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.

Both the undergraduate and graduate course cover (i) economic frameworks for understanding environmental justice; and (ii) empirical approaches for evaluating environmental justice outcomes. Both courses emphasize empirical applications of quantitative and economic approaches and the assignments involve working with data and evaluating data sources and metadata. The course includes regular assignments, and an in person midterm and final exam. The graduate course additionally covers econometric approaches to causal inference, as well as issues in data selection and bias. The graduate course includes regular assignments and additionally includes an independent research project, with several milestones due during the semester, which are in lieu of the midterm and final exam.

Credit Restrictions

Students will receive no credit for ENE,RES 240 after completing ENE,RES 140. A deficient grade in ENE,RES 240 may be removed by taking ENE,RES 140.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.