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The Harvard Program (HEEP) develops innovative answers to today’s complex environmental issues, by providing a venue to bring together faculty and graduate Harvard Environmental students from across engaged in Economics Program research, teaching, and outreach in environmental, A UNIVERSITY-WIDE INITIATIVE energy, and natural resource economics and related public policy. The program sponsors research projects, convenes workshops, and supports graduate education to further understanding of critical issues in environmental, natural resource, and From left to right: Pre-Doctoral Fellows Todd Gerarden, and policy around the world. Trisha Shrum, and Samuel Stolper listen to a presentation at a research workshop for current and former HEEP Pre- Doctoral Fellows.

ph.d. programs Pre-Doctoral Fellows pursue the Ph.D. degree in one of five Harvard University programs: economics, political economy and government, public policy, health policy, or business economics. Those interested in pursuing a Ph.D. degree at Harvard focused on Supported in part by environmental economics are encouraged to contact The Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics directly one or more of the program offices linked on the HEEP website below: HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellow alumni Hunt Allcott ’09 (left) and Richard Newell ’97 (right) discuss energy-efficiency http://heep.hks.harvard.edu/phd-programs economics. Photos: Martha Stewart research

Faculty Fellows and Pre-Doctoral Fellows are Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government actively engaged in research at the frontiers of Harvard Environmental Economics Program the field and have made key breakthroughs in economics that are relevant to public policy. A small sampling of current research projects would 79 John F. Kennedy Street include international policy architecture for global climate change; environmental policy in developing Cambridge, MA 02138 countries; the use of market-based instruments for pollution control; consumer adoption of energy- +1 617 496 8054 efficient technology; design of electricity markets; [email protected] responses of business firms to environmental http://heep.hks.harvard.edu demands; and valuing environmental risk reductions. faculty & pre-doctoral fellows faculty fellows Harvard has tremendous strength in environmental Robert Stavins, Harvard Kennedy School, Director and natural resource economics, with that capability Joseph Aldy, Harvard Kennedy School spread across several schools of the University: David Bloom, Harvard School of Public Health the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Harvard Richard Cooper, Department of Economics Kennedy School, and the Schools of Public Health, Melissa Dell, Department of Economics Business, Design, and Law. Our Faculty Fellows David Drake, Harvard Business School have great expertise and international reputations Jeffrey Frankel, Harvard Kennedy School in environmental, energy, and natural resource Edward Glaeser, Department of Economics HEEP Director, Robert Stavins (far right) conducts a seminar economics and have held important positions Jerry Green, Harvard Business School attended by Faculty Fellows, Pre-Doctoral Fellows, and in the President’s Council of Economic Advisors, James Hammitt, Harvard School of Public Health Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the colleagues. U.S. Department of the Treasury, the World Rema Hanna, Harvard Kennedy School Bank, the World Health Organization, and the Rebecca Henderson, Harvard Business School Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. William Hogan, Harvard Kennedy School Richard Hornbeck, Department of Economics sponsors In recent years, Pre-Doctoral Fellows have gone Dale Jorgenson, Department of Economics The Enel Endowment for Environmental Economics on to become faculty members at Columbia, Michael Kremer, Department of Economics at Harvard University provides major support for Duke, Tufts, New York, and Tsinghua (Beijing) Joe Lassiter, Harvard Business School HEEP. The Endowment was established in February Universities; INSEAD and the University of Michigan; Robert Lawrence, Harvard Kennedy School 2007 by a generous capital gift from Enel SpA, a and Amherst, Dartmouth, and Colby Colleges; Eric Maskin, Department of Economics progressive Italian corporation involved in energy Fellows at Resources for the Future and Columbia Sendhil Mullainathan, Department of Economics production worldwide. HEEP is also supported by University’s Earth Institute; and hold key positions in Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Harvard Business School the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the James M. and government agencies—including the White House Cathleen D. Stone Foundation, the Enel Foundation, Ariel Pakes, Department of Economics and the U.S. Energy Information Administration— Bank of America, BP, Castleton Commodities Rohini Pande, Harvard Kennedy School and non-governmental organizations, including the International LLC, Chevron Services Company, Duke Environmental Defense Fund. Richard Peiser, Harvard Graduate School of Design Energy Corporation, and Shell. HEEP enjoys an Forest Reinhardt, Harvard Business School institutional home in and support from the Mossavar- Steven Shavell, Harvard Law School Rahmani Center for Business & Government at James Stock, Department of Economics the Harvard Kennedy School. HEEP collaborates Lawrence Summers, Harvard Kennedy School closely with the Harvard University Center for Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School the Environment (HUCE). The Center has provided Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School generous material support, and a number of HUCE’s Richard Vietor, Harvard Business School Environmental Fellows and Visiting Scholars have made intellectual contributions to HEEP. The closely- Martin Weitzman, Department of Economics affiliated Harvard Project on Climate Agreements Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard Kennedy School is grateful for additional support from the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the associate scholars Harvard Kennedy School, ClimateWorks Foundation, Christopher Knittel, MIT and Christopher P. Kaneb (Harvard AB 1990). HEEP Pre-Doctoral Fellows attend a weekly seminar Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University hosted by the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. Robert Pindyck, MIT Richard Schmalensee, MIT