Econ 475
Environmental Economics

Syllabus.

TA: Claire Brunel

• email: claire.brunel@gmail.com
• office hrs: Tuesdays and Thursdays 3.30-4.30 pm in LAU 2nd floor by the coffee shop.

Kennedy School Case Studies: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/access/14353849

Readings (the password is my first name).

o Gramlich A Guide to Cost Benefit Analysis Chapter 8.
o Circular A4 Primer.
o Chay and Greenstone “Does Air Quality Matter” (2005).
o Robinson "How US Government Agencies Value Mortality Risk Reductions” (2007).
o Portney "The Contingent Valuation Debate" (1994).
o Carson et al., “Contingent Valuation …” (2003).
o Levinson “Valuing Public Goods Using Happiness Data” (2011).
o Fullerton “A Framework to Compare Environmental Policies” (2001).
o Oates, et al. “The Net Benefits of Incentive-Based Regulation” (1989).
o Fullerton and Kinnaman “Household Responses to Pricing Garbage” (1996).
o Gamber-Rabindran “Did the EPA’s Voluntary Program Reduce Emissions?” (2006).
o Fullerton and West “Tax and Subsidy Combinations for the Control of Car Pollution” (2010).
o Levinson “NIMBY Taxes Matter” (1999).
o Levinson “The Ups and Downs of the Environmental Kuznets Curve” (2002).
o Wolverton “Polluting Plants’ Location Decisions” (2009).
o Anderson, Parry, Sallee, and Fischer, "Automobile Fuel Economy Standards: Impacts, Efficiency, and Alternatives" (2011).
o Levinson, "California Energy Efficiency: Lessons for the Rest of the World, or Not?" (2012)