Professor | Transamerica Chair in Business Strategy
Business & Public Policy | Energy Institute | Sustainability
About
Reed Walker is a Professor of Business and Public Policy and Economics at UC Berkeley. His research explores the social costs of environmental externalities, such as air pollution and how regulations to limit these externalities contribute to gains and/or losses to the economy. He is the faculty co-director of the UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab’s Climate and Environment Initiative. He is also a Research Associate at the Energy Institute at Berkeley, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at IZA. He received his PhD in economics from Columbia University.
Expertise and Research Interests
- Energy and Environmental Economics
- Labor Economics
- Public Economics
- Reed Walker, Solomon Hsiang, and Paulina Oliva. The Distribution of Environmental Damages. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy.
2018 - Reed Walker and Joseph Shapiro. Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade. American Economic Review.
2018 - Reed Walker, Eva Lyubich, and Joseph Shapiro. Regulating Mismeasured Pollution: Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy. American Economic Review – Papers and Proceedings.
2018 - Reed Walker, Adam Isen, and Maya Rossin-Slater. The Relationship Between Season of Birth, Temperature Exposure, and Later Life Well-Being. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2017 - Reed Walker, Adam Isen, and Maya Rossin-Slater. Every Breath You Take – Every Dollar You’ll Make: The Long-Term Consequences of the Clean Air Act of 1970. Journal of Political Economy.
2017 - Reed Walker and Wolfram Schlenker. Airports, Air Pollution, and Contemporaneous Health. Review of Economic Studies.
2016 - Reed Walker, Janet Currie, Lucas Davis, and Michael Greenstone. Environmental Health Risks and Housing Values: Evidence from 1600 Toxic Plant Openings and Closings. American Economic Review.
2015 - Reed Walker. The Transitional Costs of Sectoral Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act and the Workforce. Quarterly Journal of Economics.
2013 - Reed Walker and Janet Currie. Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.
2011 - Reed Walker. Environmental Regulation and Labor Reallocation: Evidence from the Clean Air Act. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings.
2011 - Reed Walker and Robert Turner. Explaining the Determinants of Operating Budgets at U.S. National Parks. Public Finance Review.
2006
At Haas since 2014
- 2024 – present, Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- 2016 – present, Co-Director, Climate and Environment Initiative, UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab
- 2019 – 2024, Transamerica Associate Professor of Business Strategy, UC Berkeley
- 2018 – 2019, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business and Department of Economics
- 2016 – present, Research Associate, Energy Institute at Haas
- 2014 – present, Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
- 2014 – present, Assistant Professor, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
- 2014 – present, Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of Economic Research
- 2012 – 2014, Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan Research Fellowship
2017
IZA Young Labor Economist Award
2015
- Carbon Tax Sidelined in Biden’s Push on Climate, Taxes, The Wall Street Journal, 03/24/2021
- Soot rule thrusts EPA into spotlight on race, E&E News, 06/12/2020
- Rich Californians Shell Out $30,000 to Avoid Blackout Pain, Bloomberg, 11/26/2019
- Donald Trump’s environmental policies will actually make us stupider, Mother Jones, 08/28/2018
- Air pollution from U.S. manufacturing lower; regulations among other factors credited, Air Quality Matters, 08/18/2018
- Environmental regulations drove steep declines in U.S. factory pollution, UC Berkeley News, 08/09/2018
- Do Regulations Really Kill Jobs?, The Atlantic, 01/19/2017
- Can We Help the Losers in Climate Change?, MIT Technology Review, 08/08/2016