About the instructor:
An economist and data scientist specializing in applications to energy, environment, weather and climate. He has held faculty positions at Columbia Business School, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and (visiting) the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, and has worked as a commercial data scientist. He has published in venues including Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics, and Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Small’s research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and other entities. He has served on review panels for the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the NSF, and others. His research has been recognized by the Quality of Research Discovery Award from the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. His training includes an A.B. in Mathematics from Columbia University, M.S. in Mathematics from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He currently serves as Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Virginia.