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Agricultural & Resource Economics

UC Berkeley's Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics is top-ranked worldwide for its outstanding contributions to questions in agriculture and resource policy, development economics, environmental and energy economics, and international trade.

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Congratulations ARE graduates of 2019!
Congratulations ARE graduates of 2019!
Soda Tax Election Changed Drinking Habits

ARE '17 alumna Rebecca Taylor, Professor Sofia Villas-Boas and graduate student Scott Kaplan's Berkeley-based soda tax research featured in Berkeley News.

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Events

Job Market Talk - Matt Pecenco

ARE Friday Seminar Series
Opportunities and Entrepreneurship: Evidence on Advanced Labor Market Experience
Friday September 13, 2019
150 University Hall / 1:10pm-2:30pm

Job Market Talk -Susanna Berkouwer

ARE Friday Seminar Series
Credit, Psychology, and the Adoption of Profitable Energy Efficient Technologies in Kenya
Friday September 20, 2019
150 University Hall / 1:10pm-2:30pm

JM Presentation -Claire Duquennois

ARE Friday Seminar Series
Fictional Money, Real Costs: Impacts of Financial Salience on Disadvantaged Students
Friday September 27, 2019
150 University Hall / 1:10pm-2:30pm
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Department News

What’s Up with the Downtrend in EPA Enforcement Effort?

ARE Professor Meredith Fowlie discusses in her Energy Institute blog how this emerging trend could spell trouble. 

Highlight

Honoring Peter Berck

“Berckonomics” was about connecting ideas in ways that weren’t obvious. It was also about making connections among people: “Bonding over Environment, Resources, Coffee, and Kindness.”