Judson Boomhower is assistant professor of economics at the University of California, San Diego. His research uses data and economic models to inform societal decisions about environmental quality and economic well-being. This includes studying how policy and markets can guide adaptation to a warmer world and how to balance the benefits and costs of energy production and use.
Boomhower is a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a faculty affiliate at the E2e Project, and a former Fulbright Scholar. He is also a technical contributor to the U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment and an award-winning undergraduate teacher.
Judson joined the University of California, San Diego after a postdoctoral fellowship at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He earned a PhD in agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley, and BA and MS degrees from Stanford University.
His project, “Learning about Climate Risk and Adaptation from Catastrophic Wildfires,” will document lessons for successful adaptation by looking at one of the most salient impacts of climate change, escalating wildfire risk.
https://www.judsonboomhower.com/
