ENERES 240
Environmental Justice and Economics
This graduate course covers: one, economic frameworks for understanding environmental justice; two, empirical approaches for evaluating environmental justice outcomes; and three, challenges and approaches to causal inference in this setting. This course emphasizes empirical applications and the assignments involve working with data and evaluating data sources, metadata, selection, and bias.
Topics
- Use frameworks from economics to evaluate determinants of environmental inequality Understand how data sources can be used to evaluate outcomes relevant for environmental justice Gain experience working with administrative and observational data Use tools in statistics to compute environmental justice related metrics from data Understand approaches from economics and econometrics used to make causal arguments in environmental justice Evaluate the veracity of quantitative arguments relating to environmental justice
Official catalogue course objectives and student learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027