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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

Sinha, Jayant, Robert Stavins, Jessica Seddon, and Arunabha Ghosh. "Energy, Climate, Growth." Navigating Challenges for Sustainable Growth. Ed. Suman Bery, Kapil Kapoor, and Jean-Louis Arcand. Singapore: Springer, 2025, 1-18.
Aldy, Joseph E., Forest L. Reinhardt, and Robert N. Stavins. "Methane Abatement Costs in the Oil and Gas Industry: Survey and Synthesis." NBER Working Paper Series, March 2025.
Stavins, Robert N., and Gernot Wagner. "Martin L. Weitzman (1942–2019)." The Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.
Nesser, Hannah, Daniel J. Jacob, Joannes D. Maasakkers, Alba Lorente, Zichong Chen, Xiao Lu, Lu Shen, Zhen Qu, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Margaux Winter, Shuang Ma, A. Anthony Bloom, John R. Worden, Robert N. Stavins, and Cynthia A. Randles. "High-resolution U.S. methane emissions inferred from an inversion of 2019 TROPOMI satellite data: contributions from individual states, urban areas, and landfills." EGUsphere [preprint] (June 13, 2023).
Chen, Zichong, Daniel J. Jacob, Ritesh Gautam, Mark Omara, Robert N. Stavins, Robert C. Stowe, Hannah Nesser, Melissa P. Sulprizio, Alba Lorente, Daniel J. Varon, Xiao Lu, Lu Shen, Zhen Qu, Drew C. Pendergrass, and Sarah Hancock. "Satellite quantification of methane emissions and oil–gas methane intensities from individual countries in the Middle East and North Africa: implications for climate action." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 23.10 (31 May 2023): 5945-5967.
Stavins, Robert N., and Gernot Wagner. "Martin Weitzman: A Gift That Keeps on Giving." Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 9.5 (September 2022): 843-850.
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.
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.
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.
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, Matthew L. Kotchen, Robert N. Stavins, and James H. Stock. "Keep Climate Policy Focused on the Social Cost of Carbon." Science 373.6557 (2021): 850-852.
Stavins, Robert N. "Book Review: James M. Gabler: Passions: The Wines and Travels of Thomas Jefferson." Review of Journal of Wine Economics, 16 , 2021: 102-114.
Stavins, Robert N. "Film Review: Jason Wise (Director), Somm 3." Review of Journal of Wine Economics, 15.4, November 2020: 422-426.
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.
Stavins, Robert N. "The Future of U.S. Carbon-Pricing Policy." Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy 1 (2020): 8-64.
Schmalensee, Richard, and Robert N. Stavins. "Policy Evolution Under the Clean Air Act." Journal of Economic Perspectives 33.4 (Fall 2019): 27-50.
Schneider, Lambert, Maosheng Duan, Robert Stavins, Kelley Kizzier, Derik Broekhoff, Frank Jotzo, Harald Winkler, Michael Lazarus, Andrew Howard, and Christina Hood. "Double Counting and the Paris Agreement Rulebook." Science 366.6462 (October 2019): 180-183.
Stavins, Robert N. "Book Review: Gert Crum and Jan Bartelsman: Le Domaine de la Romanée-Conti." Review of Journal of Wine Economics, 14.3, 2019: 224-227.
Stavins, Robert N., ed. Economics of the Environment: Selected Readings Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
Stavins, Robert N., and Richard Schmalensee. "Learning From 30 Years of Cap and Trade." Resources (May 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.
Schmalensee, Richard, and Robert N. Stavins. "Policy Evolution under the Clean Air Act." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-039, November 2018.
Schatzki, Todd, and Robert N. Stavins. "GHG Cap-and-Trade: Implications for Effective and Efficient Climate Policy in Oregon." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-038, November 2018.
Schatzki, Todd, and Robert N. Stavins. "Key Issues Facing California's GHG Cap-and-Trade System for 2021-2030." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP18-025, July 2018.
Stavins, Robert N. Review of Burgundy: People with a Passion for Wine, by Rudi Goldman. Wine Economics, 13.1, Spring 2018: 105-108.
Gerarden, Todd D., Richard G. Newell, and Robert N. Stavins. "Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap." Journal of Economic Literature 55.4 (December 2017): 1486-1525.
Schmalensee, Richard, and Robert N. Stavins. "The Design of Environmental Markets: What Have We Learned from Experience with Cap and Trade?" Oxford Review of Economic Policy 33.4 (November 2017): 572-588.
Mehling, Michael A.; Metcalf, Gilbert E.; and Stavins, Robert N. "Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP17-042, September 2017.
