David Anthoff
University Fellow
David Anthoff is an environmental economist who studies climate change and environmental policy. He co-develops the integrated assessment model FUND that is used widely in academic research and in policy analysis. His research has appeared in Science, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental and Resource Economics, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and other academic journals. He contributed a background research paper to the Stern Review and has advised numerous organizations (including US EPA and the Canadian National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy) on the economics of climate change.
He is an assistant professor in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously he was an assistant professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment of the University of Michigan, a postdoc at the University of California, Berkeley and a postdoc at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Ireland. He also was a visiting research fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford.
He holds a PhD (Dr. rer. pol.) in economics from the University of Hamburg (Germany) and the International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling, a MSc in Environmental Change and Management from the University of Oxford (UK) and a M.Phil. in philosophy, logic and philosophy of science from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Munich, Germany).
Education
- PhD in economics, International Max Planck Research School on Earth System Modelling and University of Hamburg, Germany, 2009
- MSc in environmental change and management, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2004
- MPhil in philosophy, logic and philosophy of science, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany, 2003
- Visiting Student in Philosophy, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 2001-2002
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Journal Article — Aug 15, 2024
Equity Weighting Increases the Social Cost of Carbon
This article finds that using an “income weighting” approach would increase the social cost of carbon by a factor of eight by placing greater emphasis on climate’s impacts on the global poor.
Testimony and Public Comments — Aug 8, 2023
Updated Estimates of the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases for Usage in Regulatory Analysis Related to EPA Emissions Guidelines from Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired Generating Units
This comment to the Environmental Protection Agency provides an overview of the best available science on the social cost of carbon related to the agency's proposed revisions to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.
Testimony and Public Comments — Feb 13, 2023
Updated Estimates of the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases for Usage in Regulatory Analysis
To the Environmental Protection Agency on the EPA External Review Draft of Report on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: Estimates Incorporating Recent Scientific Advances.
Testimony and Public Comments — Jan 14, 2022
Comments to EPA on Updated Estimates of the Social Cost of Methane for Usage in Regulatory Analysis
Comments to EPA on Updated Estimates of the Social Cost of Methane for Usage in Regulatory Analysis
Journal Article — Aug 15, 2024
Equity Weighting Increases the Social Cost of Carbon
This article finds that using an “income weighting” approach would increase the social cost of carbon by a factor of eight by placing greater emphasis on climate’s impacts on the global poor.
Testimony and Public Comments — Aug 8, 2023
Updated Estimates of the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases for Usage in Regulatory Analysis Related to EPA Emissions Guidelines from Existing Fossil Fuel-Fired Generating Units
This comment to the Environmental Protection Agency provides an overview of the best available science on the social cost of carbon related to the agency's proposed revisions to section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act.
Testimony and Public Comments — Feb 13, 2023
Updated Estimates of the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases for Usage in Regulatory Analysis
To the Environmental Protection Agency on the EPA External Review Draft of Report on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: Estimates Incorporating Recent Scientific Advances.
Testimony and Public Comments — Jan 14, 2022
Comments to EPA on Updated Estimates of the Social Cost of Methane for Usage in Regulatory Analysis
Comments to EPA on Updated Estimates of the Social Cost of Methane for Usage in Regulatory Analysis
