Steve Cicala is a non-resident scholar at EPIC and an associate professor of economics at Tufts University. He is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His work focuses on the economics of regulation, particularly with respect to environmental and energy policy.
Cicala was previously an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He received an AB in economics and political science from the University of Chicago and a PhD in economics from Harvard University. Following receipt of his undergraduate degree, he spent two years as a research associate at the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory.
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