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Grant Jacobsen, PhD, is an associate professor at Oregon State University in the Economics Program within the School of Public Policy. He received an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California-Santa Barbara, where he was a fellow in the National Science Foundation’s Economics and Environmental Science IGERT program.  His work has addressed topics related to renewable energy, energy efficiency, electricity pricing, air pollution, extraction of natural gas and oil, carbon offsets, climate change awareness, and voluntary environmental protection. He has published articles in leading academic journals, including the Economic Journal, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and the Journal of Human Resources. He is a member on the editorial councils of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management and Land Economics. Prior to joining OSU, he was a professor at the University of Oregon and Director of its Master of Public Administration program. He has served as a program reviewer for the U.S. Department of Energy and as an adviser to the Eugene Water & Electric Board. He is a Senior Economist with the Cadmus Group. Dr. Jacobsen’s research has been supported by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Consumer Protection Research Fund.