Harvard Kennedy School faculty disseminate their research in working publications and papers that contribute to public knowledge and fuel policy innovation. This list features recent faculty publications, including journal articles, books, edited volumes, research papers, and public testimony.
Faculty Publications
Hogan, William W. "Electricity Market Design and Zero-Marginal Cost Generation." Current Sustainable/Renewable Energy Reports 9 (March 2022): 15-26.
Stavins, Robert N. "What will happen with US climate policy under the Biden Administration?" Greening Europe's Post-COVID-19 Recovery. Ed. Simone Tagliapietra, Guntram B. Wolff, and Georg Zachmann. Bruegel, February 2022, 140-151.
Austin, James, Megan Epler Wood, and Herman B. Leonard. "Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris." World Scientific Encyclopedia of Business Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Ed. Peter Gianiodis, Maritza Espina, and William R Meek. World Scientific, 2022, 175-196.
Stavins, Robert N. "The Relative Merits of Carbon Pricing Instruments: Taxes versus Trading." Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 16.1 (Winter 2022): 62-82.
Taylor, Charles A., and James Rising. "Tipping point dynamics in global land use." Environmental Research Letters 16.12 (December 2021): 125012.
Keith, David. "Toward constructive disagreement about geoengineering." Science 374.6569 (November 2021): 812-815.
Hogan, William W. "Strengths and weaknesses of the PJM market model." Handbook on Electricity Markets. Ed. Jean-Michel Glachant, Paul L. Joskow, and Michael G. Pollitt. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021, 182-204.
Joseph E. Aldy, Tyler Felgenhauer, William A. Pizer, Massimo Tavoni, Mariia Belaia, Mark E. Borsuk, Arunabha Ghosh, Garth Heutel, Daniel Heyen, Joshua Horton, David Keith, Christine Merk, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Jesse L. Reynolds, Katharine Ricke, Wilfried Rickels, Soheil Shayegh, Wake Smith, Simone Tilmes, Gernot Wagner, and Jonathan B. Wiener. "Social science research to inform solar geoengineering." Science 374.6569 (2021): 815-818.
Hahn, Robert and Robert Stavins. "Why cap-and-trade should (and does) have appeal to politicians." Combatting Climate Change: a CEPR Collection. Ed. Beatrice Weder di Mauro. CEPR Press, 2021, 259-264.
Schlenker, Wolfram, and Charles A. Taylor. "Market expectations of a warming climate." Journal of Financial Economics 142.2 (November 2021): 627-640.
Frankel, Jeffrey A. "How to set greenhouse gas emission targets for all countries." Combating Climate Change: A CEPR Collection. Ed. Beatrice Weder di Mauro. CEPR Press, October 2021, 43-48.
Stavins, Robert N., and Sheila M. Olmstead. "Environmental Insights: Conversations on policy and practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program." Harvard Environmental Economics Program, October 2021.
Aldy, Joseph. "Addressing the Leakage and Competitiveness Risks of Climate Policy." RFF Issue Briefs, October 2021.
Taylor, Charles A., and Wolfram Schlenker. "Environmental Drivers of Agricultural Productivity Growth: CO2 Fertilization of US Field Crops." NBER Working Paper Series, October 2021.
Behrer, A.P., R.J. Park, G. Wagner, C.M. Golja, and David Keith. "Heat has larger impacts on labor in poorer areas." Environmental Research Communications 3.9 (September 2021): 095001.
Belaia, Mariia, Juan B. Moreno-Cruz, and David Keith. "Optimal climate policy in 3D: mitigation, carbon removal, and solar geoengineering." Climate Change Economics 12.3 (August 2021): 2150008.
Anderson, Weston, Charles A. Taylor, Sonali McDermid, Elisabeth Ilboudo-Nébié, Richard Seager, Wolfram Schlenker, Fabien Cottier, Alex de Sherbinin, Dara Mendeloff, and Kelsey Markey. "Violent conflict exacerbated drought-related food insecurity between 2009 and 2019 in sub-Saharan Africa." Nature Food 2.8 (August 2021): 603-615.
Edmonds, James, Sha Yu, Haewon Mcjeon, Dirk Forrister, Joseph Aldy, Nathan Hultman, Ryna Cui, Stephanie Waldhoff, Leon Clarke, Stefano de Clara, and Clayton Munnings. "How much could article 6 enhance nationally determined contribution ambition toward paris agreement goals through economic efficiency?" Climate Change Economics 12.2 (2021).
Felgenhauer, Tyler, Joshua Horton, and David Keith. "Solar geoengineering research on the U.S. policy agenda: when might its time come?" Environmental Politics 31.3 (2022): 498-518.
Felgenhauer, Tyler, Joshua Horton, and David Keith. "Solar geoengineering research on the U.S. policy agenda: when might its time come?" Environmental Politics 31.3 (June 2021): 498-518.
Bento, Nuno, Gianfranco Gianfrate, and Joseph E. Aldy. "National Climate Policies and Corporate Internal Carbon Pricing." The Energy Journal 42.5 (2021).
Fan, Yuanchao, Jerry Tjiputra, Helene Muri, Danica Lombardozzi, Chang-Eui Park, Shengjun Wu, and David Keith. "Solar geoengineering can alleviate climate change pressures on crop yields." Nature Food 2 (May 2021): 373–381.
