7:00-8:00
Breakfast and Introductions

8:00 – 9:30
Empirical Estimates of the Impact of Programs Designed to Promote Conservation Behavior by Consumers

“Quantity Uncertainty and Demand: The Case of Water Smart Reader Ownership”
Christopher Goemans* (Colorado State University) and Aaron Strong (Arizona State University)

“The Effects of Improved Plumbing Fixture Efficiency on Water Demand”
Steven Wallander (Yale University)

“Does Daylight Saving Time Save Energy? Evidence From Indiana with Implications for the United States” Matthew J. Kotchen  (University of California, Santa Barbara) and Laura E. Grant* (University of California, Santa Barbara)

9:30 – 10:00
Break

10:00 – 11:00
Free-Riding, Charitable Giving and Crowding Out

“Crowding Out of Private Donations and Government Grants: Evidence from Environmental Charities” Garth Heutel (Harvard University)

“Free-riding and Cooperation in Environmental Games” Ana Espinola-Arredondo (University of Pittsburgh)

11:00 – 12:00
The Importance of Jurisdictional Boundaries as Determinants of Pollution

“Individual Level Constraints and Variation in Recreational Choices ” Edward Morey (University of Colorado, Boulder)

“Transboundary Pollution and the Allocation of Enforcement Effort” Mariano Rabassa (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Nicholas Brozovi?* (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

12:00 – 2:00
Lunch & Keynote Speaker – Rob Williams (University of Texas at Austin)

2:00 – 3:00
New Perspectives on Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life

“Roy Model Sorting and Non-Random Selection in the Valuation of a Statistical Life”
Thomas DeLeire (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Christopher Timmins* (Duke University)

“Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life for Heterogeneous Risks in a Revealed Preference Framework” Ikuho Kochi* (Colorado State University) and Laura Taylor (North Carolina State University)

3:00 – 3:15
Break

3:15 – 5:15
New Research on Resource Management

“Information Spillovers Among Fishermen” John Lynham (University of California, Santa Barbara)

“Prices vs. Quantities in a Dynamic Problem: Externalities from Resource Extraction”
Briggs (University of Texas at Austin)

“Strategic Resource Extraction Under the Threat of Learning-by-doing” Ujjayant Chakravorty (University of Central Florida), Andrew Leach* (University of Alberta, Edmonton) and Michel Moreaux (Université de Toulouse)

“Bayesian Profiling with Learning” Michael Springborn (University of California, Santa Barbara)

5:30 – 7:00
Reception

7:00
Dinner on your own

Saturday, September 22

8:00 – 9:00
Breakfast

9:00 – 10:30
Structural Models

“Explaining the Early 80’s US Oil Production Expansion” Conan Crum (University of Texas at Austin)

“Econometrics of Kinked Budget Constraints: An Alternative Approach” Aaron Strong* (Arizona State University) and V. Kerry Smith (Arizona State University)

“Congestion Effects in Valuation of Recreation Land using Revealed Preference Methods: An Application to Rock Climbing Resources at New York’s Shawangunk Ridge” Michael O’Hara* (Colgate University)

10:00 – 10:30
Break

10:30 – 12:00
Valuation

“Distributional Preferences and the Incidence of Costs and Benefits in Environmental Policy” Beilei Cai* (University of Oregon), Trudy Ann Cameron (University of Oregon) and Geoffrey R. Gerdes

“Measuring Benefits with Supply-Side Uncertainty” Aric Shafran (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo)

“Bridging the Gap between the Field and the Lab: Environmental Goods, Policy Maker Input, and Consequentiality” Christian A. Vossler* (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Mary F. Evans (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

12:00 – 1:30
Lunch

1:30 – 3:30
Trade and the Environment

“On the Interaction of Eco-Labeling and Trade” Charles F. Mason (University of Wyoming)

“Mercury: the Good, the Bad, and the Export Ban” Edward J. Balistreri* (Colorado School of Mines) and Christopher M. Worley (Colorado School of Mines)

“How International Environmental Cooperation Can Cause Global Welfare Loss” Stefan Csordás (University of Basel)

“Are Multinational Mother Nature’s Best Friends?” Scott Holladay (University of Colorado)

3:30 – 4:00
Break

4:00 – 5:00
Health Risk

“The Effect of Children on Adult Demands for Health-Risk Reductions” Trudy Ann Cameron (University of Oregon), J.R. DeShazo (University of California Los Angeles) and Erica H. Johnson* (University of Oregon)

“Mercury Advisories and Household Health Trade-Offs” Jay P. Shimshack* (Tufts University) and Michael B. Ward (Australian National University)