About
Matthew is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Williams College and a research affiliate at IZA. He earned his BA in History and Literature at Harvard and his PhD in Economics at UCSD in 2015, then joined Williams the same year. He served as a Senior Advisor in the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in 2024-25, working on environmental regulation and benefit-cost analysis. His research is in environmental and labor economics — climate change, air pollution, regulation, and time use — including studies of pollution-control policies, future air-pollution avoidance behavior, and sunset-driven sleep differences and earnings.
Background
- Environmental Economics
- Labor Economics
- Air Pollution and Regulation
- Time Use
Education
- PhD, Economics · University of California, San Diego (2015)
- BA, History and Literature · Harvard University
Career
- Associate Professor of Economics, Williams College (2015–present)
- Senior Advisor, White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (2024–2025)
Joint work with Christopher
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Grey Matters: Fetal Pollution Exposure and Human Capital Formation
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Vol. 4, No. 2, June 2017, (pp. 505-542) · 2017
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