ARE professor Aaron Smith is interviewed about California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard in PRISM article.
Read the full piece, written by Ray Levy Uyeda and titled "We're not dumb Mexicans': In the Central Valley, residents fight against California policies that incentivize pollution marketed as renewable energy."
ARE Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension Ellen Bruno's analysis reveals that California farmers will continue to drill wells and plant perennials despite impending groundwater regulation. These actions may exacerbate the groundwater issues that California is seeking to address.
ARE professor Sofia Villas-Boas contributed to a consensus study report recently published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Produced at the request of Congress, this report summarizes the available science on the challenges and solutions for municipal solid waste recycling in the U.S.
A first-of-its-kind study published this week in Nature shows that the global food system is more vulnerable to climate change than previously thought. ARE alumnus '22 Andy Hultgren led the study and ARE assistant professor Tamma Carleton is one of the contributing co-authors.
ARE Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension Ali Hill addresses the rejection of Senate Bill 628 by California's Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee, in this June '25 publication of AgAlert. Senate Bill 628 would have created a tax credit to offset the cost to farmers of paying overtime wages.
A recent article in The Economist titled "The economic lessons from Ukraine’s spectacular drone success" references results from a working paper by ARE professor Joe Shapiro, Hunt Allcott, and co-authors.
ARE Professor Larry Karp and co-author Christian Traeger recently published an article in Journal of the European Economic Association.
The above titled San Francisco Chronicle article features analysis by ARE Professor James Sallee. Reporter Rachel Swan writes "Even before Trump and Musk’s relationship began unraveling, Professor James Sallee of UC Berkeley’s agricultural and resource economics department predicted a full-frontal assault by the Trump administration on electric cars."
The Central Bank of Nepal -- Nepal Rastra Bank -- formulates and implements monetary policy and oversees foreign exchange rates and the country's foreign exchange reserves. Congratulations and best wishes to Biswo as he embarks on this next chapter of a notable career.
Since retiring from ARE in 2019, Gordon has been extremely active in research and service, particularly to the University. This honor, which is awarded by the UC Berkeley Emerti Association, recognizes Gordon's many accomplishments and contributions since retiring. It is well deserved. Congratulations Gordon!
Pictured from left to right: ARE Department Chair Jeremy Magruder, GSAO Carmen Karahalios, Abdoulaye Cisse, Yuen Ho, Becky Cardinali, Professor Marco Gonzalez-Navarro, Connor Jackson, and Professor James Sallee. Best wishes to Abdou, Yuen, Becky, Connor and Sunny (not pictured).
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
