Hi! I am an applied microeconomist, and a PhD candidate at UC Davis ARE. My work focuses on how individuals adapt to environmental risk, and how various constraints- for example, attention, liquidity, or technological feasibility- modify this adaptation.

I am a co-coordinator of the NatuRE Policy Lab, an interdisciplinary lab group of students and faculty interested in environmental and natural resource economics. Before coming to Davis, I received an M.S. from Michigan State University, and a B.A. from Loyola University Chicago.

Please click here to view my CV.

News

• In June 2025, my dissertation research was awarded the UC Davis Institute of the Environment’s Earth Scholar Award, and the North Pacific Research Board’s Graduate Research Award.
• I presented my ongoing work on U.S. rural electrification and settlement, joint with Jeff Hadachek and Katrina Jessoe, at the 2025 AERE Summer Conference in May.
• I provided research support for the Securing California’s Flood Future panel, a joint venture between UCD and Insurance For Good to assess how California should respond to rapid changes in the US federal government’s management of natural disasters.
  • Coverage of the panel’s work in the Los Angeles Times
• The NatuRE Policy Lab visited Nimbus Fish Hatchery in Gold River, CA to learn about the policy and management regimes governing water use and ecosystem health in California.

Research in Progess

• If Not Now, Then When: Risk Perception, Actuarial Fairness, and the Price Elasticity of Demand for Disaster Insurance
  • Funding from the UC Davis Institute of the Environment
• Climate Migration and Unconditional Cash Transfers: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (with Matt Reimer)
  • Funding from the North Pacific Research Board
• Resource Extraction, Electrification, and Rural Development in the American West (with Jeff Hadachek and Katrina Jessoe)
  • Funding from the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics
• Causes and Consequences of Permit Migration in Limited Entry Fisheries (with Tsugumi Yamashita and Matt Reimer)

Education

• Ph.D in Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Davis, 2027 (expected)
• M.S. in Agricultural, Food, & Resource Economics, Michigan State University, 2021
• B.S. in Economics, Loyola University Chicago, 2018

^{Thawing permafrost in Herschel Island, by Boris Radosavljevic (2013)}