This course covers: one, economic frameworks for understanding environmental justice, and two, empirical approaches for evaluating environmental justice outcomes. This course emphasizes empirical applications and the assignments involve working with data and evaluating data sources and metadata.

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.

Background in statistics (STAT), data science (DATA) or economics (ECON) is helpful but not
required. --
Counts for Society and Environment and Environmental Economics Majors!

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.