FEATURED PROFILE
 Erich Muehlegger is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and the Harvard University Center for the Environment, and former faculty chair of the Regulatory Policy Program. His research interests focus on environmental regulation of energy industries. Recent projects estimate consumer preferences for fuel economy, automaker response to fuel economy regulation, and the relative efficacy of various hybrid vehicle incentives. A second set of ongoing research projects study the effect of regulatory innovation on fuel tax evasion and model cross-border cigarette excise tax avoidance. He received his PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005, where his research studied market impacts of state and local environmental regulation of gasoline content.
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NEWS & PUBLICATIONS
Harvard Environmental Economics Program Awards Student Prizes for 2011-2012 Academic Year
The Harvard Environmental Economics Program has awarded three prizes to Harvard University students for the best research papers addressing a topic in environmental, energy, or resource economics—one prize each for a senior thesis, master’s student paper, and doctoral student paper. Each prize was accompanied by a monetary award. The Harvard Environmental Economics Program is a University-wide initiative based in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government that seeks to develop innovative answers to today’s complex environmental challenges. Read the press release.
The Cost of Clean Energy
In a new study, “Willingness to pay and political support for a US national clean energy standard,” co-author Joseph Aldy, Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program and Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, examines how much Americans are willing to pay for clean renewable energy. Research suggests that on average they were willing to tolerate a 13 percent increase in electricity costs in pursuit of cleaner energy. The study was published in the journal Nature Climate Change, and cited in multiple outlets, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Hill, Yale University, Ars Technica, and the Huffington Post.
Clean Cookstoves: Technology and Behavior
Rema Hanna and Edward Glaeser, Faculty Fellows of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program (HEEP), and Michael Greenstone, HEEP Associate Scholar, were featured in a New York Times article on programs to distribute clean cookstoves to poor rural areas in the developing world. Such stoves have the potential to reduce indoor air pollution, with attendant environmental and health benefits, but these HEEP affiliates argue that behavioral factors limit the realization of the technology’s potential. See also a related working paper by Hanna, Greenstone, and colleague Esther Duflo.
The Power of Controlling Water
Forest Reinhardt, a Faculty Fellow of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program, was featured in an article exploring the importance of water and who controls it in a Harvard Business School Working Knowledge article. The author, Maggie Starvish, cites a discussion between Professor Reinhardt and his students regarding the case of “Woolf Farming & Processing,” which examines all the factors in play when it comes to farming and water use.
Harvard Project on Climate Agreements
Learn about this exciting initiative, whose goal is to identify
policy architectures that hold promise as successors to the
Kyoto Protocol.
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