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Jacob

Jacob Gellman

EES PhD Candidate
Email:
gellman@bren.ucsb.edu
Office:
Bren Hall ​3031
Website:
Personal Website
Publications:
Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae:
Non-Market Damages of Wildfire Smoke: Evidence from Administrative Recreation Data

Biography

Jacob is a PhD Candidate in Economics and Environmental Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the economics of wildfire, land use, and housing. Current projects assess the welfare damages of wildfire smoke for outdoor recreation, wildfire risk modeling and homeowners insurance regulation in California, the effects of affordable housing quotas on housing markets, and other wildfire- or housing-related topics.

Research

Current projects include the impact of wildfire on recreation behavior in the west, as well as estimation of welfare change from affordable housing policy.