Past Funded Researchers
Christopher Knittel
- George P. Shultz Professor
- Professor, Applied Economics
- Sloan School of Management
Christopher Knittel is the George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also the Director of MIT’s Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research which has served as the hub for social science research on energy and the environment since the late 1970s. Professor Knittel is also a co-director of the E2e Project, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics. His research focuses on environmental economics, studying how firms and consumers respond to policies. Professor Knittel is the recipient of a 2016 J-WAFS seed grant for his project, “Estimating the Benefits to Strengthening Water Markets.”
J-WAFS-funded projects
- Conservation credits for groundwater management
- Estimating the benefits to strengthening water markets
News
- J-WAFS PI leads MIT's new climate policy center
- J-WAFS PI discusses impact of clean energy on agriculture and beyond
- Climate Grand Challenges project uses computer science to address climate change
- Climate Grand Challenges flagship projects include multiple J-WAFS PIs
- Multiple J-WAFS PIs chosen as MIT Climate Grand Challenges finalists
- Former J-WAFS PI Christopher Knittel talks with J-PAL about consumer responses to environmental and energy policies
- A new study conducted by J-WAFS PI Chris Knittel suggests that racial discrimination has led to disproportionate numbers of Covid cases in Black communities across the US