Urban & Environmental Economist; Professor at University of Southern California; Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University

Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Matthew Kahn Biography

Matthew E. Kahn is a provost professor of economics at the University of Southern California and a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at IZA (the Institute of Labor Economics). He has taught at Columbia University, the Fletcher School at Tufts University, the University of California–Los Angeles, and Johns Hopkins University and has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, Stanford, and the National University of Singapore. Kahn is a graduate of Hamilton College and the London School of Economics. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Kahn is the author or coauthor of "Going Remote" (University of California Press, 2022), "Adapting to Climate Change" (Yale University Press, 2021), "Unlocking the Economic Potential of Post-Industrial Cities" (with Mac McComas; Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021), "Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China" (with Siqi Zheng; Princeton University Press, 2016), "Climatopolis" (Basic Books, 2013), "Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War" (with Dora L. Costa; Princeton University Press, 2010), and "Green Cities: Urban Growth and the Environment" (Brookings Institution Press, 2006).

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 11/10/2025.

Matthew Kahn Videos

Matthew E. Kahn Discusses His April 2022 "Going Remote" book

Matthew E. Kahn Discusses His April 2022 "Going Remote" book

An urban economist's perspective on how work from home will improve our quality of life, raise firm productivity and shift our nation's economic...

Q&A with UCLA's Matthew Kahn - Reason TV

Q&A with UCLA's Matthew Kahn - Reason TV

How Free Markets Will Beat Climate Change

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