Applied Micro Lunch Seminar: Sefi Roth, The London School of Economics

Date and Time
Location
North Hall 2111

Speaker

Sefi Roth, The London School of Economics

Biography

Sefi Roth is an Associate Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Geography and Environment at LSE. He is also the founder and co-leader of the Economics of Air Pollution (EAP) research group at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and a Research Affiliate at IZA. His research mainly concentrates on the economics of air pollution, exploring the impacts of ambient and indoor air pollution on health, human capital, crime, the housing market, and the economy more broadly. Sefi holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London. 

His teaching at LSE includes GY426 - Environmental and Resource Economics and GY222 - Applied Environmental Economics.

Outside of LSE, Sefi is a member of the UK Clean Air Programme Steering Committee and the head of the Clean Air Programme Task and Finish Group ‘A Clean Air Community’.