Environment and Energy Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meeting

Members of the NBER's Environment and Energy Economics Program met March 14-15 at Stanford. Research Associates Kelsey Jack of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Ryan Kellogg of the University of Chicago organized the meeting. These researchers' papers were presented and discussed:

* Fiona Burlig and Louis Preonas, University of Chicago, and Akshaya Jha, Carnegie Mellon University, "Out-of-Merit Costs and Blackouts: Evidence from the Indian Electricity Market"

* Peter Christensen and Ignacio Sarmiento, University of Illinois, and Christopher Timmins, Duke University and NBER, "Housing Discrimination and the Pollution Exposure Gap in the United States"

* Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago and NBER, and Shuang Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder, "Setting the Price Right: Evidence from Heating Price Reform in China"

* Derek Lemoine, University of Arizona and NBER, "Estimating the Consequences of Climate Change from Variation in Weather" (NBER Working Paper No. 25008)

* David Keiser, Iowa State University, and Joseph S. Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Burning Waters to Crystal Springs? U.S. Water Pollution Regulation over the Last Half-Century"

* Cloe Garnache, University of Oslo, and Todd Guilfoos, University of Rhode Island, "The Effect of Salience on Risk Perceptions and Asset Prices"

* Jonathan I. Dingel, University of Chicago and NBER; Kyle C. Meng, University of California, Santa Barbara and NBER; and Solomon M. Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Spatial Correlation...