Peter Christensen

(on leave 2023/2024 at Stanford)


Peter Christensen is an applied microeconomist who studies how public policy and technological interventions can be used to improve social and environmental outcomes in cities around the world. He directs BDEEP, a research team that combines data science and economic methods at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a faculty affiliate with the Poverty Action Laboratory (J-PAL) and Evidence for Action on Energy Efficiency (E2e). He has ongoing research partnerships with teams at Zillow, Uber Technologies, and Google. His work has been supported by the US EPA, National Science Foundation, Sloan Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. He holds a PhD and a MESc from Yale University and a BA from UC Davis.

Economics Fields: Energy and Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Urban Economics

Methodological Interests: Data Science and Computational Methods, Digital Field Experiments, Machine Learning in Policy Evaluation