Economics Alum's Research Shows Economic Impact of Climate Change

These impacts don’t occur in a vacuum; they trigger a set of adaptation responses such as adoption of drought-tolerant crop varieties, investments in infrastructure hardening, and migration, says RIT economics alum Ivan Rudik, Ph.D. 

At a recent lecture he delivered at RIT, Rudik overviewed the current frontier in economics examining the impacts of climate change, the efficacy of different adaptation mechanisms, and the role of institutions in managing risk such as insurance programs and financial markets.

About the Speaker

Ivan Rudik, Ph.D. is an associate professor of applied economics and management at Cornell University’s Charles H. Dyson School, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research network affiliate at CESifo.

Formerly, he served as the chief environmental economist at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Biden administration, where he led work to connect economic analyses with environmental decision-making.

Rudik has published in the top economics journals such as American Economic Review, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, and Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics. Dr. Rudik received his M.S. and Ph.D. in economics at the University of Arizona and his B.S. in economics at Rochester Institute of Technology.