Workshops | Special Workshops
To provide leadership in outreach programs, CEnREP scholars advise and train policymakers and practitioners by organizing educational and training workshops. CEnREP has conducted the following workshops:
Optimization for Natural Resource Management Workshop
North Carolina State University
June 20-24, 2011
2010 W2133 Annual Meetings
Tuscon, Arizona
February 25-26, 2010
Training Workshop on Micro-Econometrics in Environmental Economics
Washington, D.C.
May 28-29, 2009
Triangle Resource and Environmental Economics Workshop
JC Raulston Arboretum, NC State University
September 27 & 28, 2007
Revealed Preference Beyond Markets: Micro-Econometrics in Environmental Economics
Research Triangle Park
October 20 & 21, 2006
Benefit Transfer: Practical Economic Analysis For Policy
Research Triangle Park
February 7 & 8, 2001
Past CEnREP Colloquia
Spring 2020 Schedule
- Friday, January 10th, Dr. Jin Qin, Lecturer of Economics, College of William and Mary, “A Test of the Relationship between Air Pollution and Trade Liberalization: The Case of China,” Nelson Hall 2405
- Friday, January 24th, Dr. Hyeongul Roh, Postdoctoral Fellow, Duke University, “Wind Energy, Transmission, and Production Costs: Does Increased Connectivity Help All?”, Nelson Hall 2405
CEnREP Colloquia Schedule – Fall 2019
September 27
Casey Rozowski, Ph.D. Student in Economics, NC State University
“Pollution and Mortality: Estimating Damages Using Pollutant Specific Abatement Technologies”
October 18, 3rd year student short presentations
Sunjae Won, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, NC State University
“Electric-Vehicle Subsidies and Emissions Distribution”
Daniyar Zhumadilov, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, NC State University
“Effect of Power Plants on Local Crop Yields”
November 8, 2nd year student paper presentations
Richard Li, Ph.D. Student in Economics, NC State University
Avery Dobbins, Ph.D. Student in Economics, NC State University
November 22
Serkan Aglasan, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, NC State University
“Econometric Analysis of Unexpected Injury Events in Bt Corn Fields: Is There Any Genetic Resistance to Bt Corn?”
CEnREP Colloquia Schedule – Fall 2018
September 28
Faraz Usmani, Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Economics, Duke University
“Fracking, farmers, and rural electrification in India”
October 5
Laura Villegas, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, NC State University
“Land Use Planning for Flood Risk Reduction: The Economic Argument”
October 26
Sasha Naumenko, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, NC State University
“Spatial and Temporal Dimensions to the Value of Recreational Fishing”
November 30
Nino Abashidze, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, NC State University
“Solar Farms and Surrounding Property Values: An Empirical Analysis”
CEnREP Colloquia Schedule – Spring 2018
January 19
Lee Parton, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, NC State University
“To Build or Not to Build: Housing Supply Responses to Climate Change Policy Uncertainty”
February 2
Hyeongyul Roh, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, NC State University
“Wind Generation, Inefficiency, and Market Power in Electricity Markets: Counterfactual Prediction with Dynamic Neural Networks for Causal Inference”
February 9
Andrew Grieshop, Assistant Professor, Dept of Civil, Construction & Env Engineering, NC State University
“Cleaning the Kitchen? Field Research on Interventions to Address Household Air Pollution in India and Africa”
March 16
Longzhong Shi, Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, NC State University
“Controlling for Unobserved Preference Heterogeneity and Site Characteristics in Recreation Count Data Demand Systems”
April 13
Erin Sills, Professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources, NC State University
“Enabling Local Governments to Respond to a Federal Environmental Mandate: Evaluation of the Green Municipality Program in the Brazilian Amazon”
April 20
Zack Brown, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, NC State University
“Prices, Peers, and Perceptions: Field experiments in improved cookstove adoption in Ghana”
April 27
Wenyuan Tang, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State University
