Areas of Research

Agricultural & Resource Policy, Development Economics, and Environmental & Energy Economics

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Environmental Economics & Policy (EEP) Major

ARE's undergraduate EEP program takes a problem-solving approach to issues involving renewable and fixed natural resources, and is based on a foundation in micro-economic theory and the economics of resources and the environment.

Environmental Economics and Policy (EEP) Major
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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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Events

Reading/Review/Recitation Week
Monday December 05, 2022 to Friday December 09, 2022

Frederik Noack | University of British Columbia

Leo K. Simon Agriculture & Natural Resource Thursday Seminar Series
Rural-Urban Migration and the Re-organization of Agriculture
Thursday December 08, 2022
Zoom Seminar / 4:00pm-5:30pm

Last Day of Instruction
Friday December 09, 2022
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Department News

"Mandatory Energy Efficiency Disclosure in Housing Markets"

This is the title of ARE alumna '14 Erica Myers' recently published research in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. You can read Professor Myers' article here, as well as the research of ARE affiliated Professor Severin Borenstein, who also published in this issue of AEJ: Policy. 

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"Closed Labs, Cancelled Classes: Inside the Largest Strike to Hit US Higher Education"

The Bristish daily newspaper, The Guardian, features an article addressing the UC Strike:

"University of California campuses come to a standstill as 48,000 student workers strike for better pay"