Shuo Yu
Job Market Paper:
Payments for Ecosystem Services and Water Quality in the Midwest U.S.
Fields of research:
  • Primary Field: Agricultural Economics
  • Secondary Fields: Environmental and Energy Economics, Empirical Industrial Organization
Publications / Working Papers:
  • "Short-Term Impact of the Trade War on U.S. Agricultural Commodities Futures Prices" - Working Paper, May 2024 (draft available on request)

  • "Diverging climate response of corn yield and carbon use efficiency across the US" - with Nicola Falco, Nivedita Patel, Yuxin Wu, and Haruko Wainwright. Published at Environmental Research Letters, June 2023.

Education:
  • Ph.D., Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (Expected May 2025)
  • M.S., Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, 2019
  • B.S., International Economics & Trade, University of International Business and Economics, 2017
Honors and Awards:
  • J-PAL KCAI Full-scale Randomized Evaluations (2024)

  • PEDL Climate Change Exploratory Research Grant (2024)

  • UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab Fellowship (2024)

  • AAEA PC52 Post Conference Workshop Travel Grant (2024)

  • Giannini Mini-Grant (2020-2024)

  • CEGA Development Economics Challenge Grant (2023)

  • Katherine S. and James K. Lau Graduate Fellowship in Climate Equity (2023)

  • J-PAL ATAI Pilot Grant (2022)

  • J-PAL K-CAI Pilot Grant (2021)

  • UC Berkeley Graduate Remote Instruction Innovation Fellowship (2020)

  • UC Berkeley Graduate Division Power Top-Off Awards (2019)

  • Giannini Foundation for Agricultural Economics Exploratory Research Grant (2019)

  • National Scholarship (2016)

  • University of International Business and Economics First-class Scholarship (2013-2017)

Teaching:
  • Introductory Applied Econometrics, Aprajit Mahajan, Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, Fall 2023
  • Intermediate Microeconomics, Jeffrey Perloff, Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley, Spring 2021
References:
  • Jeffrey Perloff
    Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    Email: jperloff@berkeley.edu
    Phone: (510) 390-4720

  • Joseph Shapiro
    Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    Email: joseph.shapiro@berkeley.edu
    Phone: (510) 859-4551

  • Brian Wright
    Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    Email: bwright@berkeley.edu
    Phone: (510) 642-3345

  • Aprajit Mahajan
    Associate Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    Email: aprajit@gmail.com
    Phone: (510) 664-7163

Contact Information:

207 Giannini Hall, Agricultural & Resource Economics

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California 94720

Email: shuoy@berkeley.edu

Phone: (626) 241-3271

Personal Website: https://shuoy528.github.io/shuoyu/

Placement Directors:

Professor Maximilian Auffhammer
auffhammer@berkeley.edu
Tel: (510) 643-5472

Professor Sofia Villas-Boas
sberto@berkeley.edu
Tel: (510) 409-4341

Placement Officer:

Diana Lazo
lazo@berkeley.edu
Tel: (510) 642-3345

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