Cross, Robin, Andrew J. Plantinga, and Robert N. Stavins. "Terroir in the New World: Hedonic Estimation of Vineyard Sale Prices in California." Journal of Wine Economics 12.3 (August 2017): 282-301.
Schmalensee, Richard, and Robert N. Stavins. "Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap and Trade." Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 11.1 (March 2017): 59-79.
Bodansky, Daniel M., Seth A. Hoedl, Gilbert E. Metcalf, and Robert N. Stavins. "Facilitating Linkage of Climate Policies through the Paris Outcome." Climate Policy 16.8 (November 2016): 956-972.
Schmalensee, Richard, and Robert N. Stavins. "Lessons Learned from Three Decades of Experience with Cap-and-Trade." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-069, November 2015.
Stavins, Robert N. "Linkage of Regional, National, and Sub-National Policies in a Future International Climate Agreement." Towards a Workable and Effective Climate Regime. Ed. Scott Barrett, Carlo Carraro, and Jaime de Melo. Center for Economic Policy Research, 2015, 283-296.
Bodansky, Daniel M., Seth A. Hoedl, Gilbert E. Metcalf, and Robert N. Stavins. "Facilitating Linkage of Climate Policies Through the Paris Outcome." Climate Policy (August 5, 2015): 1-17.
Stavins, Robert N. "From the Science to the Economics and Politics of Climate Change: An Introduction." Our World and Us: How Our Environment and Our Societies Will Change. Ed. Katinka Barysch. Allianz Group, 2015, 20-36.
Carraro, Carlo, Charles Kolstad, and Robert Stavins. "Assessment and Communication of the Social Science of Climate Change: Bridging Research and Policy." Review of Environment, Energy, and Economics (February 25, 2015).
Ranson, Matthew, and Robert N. Stavins. "Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience." Climate Policy (February 4, 2015).
Bodansky, Daniel M., Seth A. Hoedl, Gilbert E. Metcalf, and Robert N. Stavins. "Facilitating Linkage of Heterogeneous Regional, National, and Sub-National Climate Policies through a Future International Agreement." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-003, January 2015.
Gerarden, Todd D., Richard G. Newell, and Robert N. Stavins. "Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-004, January 2015.
Gerarden, Todd D., Richard G. Newell, Robert N. Stavins, and Robert C. Stowe. "An Assessment of the Energy-Efficiency Gap and its Implications for Climate-Change Policy." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP15-005, January 2015.
Ji, Zou, T. Brewer, M.C. Grant, M. Elzen, M. Finus, J. Gupta, N. Hohne, M.K. Lee, A. Michaelowa, M. Paterson, K. Ramakrishna, R. Stavins, G. Wen, J. Wiener, and H. Winkler. "Summary for Policymakers." Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, January 2015.
Ji, Zou, T. Brewer, M.C. Grant, M. Elzen, M. Finus, J. Gupta, N. Hohne, M.K. LEE, A. Michaelowa, M. Paterson, K. Ramakrishna, R. Stavins, G. Wen, J. Wiener, and H. Winkler. "International Cooperation: Agreements and Instruments." Climate Change 2014: Mitigation. Cambridge University Press, January 2015.
Fowlie, Meredith, Lawrence Goulder, Matthew Kotchen, Severin Borenstein, James Bushnell, Lucas Davis, Michael Greenstone, Charles Kolstad, Christopher Knittel, Robert Stavins, Michael Wara, Frank Wolak, and Catherine Wolfram. "An Economic Perspective on the EPA's Clean Power Plan." Science 346.6211 (November 2014): 815-816.
Bodansky, Daniel M., Seth A. Hoedl, Gilbert E. Metcalf, and Robert N. Stavins. "Facilitating Linkage of Heterogeneous Regional, National, and Sub-National Climate Policies through a Future International Agreement." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-056, November 2014.
Stavins, Robert N. "Film Review: David Leonard, A Year in Burgundy." Review of A Year in Burgundy, by David Leonard. Journal of Wine Economics, 9.1, November 2014: 100-103.
Stavins, Robert N. "Climate Realities." New York Times. 09/21/2014, 6-6.
Ranson, Matthew, and Robert N. Stavins. "Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP14-012, February 2014.
Schmalensee, Richard, and Robert N. Stavins. "The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27.1 (December 2013): 103-122.
Ranson, Matthew, and Robert N. Stavins. "Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience." ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP13-046, November 2013.
Stavins, Robert N. "Navigating a Two-Way Street Between Academia and the Policy World." Introduction to Economics Of Climate Change And Environmental Policy Economics Of Climate Change And Environmental Policy: Selected Papers of Robert N. Stavins, 2000–2011. Ed. Robert N. Stavins. Edward Elgar, 2013.