Environmental and Energy Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Environmental and Energy Economics met in Cambridge on March 9 and 10, 2012. Program Director Don Fullerton and Faculty Research Fellow Nolan H. Miller, both of NBER and the University of Illinois, organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Garth Heutel, University of North Carolina, Greensboro and NBER, and Christopher J. Ruhm, University of Virginia and NBER, "Air Pollution and Procyclical Mortality"

* Jesse K. Antilla-Hughes, Columbia University, and Solomon M. Hsiang, Princeton University, "Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster"

* Ester Duflo and Michael Greenstone, MIT and NBER, and Rema Hanna, Harvard University, "Up in Smoke: The Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves" (NBER Working Paper No. 18033)

* Christopher R. Knittel, MIT and NBER, and Ryan Sandler, University of California at Davis, "Cleaning the Bathwater with the Baby: The Health Co-Benefits of Carbon Pricing in Transportation" (NBER Working...