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Susanna B. Berkouwer is an Assistant Professor in the Business Economics and Public Policy Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses primarily on environmental economics and development economics, with a particular interest in energy efficiency, carbon offsets, and the economics of air pollution. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau Economic Research and has affiliations with J-PAL BREAD. Berkouwer also co-organizes seminars in Development Economics and Energy Economics at Wharton. She holds a PhD from UC Berkeley and a Master’s degree from Yale University. In her teaching role, she instructs students in microeconomics within the Wharton MBA program. Susanna’s recent studies include examining the adoption of energy-efficient technologies in Kenya and analyzing the impacts of temperature on electricity consumption in South Africa. Her work aims to identify barriers to sustainable development and provide insights for policy interventions that enhance energy efficiency for low-income households.
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