Bobby Harris
Assistant Professor
Member Of:
- School of Economics
Office Phone: 404-385-1363
Office Location: OCE 205
Related Links:
Email Address: bobby.harris@gatech.edu
Overview
Bobby Harris joined the faculty at the School of Economics in 2023. His research and teaching interests are in energy and environmental economics, industrial organization, and public economics. Much of his existing work has implications for climate policy and the energy transition.
Bobby holds a PhD in environmental economics from Duke University (2022) and undergraduate degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2016). Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Initiative on Equity in Energy and Environmental Economics at the Energy Institute at Haas at the University of California, Berkeley.
Education:
- Ph.D., Duke University
- M.A., Duke University
- B.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests
Teaching Interests:
public economics, energy and environmental economics, climate policy
Research Interests:
energy and environmental economics, climate policy, climate adaptation, behavioral responses to temperature and pollution extremes, health economics, industrial organization, and public economics
Research Fields:
- Applied Microeconomics
- Energy Economics
- Environmental Economics
- Industrial Organization
- Public Economics
Courses
- ECON-2106: Principles of Microeconomics
- ECON-4460: Public Economics
- ECON-4699: Undergraduate Research
Publications
Journal Articles
- Distributional Benefits of Rooftop Solar Capacity
In: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2023
- Heterogeneous Solar Capacity Benefits, Appropriability, and the Costs of Suboptimal Siting
In: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists [Peer Reviewed]
Date: 2021
Updated: Feb 2nd, 2026 at 3:53 PM