HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow Sarah Armitage has been awarded a fellowship from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Candidates for the fellowship are assessed for their potential to make an important contribution to important questions in energy economics and are chosen based on recommendations from a selection panel co-chaired by Meredith Fowlie (University of California, Berkeley) and Ryan Kellogg (University of Chicago). Fellowship recipients pursue academic research related to energy economics, emphasizing issues relevant to energy markets and policy in the United States including energy market design, innovation and productivity in energy markets, infrastructure investment, energy efficiency, economics of renewable energy, the effects of environmental regulatory policy on supply and demand, and related topics. Three fellowships were awarded nationwide for the 2020-2021 academic year.
As a PhD candidate at Harvard, Sarah is studying energy and environmental economics, with particular focus on incentives for innovation in the energy sector. Her dissertation uses the market for efficient lighting to examine the impact of common policy instruments on the adoption of new technologies, especially substitution patterns between first- and second-generation efficient products. Prior to her graduate studies at Harvard, Sarah received an M.Phil. in Economic and Social History from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and a B.A. in history from Yale University. She previously worked as a consultant with the environmental consulting firm Industrial Economics, Inc. (IEc), and as a research assistant at MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR).