SARAH ELVEN

About Me

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Stone Centre on Wealth and Income Inequality at the University of British Columbia. 

My main research fields are Environmental Economics, Development Economics, and Behavioral Economics. I am particularly interested in links between climate change, poverty and inequality, and ways that policy shapes these relationships.

My current research projects consider constraints to the transition to clean technologies in resource-constrained settings, the design of social protection systems to support communities vulnerable to climate change, and the economic and distributional impacts of land-use policies. 

I completed my PhD in Environmental Economics at the London School of Economics, funded by the ESRC, and have previously worked at the World Bank's Development Impact Evaluation Unit (DIME) in their Mind Behavior and Development (eMBeD) Team, and for the Social Protection and Labor Group. 

Contact

sarah.elven@ubc.ca

selven@worldbank.org

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