Trevor Woolley
Job Market Paper:
The Social Value of Animal Welfare: A Revealed Policy Preference Approach
Dissertation:
Is Animal Welfare Worth It? Consumer Demand, Voter Preferences, and Supply Constraints
CV:
Fields of research:
  • Environmental Economics
  • Public Finance
  • Non-market Valuation
  • Political Economy
  • Empirical Industrial Organization
Publications / Working Papers:
  • The Social Value of Animal Welfare: A Revealed Policy Preference Approach

    [Job Market Paper]

  • Why Are Fewer Grocery Shoppers Buying Meat? Declining Grocery Sales, Prices, and Cultural Change

    (with Zach Freitas-Groff and Carl Meyer) - Revision Requested: European Economic Review

  • A Scoping Review of (Dis-)Incentives for Animal Welfare-improving Farming Practices

    (with Sharon Pailler, Jon McFadden, Sharon Razsap, Zach Raff, and Kevin Kuruc) - submitted

  • Wildfire Risk Zoning and Heterogeneous Responses to Wildfire Events: Evidence from the California Housing Market

    (with Matthew Wibbenmeyer)

  • No Ethical Consumption Under General Equilibrium?

    (with Christoph Semken)

  • GiveWell’s Moral Weights Underweight the Value of Transfers to the Poor

    (with Ethan Ligon)

  • It’s No Accident: Measuring effectiveness of vehicle safety inspections

    (with Alex Hoagland) - Contemporary Economic Policy 2018.

Education:
  • PhD - Agricultural and Resource Economics - UC Berkeley - Expected May 2026
  • MS - Agricultural and Resource Economics - UC Berkeley - 2023
  • BA - Economics and Mathematics (double major) - Brigham Young University - 2018
Honors and Awards:
  • Giannini Foundation Minigrant - 2024

  • Global Priorities Fellowship - 2022 

  • GiveWell “Change Our Minds Contest” Honorable Mention - 2022

  • Forethought Foundation Research Grant - 2022

  • Open Philanthropy Course Development Grant - 2022

  • Center for Effective Altruism Community Building Grant - 2021

  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship - 2020

  • 1st place Mary Lou Fulton Award for Mentored Research, BYU Economics Department - 2017

  • Office of Research and Creative Activities (ORCA) grant, BYU - 2016

Teaching:
  • Economic Tools for Effective Altruism - Edward Miguel - Graduate Student Instructor - UC Berkeley (Fall 2021 - Fall 2024)
  • Natural Resource Economics - Larry Karp - Graduate Student Instructor - UC Berkeley (Fall 2021)
  • Introductory Economics - James Kearl, Brennan Platt, Arden Pope - Teaching Assistant - BYU (Spring, Summer, Fall 2016)
References:
  • James Sallee
    Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    Email: sallee@berkeley.edu

  • Michael Hanemann
    Professor, Economics, Arizona State University
    Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
    Email: hanemann@berkeley.edu

Contact Information:

Agricultural & Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California

Email: trevor_woolley@berkeley.edu

Phone: (805) 405-1598

Placement Directors:

Professor Maximilian Auffhammer
auffhammer@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-643-5472

Professor Sofia Villas-Boas
sberto@berkeley.edu

Placement Officer:

Diana Lazo
lazo@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-642-3345

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