MEDAL Reading Group

Term 1, 2026
Mondays 11am-noon in FBE room 404

Date Paper Presenter
9 Mar Labour Day
16 Mar Power Flows: Transmission Lines, Allocative Efficiency, and Corporate Profits
Catherine Hausman
Leslie
23 Mar Machine Learning Predicts Which Rivers, Streams, and Wetlands the Clean Water Act Regulates
Simon Greenhill, Hannah Druckenmiller, Sherrie Wang, David A. Keiser, et al.
Filippo
30 Mar Research in progress Kathryn
6 Apr No teaching week
13 Apr The Value of Clean Water: Experimental Evidence from Rural India
Fiona Burlig, Amir Jina & Anant Sudarshan
Kaiyue
20 Apr
27 Apr The Geographical Leakage of Environmental Regulation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act
E. Mark Curtis, Weiting Miao, Felix Samy Soliman, Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato & Daniel Yi Xu
Emmanuel
4 May Choosing Who Chooses: Selection-Driven Targeting in Energy Rebate Programs
Takanori Ida, Takunori Ishihara, Koichiro Ito, Daido Kido, Toru Kitagawa, Shosei Sakaguchi & Shusaku Sasaki
Anthony
11 May AI in Charge: Large-Scale Experimental Evidence on Electric Vehicle Charging Demand
Robert D. Metcalfe, Andrew Schein, Cohen R. Simpson & Yixin Sun
Dave
18 May Regulating Untaxable Externalities: Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?
Mark R. Jacobsen, James M. Sallee, Joseph S. Shapiro & Arthur van Benthem
Sebastian
25 May Estimating Preferences For Neighborhood Amenities Under Imperfect Information
Fernando V. Ferreira & Maisy Wong
Andrea
1 Jun Who Bears the Burden of Climate Inaction?
Kimberly A. Clausing, Christopher R. Knittel & Catherine Wolfram
Jinjing
8 Jun Downwind and Out: The Strategic Dispersion of Power Plants and Their Pollution
John Morehouse & Edward Rubin
Kathryn
15 Jun Research proposal Jinjing
22 Jun Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India
Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan & Anant Sudarshan
Meiling