Dr. Michael Anderson

Biography

Michael L. Anderson is an applied microeconomist whose research examines transportation, environmental policy, and urban economics. He is known for his causal analyses of how transit congestion pricing affects welfare and pollution. His influential work employs natural experiments to estimate the value of time, traffic externalities, and safety effects. Anderson combines reduced-form econometrics with modeling of large administrative datasets to evaluate policies related to High-Occupancy Vehicle and High-Occupancy Toll lanes, fuel economy standards, and transit expansions. His studies of the Los Angeles transit system and highway congestion have shaped significant debates on mobility and climate policy. He is a Professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley and a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His articles have appeared in leading journals such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, and Review of Economic Studies. Recognized for his work at the intersection of transportation and environmental economics, Anderson has received a Sloan Research Fellowship and support from the National Science Foundation. At Berkeley, he teaches econometrics, environmental economics, and urban economics, while advising students on policy-relevant empirical research.

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