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, liquidity, productivity, or attention- modify this adaptation.
I am a co-coordinator of the UC Davis 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. in Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics from Michigan State University, and a B.A. in Economics from Loyola University Chicago.
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Research in Progess
- Climate Migration and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend with Matt Reimer
Conferences: AAEA 2026 (scheduled), AERE@WEAI 2026 (scheduled), Giannini Student Conference 2026
Funding: North Pacific Research Board - Resource Extraction, Electrification, and Rural Development in the American West
with Katrina Jessoe and Jeff Hadachek
Conferences: AAEA 2026 (scheduled), AERE 2025
Funding: Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics - The Price of Fear: Salience and Price Sensitivity in Disaster Insurance
Conferences: Giannini Student Conference 2025
Funding: UC Davis Institute of the Environment - Permit Migration and the Changing Geography of Fishing-Dependent Communities with Tsugumi Yamashita, Matt Reimer, and Jim Sanchirico
News
- In July 2026, I will attend the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Annual Meeting in Kansas City, where I will be presenting “Climate Migration and Liquidity Constraints” and “Resource Extraction, Electrification, and Rural Development in the American West.”
- In June 2026, I will attend the AERE@WEAI meeting in Denver, where I will be presenting “Climate Migration and Liquidity Constraints.”
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)
In my job market paper, I examine how environmental degradation affects individual migration choices, and then use the world’s longest-running universal cash transfer (The Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend) to show how liquidity constraints impede this adaptive migration.