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Research Bio

Lucas Davis is the Jeffrey A. Jacobs Distinguished Professor at Berkeley Haas. His research focuses on energy and environmental markets, and, in particular, on electricity and natural gas regulation, pricing in competitive and non-competitive markets, and the economic and business impacts of environmental policy. He serves as co-editor of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to moving to UC Berkeley in 2009, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan.

Research Expertise and Interest

energy markets, environmental economics, applied microeconomics, public finance, industrial organization

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January 6, 2021

The Steady Rise of Electricity For Home Heating

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Ben Geman
A new working paper from UC Berkeley business professor Lucas Davis charts the share of U.S. homes that use electricity as their main heating source. It went from 1% in 1950 to almost 40% by 2018. The paper, using Census data, maps the trend through the decades. Going electric for heating and other equipment that now use oil or gas, paired with an increasingly low-carbon power mix, is a tool against global warming.
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