Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics

To all the Berkeley ARE community out there: Now is your chance to get some swag to represent your alma matter. Shirts of all sizes for can be ordered here for $35: customink.com/fundraising/ar… Free delivery if you can pick up in Giannini Hall. Otherwise, they will ship to your home.

Big Give is here!   A special moment for our ARE and EEP family to come together and uplift the students and faculty who make this department a world-class program and teach and mentor our undergraduates in the EEP major.   DONATE NOW TO THE ARE FUND: givingday.berkeley.edu/giving-day/108…

ARE professor Ellen Bruno publishes on "Externalities of climate adaptation in common-pool groundwater resources" in the Journal of Public Economics: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Congratulations to ARE's Aprajit Mahajan on his new paper at Review of Economic Studies on Time Inconsistent Models estimated using an Insecticide Treated Net intervention

ARE research - Irrigation is central to sub-Saharan food security and climate resilience are.berkeley.edu/news/irrigatio…

We raised over $65,000 for ARE graduate student support! Thanks to all for your generous donations. You can still give here: give.berkeley.edu/funddrive/400

The Sara Johns Memorial Fund at ARE is open to donations over the next week. We are crowdfunding for graduate students inspired by Sara Johns life. Donate here: crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/49454

Congratulations to ARE Alumnus Shaoda Wang @HarrisPolicy for being awarded a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship! are.berkeley.edu/news/are-alumn…

Check out VoxDev to learn more about ARE professor Manisha Shah's work on public works and poverty reduction in India. @Manisha_econ

🆕 Upgrading vs relocating: Policy lessons on slum renewal Today on VoxDev, @paul_gertler (@BerkeleyHaas), @marcogleznav (@AreBerkeley), Raimundo Undurraga (@uchile) & @jaug1022 (@WFUEconomics) outline research on Chile: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

Congratulations to ARE job market candidate Shreya Sarkar on being named one of IGCs 2026 Young Urban Economists! sites.google.com/view/shreyasar…

Call for papers: UC Berkeley conference honoring Elisabeth Sadoulet — October 17, 2026. Abstract submission deadline: March 15. Conference papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of the Journal of Development Economics in her honor. are.berkeley.edu/news/announcem…

Call is open! Submit your abstracts for the BIG SKY WORKSHOP on the Economics of Agriculture and the Environment June 18-19, 2026, in Bozeman, Montana, hosted by @montanastate and @PERCtweets. Travel funding available for grad students. Link in next

ARE Professor David Zilberman formally retired and transitioned to being a Professor of the Graduate School as of Jan 1st. David has been a professor in the ARE Department at UC Berkeley since 1979. Congratulations David! Read more: tinyurl.com/AREZilberman

Congratulations to ARE's Max Auffhammer on being recognized with the 2026 Berkeley Service Award! Thank you Max for your commitment to Berkeley. Congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. @auffhammer @UCBerkeley @NatureAtCal are.berkeley.edu/news/are-profe…

Information+Agency=Environmental action. Learn more about how to provide environmental info to communities in Chiman Cheung's job market paper in Ghana, covered today at the World Bank's Development Impact Blog: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu… chimancheung.github.io @WorldBankAfrica

University of California Senate publishes memorial for late ARE colleague Betty Sadoulet: senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/in-memoriam/fi…

Read all about the costs of Mexico City sinking at the World Bank Development Impact blog, which featured ARE job market candidate Lucy Hackett's job market paper today: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu… @lg_hackett

Rania Lachhab shows that California’s Kern Water Bank (1984–2021) makes participating parcels 50% more valuable, highlighting major gains from groundwater storage policy. rania-lachhab.com

Congrats to ARE 2017 alumna Fiona Burlig on the recent acceptance of her "Value of Clean Water" paper in the American Economic Review. Read more: