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David Popp

David Popp

Contact Information:

dcpopp@syr.edu

315.443.2482

426 Eggers Hall

Office Hours:

Monday 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. and Tuesday 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

David Popp

Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department


Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Senior Research Associate, Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Courses

  • 2024 Fall
    • PAI 723 Economics for Public Decisions
    • PAI 897 Fundamentals of Policy Analysis
  • 2024 Spring
    • ECN/PAI 777 Economics of Environmental Policy
    • PAI 804 Quantitative Methods II: Research Methods for Public Administration
  • 2023 Fall
    • PAI 723 Economics for Public Decisions
    • PAI 897 Fundamentals of Policy Analysis
  • 2023 Spring
    • ECN/PAI 777 Economics of Environmental Policy
    • PAI 804 Quantitative Methods II: Research Methods for Public Administration
  • 2022 Fall
    • PAI 723 Economics for Public Decisions
  • 2022 Spring
    • PAI 777 Economics of Environmental Policy
    • PAI 804 Quantitative Methods II: Research Methods for Public Administration

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., Department of Economics, Yale University, 1997

Bio

David Popp is the Caroline Rapking Faculty Scholar in Public Administration and Policy in the Public Administration and International Affairs Department at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He is a senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research network member in the Energy & Climate Economics Research Group of CESifo.

Popp’s research interests are in environmental policy and the economics of technological change. Much of his research focuses on the links between environmental policy and innovation, with a particular interest in how environmental and energy policies shape the development of new technologies that may be relevant for combating climate change. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Sloan Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Energy, and has been published in a variety of economics and policy journals, including American Economic Review, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Nature Energy, Research Policy, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

His 2002 publication in the American Economic Review, “Induced Innovation and Energy Prices,” was one of two articles selected for the 2017 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Publication of Enduring Quality Award. Popp has served on the U.S. General Accounting Office Expert Panel on Climate Change Economics, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Advisory Council on Clean Air Compliance Analysis, and the Advisory Committee of the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, and has consulted for the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development and the World Bank.

Popp received a B.A. in political economy from Williams College in 1992, and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1997.

Areas of Expertise

Environmental economics, economics of technological change

Research Grant Awards and Projects

"Does Government Funding Change What You Do? The Effects of Funding on the Direction and Impact of Academic Energy Research", Sponsored by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

"Economics of Innovation in the Energy Sector", Sponsored by Sloan Foundation.

"Can Green Government Spending Aid Employment Transitions in a Low Carbon Economy?", Sponsored by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

"Program on Integrated Assessment Model Development, Diagnostics and Intermodel Comparisons (PIAMDDI)", Sponsored by Department of Energy.

"Using Scientific Publications to Evaluate Government R&D Spending: The Case of Energy", Sponsored by National Science Foundation.

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

Workforce Futures Initiative Session VII, Retraining and Reskilling for Incumbent and Displaced Workers, Workforce Futures Initiative (September 14, 2023)

US Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Economics seminar, US Environmental Protection Agency (October, 2022)

OECD Expert Workshop on Environmental Policies: Social and Economic Outcomes, OECD (June, 2022)

OECD Employment, Labour And Social Affairs Department seminar, OECD (May, 2022)

Cornell University Sustainable Environment, Energy, and Resource Economics seminar, Cornell University, "Do Technology Standards Induce Innovation in Environmental Technologies When Coordination is Important?" (April, 2022)

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Fall 2021 conference (September, 2021)

Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Fall 2021 conference, Brookings Institute, "The Employment Impact of Green Fiscal Push: Evidence from the American Recovery Act" (September, 2021)

Danish Conference on Environmental Economics Keynote Address (August, 2021)

Tracking Clean Energy Innovation Performance through Patent Indicators: Merits, Limitations and Policy Needs panel, Mission Innovation and the European Commission (May, 2021)

CEPR-RIETI joint conference panel on Green Growth (March, 2021)

CESifo Energy & Climate Economics workshop (March, 2021)

Duke Kunshan University Economics seminar (November, 2020)

Harvard University Seminar on Environmental Economics (October, 2020)

London School of Economics Climate Change and Environment Research Seminar Series (October, 2020)

Resources for the Future workshop: Evaluating Climate-oriented Economic Recovery Programs: Buildings / End Use Efficiency (September, 2020)

Greening Growth Partnership & Economics and Environmental Policy Research Network Annual Symposium (February, 2020)

Economics of Environmental Policy and Innovation workshop (July, 2019)

Northeast Agricultural and Resource Economics workshop (June, 2019)

Northeast Workshop on Energy Policy and Environmental Economics (June, 2019)

St. Lawrence University Economics Department Seminar (April, 2019)

Honors and Accolades

William Wasserstrom Price for Graduate Teaching, Syracuse University (2018)

Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Publication of Enduring Quality Award (2017)

Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Outstanding Teaching, Research and Service, The Maxwell School, Syracuse University (May, 2006)

2004-2005 Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Teaching Recognition Award, Syracuse University (2005)