Faculty Affiliates

James Sallee

James M. Sallee is an associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics of the University of California, Berkeley and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research spans a variety of topics in public economics, including the economics of taxation and environmental economics. His current research is focused on evaluating policy alternatives for increasing the fuel economy of new vehicles in the United States. 

James teaches courses on policy approaches to mitigating climate change, U.S. tax policy and empirical methods at the Harris School. He was the 2008 recipient of the National Tax Association Dissertation Award and the 2009 recipient of the John V. Krutilla Research Award. He completed his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan in 2008. He also holds a B.A. in economics and political science from Macalester College.

Supported by a generous grant from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, E2e is a joint initiative of the Energy Institute at the University of California at Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, two recognized leaders in energy research.