Sarah Armitage

Sarah Armitage is an Assistant Professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University, with a disciplinary focus on environmental economics, industrial organization, and public finance.

During the 2022-2023 academic year, Sarah was an Economist Fellow at the Environmental Defense Fund. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a consultant at Industrial Economics, Inc., supporting state and federal government clients on a variety of environmental projects, and as a research assistant at MIT's Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. She has also served as an Impact Fellow at Prime Coalition, overseeing Prime's inaugural impact audit of investments with gigaton-scale emissions reduction potential.

She holds an M.Phil. in Economic and Social History from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and a B.A. in History from Yale University.

Education

• Harvard University Aug. 2016 - May 2022
  Ph.D. Candidate in Political Economy and Government (Economics Track)
• University of Cambridge Sept. 2012 - Oct. 2013
  M.Phil. in Economic and Social History With Distinction
• Yale University Aug. 2008 - May 2012
  B.A. in History

Teaching

• Economics and Management Decisions (PL 730)
  School: Questrom School of Business, Harvard University
  Role: Faculty (Spring 2024)
• Strategies for Environmental Sustainability (SI 453)
  School: Questrom School of Business, Boston University
  Role: Faculty (Spring 2024)
• The Energy-Climate Challenge (IGA 411)
  School: Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
  Faculty: Henry Lee and John Holdren
  Role: Teaching Fellow (Fall 2018 and Fall 2019)
• The Economics of Cities (ECON 1800)
  School: Harvard College
  Faculty: Edward Glaeser and Denise DiPasquale
  Role: Teaching Fellow (Spring 2019)

Published Papers:

1. "Innovation Market Failures and the Design of New Climate Policy Instruments" with Noel Bahktian and Adam Jaffe. Forthcoming in Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, edited by Matthew J. Kotchen, Tatyana Deryugina, and Catherine Wolfram.

2. "The Welfare Implications of Carbon Price Certainty" with Joseph Aldy. 2022. Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists 9(5): 921-946.

3. "The Cost Effectiveness Implications of Carbon Price Certainty" with Joseph Aldy. 2020. AEA Papers and Proceedings 110: 113-18.