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For our fall issue of Breakthroughs, we spoke to professors Francis Annan and Jeremy Magruder—two of Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics’s leading development economists—about their work and commitment to improving human welfare and promoting sustainable development. nature.berkeley.edu/breakthroughs/…

We kickoff our Job Market Candidate season at Berkeley ARE with the World Bank's Development Impact Blog covering Sunny Mitra's JMP: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu… Website: are.berkeley.edu/candidate/saya…

Today, Ellen Bruno received confirmation of her promotion to Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension at UC-Berkeley ARE. Congratulations Ellen! ellen-bruno.com

Much media interest today in how repealing electric vehicle tax credits under the Inflation Reduction Act will affect EV sales e.g. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… One estimate: 27 percent decrease in sales relative to counterfactual, from Table 5 of joseph-s-shapiro.com/research/EVTra…

Congratulations to Prof. Koichiro Ito, recently awarded the Jiro Enjoji Memorial Prize! The prize is given every three years to outstanding young or mid-career economists for their achievements in economic theory and their promising future in the field. har.rs/3CGeK3e

Berkeley ARE Job Market Candidate Yuen Ho's job market paper "Selection and Sorting when Supervisors have Discretion: Experimental Evidence from a Tanzanian Factory" is featured at "Economics That Really Matters" Blog econthatmatters.com/2024/11/how-ca… Her website: yuen-ho.com

🥳It’s no joke—George Judge is turning 100! We're launching a ¼-million endowment campaign in his honor. 🚀 Challenge alert: Raise $16K by May 2 & ARE faculty will add $10K! Let’s honor his legacy. Give today: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/46318

A new report co-authored by Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics professor Francis Annan finds that Ghana is experiencing a slower-than-expected uptake of digital payments by businesses, and those early adopters rely on costly and less efficient personal mobile money accounts. thebftonline.com/2025/04/11/dig…

The economics of climate adaptation: From academic insights to effective policy Tamma Carleton Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics, Esther Duflo MIT Economics, Kelsey Jack UCSB Bren School, Guglielmo Zappalà Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics ow.ly/LEv450VAM43

ARE is happy to announce that Yuen Ho is joining Trinity College Dublin as Assistant Professor of Economics! 🚀📚

Exciting news from Berkeley ARE! 🎉Abdoulaye Cisse will be joining the World Bank as a Research Economist starting in 2026, following an academic year as a Visiting Scholar at Princeton University. Congratulations, Abdoulaye! acisse.com #Econwitter

We’re thrilled to share that Joel Ferguson (Joel Ferguson ) will be joining University of Wisconsin–Madison as an Assistant Professor at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies in 2025! Huge congratulations from all of us at Berkeley ARE! joelferg.github.io

Professors Meredith Fowlie (Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics) and Duncan Callaway (ERGBerkeley) recently spoke to LAist about Southern California Edison’s plans to underground power lines in Altadena and Malibu. laist.com/news/climate-e…

🚨Berkeley ARE’s Francis Annan publishes in the Journal of Political Economy 📘 His paper explores "misconduct & reputation under imperfect information"—with insights from Ghana’s mobile money market 🇬🇭📱 Congrats, Prof. Annan! 👏 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108… sites.google.com/site/fannan231…

ARE is excited to announce that Shifrah Aron-Dine from Stanford is joining our department! She studies questions related to environmental economics and climate change using tools from macroeconomics, finance, environmental economics, and real estate. shifraharondine.com

After three years of service, Jeremy Magruder will step down as Chair of ARE in June 2025. Under his tenure, the department welcomed exceptional new faculty and helped launch the Master of Climate Solutions program. We thank Jeremy for his outstanding leadership. Jeremy Magruder

We're thrilled to announce that Professor Sofia Villas-Boas will become Chair of ARE on July 1, 2025! A renowned scholar on industrial organization, consumer behavior and food policy, Sofia's dedication to Berkeley make her an outstanding choice to lead ARE. Sofia Villas-Boas

Congratulations to the Berkeley ARE class of 2025!!🥳🪅🎉rfom left to right: Abdoulaye Cisse, Yuen Ho, Becky Cardinali, and Connor Jackson celebrated their hooding at UC Berkeley’s Greek Theatre with their advisors.

Congratulations to Berkeley ARE (2010) alumnus Biswo Nath Poudel on becoming Nepal's Central Bank Governor. Congratulations! thehimalayantimes.com/business/dr-po…

LISTEN: Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics professor Meredith Fowlie recently spoke on a Capitol Weekly panel about the future of California's insurance market, and how climate change and wildfires are introducing new challenges. capitolweekly.net/special-episod…