Lorenzo Sileci wins EAERE best dissertation award!

Lorenzo Sileci (London School of Economics and Political Science), who is currently working on the BIOADD project with the Dragon Capital Chair, was recently announced as one of three winners of the 2024 edition of the EAERE Award for Best Doctoral Dissertations in Environmental and Resource Economics, with his dissertation titled ‘Causal inference in spatial environmental economics’. Lorenzo was supervised at the LSE by Pr Ben Groom and Pr Charles Palmer (LSE Geography and Environment and DC Chair Affiliate).

The 29th EAERE Annual Conference (Leuven, Belgium on July 1st-4th, 2024) hosted a special session dedicated to the Best Doctoral Dissertations. Further information available on the Conference website.

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In addition, Lorenzo has won a prize of 2,500 Euros with the paper ‘Carbon Pricing with Regressive Co-benefits: Evidence from British Columbia’s Carbon Tax’. Read more

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