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Events April 11, 12 and 17! Baker Center Energy and Environment Forum on April 11, 3:30 - 5 pm at MIN KAO ENGINEERING BLDG!!!!!!!!!!!! Baker Scholars Research Symposium on April 12 April 17 -- "Taxes, Green Vehicles and the Death of Tennessee Transportation." See below for details. Free and open to the public. Join us for the next Baker Center Energy and Environmental Forum, which will take place on Thursday, April 11 at 3.30 pm in Min Kao 404 (not Toyota Auditorium in Baker Center due to scheduling conflict). Paulina Oliva, Assistant Professor of Economics at University of California, Santa Barbara will give a 45 minute presentation and then lead a discussion with participants. Her talk is titled: “Does the Effect of Pollution on Infant Mortality Differ Between Developing and Developed Countries? Evidence from Mexico City” Abstract: Much of what we know about the marginal effect of pollution on infant mortality is derived from developed country data. However, given the lower levels of air pollution in developed countries, these estimates may not be externally valid to the developing country context if there is a nonlinear dose relationship between pollution and mortality or if the costs of avoidance behavior differs considerably between the two contexts. In this paper, we estimate the relationship between pollution and infant mortality using data from Mexico. We find that an increase of 1 parts per billion in carbon monoxide (CO) over the last week results in 0.0032 deaths per 100,000 births, while a 1 µg/m3 increase in particulate matter (PM10) results in 0.24 infant deaths per 100,000 births. Our estimates for PM10 tend to be similar (or even smaller) than the U.S. estimates, while our findings on CO tend to be larger than those derived from the U.S. context. We provide suggestive evidence that a non-linearity in the relationship between CO and health explains this difference. NOTE: Forum will be held in Min Kao, the recently constructed Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Building on the Northeast corner of campus. ================================ April 12 - 1-3 pm Toyota Auditorium Graduating Baker Scholars will present their final research and others will provide updates on their research progress. Please join us in the Toyota and be prepared to be impressed! ============================== April 17 - 6-7:30 pm "Taxes, Green Vehicles and the Death of Tennessee Transportation" - Toyota Auditorium Two Baker Scholars, Eric Dixon and Caleb Williford, will moderate this panel to discuss TN roads. Kevin Bakewell - AAA Mark Burton - UT Transportation Research Center Mike Edwards - Knoxville Chamber of Commerce John Schroer - TDOT Commissioner Kent Starwalt - TN Road Builders Dave Huneryager - TN Trucking Assoc. Matt Murray - UT Baker Center and Center Business & Economic Research