Welcome to my website! I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ARE) at University of California, Davis. My fields are development economics and environmental economics. Before starting my Ph.D., I worked at Mathematica Policy Research as a Research Analyst in its International Research Unit. I have also worked on research projects at the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics in Kenya. My undergraduate studies were in Economics and Religion (with a focus on Buddhist Philosophy) at Middlebury College.

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News

• I will be presenting ongoing work examining the interplay between short- and long-term effects of air pollution on labor productivity at the Occasional Workshop in Environmental & Resource Economics at UC Santa Barbara in October 2025.
• At the AAEA Annual Meeting in July 2025, I presented ongoing research on how improved inventory information affects livestock market outcomes in rural Nepal.
• I presented my ongoing work on adaptation to air pollution at the 2025 AERE Summer Conference in May and at the Indian Statistical Institute in Delhi in July (post on X).

Research In Progress

• The Pollution–Productivity Curve: Non-linear Effects and Adaptation in High-pollution Environments (with Faraz Usmani)
• Got Goat? The Effects of a Digital Inventory Tool on Livestock Market Outcomes in Rural Nepal (with Travis Lybbert, Conner Mullally, Nick Magnan)
• Environmental Justice Implications of Pecuniary and Non-Pecuniary Costs of Accessing Environmental Goods: Experimental Evidence from California (with Shotaro Nakamura and Collin Weigel)
• Global Spillovers in Agricultural Technology Development (with Ashish Shenoy)

Education

• Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis (in progress)
• M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis, 2024
• B.A. in Economics and Religion, Middlebury College, 2017
  • Kathmandu University, Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute, 2014-2015