Katie Baker won the award for best second year paper with a well-executed paper titled "Heat and Bottled Water Expenditures: Evidence from California." Katie wondered if households adapt to extreme temperatures and domestic well failures by purchasing bottled water in retail chains.
Katie Baker Wins the 2025 Sidney Hoos Award for Best Second Year Paper
Congratulations to the Spring 2025 EEP Honors Students!
In this photo, l-r: ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas; EEP Honors students: Gaurav Bharti, Ethan Ignoffo, John Chung, and Sadie Shoemaker and Hannah Menth, who won the ARE Citation and EEP Major Citation, respectively. Hannah Menth also received the Spring 2025 RCNR Honors Symposium Melis Medal in Social Sciences for her thesis titled "Monitoring and Minimization: Reductions in the Bay Area Refinery Flaring Emissions."
Honoring George Judge's 100th Birthday
ARE Professor Emeritus George Judge's 100th birthday celebration was held in the department on Friday May 2nd, 2025.
The event was an outpouring of respect, admiration and love from colleagues in RCNR and ARE, as well as from ARE alumni who joined the celebration virtually from around the world.
Shifrah Aron-Dine Is Joining ARE in Fall 2025!
ARE is very pleased and excited to announce that Shifrah Aron-Dine is joining the department in Fall semester 2025! She is receiving her Phd this year from Stanford University and her research interests include macroeconomics, finance, environmental economics, and real estate. Shifrah studies questions related to environmental economics and climate change. A warm welcome Shifrah.
Quantifying the Global Climate Feedback from Energy-Based Adaptation
In the above titled article, recently published in Nature Communciations, ARE Assistant Professor Tamma Carleton's research presents an empirical approach that forecasts the effect of future adaptive energy use on global average temperature over the 21st century. It is co-authored with Alexander Abajian, Kyle Meng, and Olivier Deschênes.
Gordon Rausser to be the John Galbraith Keynote Speaker, '25 AAEA Annual Meeting
The 2025 AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting will be taking place in Denver, CO, July 27- 29, 2025 at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel. Gordon Rausser was unanimously chosen by the AAEA committee to present the John Galbraith keynote address on Sunday, July 27th.
Michael Anderson Interviewed On "The Mixtape with Scott"
The Mixtape with Scott is a podcast in which professor and economist, Scott Cunningham, interviews economists, scientists, and authors about their lives and careers, as well as some of their work. Listen to the interview here.
Central Valley Farm Tour Gives ARE Students and Faculty New Perspective on Agriculture
A group of ARE graduate students and faculty set off for Bakersfield, CA on Tuesday April 23, 2025 for a 2-day field trip to gain exposure to agricultural production and processing in the Central Valley.
California Doubles Down on Key Emissions Program After Trump Calls It ‘Radical’
ARE Professor Meredith Fowlie quoted in the above titled KQED article.
George Judge Centennial Birthday Fund Campaign
This year marks an extraordinary milestone—Professor George Judge’s 100th birthday on May 2, 2025. In celebration of his incredible contributions to Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE), we are launching the George Judge ¼ Million Campaign to continue his legacy of excellence and support for graduate students.
Join us in commemorating Professor George Judge’s centennial birthday and ensuring that his legacy lives on for years to come. Make your gift today and help us reach -- or even better, surpass -- our goal!
ARE Hosts Workshop on Impact Analyses and Decision Strategies for Agricultural Research
The Annual Meeting of the multi-state research project on Impact Analyses and Decision Strategies for Agricultural Research, was hosted by ARE in Berkeley, March 28th-29th. The event was organized by Professor David Zilberman.
'California Democrats Seek to Balance Climate with Cost of Living'
"Cap-and-Trade starts with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions," states ARE Professor Meredith Fowlie. Read and listen to this NPR report featuring comments from Professor Fowlie.
‘Catastrophic’ Honeybee Losses Threaten California’s Almond Crop
A San Francisco Chronicle article features comments by Professor Aaron Smith, the Gordon Rausser Distinguished Chair in Agricultural and Resource Economics.
It’s Game on for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Export
What will this mean for U.S. consumers and the climate? Read more of Meredith Fowlie's blog here.
Tax Credit Proposed to Offset Cost of Farmworker Overtime
ARE Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension Ali Hill's 2023 analysis in ARE Update titled "California’s Overtime Law for Agricultural Workers: What Happened to Worker Hours and Pay?" is featured in the above titled article in AgAlert.
Many Liberal Tesla Drivers Are Now Sporting Anti-Musk Bumper Stickers
ARE Professor Jim Sallee was interviewed for this Cap Radio segment.
Be the Light
March 13th, 2025 is Cal's Big Give, a 24-hour campus-wide fundraising effort, and we are encouraging ARE friends and alumni throughout the world, to show support for ARE and *Give Big*.
Is US Farmland Better Used for Corn Ethanol or Solar Power?
Analysis from an EI blog post by ARE Professor Aaron Smith was featured in a recent article in Straight Arrow News.
Electric Vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act
Research by ARE faculty member Joe Shapiro and co-authors was featured in a recent article in The Guardian: "Elon Musk’s journey from climate champion to backing EV-bashing Trump."
Sofia Berto Villas-Boas Appointed Next Chair of ARE
ARE is pleased to announce that Sofia Berto Villas-Boas has agreed to serve as the Chair of the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, effective July 1, 2025.