“Empirical Mechanism Design for Demand Response Programs”
CEnREP Colloquia Schedule – Fall 2017
Friday, September 15
Raymond Guiteras, Assistant Professor, Ag & Resource Economics, NC State University
“Demand Estimation with Strategic Complementarities: Demand for Sanitation in Bangladesh”
Friday, September 22
Derek Lemoine, Associate Professor, Economics, University of Arizona, Location: 216 Scott Hall
“Designing Dynamic Subsidies to Spur Adoption of New Technologies”
Friday, October 20
Eleni Bardaka, Assistant Professor, Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, NC State University
“Transit-Induced Gentrification: Causal Identification, Spatial Spillover Effects, and Equitable Transit-Oriented Development Solutions”
Friday, October 27
Matthew Johnson, Post Doctoral Fellow, Duke University
“Does Cleaning the Air Affect Workers’ Health? How Firms Manage Multiple Regulatory Demands”
Friday, December 1
Maggie Monast, Manager, Sustainable Sourcing, Environmental Defense Fund
“Conservation in Agriculture: How Economics can Generate Greater Investment”
CEnREP Colloquia Schedule – Spring 2017
Friday, January 27
Moon Joon Kim, Ph.D. Candidate-Economics, NCSU
The Effects of Transboundary Air Pollution from China on Ambient Air Quality in South Korea
Friday, February 24
Justin Baker, RTI International
Potential Complementarity between Forest Carbon Sequestration Incentives and Biomass Energy Expansion in a Deep Decarbonization Policy Environment
Friday, March 17
Marwa Salem, RTI International
Multi-cropping and Acreage Response: The Case of the Central-West Region of Brazil
Friday, March 24
Jane Harrison, Coastal Economics Specialist, NC Sea Grant and Sasha Naumenko, Ph.D. Candidate-Economics, NCSU
Socioeconomic Analysis of the Atlantic Menhaden Fishery: Using Economic Data to Inform Fisheries Management Decisions
Friday, April 28
David Solis, Ph.D. Candidate-Forestry and Environmental Resources, NCSU
Impact of Inspections on Compliance with the Forestry Law in Peru
CEnREP Colloquia Schedule – Fall 2016
Friday, September 9
Laura Taylor, Professor, Ag & Resource Economics, NCSU
Water Use in the Landscape: A Comparison of How Irrigation Technologies and Water Quality Influence Behavior
Friday, September 23
Harrison Fell, Associate Professor, Ag & Resource Economics, NCSU
Fuel Prices, Restructuring, and Natural Gas Plant Operations
Friday, October 14
Jonathan Lee, Assistant Professor, Economics, East Carolina University
Electric Utilities’ Prolonged Reliance on Coal: The Impact of Marketable Coal Combustion Byproducts on Fuel Switching
Friday, October 21
Christopher Galik, Assistant Professor, Public Administration, NCSU
Modeling Landowner Behavior and the Implications for Preexisting Conservation Policy
Friday, November 4
Lawson Connor, Ph.D. Student, Economics, NCSU
Grower responses to spillover effects from large-scale adoption of transgenic pesticidal corn in the Philippines
Friday, November 18
Natasha James, Ph.D. Student, Forestry and Environmental Resources, NCSU
The Impact of Targeting on Participation in Costa Rica’s ‘Payments for Ecosystem Services’ Program
CEnREP Colloquia Schedule – Spring 2016
Friday, February 19
Mike Kilgore, Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota
Family forest land ownership patterns and characteristics: Implications for stewardship, management and use
Friday, March 18
Alejandro Lopez, Feldman of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (Center for Research and Teaching in Economics), Mexico City
Remittances and Natural Resource Extraction: Evidence from Mexico
Friday April 15
Lee Parton, Ph.D. student, NC State University
Measuring the Impact of Greenway Infrastructure: Evidence on Heterogeneous Demand for Environmental Amenities
Friday, April 29
Yu Wu and Hyeongyul Roh, Ph.D. candidates, Economics, NC State University
Yu presented “Drivers of Deforestation in the Western Brazilian Amazon” and Hyeongyul presented “Dynamic strategies for managing stochastic insect resistance to transgenic crops”
CEnREP Colloquia Schedule – Fall 2015
Friday, September 11, 216 Scott Hall
Lightning Talks
Join us for “lightning talks” in which nearly a dozen faculty on campus who work at the intersection of economics and the environment, natural resources, and energy will give brief overviews of their current research and interests.
