Econ 432 – Applied Environmental Economics Materials

Course Information

• Syllabus

Intro to R and R Studio

• Notes
  • 🎬videos going over the notes🎬
• In-class Activity
  • Application 1: UN Development Programme (UNDP) country sustainability data.

Data Inspection and Summary Statistics

• Notes
  • 🎬videos going over the notes🎬
• In-class Activity
  • Application 1: Sustainability data across countries
  • Application 2: Environmental views from the American National Election Survey
  • Application 3: Household data from Rondonia, Brazil

Data Visualization

• Notes
  • 🎬videos going over the notes🎬
• In-class Activity
  • Application 1: Sustainability data across countries
  • Application 2: Environmental views from the American National Election Survey
  • Application 3: Household data from Rondonia, Brazil

Linear Regression with One Regressor

• Notes
  • 🎬videos going over the notes🎬
• In-class Activity
  • Application 1: Crops and Income from Brazilian Households in Rondonia

Multiple Regression

• Notes – Multiple Regression
• Notes – Nonlinearities and Interactions
• Notes – Causality Biases
  • 🎬videos going over the notes🎬
• In-class Activity
  • Application 1: Hedonic analysis of Boston housing data
  • Application 2: Household farm data from Rondonia, Brazil

Midterm Project

• Midterm Project
  • with simulated data on donations to environmental NGOs

Binary Outcomes

• Notes
• In-class Activity
  • Application 1: What influences households to switch to safer water Wells in Bangladesh?
  • Application 2: What influences households to consider obtaining a reforestation license in Brazil?

Panel Data

• Notes
• In-class Activity
  • Application 1: Examining bicycle crossing for 4 bridges in NYC in April 2016
  • Application 2: Understanding gasoline consumption per car in 18 countries from 1960 until 1978

Experiments, Quasi-Experiments and Stated Preferences

• Notes
• In-class Activity
  • Application 1: Estimating the damages from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
  • Application 2: Estimating the WTP to protect virgin forests in Sweden

Final Project

• Final Project Proposal
• Final Project
  • Each student chooses data to answer an environmental economics research question

Sample of Students’ Final Projects

• Chris Machol (Spring 2021): Infant Mortality and Pollution in India