Olivier Deschenes is a Professor of Economics at the University of California Santa Barbara, where he is also affiliated with the Bren School of Environmental Management. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and Research Fellow and Program Director of IZA’s research area in Environment and Labor Markets, in Bonn, Germany. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University. Deschenes' recent research seeks to determine the potential economic impacts of climate change on human health and agricultural productivity in the U.S. and around the world using historical data. His ongoing research examines the effect of energy prices on labor markets in the context of climate policies, the relationship between extreme temperature and health in India, the impact in utero exposure to extreme weather on prenatal and neonatal infant health, and the effect of temperature and ambient pollution fluctuations on worker productivity.

Grants, Awards and Distinctions:

California Environment Protection Agency, AB 74 Study: Demand and Supply of Fossil Fuels. March 2020-March 2022. $1,500,000 (co-PI with Deshmukh, D. Lea and K. Meng).

National Institutes of Health / National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Grant number R21ES019375. “Using Medication Purchases to Measure the Health Consequences of Air Pollution” (with M. Greenstone and J. Shapiro). $334,951.