Wolfram Schlenker Headshot

Wolfram Schlenker

Vice Dean, School of International and Public Affairs; Professor of International and Public Affairs; Co-Director, Center for Environmental Economics and Policy

Wolfram Schlenker Headshot

International Affairs Building, Room 1430A


Personal Details

Focus areas: Environmental & natural resource economics, agricultural economics, health economics

Wolfram Schlenker studies the effect of weather and climate on agricultural yields and migration, how climate trends and the US biofuel mandate influences agricultural commodity prices, and how pollution impacts both agricultural yields and human morbidity. He is the Vice Dean of the School of International and Public Affairs. He co-directs the Center on Environmental Economics and Policy (CEEP) with Professor Douglas Almond. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He currently serves on the Board of Reviewing Editors at Science.

He holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (2003) and a Master of Engineering and Management Sciences from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany (2000), as well as a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University (1998).

For more information, please visit Professor Schlenker’s personal website.

Education

  • PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
  • MS, BS, University of Karlsruhe
  • MEM, Duke University

Honors and Awards

  • Outstanding Adviser Award – SDEV Ph.D. Program, 2018
  • Outstanding Teaching Award, SIPA, 2011
  • Heinz König Young Scholar Award, ZEW, 2004
  • Sidney Hoos Award, UC Berkeley, 2000

Research And Publications

In The Media

Wolfram Schlenker and PhD candidate Anouch Missirian find that EU could face a massive influx by 2100 if carbon emissions hold steady.

Dec 20 2017

A research paper co-authored by Professor Wolfram Schlenker and Anouch Missirian, a fourth-year student in the PhD program in sustainable development at SIPA, considers the need for a revised definition for refugee status as climate change is spurring people to seek asylum.

Dec 20 2017
New York Times

Each year SIPA faculty members publish scholarly articles and new books on a wide range of subjects.

Sep 24 2014