Olivier Deschenes

Research

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. He is also Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and at the Environmental Markets Lab (emLab). His research has been published in leading economics and science journals including the American Economic Review, the Journal of the European Economic Association, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, Science, and PNAS. He holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University.

Deschenes' broad research agenda focuses on measuring the benefits and costs associated with policies that improve environmental outcomes. 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. His ongoing work examines the economic and environmental effects of energy transitions, the relationship between extreme temperature and health, the effect of temperature and ambient air pollution on worker productivity and health, and the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation.