Johns Hopkins Workshop on Social Policy and Inequality

Description

Matthew Kahn, a leading educator in the field of environmental economics, gives a talk on climate change and its disproportionate effects on urban neighborhoods titled "Neighborhood Quality of Life Dynamics During Extreme Heat: Implications for the Distributional Effects of Climate Change."

Kahn is a professor of economics, spatial sciences and environmental studies at the University of Southern California. He will be joined in discussion by Filipe Campante, a Johns Hopkins associate professor of economics; and Andy Cherlin, a Johns Hopkins professor of sociology and public policy. In advance of the workshop, the paper Kahn will be discussing will be circulated to those that have RSVP'd.

This event is presented by the 21st Century Cities Initiative