Introducing our newly hired researchers: part 2 of 3
We continue our series of highlighting our recently recruited researchers. Today we cover researchers who work on the environment, infrastructure and sustainability, and on poverty and public economics – noting again that these labels do not cover the full range of topics being studied.
Environment, Infrastructure and Sustainability
Gabriel Englander studies how policy and illegal behavior affect wildlife conservation. He hopes to provide cross-support in the areas of marine fisheries, terrestrial wildlife conservation, forests, and land use. He shows in his job market paper that when regulators in Peru try to protect juvenile fish by temporarily closing specific areas of ocean, they inadvertently provide information about the location of schools of fish, resulting in large spillovers that cause the policy to backfire. Gabriel will earn his PhD from UC Berkeley’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics this May an