Clare Balboni

Economics of Environment and Energy Programme Director and Assistant Professor of Economics

Expertise: environmental economics, trade, development economics

Email:

c.a.balboni@lse.ac.uk

Room:

SAL 3.18

Links:

Economics of Environment and Energy
Department of Economics

Biography

Clare Balboni is Director of the Economics of Environment and Energy programme at STICERD and Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. She has a PhD in Economics from LSE and was previously 3M Career Development Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics at MIT.

Latest

Capabilities, Competition and Innovation Seminars

Firm adaptation in production networks: Evidence from extreme weather events in Pakistan

25 May 2023

Clare Balboni (STICERD, LSE)

EEE Working Papers

The Origins and Control of Forest Fires in the Tropics

19 March 2021

Clare Balboni, Robin Burgess and Benjamin Olken

Pigou (1920) pointed to "uncompensated damage done to surrounding woods by sparks from railway engines" as the canonical example of an environmental externality. We study a modern corollary - tropical forest fires used f... Read more...

Development Discussion Papers

Why Do People Stay Poor?

09 March 2020

Clare Balboni, Oriana Bandiera, Robin Burgess, Maitreesh Ghatak and Anton Heil

There are two views as to why people stay poor. The equal opportunity view emphasizes that differences in individual traits like talent or motivation make the poor choose low productivity jobs. The poverty traps view e... Read more...

International Economics Workshops

Living on the edge: infrastructure investments and the persistence of coastal cities

02 November 2016

Clare Balboni (STICERD, LSE)