Ivan Rudik
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Cornell University
Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
SC Johnson College of Business
NBER Research Associate
CESifo Research Network Affiliate
Former Chief Environmental Economist
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
CV
Work in progress
How firms cut carbon
Andrew Butters, Jackson Dorsey, Ivan Rudik
Climate change and market power
Shanjun Li, Jack Ma, Ivan Rudik, Hui Zhou
The distributional and aggregate effects of factor-biased climate change
Tianzi Liu, Ivan Rudik, Zebang Xu
Equity and efficiency in international climate adaptation portfolios
Derek Lemoine, Antonia Marcheva, Ivan Rudik
The value and optimal deployment of augmented observations for hurricane forecasts
Diego Cardoso, Renato Molina, Ivan Rudik
Working papers
The economic effects of climate change in dynamic spatial equilibrium
Ivan Rudik, Gary Lyn, Weiliang Tan, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea
Media: The Economic Times
The social value of hurricane forecasts
Renato Molina, Ivan Rudik
Media: Marketplace 1, Marketplace 2, Planet Money, NBER Digest
Revise and resubmit at American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
Published and Forthcoming Papers
The environmental effects of economic production: Evidence from ecological observations
Liang, Y., I. Rudik, E. Zou. Conditionally Accepted.
Journal of Public Economics.
Economic geography and air pollution regulation in the United States
Hollingsworth, A., T. Jaworski, C. Kitchens, I. Rudik. Forthcoming.
Journal of Political Economy: Microeconomics.
A thousand cuts: Cumulative lead exposure reduces academic achievement
Hollingsworth, A., J.M. Huang, I. Rudik, N. Sanders. 2025.
Journal of Human Resources.
Media: The 74, Tradeoffs, The Hill, Econofact, The Guardian
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Equity and Efficiency in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Adaptation Investments
Rudik, I., D. Lemoine, A. Marcheva (randomized). 2025.
NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Volume 6.
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Synthesis of evidence yields high social cost of carbon due to structural model variation and uncertainties
Frances Moore, Moritz Drupp, James Rising, Simon Dietz, Ivan Rudik, Gernot Wagner. 2024.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Media: The New York Times
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The effect of leaded gasoline on elderly mortality: Evidence from regulatory exemptions
Hollingsworth, A. and I. Rudik. 2021.
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
Media: Energy Institute Blog, Innovation Frontier Project, AEA Chart of the Week, Econofact, Vox
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Conservation co-benefits from pollution regulation: Evidence from birds
Liang, Y., I. Rudik, E. Zou, A. Johnston, A. Rodewald, C. Kling. 2020.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Media: Audubon, PNAS Podcast, Forbes, Smithsonian
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Costs of inefficient regulation: Evidence from the Bakken
Lade, G. and I. Rudik. 2020.
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
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Optimal climate policy when damages are unknown
Rudik, I. 2020.
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy.
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External impacts of local energy policy: The case of renewable portfolio standards
Hollingsworth, A. and I. Rudik. 2019.
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.
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Air pollution and visitation at U.S. national parks
Keiser, D., G. Lade, and I. Rudik. 2018.
Science Advances.
Media: Washington Post, New York Times, CNN, Associated Press, and others
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Tradable credit markets for intensity standards
Rudik, I. 2018.
Economic Modelling.
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Steering the climate system: Using inertia to lower the cost of policy
Lemoine, D. and I. Rudik. 2017.
American Economic Review.
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Managing climate change under uncertainty: Recursive integrated assessment at an inflection point
Lemoine, D. and I. Rudik. 2017.
Annual Review of Resource Economics.
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Opportunities for advances in climate change economics
Burke, M., M. Craxton, C. D. Kolstad, C. Onda, H. Allcott, E. Baker, L. Barrage, R. Carson, K. Gillingham, J. Graff-Zivin, M. Greenstone, S. Hallegatte, W.M. Hanemann, G. Heal, S. Hsiang, B. Jones, D. L. Kelly, R. Kopp, M. Kotchen, R. Mendelsohn, K.Meng, G. Metcalf, J. Moreno-Cruz, R. Pindyck, S. Rose, I. Rudik, J. Stock, and R. S. J. Tol. 2016.
Science.
Media: Futurity, Iowa Public Radio (River to River)
Teaching
Environmental economics (undergrad)
Environmental economics (masters)
Environmental economics (Ph.D.)
Dynamic optimization (Ph.D.)