Peter Christensen

Peter Christensen

J-PAL Affiliated Professor

Assistant Professor

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Peter Christensen is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. As an applied microeconomist, he studies energy/environmental, public, and urban economics. Peter seeks to understand how public policy and technological interventions can be used to improve environmental outcomes and increase social mobility and equity in cities around the world. He received his PhD in environmental and resource economics from Yale University.