Description: Hannah Druckenmiller is an environmental economist and data scientist. She is a PhD candidate in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley, a NSF graduate research fellow, and a member of the Global Policy Laboratory. Her research focuses on quantifying the value of healthy ecosystems. Keywords: environmental economics, research, data science.
I also have a strong interest in developing novel data and methods to enable progress on historically intractable problems in these areas of research. For example, I developed the spatial first differences research design in collaboration with Solomon Hsiang to identify causal effects in cross-sectional data. In ongoing work, I is applying machine learning to vast archives of historical aerial photography to better measure and understand long-run relationships between environmental change and human developm
I received my PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics in 2021 from UC Berkeley, where I was doctoral fellow at the Global Policy Lab and a NSF Graduate Research Fellow.
My research aims to provide empirically based estimates for the environmental benefits and economic costs associated with natural resource protection. For example, I have work quantifying the flood mitigation value of natural lands, developing new approaches for accounting for ecosystem services in climate policy, and identifying cost-effective climate adaptation solutions.