Edson Severnini is an an Associate Professor of Economics and Core Faculty of the Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society at Boston College, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research interests lie at the intersection of Energy and Environmental Economics, Economic History, and Labor Economics. His work examines the impacts of the expansion of energy access, pollution, and environmental policy on local development, health outcomes, and firm behavior since the age of electrification. He's also interested on the impacts of climate change on air pollution, electricity generation, infectious disease, and inequality, the effects of economic activity on environmental outcomes, and on racial issues in local labor markets and in higher education.

He's a proud first-generation college student, immigrant, and queer.

He joined IZA as a Research Affiliate in March 2013 and became a Research Fellow in December 2023.