Environmental Policy Evaluation (EDS241 / ESM244)

Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

Winter 2026

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Welcome to the course website for EDS241/ESM244!

Course Description

This course will present state of the art program evaluation techniques necessary to evaluate the impact of environmental policies. The program evaluation methods presented will aim at identifying and measuring the causal effect of policies, regulations, and interventions on environmental outcomes of interest. Students will learn the research designs and methods for estimating causal effects with experimental and non-experimental data. This will prepare the students for interpreting and conducting high-quality empirical research, with applications in cross-sectional data and panel data settings.

Teaching Team

Instructor

Adam Garber
Email: agarber@ucsb.edu
Office hours (subject to change):
Tuesday 12-2pm @ BH 4329 (Manzanita Room)
Alternate instructor availability:
Monday - Friday (by appointment)

Co- Instructor

Annie Adams
Email: aradams@ucsb.edu
Office hours (subject to change):
Thursday 3 pm - 4 pm @ BH 3418 (Office)

Meeting Time & Location

Time

Tuesday & Thursday, 8:00-9:15 am

Location

Bren Hall 1414

Acknowledgements

This website was developed from a template authored by Sam Csik. The EDS241/ESM244 course website houses materials which are heavily reused, adapted from, and inspired by Sam Csik’s original work. This website was made using Quarto and the repository used to make this website can be found here.