

Matthew E. Kahn
Provost Professor of Economics, University of Southern California
Matthew E. Kahn is a Provost Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at IZA. He is a Senior Fellow at the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. 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, Stanford and the National University of Singapore. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and the London School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He has published eleven books. 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). He is also the author of Climatopolis (Basic Books 2010) and Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China (joint with Siqi Zheng published by Princeton Press in 2016). In March 2021, Yale University Press published his book titled Adapting to Climate Change. In January 2021, Johns Hopkins Press published his book Unlocking the Potential of Post Industrial Cities (joint with Mac McComas). In April 2022, the University of California Press published his book: Going Remote. His research focuses on urban and environmental economics. He is married to Dora L. Costa.
Recent work by Matthew E. Kahn
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Trade and the environment: How Vietnam gained from the US-China trade war
Contrary to the Pollution Haven hypothesis, air quality did not deteriorate in Vietnamese cities where urban economic growth has been most rapid. How did Vietnam decouple growth from environmental degradation? And what lessons are there for other dev...
Published 24.01.25
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How the urban environment can adapt to climate change
With rising rural-urban migration in developing countries, accelerated by climate change, it is crucial to understand how to incentivise adaptation in the design and construction of urban buildings.
Published 10.12.24