Dr. Lori Bennear

Biography

Lori Snyder Bennear is a Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, where her research focuses on evaluating environmental policies through rigorous quantitative methods. She is particularly interested in understanding the effectiveness of these policies and their impacts on corporate environmental performance and public health. Bennear's work examines behavioral responses to non-traditional regulatory regimes, highlighting the strategic actions of regulated entities that may undermine the intentions of environmental programs. Additionally, she explores the distributional impacts of new regulatory frameworks, especially their effects on lower-income and minority communities. Her research emphasizes the importance of program evaluation in environmental policy to identify barriers and facilitators to effective policy implementation. With a Ph.D. from Harvard University and an M.A. from Yale University, her academic contributions are widely recognized, as reflected in various publications within the field.

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