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Olivier Deschenes

Olivier Deschenes Biography

Current Institution name
University of California, Santa Barbara
Date of PhD completion
2001
Institution where PhD was completed
Princeton
Research area
Program Evaluation
Unemployment

Olivier Deschenes is Professor of Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he is also affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, and Co-Director of the Climate & Energy Program at the Environmental Markets Lab (emLab). He is Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), and Program Coordinator of IZA’s research area on the Environment, Health, and Labor Markets. His broad research agenda focuses on measuring the benefits and costs associated with policies that improve environmental quality. His recent research focused on the impacts of climate change adaptation on human health and economic productivity, and on the economic, environmental, and equity consequences of the low-carbon transition.