Friday, September 18, 121 Kilgore Hall
Jane Harrison, Coastal Economist, NC Sea Grant
Beach Economics: Contingent Valuation, Conjoint Analysis, and Agent Based Models Improve Beach Manager Decision Making in the Great Lakes
Friday, October 2, 121 Kilgore Hall
Wally Thurman, Professor, Ag & Resource Economics, NC State
Tax Incentives and Private Land Conservation
Friday, October 16, 121 Kilgore Hall
Paul Fackler, Professor, Ag & Resource Economics, NC State
Dealing with Catastrophe: Prevention and Adaptation
Friday, October 23, Nelson Hall Board Room (3220)
Jake Hochard, Asst. Professor, Dept of Economics, East Carolina University
Using behavioral ecology and elasticity measures for management of ecosystem services
Friday, November 13, Nelson Hall Board Room (3220)
Marwa Salem, PhD student, Economics, NC State
A Latent Class Discrete Continuous Choice Estimation of Residential Water Demand
Friday, December 4, Nelson Hall Board Room (3220)
Chris Giguere, PhD student, Economics, NC State
Efficient selective targeting: An empirical evaluation of North Carolina’s motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program
CEnREP Colloquia Schedule – Spring 2015
Friday, January 16
Steve Dundas, Ph.D Candidate, Economics, North Carolina State University
“The Benefits and Ancillary Costs of Constructed Dunes: Evidence from the New Jersey Coast” 3220 Nelson Hall (Board Room), 12:00
Friday, February 6
Giuseppe Fiori, Assistant Professor, Economics, North Carolina State University “Green Policies and Aggregate Investment: Does Capital Heterogeneity Matter?” 3220 Nelson Hall (Board Room), 12:00
Friday, February 27
Patty Champ, Research Economist, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station James Meldrum, Research Economist, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
“Wildfire Risk and Homeowners: Like a Moth to a Flame?” 3220 Nelson Hall (Board Room), 12:00
Friday, March 20
Sankar Arumugam, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, North Carolina State University
“Improved Water Management Utilizing Climate Information: Opportunities and Challenges” 121 Kilgore Hall, 12:00
CEnREP Colloquia Schedule – Fall 2014
Friday, Sept 18
Jane Harrison, Coastal Economist, NC SEA Grant
Friday, Oct 16
Paul Fackler, Professor, Ag & Resource Economics, NCSU
Friday, Oct 23
Jake Hochard, Asst. Professor, Dept of Economics, East Carolina University Community green: exploring the feedbacks between civic engagement, environmental attitudes and conservation behaviors using an international household survey
Friday, Nov 13
Marwa Salem, PhD student, Economics, NC State
Friday, December 4
Chris Giguere, PhD student, Economics, NC State
Efficient selective targeting: An empirical evaluation of North Carolina’s motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program
Past Triangle Resources and Environmental Economics Seminar Series
CEnREP partners with RTI International and Duke University to present the TREE Seminar Series. All seminars take place on Thursday from 3:00 – 4:15 pm in Building 09/Conference Room 137 at RTI International’s Campus, unless otherwise noted below. As papers become available, they are posted in the calendar schedule below.
Spring 2020 Schedule:
- February 27, Fiona Burlig, University of Chicago, “Out-of-Merit Costs and Blackouts: Evidence from the Indian Wholesale Electricity Market”
- March 5, Ariel Ortiz Bobea, Cornell University, “The Impact of Recent Anthropogenic Climate Change on Global Agricultural Production”
- March 19, Kenneth Gillingham, Yale University
- April 16, David Anthoff, University of California-Berkeley
- April 30, Corbett Grainger, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Fall 2019 Schedule:
- September 5, Pierre Merel, UC Davis, “Climate econometrics: Can the panel approach account for long-run adaptation?”
- September 12, Gary Libecap, UCSB, “The problem with Pigou: Regulation in the presence of transaction costs” (based on two papers, found here and here)
- October 3, Judd Boomhower, UCSD, “Does the environment matter at the ballot box? Attention and persuasion effects of a new oil and gas externality”
Location: Cox Multi-Purpose Room, RTI - October 24, Ashley Langer, University of Arizona, “What were the odds? Estimating the market’s probability of uncertain events”
Location: Cox Multi-Purpose Room, RTI - October 31, Meera Mahadevan, UCSB, “The price of power: Costs of political corruption in Indian electricity”
Location: Cox Multi-Purpose Room, RTI - November 14, Amy Ando, University of Illinois, “Local benefits and willingness to pay to reduce hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico”
Location: Cox Multi-Purpose Room, RTI
Spring 2019 Schedule:
- January 24, Vic Adamowicz, University of Alberta, “Contracting for Ecological Infrastructure in the Panama Canal Watershed: Ex Ante Assessment of Benefits, Costs, and Capital Market Failures”
- February 7, Nick Muller, Carnegie Mellon University, “Long-Run Environmental Accounting in the U.S. Economy”
- March 7, Andrew Plantinga, University of California-Santa Barbara, “Can Property Rights Alleviate the Problem of the Commons? Evidence from California Groundwater Permits”
- April 4, Peter Christensen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “Housing Discrimination and the Pollution Exposure Gap in the United States”
- April 11, Namrata Kala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “The Green Revolution and Infant Mortality in India”
