February 16, 2023
Dr. Matthew Gibson, Associate Professor of Economics at Williams College, will give a talk titled “Economics of Climate Change” at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 1 at the MCLA Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation, Room 121.
This event is free and open to the public as part of MCLA’s Green Living Seminar series.
About Dr. Matthew Gibson
Dr. Matthew Gibson is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at Williams
College and a research affiliate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). He works
in environmental and labor economics, particularly time use, wage determination, air
pollution, and flood risk. Dr. Gibson received his Ph. D from the University of California,
San Diego.
MCLA’s annual Green Living Seminar Series continues through April 19, presenting a series of lectures on the theme of “Capitalism and the Environment.” Every semester, the Green Living Seminar Series centers around a different topic, timely and relevant to current sustainability issues. Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.
The 2023 series is a presentation of the MCLA Environmental Studies Department. Podcasts will be posted online following each presentation: http://www.mcla.edu/greenliving
About MCLA
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on every level of their lives. In nearly every way possible, the experience at MCLA
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Performer on Social Mobility and ranks first among all Massachusetts liberal arts
schools, which measures how well schools graduate students who receive Federal Pell
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