Park, R. Jisung

R. Jisung Park

Speaker Profile

R. Jisung Park is an environmental and labor economist interested in how environmental factors shape economic opportunity and inequality. His research combines data, quasi-experimental methods, and economic analysis to better understand the implications of environmental change for human flourishing and how to design effective policy responses. Park is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Wharton School鈥檚 Department of Business Economics and Public Policy. Prior to his appointment at Penn, he was a visiting assistant professor at the Yale University School of the Environment, where he taught a course on climate change, human health, and economic inequality. He is the author of Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World.

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Books¹

Slow Burn: The Hidden Costs of a Warming World R. Jisung Park
How the subtle but significant consequences of a hotter planet have already begun鈥攆rom lower test scores to higher crime rates鈥攁nd how we might tackle them today
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Ideas²

PUP Speaks: R. Jisung Park on the hidden health impacts of wildfires It鈥檚 hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens. Read More

Listen in: Slow Burn It鈥檚 hard not to feel anxious about the problem of climate change, especially if we think of it as an impending planetary catastrophe. R. Jisung Park encourages us to view climate change through a different lens: one that focuses less on the possibil... Read More

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