ECON 477
Economics of Environmental Behavior
Last Offered Spring 2017
Division II Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
Cross-listed ENVI 376
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

A community maintains a fishery; a firm decides whether to get a green certification; you choose to fly home or stay here for spring break: behaviors of people and firms determine our impact on the environment. We’ll use economics to model environmental behavior and to consider how policies can help or hurt the environment. Topics we’ll study include: voluntary conservation, social norms and nudges, firm responses to mandatory and voluntary programs, and boycotts and divestment.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 15
Class#: 3119
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: short essays and empirical exercises, class participation, oral presentation(s), and a final original research paper using an experiment, existing data, or theory
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Prerequisites: ECON 251 and (ECON 255 or STAT 346)
Enrollment Preferences: senior Economics majors
Distributions: Division II Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENVI 376 Division II ECON 477 Division II
Attributes: ENVI Environmental Policy
ENVP PTL Theory/Method Courses
ENVP PE-A Group Electives
ENVP PTL-A Group Electives
ENVP SC-A Group Electives
POEC Comparative POEC/Public Policy Courses

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