Marshall Burke

Marshall Burke is an Associate Professor at the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University and a Senior Fellow at Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He received his BA in International Relations from Stanford in 2003, and his PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from Berkeley in 2014. His research focuses on understanding how changes in environmental conditions affect a range of social and economic outcomes, and on understanding the causes and consequences of rural productivity improvements. He has authored over 20 published papers, which have appeared in both economics and science journals, including Science, PNAS, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Economic Journal, and which have been cited over 2900 times.