Michael Greenstone is the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago. In addition, he serves as the founding director of the University’s Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth and the director of the interdisciplinary Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago. He was previously the director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics.

Research

Research Areas

Climate Change and Social Cost of Carbon

Energy and Environment in Developing Countries

Costs and Benefits of Environmental Quality in the U.S.

Energy Supply and Demand in the U.S.

Value of a Statistical Life

Financial Markets

Moving Toward Evidence-Based Policymaking

Other

Recent Papers

Energy and Environment in Developing Countries

Can Pollution Markets Work in Developing Countries? Experimental Evidence from India

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 2025, 140(2): 1003–1060.

Rohini Pande, Nicholas Ryan, and Anant Sudarshan

Published Paper

Appendix

Data / Code

Climate Change and Social Cost of Carbon

Climate Change Impacts on Global Agriculture Accounting for Adaptation

Nature, Forthcoming.

Andrew Hultgren, Tamma A. Carleton, Michael Delgado, Diana R. Gergel, Trevor Houser, Solomon Hsiang, Amir Jina, Robert E. Kopp, Steven B. Malevich, Kelly E. McCusker, Terin Mayer, Ishan Nath, James Rising, Ashwin Rode, Jiacan Yuan

Working Paper