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Join us for the next Baker School Energy and Environment Forum. This is a special E&E forum being held as part of Energy & Environment Week  Assistant professor of Economics at the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics Eleanor Krause will give a 45-minute presentation on recent research that examines the nature of the clean energy transition’s disruption of the lives of American workers and their communities, as well as policy responses to the disruption. Her talk will be followed by a Q&A session. 

 

The Costs of the Clean Energy Transition: Evidence from Coal’s Decline

 

Abstract: 

Dr. Krause synthesizes evidence from three recent studies on the consequences of coal's decline. First, she shows how repeated economic shocks have deepened regional decline in coal-dependent places. By altering the population composition in exposed communities, historical shocks weakened these places' capacity to recover from more recent downturns in the coal industry. Second, she examines the effects on individual coal workers. Using detailed administrative data, she finds that coal workers experienced large and persistent earnings and employment losses that were not mitigated by mobility across industries or labor markets. Finally, she considers how investments in places and people have responded. While coal’s decline increased government transfer receipt in exposed communities, it had negligible effects on educational investments. Although current and proposed adjustment policies tend to incentivize physical capital investments in energy communities, complementary investments in human capital will also be necessary to equip these communities for the shifts in the energy landscape that lie ahead.  

 

Biography: 

Eleanor Krause, assistant professor of Economics at the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics., performs research that applies the insights and methods from public, labor, and urban economics to study questions related to the environment, economic opportunity, and geographic inequality. Much of her current work explores the distributional and labor market consequences of the clean energy transition. She received a PhD from Harvard University in 2024. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution and the US Climate Initiative at the World Resources Institute.  

 

About the Forum:

The Energy and Environment Forum, hosted by the Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy (CETEP), is an opportunity for academics to share their research findings with a broad set of academics, researchers, and students from outside their own discipline but who have a common interest in environment and energy issues. For more information, visit the CETEP website.

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