Education:

BS in Chemistry and Government, Georgetown University

MPA in Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

PhD in Physical Chemistry, Stanford University

Courses:

ENSP 35. One Earth: Introduction to Environmental Science

ENSP 50. Poverty, Development, and the Environment

ENSP 107. Civic Environmentalism

ENSP 111. International Environmental Seminar

ENSP 135. Global Change: The Science and Policy of Climate Change

ENSP 153. Ecological Economics

ENSP 154. Environmental Decision-Making

ENSP 168. Dynamic Environmental Modeling

Research:

My interests are in issues at the interface of science, policy, and welfare, and generally involve computational modeling. One fairly surprising result of economic psychology is that consumption and well-being are not strongly related after a threshold level of about $10,000 per year. Given the environmental impacts of resource consumption, this suggests the potential for a reduction in economic throughput without a reduction in human welfare if we could only better understand these relationships.

Selected Papers:

Courard-Hauri, D., Haase, R., Consumer obligation and counterproductive consumption: can the things we don’t use affect us more than those that we do? In Review.

Courard-Hauri, D., Lauer, S., 2012, Taking “All Men Are Created Equal” Seriously: Toward a Metric for the Intergroup Comparison of Utility Functions Through Life Values. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, in press.

Courard-Hauri, D., 2007, Using Monte Carlo analysis to investigate the relationship between overconsumption and uncertain access to one’s personal utility function. Ecological Economics, 64, 152-162.