Mon, Dec 9, 2019, 12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
Wolfram Schlenker is a Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where is the co-director of the Center for Environmental Economics and Policy (ceep.columbia.edu) and the co-director of the Energy & Environment Concentration at SIPA. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He currently serves on the Board of Reviewing Editors at Science.
He has studied the effect of weather and climate on agricultural yields, how climate trends and the US biofuel mandate influences agricultural commodity prices, and how pollution impacts both agricultural yields and human morbidity.
Location:
300 Wallace Hall
Speaker(s):
Wolfram Schlenker, Columbia University
Does Being a 'Top 10' Worst Polluter Affect Environmental Releases? Evidence from the U.S. Toxic Release Inventory