URAP

Sarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy

Status: Check back for status     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The research is focused on local politics in the United States and will support a project about decision-making in local government. This project explores: 1) what local officials vote on in in US local government, 2) the role of partisanship in voting, and 3) how municipality size conditions the...

Sarah Anzia - Professor, Public Policy

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

This project examines the role of businesses and business associations in local politics and local government in the United States. The project has two parts. One is a qualitative data collection focused on the local policy priorities and goals of chambers of commerce in cities and counties across the country...

Barbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Carbon offsets are being widely used to meet carbon neutrality goals. Improved forest management offset projects have generated around 45% of credits from projects based in the United States but research has shown that programs are grossly over-estimating project benefits. We are working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers...

Barbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

Carbon offsets are being widely used to meet carbon neutrality goals. Many offset credits sold on the offset market represent significantly less climate benefit than they claim. We are conducting a series of studies of major offset project types to better understand their impact and quality...

Barbara Haya - Research Fellow, Public Policy

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: Off Campus

The Berkeley Carbon Trading Project's Voluntary Registry Offsets Database is an important source of information and transparency in the carbon offset market and has been widely used by researchers, offset credit raters, offset buyers, and others. We welcome help from two or three advanced undergraduate students in updating the database...

Andrew Reddie - Professor, Public Policy

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: to be negotiated     Location: On Campus

Reflecting frontier national and international concerns, BRSL is currently focused on three research areas: Defense Analysis and Strategy, Technology, Governance, and (Inter)National Security, and Industrial Policy and Economic Competition. Across these three areas BRSL conducts analytical work, designs and fields wargames and table-top exercises, and engages with policy...

Andrew Reddie - Professor, Public Policy

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

We are looking for students interested in working with us on a project examining how state and non-state actors’ proliferation and use of precision capabilities in the Middle East influence crisis stability dynamics. In the past few years, precision technologies in missiles, drones, and bombs have been widely used...

Andrew Reddie - Professor, Public Policy

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

The growing demand for energy generation to power the global population growth, the rise in artificial intelligence, and the use of electric vehicles is driving an resurgence and expansion in the demand for fission-based nuclear power. We propose an in-depth study on how this growing demand will change...

Na'ama Shenhav - Professor , Public Policy

Status: Current Term Now Closed     Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs     Location: On Campus

Beyond being a source of income, jobs can potentially convey information about a worker’s abilities, personality, or values. For example, individuals may assume that a person who is a teacher is empathetic, or that a lawyer is assertive. In turn, this could imply that a person’s job may affect how...