Environmental and Energy Economics.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on Environmental and Energy Economics met at Stanford University on April 8 and 9, 2011. NBER Faculty Research Fellow Lucas W. Davis of the University of Calfornia, Berkeley and NBER Research Associate Lawrence H. Goulder of Stanford University organized the meeting. These papers were discussed:

* Yuyu Chen, Peking University; Avraham Ebenstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Michael Greenstone, MIT and

NBER; and Hongbin Li, Tsinghua University, "The Long-Run Impact of Air Pollution on Life Expectancy: Evidence from China's Huai River Policy"

* H. Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University and NBER, and B. Andrew Chupp, Illinois State University, "Heterogeneous Harm vs. Spatial Spillovers: Environmental Federalism and U.S. Air Pollution" (NBER Working Paper No. 15666)

* Michael Anderson, University of California, Berkeley, and Maximilian Auffhammer, University of California, Berkeley and NBER, "Vehicle Weight, Highway Safety, and Energy Policy"

* Stephen P. Holland, University of North Carolina, Greensboro and NBER; Jonathan E. Hughes, University of Colorado, Boulder; Christopher R...