RAND Economist Biography

Nicholas Burger

Associate Economist
Washington Office

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Economics
University of California, Santa Barbara
2008

B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies (Economics & Philosophy)
University of Southern California
2002

FIELDS

Environmental economics, development economics

POLICY AREAS

Transportation, Climate Change, Environmental Agreements, Governance and Corruption, Foreign Aid

RECENT PROJECTS

Evaluation of climate change policies and instruments; quantifying the economic costs of traffic incidents; evaluating corruption and governance measurement tools

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Gas Prices, Traffic, and Freeway Speeds in Los Angeles” (with Daniel Kaffine), Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming 2008
“Should We Drill in ANWR? An Economic Perspective” (with Matthew Kotchen), Energy Policy, 35, 2007
“Dynamic Consequences of Human Behavior in the Serengeti Ecosystem ” (with Christopher Costello, Steve Polasky, Kathy Galvin), Serengeti III. A. Sinclair, C. Packer, J. Fryxell, and S Mduma eds. 2008