Nicholas Burger
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Education
Overview
Biography
Nicholas Burger is an economist at the RAND Corporation and professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. His research focuses primarily on environmental responses to economic incentives, especially in the areas of transportation and climate policy. He was a lead author on the recent Fourth Assessment Report produced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and has participated in the development process for California's climate change policy. He also has ongoing work with the World Bank on governance and development, including corruption measurement. He joined RAND in the summer of 2008. Burger completed his Ph.D. in economics through the Economics and Environmental Science program at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Research Focus
Recent Projects
- Poverty-reduction program evaluation in Indonesia
- Program evaluation of an agricultural training program in China
- Agricultural biomass in cofired power plants
- Economic costs of reducing greenhouse gas emissions under a U.S. national renewable electricity mandate
- Oil taxes to fund transportation and infrastructure
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