- Environmental Economics
- Public Finance
- Non-market Valuation
- Political Economy
- Empirical Industrial Organization
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.
- 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
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
- 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)
James Sallee
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Email: sallee@berkeley.eduMichael Hanemann
Professor, Economics, Arizona State University
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Email: hanemann@berkeley.edu
Agricultural & Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California
Email: trevor_woolley@berkeley.edu
Phone: (805) 405-1598
Professor Maximilian Auffhammer
auffhammer@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-643-5472
Professor Sofia Villas-Boas
sberto@berkeley.edu
Diana Lazo
lazo@berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-642-3345