Assistant Instructional Professor About Katherine Baird Katherine Baird is an Assistant Instructional Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. Her research covers areas of environmental and energy policy. In particular, she is interested in studying funding mechanisms for climate change adaptation, as well as how markets incorporate disaster-related risk. At Harris, she teaches courses in industrial organization and regulation, cost-benefit analysis, and statistics. Katherine has served as a NORC Fellow [https://www.norc.org/Pages/default.aspx] and has researched with the Institute of Government and Public Affairs [https://igpa.uillinois.edu/]. During her time as a PhD student, she conducted research with Jim Sallee [ https://nature.berkeley.edu/~sallee/ ] and Koichiro Ito [https://koichiroito.com/ ]. Katherine holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago as well as a Master’s in Education and a Master’s in Economics from University of Illinois at Chicago. Contact Information Room 3099 katherine.baird@uchicago.edu Recent News Harris Presents the War Horse Symposium, Inspired by Student-Written White Paper Mon., March 20, 2023 Alumni Profile: Jabril Eyman, DAC’22 Thu., March 16, 2023 More news Upcoming Events Data and Policy Summer Scholar (DPSS) Program Roundtable with Alumni Tue., March 21, 2023 | 8:30 AM PKU-UChicago Summer School Faculty Spotlight: Mini Class with Professor Xuezheng Qin (Peking University) Wed., March 22, 2023 | 8:00 AM More events