{"464201":{"#nid":"464201","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Prof. Arik Levinson ECON Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EConstruction codes that regulate the energy efficiency of new buildings have been a centerpiece of US environmental policy for 40 years. California enacted the nation\u2019s first energy building codes in 1978, and they were projected to reduce residential energy use\u2014and associated pollution\u2014by 80 percent. How effective have the building codes been? I take three approaches to answering that question. First, I compare current electricity use by California homes of different vintages constructed under different standards, controlling for home size, local weather, and tenant characteristics. Second, I examine how electricity in California homes varies with outdoor temperatures for buildings of different vintages. And third, I compare electricity use for buildings of different vintages in California, which has stringent building energy codes, to electricity use for buildings of different vintages in other states. All three approaches yield the same answer: there is no evidence that homes constructed since California instituted its building energy codes use less electricity today than homes built before the codes came into effect.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EArik Levinson is a Professor in the Economics Department of Georgetown University and a Research Associate at the NBER. Professor Levinson\u2019s publications have appeared in the American Economic Review, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and the International Economics Review, among many others. He is currently serving as a co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. His current projects study explanations for the reductions in pollution from U.S. manufacturing, direct measurements of the technological improvements leading to those improvements, environmental Engel curves for the U.S. consumers from 1978 to the present, and explanations for California\u0027s steep reductions in energy use relative to other U.S. states.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EHow Much Energy Do Building Energy Codes Really Save? Evidence from California.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"How Much Energy Do Building Energy Codes Really Save? Evidence from California."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2015-10-29 13:46:03","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:17:48","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2015-10-30T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2015-10-30T20:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2015-10-30T20:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2015-10-30 23:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2015-10-31 00:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2015-10-31 00:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"},{"id":"1316","name":"Green Buzz"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EJuan Moreno-Cruz\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:juan.moreno-cruz@econ.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejuan.moreno-cruz@econ.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}