- April 18, Tom Rutherford, University of Wisconsin, “Carbon leakage under prospective state-level climate actions: Simulations from the Wisconsin National Data Consortium”
- May 2, Sheila Olmstead, University of Texas-Austin, “The Value of Water Quality: Separating Amenity and Recreational Benefits”
Fall 2018 Schedule:
- September 6, Molly Lipscomb, University of Virginia, “Pricing People into the Market:Targeting through Mechanism Design”
- October 11, Erin Mansur, Dartmouth College, “The Remarkable Decline in Air Pollution from the US Electricity Sector over 2010-2017”
- November 1, Eric Edwards, NC State University, “Bureaucracy, Delay and Pollution: A Natural Experiment in Oil and Gas Production”, Location: Cox Multipurpose Room, RTI
- November 15, Bentley Coffey, University of South Carolina, “The Costs of Mitigating Climate Change when Growth is the Result of Endogenous Technological Change”
- December 6, David Keiser, Iowa State University
Spring 2018 Schedule:
- February 15, Mark Curtis, Wake Forest University, “The Employment and Concentration Effects of the Nonattainment Standards: Evidence from the 2004 Expansion“
- March 1, Kyle Meng, University of California – Santa Barbara, “The Spatial Structure of Productivity, Trade, and Inequality: Evidence from the Global Climate“
- March 29, Katrina Jessoe, University of California – Davis, “Spillovers from Behavioral Interventions: Experimental Evidence from Water and Energy Use“
- April 12, Dean Spears, University of Texas – Austin, “Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World”
- April 26, Shanjun Li, Cornell University, “Transportation Policies and Equilibrium Sorting: Evidence from Beijing”
- May 3, Namrata Kala, MIT
Fall 2017 Schedule:
- September 14, Catherine Wolfram, University of California – Berkeley, Cox Multipurpose Room, ““Default Effects and Follow-on Behavior: Evidence from an Electricity Pricing Program”
- September 28, Teevrat Garg, University of California – San Diego,“Effects of Heat Stress on Physiology and Livelihoods: Implications for Human Capital Accumulation”
- October 12, Reed Walker, University of California – Berkeley, “The Incidence of Carbon Taxes in U.S. Manufacturing: Lessons from Energy Cost Pass-Through”
- November 2, Sathya Gopalakrishnan, The Ohio State University, “Optimal Management of Spread Externalities and the Implications of Heterogeneous Capacity Constraints”
- November 30, Mark Jacobsen, University of California – San Diego, “Sufficient Statistics for Imperfect Externality-Correcting Policies”
Spring 2017 Schedule:
- February 2, Rema Hanna, Harvard University, “Citywide effects of high-occupancy vehicle restrictions: Evidence from the elimination of “3-in-1″ in Jakarta”
- March 2, Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University, “Does Being a “Top 10” Worst Polluter Affect Environmental Releases? Evidence from the U.S. Toxic Release Inventory”
- April 6, Richard L. Sweeney, Boston College, “Competition and Pass Through of Differential Cost Shocks: Evidence from the Shale Boom”, Cox Multi-purpose Room
- April 13, Jim Bushnell, University of California-Davis, “Expecting the Unexpected: Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market Design”, Cox Multi-purpose Room
Fall 2016 Schedule:
- September 8, 2016, Catherine Hausman, University of Michigan, “The Non-Abatement of Methane Leaks”
- September 15, 2016, Matthew Kotchen, Yale University, “Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Perspective“
- September 29, 2016, Amir Jina, University of Chicago, “Economic Damage from Climate Change in the United States”
- October 27, 2016, Mushfiq Mobarak, Yale University, “Effects of Migration on Rural Labor Markets”
- November 10, 2016, Koichiro Ito, University of Chicago, “Information Frictions, Inertia, and Selection on Elasticity: A Field Experiment on Electricity Tariff Choice”
Spring 2016 Schedule:
- February 4, 2016, Sol Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley
- February 29, 2016, David Popp, Syracuse University, “Environmental Regulation and Green Skills: An Empirical Exploration“
- March 31, 2016, Tatyana Deryugina, University of Illinois, “The Effect of Pollution on Health Care Utilization: Evidence from Changes in Wind Direction”
- April 7, 2016, Kailin Kroetz, Resources for the Future, “Dynamic Efficiency Costs of Non-efficiency Objectives in Tradable Permit Programs”
- April 21, 2016, Mary Evans, Claremont-McKenna University, “Enforcement Spillovers: Lessons from Strategic Interactions in Regulation and Product Markets”
Fall 2015 Schedule:
- September 3, 2015, Joe Aldy, Harvard University, “Capital versus Output Subsidies: Implications of Alternative Incentives for Wind Investment”
- September 24, 2015, Toan Phan, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Temperatures and Growth: A Panel Analysis of the U.S.”
- October 8, 2015, Ted Miguel, University of California, Berkeley, “Experimental Evidence on the Costs of and Demand for Electricity in Kenya”
- October 29, 2015, Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan “Understanding the Decline in the Price of Oil since June 2014”
- November 5, 2015, Grant Miller, Stanford University
- November 12, 2015, Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, Resources for the Future
- November 19, 2015, Lucas Davis, University of California, Berkeley, “The Effect of Saturday Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in Mexico City”