Climate & Society

Joseph Shapiro

Joseph Shapiro

Associate Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics

Joseph S. Shapiro is Associate Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in Agricultural & Resource Economics and the Department of Economics. He also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Political Economy, Co-Editor of the Journal of Public Economics, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and Research Associate at the Energy Institute at Haas. He studies climate change, air pollution, clean energy, renewable and exhaustible natural resources, and especially water pollution, and his work has links to the economics of international trade, public finance, and health.

Lucas Davis

Lucas Davis

Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor, Haas School of Business; Chair, Haas Economic Analysis and Policy Group

Lucas Davis is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. At Berkeley since 2009, Davis is an energy and environmental economist, with recent work on the U.S. clean energy tax credits, electric vehicle adoption, and the energy and environmental impacts of air conditioning. His 30+ peer-reviewed publications appear in top academic journals including the Journal of Political Economy and American Economic Review, and his research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, and Washington Post. 

Maximillian Auffhammer

Maximillian Auffhammer

Avice M. Saint Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics & Political Economy

Maximilian Auffhammer is the George Pardee Jr. Professor of International Sustainable Development and Associate Dean in the Division of Social Sciences at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on environmental and resource economics, energy economics, and applied econometrics.

Meredith Fowlie

Meredith Fowlie

Professor, Agricultural & Resource Economics

Meredith Fowlie holds the Class of 1935 Endowed Chair in Energy and is an Associated Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also a research associate at the Energy Institute at Haas and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her primary areas of interest include energy supply and demand, and the economic analysis of environmental policy outcomes.

Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson

Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics

Michael Anderson is a Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include environmental economics, health economics, and applied econometrics, especially relating to questions of causal inference.

Reed Walker

Reed Walker

Associate Professor, Economics; Transamerica Chair in Business Strategy, Haas School of Business

Reed Walker is the Transamerica Associate Professor of Business Strategy and an Associate Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley. His research explores the social costs of environmental externalities such as air pollution and how regulations to limit these externalities contribute to gains and/or losses to the economy. He is a research associate at the Energy Institute at Haas, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at IZA. He was a recipient of the 2017 Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship and the 2015 IZA Young Labor Economist Award. He received his PhD in economics from Columbia University in 2012 and was a postdoctoral researcher in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Scholars in Health Policy program from 2012-2014.