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Joseph E. Aldy is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research primarily in the fields of Economics, Econometrics and Finance as well as Energy. Their academic work spans areas such as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and also touches on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Global and Planetary Change, and Environmental Engineering.

Their research focuses on topics including Climate Change Policy and Economics, Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies, Economic and Environmental Valuation, as well as Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth. Additional areas covered include Environmental Impact and Sustainability, and Climate Change and Geoengineering.

Joseph E. Aldy has published multiple papers in various venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • "Keep climate policy focused on the social cost of carbon," 2021, Science
  • "Social science research to inform solar geoengineering," 2021, Science
  • "Busting the myths around public investment in clean energy," 2022, Nature Energy
  • "HOW MUCH COULD ARTICLE 6 ENHANCE NATIONALLY DETERMINED CONTRIBUTION AMBITION TOWARD PARIS AGREEMENT GOALS THROUGH ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY?", 2021, Climate Change Economics
  • "Three prongs for prudent climate policy," 2020, Southern Economic Journal

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Harvard Dataverse, Science, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, and Climate Change Economics.

Collaborations are an important part of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Matthew J. Kotchen
  • Meredith Fowlie
  • Robert N. Stavins
  • Mary F. Evans
  • Arik Levinson

Best Publications

  • The value of a statistical life: A critical review of market estimates throughout the world

    W. Kip Viscusi;Joseph E. Aldy

  • Thirteen Plus One: A Comparison of Global Climate Policy Architectures

    Joseph E. Aldy;Scott Barrett;Robert N. Stavins

  • Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Convergence or Divergence?

    Joseph E. Aldy

  • Designing Climate Mitigation Policy

    Joseph E Aldy;Alan J Krupnick;Richard G Newell;Ian W.H. Parry

  • Adjusting the Value of a Statistical Life for Age and Cohort Effects

    Joseph E. Aldy;W. Kip Viscusi

  • The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies

    Joseph Edgar Aldy;William Pizer

  • The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon Theory and Experience

    Joseph Edgar Aldy;Robert Norman Stavins

  • Age Differences in the Value of Statistical Life: Revealed Preference Evidence

    Joseph E. Aldy;W. Kip Viscusi

  • Architectures for Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World

    Joseph E. Aldy;Robert N. Stavins

  • The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon

    Joseph E. Aldy;Robert N. Stavins

  • An Environmental Kuznets Curve Analysis of U.S. State-Level Carbon Dioxide Emissions:

    Joseph E. Aldy

  • The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates Throughout the World

    W. Kip Viscusi;Joseph E. Aldy

  • The role of technology in sustaining agriculture and the environment

    Joseph E Aldy;James Hrubovcak;Utpal Vasavada

  • Using and improving the social cost of carbon

    William Pizer;Matthew Adler;Joseph Aldy;David Anthoff

  • Economic tools to promote transparency and comparability in the Paris Agreement

    Joseph Aldy;William Pizer;William Pizer;Massimo Tavoni;Massimo Tavoni;Massimo Tavoni;Lara Aleluia Reis;Lara Aleluia Reis

  • Divergence in State-Level Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions

    Joseph E. Aldy

  • Willingness to pay and political support for a US national clean energy standard

    Joseph Edgar Aldy;Joseph Edgar Aldy;Matthew J Kotchen;Matthew J Kotchen;Anthony A Leiserowitz

  • Unit pricing of residential municipal solid waste: lessons from nine case study communities

    Marie Lynn Miranda;Joseph E Aldy

  • Climate Change: An Agenda for Global Collective Action

    Joseph E. Aldy;Peter R. Orszag;Joseph E. Stiglitz

  • The Value of a Statistical Life: A Critical Review of Market Estimates throughout the World

    W Viscusi;Joseph Aldy

  • Architectures for Agreement

    Joseph Aldy;Robert Stavins

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert N. Stavins
Robert N. Stavins Harvard University
William A. Pizer
William A. Pizer Resources For The Future
W. Kip Viscusi
W. Kip Viscusi Vanderbilt University
Maureen L. Cropper
Maureen L. Cropper University of Maryland, College Park
Matthew J. Kotchen
Matthew J. Kotchen Yale University
Massimo Tavoni
Massimo Tavoni Polytechnic University of Milan
Carlo Carraro
Carlo Carraro University of California, Berkeley
Alan Krupnick
Alan Krupnick Resources For The Future
Leon Clarke
Leon Clarke University of Maryland, College Park

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