Edson Severnini

Edson Severnini is an Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (Heinz College), a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and a Research Associate at the NBER in the following programs: Environment and Energy Economics, Children, Development of the American Economy, and Economics of Health. His research interests lie at the intersection of Energy and Environmental Economics, Economic History, and Labour Economics. His work focuses on examining the impacts of the expansion of energy access, pollution, and environmental regulation on local development, health outcomes, and firm behavior since the age of electrification. He is also interested on the impacts of climate change on air pollution, electricity generation, and infectious disease, the effects of economic activity on environmental outcomes, and on racial issues in local labor markets and in higher education.

Prof. Severnini’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, and his work has been published at American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, AEA Papers and Proceedings, among other journals. Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, Edson Severnini received his PhD in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley, his MSc in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and his BA in Economics from the University of São Paulo.

As a UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow, he is involved in the Strengthening safety nets in post-conflict and humanitarian contexts project.