Hausman: Carbon tax can pay for the cost of climate damage

“You tax the person who’s taking that barrel of oil out of the ground, so they’re going to sell that oil at a higher price to the refinery,” Hausman said to NPR Marketplace.

Faculty Expert

Catherine Hausman

Associate Professor of Public Policy

Hausman is an environmental and energy economist, and some of her recent areas of research include electricity markets and climate change; inequality in pollution exposure; and the natural gas sector's role in methane leaks. She is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research.

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