Gilbert F. White Postdoctoral Fellowship Winners

1999-2000

Ken Small, a Professor of Economics at the University of California, Irvine, working on transportation and environmental issues. He outlined in his proposal a book on public mass transit in which he models and quantifies the chain of effects that occurs when increases in the monetary price of car travel (say, through congestion fees or a gas tax) reduce car travel, making the operation of mass transit easier and faster (for instance, buses can run faster if there are fewer cars on the road). In turn, if mass transit is faster, will more people use it? Ken outlined this broader, almost general equilibrium model of the transit sector and proposed to develop it quantitatively and add in environmental effects.

Kathryn Harrison is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research at RFF focused on a statistical analysis of whether countries relax environmental standards or forgo enforcement in order to attract new investment and retain existing industries, or whether they seek to impress environmentally concerned voters and firms with more stringent standards. She assessed this tradeoff between "race to the bottom" and "race to the top" using detailed case studies of environmental regulation in four countries.

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