#  HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow Awarded Joseph Crump Fellowship 

 





September 29, 2020

 

 

 [Kristen McCormack](https://scholar.harvard.edu/kmccormack), HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow and Ph.D. student in Public Policy, was awarded the Joseph Crump Fellowship for 2020. As a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard, Kristen is studying environmental, public, and labor economics. She recently published papers examining the factors responsible for the recent decline in coal-fired power plant profitability [(RAND, 2019)](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1756-2171.12294) and highlighting the role of policy design and market fundamentals in contributing to the price volatility of compliance certificates used under the Renewable Fuel Standard [(AJAE, 2020)](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajae.12094). Prior to her graduate studies at Harvard, Kristen received a B.A. in economics from Pomona College and worked as a research assistant at Resources for the Future.

 The Crump Fellowship was established in 1985 to support a Harvard Ph.D. student conducting research at the intersection of the environment, natural resource management, and energy policy.



 

 

 



 

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