Matthew E. Kahn

Matthew E. Kahn is the Provost Professor of Economics at USC. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and the IZA. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Columbia, the Fletcher School at Tufts University, UCLA and Johns Hopkins. He has served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Stanford University and the National University of Singapore. He is the author of ten books including; Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (Brookings Institution Press 2006), Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton University Press 2008 joint with Dora L. Costa), Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter World (Basic Books 2010), Blue Skies Over Beijing (joint with Siqi Zheng, Princeton University Press 2016), Unlocking the Potential of Post-Industrial Cities (joint with Mac McComas Johns Hopkins University Press 2021), Adapting to Climate Change (Yale University Press 2021, and Going Remote (University of California Press 2022). He has also published three economics e-books on the Kindle Press Platform. His research focuses on urban and environmental economics.