Rate My Professor Kelsey Jack

B. Kelsey Jack is the Sheth Sustainable Business Chancellor’s Chair and an associate professor in the Business and Public Policy group at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, where she joined the Business & Economics faculty in 2024. Her research lies at the intersection of environmental and development economics, investigating energy access, environmental sustainability, and behavioral economics in low-income settings. She focuses on how individuals, households, and communities decide to use natural resources and provide public goods, employing field experiments to test economic theory and policy innovations. Best known for studies on energy use, pricing, and incentives, her work reveals how behavioral and institutional factors influence the adoption of sustainable technologies. Conducted across numerous countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, with ongoing projects in South Africa, Ghana, Malawi, and Niger, it integrates development economics, environmental economics, and policy design to balance economic growth with environmental goals. This research has informed energy and climate policy in Africa and South Asia.