Lucas Kaplan

Lucas is a Ph.D. candidate in the economics department. He examines how environmental conditions—and the policies we implement to adapt—shape individual well-being and regional economic outcomes. Prior to the Maxwell School, he worked as an instructional designer at MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), served as head teaching assistant at Harvard Extension School, and founded the economics program at Excel Academy, where he taught high school economics and history.

Labor economics, environmental economics, urban and regional economics, natural disaster impacts