ARE alumni, Jill McCluskey ('98), Director and Regents Professor in the School of Economic Sciences at Washington State University, and Jesse Tack ('09), Associate Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University, will become editors of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics beginning January 1, 2022.
One Berkeley Faculty Member, One Alumnus Join Biden Economic Team
Two economists with Berkeley ties have been named to the administration of President Joe Biden, joining a growing group of Berkeley scholars and alumni who have taken high-level policy positions in Washington, D.C.
The Congestion Costs of Uber and Lyft
In his forthcoming Journal of Urban Economics article, ARE graduate student Matthew Tarduno investigates the relationship between ridesharing and traffic speeds. Leveraging the abrupt departure of Uber and Lyft from Austin, TX, Tarduno finds that ridesharing operations slowed daytime traffic by roughly 2%.
Campus Public Health Leaders ‘Extremely Confident’ in COVID-19 Vaccines
UC Berkeley public health experts discussed the safety and effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines, and what to expect for vaccine distribution on campus. (UC Berkeley video)
UC President Drake Lauds US Return to Paris Agreement
University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., released the following statement today (Jan. 20) in response to President Biden’s executive order reinstating the U.S. to the Paris Climate Accord. UC denounced the country’s 2020 exit from the agreement, while remaining steadfastly committed to the treaty as well as the University’s own green energy and carbon neutrality goals.
At a Time of Crisis, Berkeley Policy Experts Join Biden Administration
With the United States struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, an economic meltdown and a surge of domestic terrorism, a team of top experts from UC Berkeley has been summoned to join the administration of incoming President Joe Biden.
UC Berkeley Will Start Giving COVID-19 Vaccine on Thursday, Jan. 14th
Anna Harte, medical director of University Health Services and Guy Nicolette, assistant vice chancellor of University Health Services, issued the following message on Tuesday:
UC System Plans to Resume In-Person Instruction by Fall 2021
UC Berkeley's chancellor and executive vice chancellor and provost, Carol Christ and A. Paul Alivisatos, respectively, sent a message to the campus community on Monday.
A Tale of Two Sectors
ARE affiliated faculty member, Professor Catherine Wolfram, addresses how more progress is being made decarbonizing the electricity sector compared to the decarbonizing of transport.
Paper Published in Memory of Professor Peter Berck
The first of three articles to be published in memory of Professor Peter Berck, titled "Recycling Policies, Behavior and Convenience: Survey Evidence from the CalRecycle Program" has been published in Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.
Congratulations to Fall 2020 EEP Honors Students: Ariana Jessa, Yanling Liu & Jerry Zhu
ARE congratulates all the 2020 Fall Semester RCNR honors students, in particular, EEP honors recipients Ariana Jessa, Yanling Liu and Jerry Zhu.
'14 ARE Alum Marshall Burke Featured on the 'Daily Show with Trevor Noah'
Marshall Burke discusses economic costs of a do-nothing approach to the climate crisis. Watch full episode here.
Where There’s a Well There’s a Way
New Energy Institute research charts a path to lower methane emissions.
Alumnus Ayele Solomon Featured on Shark Tank
Ayele Solomon, an alumn of the ARE undergraduate program, was recently featured on the entrepreneurial-themed reality show Shark Tank!
Megan Lang Writes for World Bank Blog
Megan has published a post on the the World Bank's blog Development Impact, which focuses on the latest news, methods, and insights related to impact evaluation.
ARE Professor Brian Wright Publishes New Research in AJAE
The recent publication advances modeling of commodity storage and consumption, which is crucial for analysis of commodity prices and policies.
Hear ARE Prof. Meredith Fowlie on NPR's Planet Money Podcast
The episode is titled "Sell Me Your Climate Bombs."