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.

Please click here to view my CV.

Research in Progess

• Climate Migration and Liquidity Constraints: Evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (with Matt Reimer)
  • Funding from the North Pacific Research Board
• 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
• Resource Extraction, Electrification, and Rural Development in the American West (with Katrina Jessoe and Jeff Hadachek)
  • Funding from the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics
• Permit Migration and the Changing Geography of Fishing-Dependent Communities (with Tsugumi Yamashita, Matt Reimer, and Jim Sanchirico)

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.

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)}