Departmental Seminar - Sept 9th

Olivier Deschenes is Professor of Economics and Department Vice Chair at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is also affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), as well as at UCSB's Broom Center for Demography, a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and  Co-Director of the Energy & Climate Program at UCSB's Environmental Markets Lab (emLab). Among his editorial duties, he is Co-Editor of Resource and Energy Economics and Associate Subject Editor of IZA World of Labor.

His broad research agenda focuses on measuring the benefits and costs associated with policies that improve environmental quality. His recent research focused on estimating the impacts of climate change on human health and economic productivity in the U.S. and around the world using historical data. 

Olivier Deschenes' expertise is internationally recognized: the European Economic Association (EEA) awarded him the Hicks-Tinbergen Medal in April 2024 for his paper “The Private and External Costs of Germany’s Nuclear Phase-Out”. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Group on Economics for Environment, Climate Change and Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) since 2023, and sits on the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council (NAEHSC) since 2024.

His personal website

Olivier Deschenes will present a paper, joint with Paige Weber, at the next Departmental Seminar on the topic:

Equity Impacts of Emission Markets: Evidence from the NOx Budget Program (read abstract, PDF 49.02 KB)

Date: Monday, September 9th - 12:30 pm
Location: Department of Econ - 4th floor - Jean-Paul Fitoussi Room (H 405)

The next Departmental Seminar will host Dmitry Taubinsky (University of California, Berkeley) on September 16th.