Dr. Mun S. Ho
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Quantitative Social Science
Mun Ho received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1989 and his research is focused on economic growth, productivity, taxation and environmental economics. He co-authored a 2005 book, Information Technology and the American Growth Resurgence, which traced the adoption of IT by U.S. industries, and the parallel growth of highly educated workers. His has written for the US Dept. of Energy and US EPA on topics such as “Energy and U.S. Economic Growth in the next Thirty Years,” and “Analyzing Environmental Policies with IGEM.” Mun also works with the Harvard University Center for the Environment, focusing on Chinese energy use and environmental policy. That research is reported in a just published book that he co-edited, Clearing the Air: Assessing the Health and Economic Damages of Air Pollution in China. He resides in Washington DC and is also a Visiting Scholar at Resources for the Future, a non-partisan Washington research organization.