Assistant Professor of Economics; William H. Hurt Scholar
B.S., Stanford University, 2014; M.S., University of California, Berkeley, 2018; Ph.D., 2021. Caltech, Visiting Associate, 2023; Assistant Professor, 2023-; Hurt Scholar, 2023-.
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Hannah Druckenmiller is an environmental economist. Her research aims to provide empirically based estimates for the environmental benefits and economic costs associated with natural resource protection. For example, she has work quantifying the flood mitigation value of natural lands, developing new approaches for accounting for ecosystem services in climate policy, and identifying cost-effective climate adaptation solutions.
Research Summary
Environmental and natural resource economics and policy, ecosystem valuation, climate impacts and adaptation, applied econometrics, machine learning/remote sensing
Economist Hannah Druckenmiller joins the Caltech faculty, signaling a new era of policy-oriented research with her expertise in environmental regulation.
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