Joshua Graff Zivin

Joshua Graff Zivin

Professor (CGT Endowed Chair in Technology Policy); Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, GPS
UC San Diego
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Joint papers with Christopher

About

Joshua Graff Zivin is a Professor at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy and Department of Economics, where he holds the CGT Endowed Chair in Technology Policy and directs the Peter F. Cowhey Center on Global Transformation. He received his BA from Rutgers University and his MS and PhD from UC Berkeley, and spent eleven years at Columbia University before joining UC San Diego in 2008. A leading scholar of environmental economics and the economics of science and innovation, he studies how pollution and environmental stressors affect health and human capital, and coauthored ‘Grey Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation’ with Christopher Neilson.

Background

  • Environmental economics
  • Economics of science and innovation
  • Health economics
  • Human capital
  • Development economics

Education

  • PhD · University of California, Berkeley
  • MS · University of California, Berkeley
  • BA · Rutgers University

Career

  • Professor (CGT Endowed Chair in Technology Policy); Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives, GPS, UC San Diego (2008-present)
  • Professor (Mailman School of Public Health and School of International and Public Affairs), Columbia University
  • Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research

Joint work with Christopher