Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department of Economics

Professor Richard Schmalensee

617-253-2957CambridgeMA02139-4307

rschmal@mit.edu

web.mit.edu/economics/wwwU.S.A.

General StatisticsFinancial Information

Total MA/MS0Students with Aid47%

Total PhD126Average Stipend$12,000 + tuition

MA/MS entering class0Teaching Assistant26%

PhD entering class25Research Assistant21%

Environmental and Resource Field Statistics

Distinct specializationno#MA/PHD in classes0

#grad courses0#degrees/year1-2 have written

dissertations in program
Faculty inRichard SchmalenseePaul JaskowJames Poterba
Environmental/ Robert PindyckA. Denny EllermanMorris Adelman
ResourcesRichard Echaus
Special resourcesThe Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, joint program on

the Science and Policy of Global Change
Job placementsUCLA / Boston University / University of Chicago / Columbia University /

Congressional Budget Office / Resources for the Future
Examples ofAlexander Pfaff - The Economics of Deforestation: Evidence from the
recent Brazilian Amazon and New England
dissertationsNatalie Tawil - Essays on Economics, Government and the Environment

Amy Ando - Endangered Species Protection and National Forest Timber

Sales: Three Essays in Economics

Hilary Sigman - Economic Instruments for Hazardous Waste Policy: An

Empirical Analysis

Linda Bui - Studies in Trade and Transboundary Externalities

Donald Marron - Three Essays on Environmental Policies and Institutions

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