Matthew E. Kahn


Matthew E. Kahn is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University and the Director of JHU's 21st Century Cities Initiative . He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at IZA. He has taught at Columbia, the Fletcher School at Tufts University, UCLA and USC. He has served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Harvard and as a Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford and as the Low Tuck Kwong Distinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. He is a graduate of Hamilton College and the London School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago. He is the author of Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment (Brookings Institution Press 2006) and the co-author (joint with Dora L. Costa) of Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton University Press 2009). He is also the author of Climatopolis (Basic Books 2010) and Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China (joint with Siqi Zheng published by Princeton Press in 2016). He has also published three other Amazon Kindle books on urban economics and microeconomics. In early 2021, Yale University Press will publish his book titled Adapting to Climate Change. In January 2021, Johns Hopkins Press published his new book Unlocking the Potential of Post Industrial Cities (joint with Mac McComas). His research focuses on urban and environmental economics. He is married to Dora L. Costa.

My current Vita with web links to almost all of my publications. My Google Scholar Page and my REPEC Economics Rankings Page,

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Aging from 1988 to 1996 to 2009 to 2019

You can purchase my 9 books from Amazon

3. Climatopolis published in September 2010 by Basic Books. Here is the Book's overview.

Watch my UCSB Climatopolis Talk that 98,000 people have viewed here.


The Economist Magazine reviewed this book in its September 3rd 2010 issue .

4. Here is my Book titled Fundamentals of Environmental and Urban Economics. When I teach undergraduate environmental economics, I use this as my textbook. For those who do not own a Kindle Reader, you can use this free app to read the book on your PC. You can download this e-book (the February 8th 2021 version) for free at this link. Here are my power point slides for the course. Here are a set of questions that can be used for exams or as homework.

5. Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China (joint with Siqi Zheng) , Princeton University Press May 2016.

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An Introduction to Empirical Microeconomics by [Kahn, Matthew E.]

7. My Book on Price Theory Problems

This Amazon Book consists of many new applied micro questions to help young economists think about economic logic.





8. My 2021 New Book published by Yale University Press. Selected by Publishers Weekly as one of its Top Ten books in Business and Economics for Spring 2021 . To read the reviews click here.

9. In 2021, Johns Hopkins Press published my new book. Read Chapter One. Click here to read the reviews and to order the book.


For those with ample free time, you can watch this 3 second video of my son dunking a basketball.