ECON 477
Economics of Environmental Behavior Fall 2024
Division II Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
Cross-listed CAOS 477 / ENVI 376

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 assess how policies can help or hurt the environment. Topics we may study include: common pool resources, voluntary conservation, social norms and nudges, discrimination and justice, rationality, firm responses to mandatory and voluntary regulation, voting and public opinion, and international environmental agreements. We’ll also build familiarity with the main methodologies of modern economic research: theoretical modeling, empirical analysis of observational data, and experiments.
The Class: Format: seminar; Class sessions will largely consist of presentations and discussions of academic research papers, as well as lab sessions to work on empirical exercises and other interactive activities
Limit: 19
Expected: 19
Class#: 1895
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: class participation, regular reading markup, empirical exercises, oral presentation(s), and an original research paper using an experiment, observational data, or theory
Prerequisites: ECON 251 and (ECON 255 or STAT 346)
Enrollment Preferences: senior Economics majors and junior Economics majors considering a thesis
Distributions: Division II Quantitative/Formal Reasoning
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
CAOS 477 Division II ENVI 376 Division II ECON 477 Division II
QFR Notes: The research students will consume and produce in the class will be based on math-based theory and/or econometric-based empirical analysis.
Attributes: CAOS Senior Seminars
ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science Electives
POEC Depth
POEC Skills

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