Kahn, Matthew

Contact Information
Provost Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences
Email: kahnme@usc.edu

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Personal Website
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Education
1988-1993.          University of Chicago, Ph.D. in Economics.
1986-1987.          London School of Economics, G.C. in Economic History.
1984-1988.          Hamilton College, B.A. in Economics

Background
Matthew E. Kahn is Provost Professor of Economics at USC. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at IZA.  He also serves as a Non-Resident Scholar at the NYU Stern School of Business at the Urbanization Project and as a Non-Resident Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban Research.  He has taught at Columbia, the Fletcher School at Tufts University, UCLA and Johns Hopkins University.  He has served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Stanford and as the Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore.  He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago.   He is the author of  Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (Brookings Institution Press 2006) and the co-author (joint with Dora L. Costa) of Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton University Press 2009). In September 2010, Basic Books published his book titled Climatopolis .  In January 2016, he published an updated e-book titled: Fundamentals of Environmental and Urban Economics. His research focuses on environmental and urban economics.  

Video:
Blue Skies over Beijing - lecture | interview

China-Related Publications

• Blue Skies Over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China joint with Siqi Zheng.  Princeton University Press 2016 (to be published in May 2016 in English and in Chinese).
• Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (Brookings Institution Press 2006)
• Fundamentals of Environmental and Urban Economics (updated e-book, 2016)
• Towards a System of Open Cities in China: Home Prices, FDI Flows and Air Quality in 35 Major Cities (joint with Siqi Zheng and Hongyu Liu), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 40, 2010 1-10.
• Ranking China's Green Cities Based on Local Air Pollution and Household Greenhouse Gas Production, prepared for the May 2010 Lincoln Conference on China
• China's Green Cities: Household Carbon Emissions and Urban Development (joint with Zheng, Wang, and Glaeser ), Journal of Economic Geography, 2010 10(6), 1-32.
• The Nascent Market for “Green” Real Estate in China (joint with Deng, Zheng and Wu), European Economic Review, July 2012
• The Greenness of China’s Cities: Air Pollution and Household Greenhouse Gas Emissions, a chapter in the edited Volume: China's Environmental Policy and Urban Development Edited by Joyce Yanyun Man, 2013 Lincoln Institute Press.
• China's Urban Pollution Dynamics: Evidence and Implications, joint with Siqi Zheng,  Journal of  Economic Literature, September 2013.   51(3): 731-72.
• China’s Bullet Trains Mitigate the Cost of Mega City Growth (joint with Zheng), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,  PNAS Plus , March 2013 110 (14), E1248-E1253
• Incentives for China’s Urban Mayors to Mitigate Pollution Externalities: The Role of the Central Government and Public Environmentalism, (joint with Zheng, Luo, Sun ), Regional Science and Urban Economics,  July 2014 , 61-71.
• The Evolving Geography of China’s Industrial Production: Implications for Pollution Dynamics and Urban Quality of Life (joint Sun, Qi and Zheng),  Journal of Economic Surveys,  September 2014. Vol. 28, Issue 4, pp. 709-724, 2014
• Water Pollution Progress at Borders: The Role of Changes in China’s Political Promotion Incentives. (joint with Li and Zhao), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy,  November 2015 7(4): 223-42.

Working Papers

• Urban Agglomeration and Local Economic Growth in China: The Role of New Industrial Parks (joint with Sun and Wu and Zheng)
• Self-Protection Investment Exacerbates Air Pollution Exposure Inequality in Urban China (joint with Zheng and Sun)
• Effects of Environmental Regulation in China: Industrial Relocation and Water Pollution in the Yangtze River Basin (joint with Zhao Chen, Yu Liu, and Zhi Wang)
• A New Era of Sustainable Growth in Urban China? commissioned for the Journal of Economic Perspectives  (joint with Zheng)
• The Mood in China (joint with Zheng)