Hannah Druckenmiller

Bio: Hannah is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley and a Graduate Research Fellow with the National Science Foundation. She graduated from Stanford University in 2014 with a B.S. in Earth Systems - an interdisciplinary program that combines environmental science, economics, and policy.

Research: Hannah’s research focuses on quantifying the value of healthy ecosystems and assessing the causes and consequences of long-run environmental change. She is studying the effects forest degradation, wetland loss, and land use change. Hannah has a strong interest in developing novel data and methods to overcome causal inference challenges in these areas of research. In collaboration with Solomon Hsiang, Hannah developed the “spatial first differences” research design to identify causal effects in cross-sectional data. Additionally, she is a member of the Aerial History Project - a collaboration between researchers at Stockholm University and UC Berkeley, that is applying machine learning to historical aerial photography to generate sub-national estimates of land use, population density, wealth, and infrastructure dating back to the 1940s for dozens of developing countries.

Fields of Interest: Environmental economics, Development economics, Econometrics

Personal webpage: hannahdruckenmiller.com