We are the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) and home of the Environmental Economics and Policy (EEP) major at #UCBerkeley.
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Congratulations to ARE Professor Kirill Borusyak on his paper "Optimal Formula Instruments" being accepted for publication at Econometrica!
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Big thanks to @guido_imbens for handling the paper and to the referees
The final draft is here: dropbox.com/scl/fi/ptij8xrdd…
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What's the most recent evidence on the economics of intimate partner violence? Read all about it in Manisha Sha's Journal of Economic Literature article out today: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/…
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Congratulations to the ARE PhD class of 2026: (L to R) Jacob Lefler, Seung Yong Sung, Simon Greenhill, Chi Man Cheung, Lucy Hackett, Arthur Wardle, Kendra Marcoux, Trevor Wooley, Aaron Watt, Noor Sethi, Leila Njee Bugha, Shreya Sarkar, Elena Stacy, Elif Tasar, and Shuo Yu!
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Berkeley ARE Professor Aaron Smith will be the new director of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics- created with a generous donation from A.P. Giannini, the founder of Bank of America
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All the best to our graduating PhD cohort. Berkeley ARE PhD placement 2026 is all wrapped up! ARE is looking forward to celebrating all your future achievements! are.berkeley.edu/job-candida…
ALT list of names and placements for Ph.D. students Berkeley ARE 2026
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Congrats to ARE Professor Ethan Ligon on his forthcoming American Economic Review paper on risk sharing tests! ligon.github.io/
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Risk Sharing Tests and Covariate Shocks: Drought, Floods, and Pests in Uganda" by Ethan Ligon. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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ARE farm tour 2026. Berkeley students and faculty visited Morning Star tomato processing and Fiscalini dairy farm to foster connections between research and practice in the California Ag sector.
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Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics retweeted
Congratulations dear Alain for such an exceptional commitment to understanding economic development. What an inspiration!
Congratulations to Alain de Janvry on receiving the 2025–2026 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, honoring exceptional scholarship and service by UC emeriti. A remarkable and well-earned recognition of his ARE contributions post-retirement.
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Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics retweeted
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Congratulations to Alain, one of the members of my PhD committee and an inspiration as a teacher and scholar. One of the best experiences of my PhD was being his TA for undergrad development. What a treat to sit in those lectures and listen to his field work stories
Congratulations to Alain de Janvry on receiving the 2025–2026 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, honoring exceptional scholarship and service by UC emeriti. A remarkable and well-earned recognition of his ARE contributions post-retirement.
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Congratulations to Alain de Janvry on receiving the 2025–2026 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, honoring exceptional scholarship and service by UC emeriti. A remarkable and well-earned recognition of his ARE contributions post-retirement.
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Congratulations to ARE 2019 PhD alumnus Shaoda Wang on getting tenure at University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. He is an applied economist with research interests in development, environmental, and political economy. sdwang.org/
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Congratulations to David Zilberman (@zilbo), a professor of the graduate school in @AreBerkeley, on being elected a 2025 AAAS Fellow. He is among the latest cohort of 11 @UCBerkeley faculty to earn the distinction. Read more about the recognition: are.berkeley.edu/news/david-…
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Congratulations to ARE professor of the graduate school David Zilberman on being elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the Science family of journals.
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Berkeley ARE hiring season is wrapped up: We are very happy to have hired Ignacio Bañares-Sanchez from LSE who will be joining us in the Fall of 2026.
Ignacio works on environmental, development, and urban economics topics. Welcome to Berkeley!
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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:
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ARE professor Ellen Bruno publishes on "Externalities of climate adaptation in common-pool groundwater resources" in the Journal of Public Economics:
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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
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ARE research - Irrigation is central to sub-Saharan food security and climate resilience
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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/proje…
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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/…
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