Matthew Kahn

About

Matthew E. Kahn is a provost professor of economics at the University of Southern California. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at IZA (the Institute of Labor Economics). He has taught at Columbia University, the Fletcher School at Tufts University, the University of California–Los Angeles , and Johns Hopkins University and has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, Stanford University, and the National University of Singapore. Kahn is a graduate of Hamilton College and the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.   

Kahn is the author or coauthor of Going Remote (University of California Press, 2022), Adapting to Climate Change (Yale University Press, 2021), Unlocking the Economic Potential of Post-Industrial Cities (with Mac McComas; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China (with Siqi Zheng; Princeton University Press, 2016), Climatopolis  (Basic Books, 2013), Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (with Dora L. Costa; Princeton University Press, 2010), and Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (Brookings Institution Press, 2006).