Welcome to my website! I am an applied microeconomist working at the intersection of environmental and development economics. My job market paper examines how the effect of air pollution on labor productivity varies by past exposure to air pollution, with implications for environmental regulation in developing economies where chronic exposure is widespread. Broadly, my research agenda focuses on the role of market failures such as environmental externalities and imperfect information in economic development. 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.
• In July 2025, the Standing Panel on Impact Assessment published a technical note I worked on about the relationship between adoption of interventions and their impacts.
• 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 and the Costs of Accessing Clean Air: 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 (double major), Middlebury College, 2017
  • Kathmandu University, Centre for Buddhist Studies at Rangjung Yeshe Institute, 2014-2015