Environmental Economics and Policy honors students were recognized at the May 4th, 2023 RCNR Honors Symposium. Congratulations to Grace Huang and Rosie Ward, co-winners of the Spring 2023 Melis Medal.
Pictured L-R: Jie Song (ARE PhD student and symposium judge); EEP honors students: Charlotte Stuecken, Jaide Lin, Grace Huang, Shirly Xue, and Rosie Ward; Sofia Villas-Boas (Honors Faculty Coordinator)
Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension Ellen Bruno is interviewed in Breakthroughs magazine's recent feature story on California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
The research paper entitled "Evaluation of the Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax in Oakland, United States, 2015–2019: A Quasi-Experimental and Cost-Effectiveness Study" by co-authors that include ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas and ARE alumnus '21 Scott Kaplan, has been published in PLOS Medicine, a peer-reviewed weekly medical journal covering the full spectrum of the medical sciences.
SF Gate recently interviewed ARE faculty member James Sallee on EPA regulations and electric vehicles.
Read ARE Adjunct Professor Jiang Lin's interview with Forbes magazine.
ARE Professor Meredith Fowlie and Associate Professor with the Energy and Resources Group, David Anthoff, are helping to devise the institutional, analytical, and policy foundation needed to establish a Federal Office of Carbon Scoring (OCS), the Brookings Institution announced on March 16th. Read more regarding the Brookings announcement here.
Climate change and urbanization have created a “double whammy” for many of L.A.’s birds, leading to declines in more than one-third of the species in the region. The lark sparrow, pictured here, is one of the species that has experienced declines. Read more here.
ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas and co-authors Zachary T. Neuhofer and Jayson L. Lusk are published in the current issue of Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (AEPP).
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ARE Professors of the Graduate School, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry, ARE alumni Guojun He '14 and Shaoda Wang '19, and co-author Qiong Zhang, publish research in the current issue of the American Economic Review.
Watch the ABC News Video featuring ARE alumnus '20 and Stanford University Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Kwabena Donkor.
Congratulations to S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup postdoc Charles Taylor!
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy has published a paper by ARE Professor David Zilberman, alumnus '01 David Just, and co-authors addressing the overlap of general and agricultural economics with psychology, sociology, anthropology, and political science and how the rise of behavioral economics has steered the field toward the other social sciences. Read the article here.
ARE alumnus '21 Scott Kaplan and Professor David Zilberman's research article "Estimating worldwide benefits from improved bananas resistant to Fusarium Wilt Tropical race 4," assesses the economic welfare implications of developing and introducing a gene-edited banana with resistance against an emerging plant disease, Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense Tropical race 4, on global banana production.
ARE Adjunct Professor Jiang Lin has co-authored an article with Michael Boyle, director of the electricity program at Energy Innovation, addressing the topic of clean energy transition. Their article has been published in the Chinese magazine Sixth Tone.
Sofia Villas-Boas' recent research with Mariana Carrera is forthcoming in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Professor Villas-Boas is pictured here with the research team: Professor Villas-Boas (left), Professor Carrera (right), and their two UC Berkeley EEP undergraduate research assistants.
ARE alumni Kyle Emerick '13, Judd Boomhower '15 and Patrick Baylis '16 have their research published in the current issue of the AEJ: Applied.
Jack Weaver joined three other RCNR students to be named honors recipients for the Fall 2022 semester. Jack presented his honors thesis titled "The Crisis at the Salton Sea: An Econometric Analysis of Property Values and Demographic Disparities in the Coachella and Imperial Valleys with Sociological Applications."
Kwabena Donkor, ARE Alum '20 and Assistant Professor of Marketing in Stanford Graduate School of Business, publishes new research in Journal of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association with ARE Professor Jeffrey Perloff.
The Bristish daily newspaper, The Guardian, features an article addressing the UC Strike.