Catherine Wolfram
Member, RFF Board of Directors; Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School
Catherine Wolfram is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
During Academic year 2018-19, she will serve as the Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Berkeley Haas. She is the Program Director of the National Bureau of Economic Research's Environment and Energy Economics Program, Faculty Director of The E2e Project, a research organization focused on energy efficiency and a research affiliate at the Energy Institute at Haas. She is also an affiliated faculty member of in the Agriculture and Resource Economics department and the Energy and Resources Group at Berkeley.
Wolfram has published extensively on the economics of energy markets. Her work has analyzed rural electrification programs in the developing world, energy efficiency programs in the US, the effects of environmental regulation on energy markets and the impact of privatization and restructuring in the US and UK. She is currently implementing several randomized controlled trials to evaluate energy programs in the U.S., Ghana, and Kenya.
Education
- PhD in economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
- AB in economics, Harvard University, 1989
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Workshops — Nov 18, 2010
Timing is Everything: Poverty Alleviation and the Demand for Energy-Using Assets
Timing is Everything: Poverty Alleviation and the Demand for Energy-Using Assets
Press Release — Oct 26, 2022
Resources for the Future’s Board of Directors Welcomes Three New Members
As members of RFF’s Board of Directors, Jonathan Garfinkel, Paula Glover, and Catherine Wolfram will lend their academic, policy, and industry expertise to help further Resources for the Future’s strategic goals.
Resources Radio — Jan 3, 2023
2022 Year in Review: Energy and Environmental Policy, with Catherine Wolfram and John Larsen
Catherine Wolfram and John Larsen discuss the year’s biggest energy and environmental policy stories at the state, national, and international levels.
Resources Magazine — Mar 18, 2020
It’s a Good Time for Women to Win the Nobel Prize
Catherine Wolfram discusses last year's historic Nobel Prize in Economics, reviews the significance of randomized controlled trials, and shares wisdom for women in economics.
Resources Radio — Jan 3, 2023
2022 Year in Review: Energy and Environmental Policy, with Catherine Wolfram and John Larsen
Catherine Wolfram and John Larsen discuss the year’s biggest energy and environmental policy stories at the state, national, and international levels.
Resources Magazine — Mar 18, 2020
It’s a Good Time for Women to Win the Nobel Prize
Catherine Wolfram discusses last year's historic Nobel Prize in Economics, reviews the significance of randomized controlled trials, and shares wisdom for women in economics.