PAIGE WEBER

Assistant Professor

Energy and Resources Group
University of California, Berkeley
Faculty Affiliate, Energy Institute at Haas
Fellow, CESifo Research Network
Research Affiliate, emLab
contact: paigeweber at berkeley dot edu
Paige Weber

Bio

I use methods in environmental economics, industrial organization, and urban economics to answer research questions in energy and the environment. My research studies determinants and solutions to environmental inequality, tradeoffs in environmental policy, and emerging trends and issues in energy and electricity markets.

I am an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Energy and Resources Group, a Faculty Affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas, a Fellow of the CESifo Research Network, and an Affiliate at the Environmental Markets Lab (emLab) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I was previously an Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2020–2023) and a postdoctoral scholar at emLab (2019–2020).

I hold a M.ESc., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Environmental Economics from Yale, and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley. I also have professional experiences in the electricity industry, federal government, and non-governmental research organizations.

Research

WORKING PAPERS

Benefits, Costs, and Distributional Outcomes in an Environmental Market
Olivier Deschenes and Paige Weber
Does Regulation Distort Exit Decisions? Evidence from U.S. Power Plants
Lucas Davis and Paige Weber
Health, Labor, and Equity in the Low Carbon Transition of California's Petroleum Refineries
Measrainsey Meng, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Chris Malloy, Tracey Mangin, Vincent Thivierge, Ranjit Deshmukh, Paige Weber, Olivier Deschenes, David W. Lea, and Kyle C. Meng

PUBLICATIONS

Intermittency or Uncertainty? Impacts of Renewable Energy in Electricity Markets
Paige Weber and Matt Woerman
Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2024
Winner of the 2022 USAEE Young Professional Best Paper Award
Recent Findings and Methodologies in Economics Research in Environmental Justice
Lucas Cain, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Chris Timmins, and Paige Weber
Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2024
Well Setbacks Limit California's Oil Supply with Larger Health Benefits and Employment Losses than Excise and Carbon Taxes
Ranjit Deshmukh, Paige Weber, Olivier Deschenes, David Lea, Hernandez-Cortes, Tia Kordell, Ruiwen Lee, Chris Malloy, Tracey Mangin, Measrainsey Meng, Sandy Sum, Vincent Thivierge, Anagha Uppal, and Kyle C. Meng
Nature Energy, 2023
Can Bitcoin Mining Increase Renewable Electricity Capacity?
August Bruno, Paige Weber, and Andrew J. Yates
Resource and Energy Economics, 2023
Equitable Low-Carbon Transition Pathways for California's Oil Extraction
Ranjit Deshmukh, Paige Weber, Olivier Deschenes, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Tia Kordell, Ruiwen Lee, Chris Malloy, Tracey Mangin, Measrainsey Meng, Sandy Sum, Vincent Thivierge, Anagha Uppal, David Lea, Kyle C. Meng
Nature Energy, 2023
U.S. West Coast Droughts and Heat Waves Exacerbate Pollution Inequality and Can Undermine Emission Control Policies
Amir Zeighami, Jordan Kern, Andrew J. Yates, Paige Weber, and August Bruno
Nature Communications, 2023
Decomposing Trends in U.S. Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity
Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Kyle C. Meng, and Paige Weber
Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 2023
Making Clean Firms Cleaner: Targeting Environmental Regulations to Maximize Returns
Paige Weber
American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, 2021
Long-term Trends in Wildfire Damages in California
Hanna Buechi, Paige Weber, Sarah Heard, Dick Cameron, and Andrew J. Plantinga
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2021

WORK IN PROGRESS

Do Environmental Justice Policies Narrow Inequality?
Danae Hernandez-Cortes, Kyle C. Meng, Paige Weber, and Chris Timmins
Environmental Externalities with Free Goods and Market Power
Paige Weber and Andy Yates

OTHER WORK

Enhancing Equity while Eliminating Emissions in California's Supply of Transportation Fuels
Olivier Deschenes, Ranjit Deshmukh, David Lea, Kyle Meng, Paige Weber et al.
CalEPA report, 2021
Dynamic Responses to Carbon Pricing in the Electricity Sector
Paige Weber
Winner of the 2019 Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award

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Teaching

Spring 2025 Courses:

ENERES 140/240 — Environmental Justice & Economics
ENERES 293b — ERG Masters Seminar

For advising for UC Berkeley students, email me for office hours sign-up link.