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Samuel Stolper
Associate Professor; Faculty Liaison, Office of Community Impact and Engagement
Environmental Justice
Environmental Policy and Planning
Climate + Energy
Water
Cities + Mobility + Built Environment
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3006 Dana
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About
Sam Stolper is an environmental and energy economist. His research, teaching, and writing are aimed at the design of equitable and efficient environmental, energy, and climate policy. He teaches courses on this subject to graduate students at SEAS as well as undergraduates in the Program in the Environment (PitE). He also serves as a member of the Governor of Michigan's Council on Climate Solutions. Prior to joining SEAS, Sam was a postdoctoral associate at MIT; he received a Ph.D. in public policy in 2016 from Harvard University and a B.S. in biomedical engineering in 2006 from Brown University.
Publications
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Stolper, Samuel and Christopher Knittel (2025). "Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use." Economic Journal 135(672): 2377-2401.
Woody, Maxwell, Samuel Stolper, Parth Vaishnav, and Gregory Keoleian (2024). "Vehicle Scrappage Policies for Transportation Decarbonization.” Environmental Research: Energy 1: 033002.
Stolper, Samuel, Michael Moore, and Timothy Arvan (2024). "The Promise and Peril of Carbon Neutrality Goals." Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 18(1): 88-95.
Jacobson, Sarah, Amy Ando, Titus Awokuse, Nathan Chan, Jimena González-Ramírez, Sumeet Gulati, Matthew Interis, Dale Manning, and Samuel Stolper (2024). “Addressing systemic racism in environmental and resource economics." Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 18(1): 143-164.
Hausman, Catherine and Samuel Stolper (2021). "Inequality, Information Failures, and Air Pollution." Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 110: 102552.
Education
PhD, Harvard University (public policy)
BS, Brown University (biomedical engineering)
Affiliations
Faculty Affiliate, UM SEAS Center for Sustainable Systems
External Faculty Affiliate, MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research
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