David McLaughlin

I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at U.C. Berkeley. My research fields are environmental economics and public economics.

I am passionate about the economics of water in California and my research has primarily focused on how groundwater property rights have performed and to provide an estimate of how overlying landowners respond to an increase in the opportunity cost of water.

In addition to water economics, I am also interested in using remote sensing and machine learning in the intersection of environment and development economics to evaluate the impact of land titling on land use in Mexico.

I will be on the economics job market in 2019-2020 and available for interviews at the 2020 ASSA Meetings in San Diego.