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Olivier Deschenes is 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), the Co-Associate Director of the University of California Center for Energy and Environmental Economics (UCE3) and holds a Ph.D in Economics from Princeton University. 

His research focuses on measuring the benefits and costs associated with policies that improve environmental quality. Recent research is focused on estimating the impacts of climate change on human health and economic productivity in the US and around the world using historical data, and his ongoing work examines the economic and environmental effects of renewable energy transitions, the effect of temperature and ambient pollution fluctuations on health, and the costs and benefits of climate change adaptation