Erin Baker

About

Erin Baker is a faculty member associated with the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focus includes areas related to computational social science, and she is involved in the institute's activities that explore social media, social network analysis, experiments, and statistical modeling. Her contact email is edbaker@umass.edu, indicating her active engagement in academic and research initiatives within the university.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Environmental economics
• Computer Science
• Business
• Engineering
• Public relations
• Public economics
• Microeconomics
• Computer Security

Selected publications

• Expert elicitation survey predicts 37% to 49% declines in wind energy costs by 2050

  Nature Energy · 2021 · 414 citations

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• Metrics for Decision-Making in Energy Justice

  Annual Review of Environment and Resources · 2023 · 84 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Energy equity and justice have become priority considerations for policymakers, practitioners, and scholars alike. To ensure that energy equity is incorporated into actual decisions and analysis, it is necessary to design, use, and continually improve energy equity metrics. In this article, we review the literature and practices surrounding such metrics. We present a working definition for energy justice and equity, and connect them to both criteria for and frameworks of metrics. We then present…

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• Changing the policy paradigm: A benefit maximization approach to electricity planning in developing countries

  Applied Energy · 2020 · 84 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  Access to electricity can lead to enhanced education, business, and healthcare opportunities. Governments in emerging economies are often faced with the challenge of increasing access to electricity and reducing system inequality, while operating under severe budget constraints. This paper develops a methodology for finding the optimal expansion of a power system under the objective of maximizing social benefit, as it relates to distributional equality for electricity access, subject to a budget…

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• Enabling an equitable energy transition through inclusive research

  Nature Energy · 2022 · 34 citations

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• The value of hydropower flexibility for electricity system decarbonization

  Energy Reports · 2025-02-17 · 16 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Hydropower is an abundant, dispatchable, clean energy resource that will play an important role in supporting the clean energy transition. In particular, dispatchable hydropower can provide the operational flexibility that will be required in future systems with high variable renewable energy penetrations. However, the theoretical operational flexibility of hydropower can be restricted in practice by various non-power constraints. In this paper, we quantify how increasing the operational flexibi…

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Recent grants

• CAREER: Technology R&D Policy, Climate Change, and Uncertainty

  NSF · $456k · 2008–2014

• Collaborative Research: Choosing a Portfolio of Technology Policies in an Uncertain World

  NSF · $395k · 2010–2014

• IGERT: Offshore Wind Energy Engineering, Environmental Science, and Policy

  NSF · $3.3M · 2011–2018

Frequent coauthors

• Valentina Bosetti

  47 shared

• Laura Díaz Anadón

  University of Cambridge

  32 shared

• Anna Goldstein

  Fidelity Biosciences (United States)

  22 shared

• Lara Aleluia Reis

  18 shared

• Elena Verdolini

  RFF-CMCC European Institute on Economics and the Environment

  11 shared

• Karen E. Jenni

  United States Geological Survey

  10 shared

• Elena Claire Ricci

  9 shared

• Jeffrey M. Keisler

  University of Massachusetts Boston

  8 shared

Labs

• Computational Social Science InstitutePI

  The lab focuses on computational social science research.

Education

• Ph.D., Engineering-Economic Systems & Operations Research

  Stanford University

• B.A., Mathematics

  U.C. Berkeley

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