Latest Past Events

PPASS Seminar Series feat. Lucas Davis: Are Fuel Economy Standards Regressive?

Abstract (joint with ChrisKnittel) Despite widespread agreement that a carbon tax would be more efficient, many countries use fuel economy standards to reduce transportation-related carbon dioxide emissions. We pair a simple model of the automobile manufacturers' profit maximization problem with unusually-rich nationally representative data on vehicle registrations to estimate the distributional impact of U.S. fuel economy […]

Ensuring Climate Equity for Low Income Californians

Ensuring Climate Equity for Low IncomeCalifornians April 1, 2016 UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Room 2355Co-hosted by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, Liberty Hill Foundation, and the SB 535 CoalitionREGISTER: https://www.regonline.com/ClimateEquity    Lunch Keynote Assembly Member Jimmy GomezThe event will also feature the latest:Report Overview: California Climate Investments Using Cap-and-Trade Auction Proceeds Shelby Livingston, […]

1st International Conference on Grand Challenges in Construction Materials

Civil engineering infrastructure is aging and deteriorating, an issue, remediation of which involves huge maintenance and replacement costs. At the same time, due to the growth of the population/transportation, the need for infrastructure keeps increasing. These aspects need to be balances within the context of sustainability and reduction of CO2 emissions allocated to the construction […]