Faculty
Jing Li holds the William Barton Rogers Career Development Chair of Energy Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Jing has been a Postdoctoral Associate of the MIT Energy Initiative. Her research interests are industrial organization and environmental and energy economics.
She received her BS in mathematics with computer science and in economics, both from MIT, and an MA and PhD in economics, both from Harvard University.
Li, Jing and James H. Stock. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management Vol. 93, (2019): 1-19. Download Paper. Online Appendix.
The COVID-19 pandemic has reduced CO2 and local air pollutant emissions, but what are the longer-term effects on the environment?
Pushing back investments in renewable electricity generation by one year could outweigh the emission reductions and deaths avoided from March through June 2020.
Source: HealthDay | 07/15/2020
Jing Li says: "..there is a real threat to the adoption of clean technology, which could outweigh any 'silver lining' in environmental benefits."
