2019

Professor Stavins Named Among the Most Influential People in Climate Policy By Doug Gavel Having spent several decades on the front lines of environmental economics, Professor Robert Stavins is well acquainted with both the scientific and political...

The Harvard Environmental Economics Program is accepting submissions for three student paper prizes: The Enel Endowment for Best Undergraduate Paper or Senior Thesis ($1,000), the Mossavar-Rahmani Center Prize for Best Masters Student Paper ($1,500), and...

Edward Elgar Publishing released – in February 2019 – Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings, Seventh Edition, edited by Robert Stavins, HEEP Director. Since the first edition was published in 1972, Economics of the Environment has been a very...

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Rohini Pande , the Rafik Hariri professor of international political economy at Harvard Kennedy School and co-director of Evidence for Policy Design, has been honored with the 2018 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award for advancing the status of women in economics...

From Janet Yellen to Gregory Mankiw , top economists from both sides of the aisle signed a letter published in the Wall Street Journal this week calling for a national tax on carbon emissions, which play a central role in global warming. They said climate...