In Breakthroughs  magazine, Meredith Fowlie and James Sallee discuss how California’s high energy prices offer lessons for the nation’s renewables-focused energy policy.

ARE is very pleased to announce it's graduating class of 2021. In an academic year of pandemic challenge, the department is honored to be represented by this outstanding group of scholars who skillfully navigated a formidable job market. ARE wishes them the best as they each move onto the next stage of their careers. To read more about these doctoral recipients please go here.  

Ellen Bruno and co-author, Assistant Professor Heidi Schweizer, North Carolina State University, address California water futures trading in the newsletter The Conversation, a self-described publication of 'academic rigor, journalistic flair.'

Hal Gordon is featured in an SFGate sports article this week. Hal is an ARE graduate student studying to be an environmental economist. He wants to know more about how much vegetarians reduce their carbon footprints, and how the food industry might make dietary alternatives more accessible for everyday consumers.

ARE Alumnus '19 Itai Trilnick and Professor David Zilberman explore the potential of new techniques that lower temperatures locally in critical times for crops. "Microclimate Engineering for Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture: The Case of California Pistachios" is published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.

This is a question ARE Professor Jeremy Magruder and co-authors address in their forthcoming publication in the American Economic Review.

ARE Alumna ('18), Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Essex, Ceren Baysan, and co-authors, evaluate the impact of an educational program that aims to build social cohesion in ethnically mixed schools by developing perspective-taking ability in children. The paper has been accepted by the Quarterly Journal of Economics.  

The latest issue of ARE Update  includes an article written by ARE Professor Larry Karp and co-authors on optimal social distancing policy in the face of uncertain vaccine arrival. Another article features joint work by ARE CE Specialist Ellen Bruno, ARE PhD student Arthur Wardle, and EEP undergraduate Paige Griggs. They discuss how California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act is unfolding across the state. 

EEP alumna ('06) Tatyana Deryugina has an upcoming publication in American Economic Review: Insights. She was the CNR student commencement speaker, went on to get a PhD from MIT, and is now an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.