Wei Guo

Wei Guo is Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy of UC Riverside and an Affiliated Scientist with the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and the RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment (EIEE). Her research areas are Environmental Economics and Policy, with a focus on climate adaptation, natural disaster management, public finance, and visual aesthetics in urban planning.

Her work is organized around three themes: (1) the economic, welfare and equity implications of disaster management and climate adaptation policies, (2) the fiscal impacts of climate extremes and disaster aid programs on state and local governments, and (3) the aesthetic and economic valuations of natural landscape and public infrastructure.

Wei holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from University of California at Berkeley. Prior to doctoral study, she earned a master's degree in Economics from Peking University, and double bachelor's degrees in Mathematics and Economics from the same institution.