presented at the workshop can be found below.

AERE is extremely grateful for the support provided by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

 

PAPERS

Clearing the Air?  The Effects of Gasoline Content Regulation on Air Quality, Maximilian Auffhammer and Ryan Kellogg.

Climate Change and Human Health: Assessing the Effectiveness of Adaptation to Heat Waves, by Anna Alberini, Erin Mastrangelo and Hugh Pitcher

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the U.S.,
Olivier Deschênes and Michael Greenstone

The Effect of Power Plants on Local Housing Values and Rents: Evidence from Restricted Census Microdata, Lucas W. Davis

How Valuable Are Environmental Health Interventions? Evidence From a Quasi-experimental Evaluation of Community Water Projects, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Christine Poulos, Jui-Chen Yang and Sumeet R. Patil

The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach, Shanti Gamper-Rabindran, Shakeeb Khan and Christopher Timmins

The Importance of Household Preferences: Using Revealed Preference Data to Develop a Contingent Valuation Experiment to Value Asthma, Sylvia Brandty, Felipe Vásquez Lavínz, Michael Hanemann

Occupational Risk and Fisheries Management: Studying Changes in the Deadliest Catch, Kurt E. Schnier, William C. Horrace, Ronald G. Felthoven

School Buses, Diesel Emissions, and Respiratory Health, Timothy K.M. Beatty and Jay P. Shimshack

Who Adopts Matters: Evaluating the Health Impacts of Improved Stoves in China Using Matching Methods, Valerie Mueller, Alexander Pfaff, John Peabody, Yaping Liu, Travis Riddell, Kirk R. Smith

Willingness to Pay for Health Risk Reductions: Differences by Type of Illness, Trudy Ann Cameron, J.R. DeShazo and Erica H. Johnson