Qianping Ren

任前平

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Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Economics at UC Santa Cruz. During 2024-2025, I am an exchange Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley ARE. My primary research interests span environmental economics, public economics and urban economics. 

My current research focuses on how environmental policies and climate change impact socioeconomic outcomes (e.g. housing development, urbanization, household finance), and individuals’ climate adaptation behaviors (e.g., migration). In my future research, I am particularly interested in investigating adaptation strategies to climate change among various stakeholders, including individuals, firms, and governments.

I am passionate about utilizing granular GIS data (e.g. satellite and remote sensing data) and other big data to measure and conduct analysis. I mainly do causal inference studies.

I am on the academic job market in 2024-2025.

References: Professor Jeremy West (chair), Professor Justin Marion, Professor George Bulman

Contact Info:

Department of Economics

University of California, Santa Cruz

1156 High Street, 

Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Email: qren4@ucsc.edu, qren@berkeley.edu