2018

Scholars Gather to Celebrate and Honor Eminent Economist Martin L. Weitzman as He Retires From Harvard University Written by Doug Gavel for the Harvard Environmental Economics Program A recording of the symposium can be found by clicking here. Many of the...

Three Harvard Environmental Economics Program Pre-Doctoral Fellows, who graduated in May 2018, have accepted new positions: Cuicui Chen will begin a post-doctoral fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs this fall. She has...

Research by economists at Amherst College and Oregon State University is the first to study the social capital impacts of a national-scale, globally relevant forest conservation incentives program. (AMHERST, Mass., June 16, 2018) — Paying communities to...

As part of the 2018 Deep Dive, Professor Robert Stavins of the Harvard Kennedy School further explained the economic implications of climate change. Stavins explained the rationale behind viewing the climate change crisis from an economic perspective...

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program has, for the ninth consecutive year, awarded three prizes to Harvard University students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or natural-resource economics – one prize each...

HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow releases her job market paper "Slow Focus: Belief Evolution in the U.S. Acid Rain Program". See the Harvard press release here.

Professor Robert Stavins, with co-authors Michael Mehling (MIT) and Gilbert Metcalf (Tufts), have released an article “Linking climate policies to advance global mitigation: Joining jurisdictions can increase efficiency of mitigation” in Science magazine...

Professor James Stock, HEEP Faculty Fellow, has released a report entitiled "Reforming the Renewable Fuel Standard" through the Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy.