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Robert N. Stavins is an American economist who is the A.J. Meyer Professor of Energy & Economic Development at Harvard Kennedy School.

His research has examined areas of environmental economics and policy and has appeared in economics, law, and policy journals.

Stavins directed Project 88, a public policy study sponsored by former Senators Timothy Wirth and John Heinz, which resulted in a report titled, "Harnessing Market Forces to Protect Our Environment: Initiatives for the New President," published in 1988, containing ideas about approaches to environmental problems.

Early life and education
Stavins grew up in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Sidney and Joan Stavins. His father was an attorney, and his mother was a homemaker. He holds a B.A. in philosophy from Northwestern University, an M.S. in agricultural economics from Cornell, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. Stavins managed irrigation development in the Middle East and spent four years working in agricultural extension in West Africa as a volunteer with the U.S. Peace Corps.

Academic career
Stavins is Director of the Harvard Environmental Economics Program. and the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements He is Director of Graduate Studies for the Doctoral Programs in Public Policy and in Political Economy and Government and Co-Chair of the MPP-MBA and MPA/ID-MBA Harvard Joint Degree Programs at Harvard University. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a University Fellow of Resources for the Future, a Member of the Board of Academic Advisors of the AEI‑Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies and of the editorial boards of Resource and Energy Economics, Climate Change Economics and Environmental Economics and Policy Studies. He is also Co-Vice Chair and a Member of the Board of Directors of Resources for the Future, and a Vice-President of the American Association of Wine Economists, and founding Co-Editor and Review Editor of the Journal of Wine Economics.

Research
Stavins' research has focused on environmental economics and policy, including examinations of market‑based policy instruments; regulatory impact analysis; innovation and diffusion of pollution‑control technologies; environmental benefit valuation; policy instrument choice under uncertainty; competitiveness effects of regulation; depletion of forested wetlands; political economy of policy instrument choice; and costs of carbon sequestration. Stavins was one of 41 Harvard economists featured in The Palgrave Companion to Harvard Economics, published in July 2024 by Palgrave Macmillan. The book is one in a series of volumes devoted to the contributions of economics programs and economists at eminent universities including Cambridge University, the London School of Economics, Oxford University, and the University of Chicago.