Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics | University of California, Berkeley

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 to ARE Class of 2020!

ARE honors 2020 graduates with a virtual ceremony.

https://are.berkeley.edu/news/2020/05/congratulations-are-class-2020

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Online Summer Sessions

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Events

2020 AAEA Annual Meeting - Kansas City, Missouri - VIRTUAL MTG

Sunday July 26, 2020 to Tuesday July 28, 2020

Department News

Paper by ARE's Villas-Boas Recognized for its Long Term Impact

A 2009 paper by ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas and coauthors was recently recognized as a finalist for the 2020 Long Term Impact Award given by the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science.

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ARE Students' COVID-19 Research in the News

ARE students have been interviewed across several media outlets relating to recent research on the effectiveness of policies intended to reduce the spread of COVID-19, research recently highlighted on this department website. Read the June 9th, 2020 article.