The Role of Environmental Economics Research in Policy: A Perspective from the White House

Presented by Kenneth Gillingham
Assistant Professor of Economics
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
Yale University

Policy-relevant research in environmental economics plays a key role in energy and environmental policymaking, often in surprising and unexpected ways. Prof. Gillingham will discuss how research informs policy, focusing on three areas of his own research contributions: the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions, the federal coal leasing program, and the rebound effect of energy efficiency policy. Drawing upon his experiences as the Senior Economist for Energy & the Environment at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, he will illustrate how policy decisions relied upon careful scholarship in these areas, and in fact may not have been possible without the rigorous intellectual foundation that was established.

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