Associate Teaching Professor of Economics and Associate Dean of Student Affairs at GPS
The success of climate policy in the United States largely depends on how state and local governments design and implement policies. SDG Policy Initiative (SDGPI) faculty and graduate student researchers…
In order to achieve zero carbon emissions, the US will need a plan. SDGPI is part of a coalition of the nation's leading experts who have laid out the path…
The Regional Decarbonization Framework (RDF) anchors the San Diego region in emerging best practices from across the nation and globally. It charts science–based, feasible pathways toward expeditious deep decarbonization, proposing…
The Regional Decarbonization Framework is intended to anchor the San Diego region in emerging best practices from across the nation and globally. It seeks to chart science-based pathways towards deep…
Cash transfers attenuate one-half to two-thirds of the effects of higher temperatures on homicides. Our results not only suggest that social protection programs can help the poor adapt to rising…
In order to achieve zero carbon emissions, the US will need a plan. SDGPI is part of a coalition of the nation's leading experts who have laid out the path…
The SDSN USA is hosted by three universities: Howard, Carnegie Mellon, and UC San Diego. Together these universities, along with a network of more than 100 higher education institutions, are…
Providing long-lasting insecticidal nets led to a 41% decline in under-5 mortality risk among children living in rural areas with higher than average malaria burden. Targeting bednets to areas with…
In a review of economic arguments for cigarette taxation this paper finds that increases in tobacco excise tax can result in substantial smoking cessation particularly among people on low incomes.…
Researchers developed a Malaria Ecology Index using climatological and ecological data and found strong associations between malaria ecology and malaria testing data. Using both insecticide-treated nets or indoor residual spraying…