Biography
Dr. Pfaff is an Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies at Duke University. He is also an Adjunct Research Scholar at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Alex Pfaff works in the area of environmental and natural resource economics. Currently, his research focuses on the interplay between the environment and economic growth and development. In this area, he has worked on land use in particular, including its implications for species habitat.

Dr. Pfaff received his B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Yale in 1988 and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995.

CRED Projects
» Climate Information and Water Resource Management in Ceará, Brazil

» Strategic Use of Uncertainty

» Wage Bargaining, Inflation Uncertainty and Central Bank Independence: an Experimental Investigation

Last Updated: April 20, 2009