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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."
ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas Appointed the Class of 1934 Robert Gordon Sproul Chair in Agricultural Economics
The foundation of Professor Villas-Boas' distinguished appointment is her investigation in the vertical structure of markets and her work in the area of food demand. "She works on the frontier of two major topics of importance to understanding domestic agricultural and resource markets in the spirit of the intent of the Class of 1934 Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professorship Chair."
ARE Professor Ethan Ligon Part of UC Berkeley Team Advancing Food Systems in New $20M AI Research Center
A new research center funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) will aim to improve U.S. food systems to address such issues as pandemic-driven food system security and safety; improving crop yield, quality and nutrition; decreasing energy and water resource consumption; and increasing production and eliminating food waste.
Late ARE Professor Emeritus and Pioneering Economics Scholar Irma Adelman Recognized
September 21, 2020 Yale Economic Growth Center publication reflects on economics scholar Professor Cynthia Taft and honors the collaboration between Professors Taft and Adelman and their contributions as "giants and pioneers" in development economics.
ARE Professors Sadoulet and de Janvry Publish on Disaster Relief and Recovery in Mexico
Joint with Alejandro del Valle, Elisabeth Sadoulet and Alain de Janvry publish new research on government provision of disaster transfers in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
New Publication by ARE Professor Sofia Villas-Boas and Co-Authors
"Random Utility Models, Wine and Experts"
Megan Lang Wins Award from the United States Association of Energy Economics
Megan Lang won the Best Student Paper Award for her paper titled "Contracting for Electricity in Low Income Countries: the Role of Liquidity Constraints and Transaction Costs."
Why is Reforming Natural Disaster Insurance Markets So Hard?
2021 ARE Assistant Professor, and current postdoc at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Katherine Wagner, writes about three features of natural disaster insurance markets that complicate needed policy reform.
New Paper by ARE Professor David Zilberman and Co-authors on the Value of Water
The paper "The global value of water in agriculture" written by Paolo D'Odorico, Davide Danilo Chiarelli, Lorenzo Rosa, Alfredo Bini, David Zilberman and Maria Cristina Rulli, has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).