Matthew Kahn, a professor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment, specializes in the environmental consequences of urban growth and related quality-of-life issues.

 

He has published widely in the fields of urban and environmental economics, including research on public transit, sprawl, and the costs and benefits of environmental regulation. He comments regularly about the relationship between consumer and institutional behavior and environmentalism.

 

Kahn, who holds a  joint appointment with the UCLA departments of public policy and economics, has also published papers on the relationship between international trade and environmental quality, including research on the U.S. government's Cash for Clunkers vehicle trade-in program. Most recently, he is the author of "Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment" (2006).