Irvine, Peter James, Elizabeth Burns, Ken Caldeira, Frank N Keutsch, Dustin Tingley, and David Keith. "Expert judgements on solar geoengineering research priorities and challenges." April 2021.
Aldy, Joseph. "Testimony on the Elimination of Fossil Fuel Subsidies to the US Subcommittee on the Environment." US House Oversight Committee, April 22, 2021.
Horton, Joshua B., Penehuro Lefale, and David Keith. "Parametric Insurance for Solar Geoengineering: Insights from the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative." Global Policy 12.S1 (April 2021): 97-107.
Ramelli, Stefano, Alexander F. Wagner, Richard J. Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler. "Investor Rewards to Climate Responsibility: Stock-Price Responses to the Opposite Shocks of the 2016 and 2020 U.S. Elections." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-011, March 2021.
Evans, Mary, Karen Palmer, Joseph Aldy, Meredith Fowlie, Matthew Kotchen, and Arik Levinson. "The Role of Retrospective Analysis in an Era of Deregulation: Lessons from the U.S. Mercury Air Toxic Standards." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-010, March 2021.
Co-Benefits and Regulatory Impact Analysis:
Theory and Evidence from Federal Air Quality
Regulations
Aldy, Joseph, Matthew Kotchen, Mary Evans, Meredith Fowlie, Arik Levinson, and Karen Palmer. "Co-Benefits and Regulatory Impact Analysis: Theory and Evidence from Federal Air Quality Regulations." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-009, March 2021.
Aldy, Joseph E., Giles Atkinson, and Matthew Kotchen. "Environmental Benefit-Cost Analysis: A Comparative Analysis Between the United States and the United Kingdom." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP21-008, March 2021.
Salles, MaurÃcio B. C., Taina N. Gadotti, Michael J. Aziz, and William W. Hogan. "Potential revenue and breakeven of energy storage systems in PJM energy markets." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28 (March 2021): 12357-12368.
Jasanoff, Sheila. "Humility in the Anthropocene." Globalizations (02/09/2021).
Zhen Dai, Elizabeth T. Burns, Peter J. Irvine, Dustin H. Tingley, Jianhua Xu, and David Keith. "Elicitation of US and Chinese expert judgments show consistent views on solar geoengineering." Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8 (January 2021).
Seeley, Jacob T., Nicholas J. Lutsko, and David Keith. "Designing a Radiative Antidote to CO2." Geophysical Research Letters 48.1 (January 2021).
Taylor, Charles A., Christopher Boulosb, and Douglas Almonda. "Livestock plants and COVID-19 transmission." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol.117.50 (December 15, 2020): 31706-31715.
Marcus Peacock, Donald Bathurst, Linda Bilmes, Sheila Burke and Margaret Sherry. "Assessment of the National Park Service Museum Collections Storage Management. National Academy of Public Administration, December 2020." National Academy of Public Administration, December 2020.
Clark, William C., and Alicia G. Harley. "Sustainability Science: Toward a Synthesis." Annual Review of Environment and Resources 45.1 (October 2020): 331-386.
Taylor, Charles A. "Cicadian Rhythm: Insecticides, Infant Health and Long-term Outcomes." CEEP Working Paper Series, September 2020.
Bilmes, Linda J. "Who is Rescuing America's Parks?" Boston Globe, July 27, 2020.
Aldy, Joseph, and Robert N. Stavins. "Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus’s Impacts on Climate Change Policy." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-022, July 2020.
Bilmes, Linda J., and John B. Loomis. Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs: America's Best Investment, 1st edition. Routledge, 2020.
Aldy, Joseph, and Richard Zeckhauser. "Three Prongs for Prudent Climate Policy." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-009, April 2020.
Aldy, Joseph, Maximillian Auffhammer, Maureen Cropper, Arthur Fraas, and Richard Morgenstern. "Looking Back at Fifty Years of the Clean Air Act." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP20-003, February 2020.
Aldy, Joseph, Matthew Kotchen, Mary Evans, Meredith Fowlie, Arik Levinson, and Karen Palmer. "Report on the Proposed Changes to the Federal Mercury and Air Toxics Standards." External Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, December 2019.
Rajan, Thillai, and Akash Deep. "A cost-effective way to power generation." The Hindu. October 16, 2019.
Stavins, Robert N., and Richard Schmalensee. "Learning From 30 Years of Cap and Trade." Resources (May 2019).
Aldy, Joseph. "A Few Keys to Saving the Planet Cost-Effectively." The Environmental Forum. March/April 2019.
Stavins, Robert N., M.A. Mehling, and G.E. Metcalf. "Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)." Environmental Law 8.4 (2019): 647-698.
Ramelli, Stefano, Alexander F. Wagner, Richard J. Zeckhauser, and Alexandre Ziegler. "Stock Price Rewards to Climate Saints and Sinners: Evidence from the Trump Election." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-037, September 2018.
Hogan, William W. and Susan Pope. "Priorities for the Evolution of an Energy-Only Electricity Market Design in ERCOT." Harvard Electricity Policy Group. May 9, 2017.
Collins, Ross D., Noelle E. Selin, Olivier L. de Weck, and William C. Clark. "Using Inclusive Wealth for Policy Evaluation: Application to Electricity Infrastructure Planning in Oil-Exporting Countries." Ecological Economics 133 (January 2017): 23-34.