Tobias Schmidt is Associate (tenured) Professor and head of the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG) at ETH Zurich. He also serves as the director of Institute of Science, Technology and Policy (ISTP). He is currently a visiting fellow at Princeton’s Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment as well as the Center for…
This talk will shed light on a facet of American life that legal and policy scholars have insufficiently attended to despite its conspicuity: leisure. Basic and sophisticated understandings of leisure define the term as time that is used for one’s personal enjoyment that is untied to work or duties. With this definition in hand…
Particulate matter dramatically lowers life expectancy in India, especially in north India where crop residue burning is a significant contributor to the air pollution burden. We use a randomized controlled trial in the state of Punjab to test the efficacy of conditional cash transfers (i.e., payments for ecosystem services, or…
Michael Koplow, Chief Policy Officer of Israel Policy Forum, will be speaking at at Wilf Hall at the
Center for Jewish Life on Israel-Turkey relations — its historical background, the crisis of relations
between Ankara and Jerusalem in the past fifteen years, and the recent normalization of ties between
