Jesse's research focuses on empirical reponses to new information about rare and dangerous events. The core of his dissertation explores the long-term demographic impacts of natural disasters and natural disaster risk, with additional papers looking at financial markets' response to new information about climate change and how people change their driving behavior following high profile auto deaths. Jesse was born and raised in the Bronx, attended Stuyvesant High School, and then majored in physics at Harvard. For more info, go to his personal website here.
Sol does research on the interface of climate science, economics and political science. Sol studied Ocean and Atmospheric Physics, International Development and Regional Planning and Economics as an undergrad at MIT. He completed his PhD in Sustainable Development at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs with a dissertation that examined how different types of climatological phenomena (eg. temperatures, hurricanes and El Nino) impact societies around the world. He worked briefly as a Post Doc in Applied Econometrics for the National Bureau of Economic Research and now is a Post Doc at the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. His personal site is here.
