"Flawed analyses of U.S. auto fuel economy standards" is in the December 7th, 2018 edition of Science, one of the world's top academic journals.
It’s Gettin’ Hot, So I’m Gonna Raise Prices!
ARE Professor Max Auffhammer discusses PhD job candidate Matt Woerman's job market paper in his recent Energy Institute Blog, a paper on the intersection of industrial organization and energy economics.
Jim Sallee Recipient of UC Berkeley's 2018 Excellence in Advising Award
Please join ARE in congratulating Professor Jim Sallee at the awards reception and ceremony on Wednesday, December 12th from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in the Banatao Auditorium in Sutardja Dai Hall. We look forward to celebrating Jim Sallee and the truly great advising being done throughout the Berkeley campus.
New Study Finds That When it Comes To Sustainability, Some Americans Are Willing To Pay
ARE alums James Hilger '06 and Andrew Stevens '17, and ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas are authors of recent study “Measuring willingness to pay for environmental attributes in seafood,” published in the journal of Environmental and Resource Economics.
Whose Climate Damages Should Count?
ARE Professor Max Auffhammer discusses the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC), a number used by economists and regulators to determine benefit/cost analyses. The SCC is the economic damage a single ton of carbon dioxide (or its equivalent) emitted at a certain point in time causes over its lifetime.
South Sudan Study co-authored by ARE Job Candidate Elliott Collins and ARE Professor Ethan Ligon Featured in Vox Article
"Valuing Assets Provided to Low-Income Households in South Sudan," by R. Chowdhury, E. Collins, E. Ligon, and K. Munshi addresses programs commonly known in the development world as “ultra-poor graduation” programs, as they’re meant to “graduate” beneficiaries out of extreme poverty.
Assc. Professor Joe Shapiro's Research Regarding Clean Water Act Dramatically Cutting Pollution in U.S. Waterways Chosen as Science Magazine's Editor's Choice
The 1972 Clean Water Act has driven significant improvements in U.S. water quality, according to the first comprehensive study of water pollution over the past several decades.
Did the Salmonella Outbreaks Cause Decline in Egg Sales?
New research coauthored by ARE alum Chantal Toledo '16 from Mathematica Policy Research and ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas looks into California egg purchases using a large scanner-level dataset from a national grocery chain as well as a difference-in-differences approach to see the effect of three consecutive outbreaks.
DWR Posts Cost-Benefit Analysis for WaterFix
As reported in Western Farm Press, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) has released a Benefit-Cost Analysis for California's WaterFix by ARE Professor and Chair David Sunding that finds WaterFix could bring billions of dollars in benefits to Californians who obtain their water from participating State Water Project (SWP) contractors.
The Mental Cost of Air Pollution
In Energy Insitute at Haas Blog ARE Professor Max Auffhammer discusses recent scientific literaturre that causally links air pollution and health outcomes.
ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas and Co-Authors Awarded EAAE's 2017 Research Discovery Award
Award is for Journal of Industrial Economics publication entitled "Retail Mergers and Food Prices : Evidence from France".
Rebound’s Role in Trump’s Fuel Economy Rollback
A funny thing happened on the way to repealing fuel economy standards—program benefits went up.
Chinese, California Policymakers Share Sustainability Tactics
ARE Professor and Manging Director of the Center for Economics, Resources and Innovation (CERI), David Roland-Holst, featured in UC Berkeley News article regarding recent Berkeley conference “California and China: Leadership for a Low Carbon Future”.
Could This Slimy Corn 'Fix' One of Earth's Biggest Pollution Problems?
ARE Professor David Zilberman featured in Live Science article.
Max Auffhammer Awarded Peder Sather Grant Award
ARE Professor Max Auffhammer has received a 2018 Peder Sather Grant Program Award.
ARE Faculty and Alumni Recognized at the 2018 Annual Meetings of the AAEA and IAAE
ARE faculty and alumni were recognized for current and career-long accomplishments, reaffirming our department's top-ranked status in the field of agricultural economics.
Climate Change Will Be Deadlier, More Destructive and Costlier for California Than Previously Believed, State Warns
ARE Professor Max Auffhammer featured in Los Angeles Times article regarding publication of the Fourth Climate Change Assessment/San Francisco Bay Area Summary Report.
UC Berkeley Leads New Assessment of Bay Area Climate Impacts
ARE Professor Max Auffhammer among many UCB and CNR faculty authors of Fourth Climate Change Assessment/San Francisco Bay Area Summary Report.
Ann E. Harrison Is the Next Dean of the Haas School of Business
ARE is very pleased to announce that our former faculty member Ann E. Harrison, and current William H. Wurster Professor of Multinational Management and Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, is the next Dean of the Haas School of Business. She will begin her term on January 1, 2019.
California Giving Out $170 Million in Cap-And-Trade Revenue to Help Prevent Wildfires
ARE/ESPM Professor J. Keith Gilless comments included San Francisco Chronicle article.